Prime Sheep & Lamb
February 21
Total Yarding: 10,195
Lamb numbers declined for a mostly plain offering. Although light store lambs were back in numbers, they still made up a large percentage of the yarding.
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Ideal prime trade and heavy lambs were in short supply and there were only a handful of extra heavy weights. Most lambs were showing the effects of the dry summer conditions.
Not all the usual buyers were operating fully in a dearer market.
Restocking lambs 12-16kg sold from $65 to $112/head. Light processing lambs sold from $73 to $113/head. Trade lambs gained $4 to $7 and made from $115 to $140/head to average 610c/kg cwt. Heavy lambs were firm to dearer selling from $141 to $161 and extra heavy lambs topped at $181/head. Hoggets reached $160/head. Carcase prices averaged between 570c and 610c/kg cwt.
Mutton numbers also eased in a mixed quality offering. Light sheep made up the majority, but included several pens of heavy crossbred ewes.
Light sheep sold to a dearer trend while medium and heavy sheep sold firm to dearer.
Medium weight ewes made from $76 to $125/head. Heavy crossbreds sold to $161/head. Carcase prices ranged from 400c for the medium weights to 360c/kg cwt for heavy sheep on average.
Category
- Suckers XB: top $135, av $80.94
- Lambs Merino: top $110, av $72.97
- Lambs XB: top $181.60, av $106.34
- Hoggets XB: top $160, av $136.95
- Wethers Merino: top $126, av $87.94
- Ewes XB: top $161.20, av $97.13
- Ewes Merino: top $122.60, av $77.84
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