Coota Sheep Sale
There was a slight rise in lamb numbers and the quality was mixed.
There was a large run of heavy trade lambs, heavy lambs were limited and there was a few lambs that lacked the cover most processors want.
The market sold to a firm to dearer trend.
Restocking lambs $94 to $131/head.
Medium and heavy trade lambs $170 to $180/head.
The 22 to 24kg cwt lambs which were best supplied were firm $172 to $194/head averaging 790c/kg.
The 24 to 26kg lambs $190 to $200/head and over 26kg cwt reached $220/head.
Best hogget reached $230/head.
Mutton numbers were steady and quality mixed with heavy crossbred ewes best
supplied.
Prices held firm.
Medium weight ewes $132 to $142/head heavy crossbred ewes $195 to $244/head.
YASS SHEEP SALE
Lamb numbers lifted and the quality was good.
Trade weighted lambs were well supplied and restockers were after this weight lambs to go back onto
crops.
There was a good run of heavy weights and a few extra heavy lambs.
Secondary lambs were scattered throughout the yarding and these lambs sold to cheaper values, the majority of the lambs sold to a dearer trend.
Light restocking lambs sold from $115 to $145/head and the trade weights returning to the paddock reached $197/head.
Heavy trade lambs were $4 daerer selling from $186 to $199/head averaging 770c to 790c/kg cwt and did sell upto 820c/kg.
The 24 to 26kg cwt lambs gained $3 and ranged from $185 to $204/head averaging 765c/kg.
26 to 30kg lambs $197 to $215 and those over 30kg cwt reached $262/head.
Merino lambs reached $209/head.
Mutton numbers lifted and quality varied.
Prices lifted $2 to $6/head.
Medium weights $141 to $176/head.
Heavy crossbred ewes $200 to $226/head and Merinos reached $214/head. Most averaged 620c to 650c/kg cwt.
Market reporter Graeme Richard