An Easter-fueled Lamb price rise at Bendigo.

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Reduced yarding ahead of the Easter break, with lamb numbers down to 13,774 and sheep back to 4600 head. The lamb market was dearer by $10 to $20 over heavy and trade slaughter lambs, although in carcass price terms this sale didn’t hit the highs recorded at Wagga Wagga late last week. The stand-out price improvers in this Bendigo market were the light and secondary lambs in the 15-20kg cwt bracket, with some of the MK type categories up $25 and more on a week ago.

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Export lambs over 30kg from $185 to a top of $244 and after a strong opening buyers did ease back a bit as the sale progressed. The ballpark costs for extra heavy lambs was 660-670c/kg which was at a premium to the average costs recorded for trade types. The heavy 26-30kg lambs $160 to $212, and heavy trade lambs $145 to $174. Medium trade lambs, 22-24kg, from $130 to $158. A range of 610c to 660c/kg covered the majority of lambs categories between 22-30kg cwt. Showing much dearer carcass price results were light and secondary lambs, most of the these also above 600c in this market at $90 to $130 for light crossbreds with frame; smallest lambs mostly $40 to $85/hd. One local Bendigo agency again purchased bigger trade type store lambs to feed on.

Sheep prices varied a few dollars either side of last week, with light mutton lacking some buying support at times. Big crossbred ewes $70 to $90; good Merino ewes $60 to $100; plainest ewes $12 to $30 and rams down to $1. Most mutton was estimated between 220c to 280c/kg cwt.

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