Bendigo on trend with a $25-$35 price rise

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Yarding - 18,359

For the first sale back in 2024, Agents drew for a total of 27,000 lambs and sheep, but with the large amount of rain received in the wide spread area yesterday numbers dropped to 14,200 lambs and 4,078 sheep. Lamb quality improved over the yarding. Most of the usual buying gallery attended in a much stronger market across all categories with competition from store buyers pushing light lambs along and all processors were on the rail chasing numbers. Lambs averaged $25 to $35/head dearer across the yarding.

Store buyers paid from $32 to $138/head for lambs back to the paddock. Young light trade lambs to suit MK orders made from $52 to $140/head, young lambs 18 to 22kg sold from $128 to $160 and lambs 22 to 26kg made from $156 to $188/head to have an average of 660c to 725c/kg. Shorn lambs were in demand with 18 to 24kg selling from $138 to $188/head to average 780c to 810c, lambs 24 to 26kg made from $180 to $215 and lambs over 26kg sold from $183 to $254/head to average from 770c to 828c/kg cwt.

A small yarding of mutton of mixed quality sold to $20/head dearer. A few pens of Merino wethers made to $66/head. Merino ewes sold from $44 to $91/head to average 240c to 280c/kg and Crossbred mutton made from $33 to $90/head to average around 250c/kg cwt.

https://www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/Services/Bendigo-Livestock-Exchange