Cheaper tone at Ballarat
- By: "Farm Tender" News
- Sheep & Wool News
- Sep 11, 2024
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Yarding: 11,186
Another limited winter type yarding made up of 6602 lambs and 4558 sheep. There was a lot of clean-up lots through the offering of less than 20 head in a pen. Not all the regular buyers attended, some domestic processors having headed north to centres where new season lambs are becoming available in bigger numbers. A key northern exporter was absent from the mutton market. Aside from the best heavy old lambs and about 600 new season lambs which sold at firm rates, the market had a cheaper tone. Agents quoted trade and secondary old lambs as $10 to $15/head softer than a week ago. Heavy mutton was $20 off while light and trade sheep eased by $5 to $10/head.
There was limited runs of good heavy lambs over 28kg cwt and these held their value at $220 to $250/head to trend just over 800c/kg cwt. But the majority of sales were in the $80 to $160/head range, reflecting the winter weight and condition of a lot of lambs.
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Secondary lambs under 24kg cwt were generally in the 720c to 780c/kg price bracket, agents estimated. The 600 new season lambs sold to a top of $220 with most of the reasonable trade types from $170 to $200/head on a quote of 840c to 900c/kg cwt.
The sheep sale lacked drive with the majority of ewes selling below $90/head. The rate for mutton was estimated at 250c to 330c/kg cwt. There was a lot of sheep from $40 to $80/head, with the very plainest under $10/head at times.
BALLARAT LAMB & SHEEP MARKET AVERAGES 10/9/2024 | ||
SUCKERS | ||
20 | Jojawar, Little River | $220 |
OLD LAMBS | ||
53 | RL & CT Stephenson, Emu | $240 |
49 | CS & LM Grant, Raglan | $225 |
45 | Glen Eynord Rural, Woorndoo | $215 |
100 | B Price, Elaine | $200 |
15 | EF & MK McDonald, Swan Bay | $198 |
34 | Marvale Farm, Berringa | $192 |
57 | Twin Eagles Coghills Creek | $190 |
30 | N & C Symons, Ellerslie | $190 |
54 | DJ & K Mortlock Farms, Dunluce | $189 |
63 | A Horne , Cressy | $188 |
31 | Springvale Pty Ltd, Waubra | $184 |
12 | DA & L Deppeler, Derrinallum | $184 |
XBRED SHEEP | ||
22 | Native Hut, Shelford | $106 |
26 | Spalding Pastoral, Lara | $100 |
41 | BA & NL Robertson, Rossbridge | $95 |
24 | Crouch Family Trust, Gnarwarre | $94 |
22 | D Morrison, Inverleigh | $84 |
15 | Elmdon Wingeel P/l, Wingeel | $84 |
MERINO EWES | ||
31 | Sohnic Hose, Swanwater | $99 |
219 | SJ & VAR French, Vite Vite | $90 |
23 | P & K Briscoe, Connewarre | $87 |
23 | Tischler Rural, Garibaldi | $70 |
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