Flat old market at Bendigo

Yarding - 20,050

More numbers came in at 12200 lambs and 7870 sheep to take the yarding above 20,000 head again. Lamb quality was very mixed with more wintery clean-up lots starting to appear, and good lines of neat trade lambs were limited. Not all buyers attended and demand remained fairly flat and the sale did fluctuate and price results were erratic at times. Overall the market had a softer tone but with the best pens of trade and heavy lambs similar to a week ago. In the export run lambs weighing above 35kg cwt weren’t really rewarded price wise, and some extra heavy lambs at close to 40kg cwt were beaten for the top price of $244 for lambs around 35kg cwt. 

Export lambs over 30kg cwt from $185 to $244 with most sales from $200 to $235/head at a ballpark cost of 665c/kg cwt. Heavy 26-30kg cwt lambs $174 to $215 with select pens up around 700c but the average dragged back to around 650c/kg with all the plainer and mixed lots added-in. Very few neat trade lambs,the best $145 to $160, and the general run $130 to $145. Trade Merino lambs in a skin to $163. There was a fairly wide carcass price spread for trade lambs depending on quality and finish. Light lambs were cheaper on plain quality and included a lot of little Dorpers. Small lambs to processors mostly $54 to $120, bigger framed types $120 to $135/head. 

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The mutton sale was also erratic, opening cheaper before gaining some momentum late in the auction. Most sheep categories eased $5 to $10 but there was some heavy mutton which was back up to $20 on a week ago. Heavy crossbred ewes $95 to $125; big Merino wethers to $130 and ewes to $120. General run of sheep $60 to $90/head.

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