Lambs gained slightly on low numbers at Bendigo

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Yarding - 9600

Smaller yarding with less heavy sheep and lambs on offer partly due to the winter closure of a major exporter who is a key buyer of that type of stock at Bendigo. Quality was very mixed, comprising limited drafts of good grainfed lambs in among a lot of wintery clean-up lots lacking finish. The market was firm to a few dollars dearer but continued to perform around quality. The better finished slaughter lambs in short-skins sold in a range of 780c to 860c/kg cwt, while plain and untidy penlots showed a wide variance of 650c to 760c/kg cwt.

One line of extra heavy export lambs estimated at 38-40kg cwt topped the sale at $277/head with most sales of 30kg plus crossbreds at $238 to $265/head. Heavy lambs, 26-30kg cwt made from $200 to $249/head with the best fat score 3 and 4 crossbred types averaging around 810c/kg cwt. Neat trade lambs were well supported by a major domestic buyer at $190 to $214/head with the main run of 22-24kg cwt types averaging $198/head at an estimated 826c/kg cwt. A few pens of fresh conditioned domestic lambs in the 20-22kg range sold to $191/head to be the dearest processing types on a c/kg basis. Plainer pens of domestic weighted lambs, often in smaller lots and in longer skins, varied from $160 to $185/head. Store lambs with frame and showing better breed quality traits sold from $120 to $155/head. Very small or secondary lambs anything from $7 for small Merinos to $100/head.

The sheep yarding was limited and mutton was cheaper. Heavy crossbred ewes making between $178 to $224/head. General run of trade ewes $120 to $168 and the plainest light sheep $28 to $67/head.

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