One of the smallest markets ever at Bendigo

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Yarding - 5550

One of the smallest yardings seen at Bendigo with just 4500 lambs and 1050 sheep. Quality was very mixed with lines of good hard-fed lambs in the minority against plainer wintery types. There was a lot of small pen lots of less than 20 head. Not all the regular buyers attended in a market which was very erratic. The heaviest lambs were cheaper but at price points no worse than the market was recording late last week. Some of the trade lambs from 20-26kg cwt were dearer as the strongest demand was from a couple of domestic processors. But prices did jump around a lot depending on which buyer came in on a pen.

Heaviest export lambs $160 to $200 stretching from 480c to 560c for an estimated average of 540c/kg cwt. The heavy 26-30kg cwt lambs $140 to $178 and this was one of the most erratic sections of the market. There was dearer regults for the better lines of 24-26kg trade lambs at $134 to $151, but plainer types down to $123. As a guide most trade categories of lamb averaged between 520c to 560c/kg cwt. Light lambs dearer including Merinos, the trend on limited numbers in most sections.

The sheep sale followed a similar trend to lamb of being cheaper for big heavy mutton, but with some dearer pockets on the trade pens. Heavy ewes mostly $80 to $100 regardless of weight, with just one pen higher to $120. Then late in the sale a couple of pens of good tradeweight Merino ewes sold over $100, showing how unpredictable the market was. On a carcass basis mutton went from 220c/kg for big crossbred ewes to over 400c on some Merinos

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