Price improvement at Wagga Wagga

Yarding - 65,900

This week saw a very mixed quality yarding with quite a tail to the lighter end. Buyers once agin focused on neat shorn lambs across all categories, with these lambs fetching premium prices. Domestic buyers and niche butcher orders contributed to an increase in trade prices, while lambs weighing 26 to 30 kg were highly sought and prices gained momentum as the sale progressed.

In the trade market prices improved as the sale unfolded and example of this was a single run of 1010 shorn lambs weighing approximately 22kg selling for $180 and further into the sale another run of 770 lambs weighing 24kg made $198. The bulk of the 20 to 24kg making from $138 to $198/head to average 786c/kg. Store buyers and feedlots continued to support trade and lighter weight classes. With lambs to feed on selling from $127 to $180, while store lambs well-bred ranged from $137 to $174/head. Merino lambs were keenly sought, with even the plainer types attracting attention. The better presented trade types trading between $130 to $188. Heavy Merino lambs $208 to $224.

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In The export sale prices lifted as the sale progressed, with grain assisted lambs igniting the bidding continuously. Prices lifted $6 to $10 to average 780c/kg cwt. Lambs over the 30kg cwt sold from $219 to $274 averaging 743,c/kg cwt.

It was a very mixed yarding of mutton with buyers pushing strongly for trade types. Most of the usual buyers attended but not all were operating to capacity. Heavy sheep sold from $94 to $140/head. Trade sheep made from $69 to $108 to average 369c/kg cwt.

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