Some good price rises at Bendigo

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Yarding - 5720

Another small winter yarding of just 4450 lambs and 1270 sheep for the rarity of Bendigo yarding less than 6000 head for two consecutive weeks. Demand improved with nearly a full field of buyers attending despite the small numbers. Prices for trade and heavy lambs lifted by $10 to $20 per head, some pens showing rises of up to $30 on the suppressed rates of recent weeks. Overall most decent processing lambs rallied to trend between 560c to 620c/kg cwt. Results for light and secondary lambs were more varied, with bidding still selective on plain and mixed lots. The smallest and most secondary Merinos sold down to $9.

Export lambs over 30kg cwt sold from $179 to a top of $205 as rates lifted to between an estimated 570c to 620c/kg cwt for most. Heavy 26-30kg lambs $154 to $186, with the main fat score 3 and 4 category crossbreds averaging over 600c/kg cwt. The lead of the trade lambs $135 to $159 to reach up to 660c/kg cwt; plainer trades $104 to $130 with those with limited fat cover still pegged at 500c to 550c/kg at times. Light lambs were very mixed for breed type and quality and this was reflected in pries, with most of the reasonable small lambs from $40 to $90.

The Merinos in this sale tended to be lighter types. Heavy mutton showed a dearer trend with big crossbred ewes $80 to $112. Some tradeweight sheep also posted dearer results but on limited numbers.

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