Tough day out at Ballarat

List your commercial Sheep, Cattle, Rams or Bulls on Farm Tender Livestock. We now cater for Agents ($1/hd Sheep, $7/hd Cattle if you sell), as well as our usual Private Sellers (3%).

Yarding - 11,171

Lamb supply increased to 9,400, quality varied from plain to very good with the majority of the yarding secondary types lacking finish, there were limited heavy export and trade lambs with good fat cover offered. A similar field of buyers were present but were selective when bidding, the market opened much softer and remained considerably cheaper throughout to end $20 to $30/head back on last week’s levels across all categories.

Light lambs under 18kg cwt to suit MK orders to the trade sold from $68 to $113/head. Trade lambs 18 to 22kg made from $107 to $153, lambs 22 to 24kg sold from $146 to $168, lambs 24 to 26kg made from $160 to $184/head to average 600c to 670c/kg cwt. Heavy export lambs 26 to 30kg made from $176 to $206 and over 30kg sold from $215 to $250/head with an average of 660c to 675/kg cwt. ,

A small yarding of mutton at 1,700 penned of mixed quality ranging from plain to good. Competition was stronger on the heavy sheep where buyers were very selective, however on the light mutton the market was $10 to $20/head cheaper. Merino wethers made from $86 to $158/head. Merino ewes sold from $54 to $156 and heavy crossbred mutton made $117 to $210/head.

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