Two Mutton buyers go head to head to push prices up at Wagga Wagga

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Yarding - 36,000

Numbers were steady and quality improved with big runs of grain finished heavy lambs. Despite the uplift in quality the market lacked direction causing huge price variations. A key supermarket did not attend while other processors were very selective. Shorter skinned lambs did create some enthusiasm but the stronger bidding was always short lived. There were several pens of quality lambs passed in through the sale.

Trade competition was erratic and prices again fluctuated around quality. Trade lambs 20kg to 24kg were firm to a few dollars cheaper, making from $93 to $166 averaging 600 to 636c/kg cwt. Lambs 25kg to 26kg moved sideways in price to average 640c/kg cwt. In the heavy export market competition was solid particularly for lambs weighing more than 30kg cwt. The bulk of the better heavy export lambs were unchanged to $5 dearer. Lambs 26kg to 30kg sold at $168 to $206/head. Over the 30kg made from $197 to $251/head.

It was a mixed yarding of mutton with heavy ewes in reasonable supply. Two major processors went head to head pushing prices up by 100c/kg cwt at times. Heavy sheep sold from $107 to $156 averaging 399c/kg cwt. Trade sheep ranged from $81 to $98/head.

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