Total sales amounted to $939,357, for an average price of $141.19.
A big component of the lamb yarding was light weights and store types under 20kg carcase weight (cwt), with processors only having access to a few good lines of trade and heavy crossbred lambs in each agents run.
It was a dearer market, with most lamb categories improving by $10 to $20/head compared to a fortnight ago.
Of note was a lot stronger competition on light crossbred and Merino lambs, with agents keen to purchase lines to feed for the late winter but having to compete against MK bag lamb buyers who also wanted numbers.
Any heavy lambs tended to be in small penlots, and sold to $255 for crossbreds and $252 for Dorpers.
Heavy trade lambs sold to $235, and the general run of medium domestic lambs sold from $172 to $210/head.
Carcase prices all moved up, the better lambs costing processors 850c plus to over 900c/kg cwt at times.
Buyers paid from $160 to $173/head for grown store lambs, with some very strong results for the bigger lines of light lambs, at $115 to $154/head, with processors often outbidding restocking and feeder orders.
Most secondary lambs didn’t see as much change and were down to $30/head.
It was a dearer mutton market over a mixed run, which included a lot of smaller clean-up lots, with bigger lines in the minority.
Heavy crossbred ewes sold from $170 to $220/head, and heavy Merino ewes to $180. Underneath this was a lot of sheep from $90 to $150/head.
On a carcase basis, good mutton was costing 530c to 620c/kg for most grades.
Top sales:
Lambs - Stanley Wood, $255; M & N Mowat, $254; N & K Trigg, $235; Keith Gardiner, $230.
Sheep - Keith Gardiner, $220; McDonald Ag, $220; Mathoura Station, $150.
~ Details provided by Meat & Livestock Australia market reporter Jenny Kelly and Deniliquin Saleyards manager Greg White on behalf of the Deniliquin Associated Agents.
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