The best quality in the lamb run was the lead of the fed heavy crossbreds although there was no export lines over 30kg cwt.
Quality did fade fairly quickly into mixed lighter lambs including some plain small Merinos. The core buyers competed in a dearer market compared to a fortnight ago, with some very strong sales recorded for neat trade lambs.
The sheep market was also dearer with a lot of the handy Merino ewes selling above an estimated 800c/kg cwt.
Three pens of heavier lambs in the 27-29kg cwt range sold above $300/head.
The heavy trade lambs, 24-26kg cwt, from $268 to $294/head, followed by the medium trades at $250 to $278/head.
A lot of trade lambs did sell above an estimated 1100c/kg cwt, and the average cost for the main run of 22-24kg cwt crossbreds was close to 1100c/kg cwt.
General run of processing lambs then ranged from 1020c to 1080c/kg cwt. Merino lambs sold to $231/head but most were light types which varied from $128 to $167/head.
The sheep sale was buoyant at values of $220 to $280/head for Merino ewes with some wool rebate, while a single pen of heavy meat ewes topped at $290/head.
On a carcass basis the heaviest ewes were estimated at 740c to 780c/kg but with the majority of the trade and light sheep selling above 800c/kg cwt.
Top sales:
Lambs - J.M Barker, $330.60; Andrew Ritchie, $313.60; J.S Park, $308.00; Hill M+K (Salan), $306.00.
Sheep - G.A Treweek, $290; J Croker, $280 .
~ 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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