The usual buyers were actively bidding on Wednesday, which pushed prices for heavy male lambs up to $96-$114, while medium types remained steady at $90-$107. Ewe lamb prices – sex offering wasn’t subject to the competition seen on the single-sex lines and most traded at $80-$101.
One buyer dominated the breeding ewe market and prices were solid, with mixed age, scanned-in-lamb 177%, making $142, while 5-year and 6-year, scanned-in-lamb singles, made $114. Run-with-ram lines sold for $126-$136. A line of 27 mixed-age ewes with 35 lambs at foot fetched $66.50 all-counted.
Store cattle numbers were again low but there were top quality lines offered, and bids had to be high to be competitive. Numbers were boosted by a consignment of R2 Friesian heifers from the same property as Monday’s consignment. Sold in three lines, all headed off to be fattened. The top lines made $2.46-$2.50/kg, lighter $2.19/kg. Angus-Hereford, 323kg, sold for $2.87/kg.
Bids flew for one small line of Angus steers, which eventually went under the hammer for $3.19/kg, Hereford-Friesian $3.01/kg.
R1 cattle numbers were low with a stand-out being seven Angus-Hereford heifers, 238kg, which sold for $700. Also a feature were 20 vetted-in-calf Hereford-Friesian cows, which sold for $1240, $2.18/kg. Exotic cows from the same consignment made $1345, $2.20/kg, with both lines brought by processors.
