Store lamb throughput pushed to 2850 at Canterbury Park on Tuesday and the market eased for most. Good mixed sex came back to $111-$116, as did light lines at $73-$90. Light to medium males softened to $82-$110.
Prime lambs were mainly steady and heavy types earned $160-$176, medium $132-$158, and lighter $110-$129. While $200 plus was not as common ewe prices were firm for second and third cuts. Medium ewes improved to $133-$151, and light, $80-$126.
A small yarding of prime cattle included very good quality exotic and traditional lines, though the market was more subdued.
Steers eased and Angus-cross, 500-604kg, earned $2.75-$3.00/kg. Hereford-cross, 400-755kg, returned $2.70-$2.85/kg, and Hereford-Friesian, 490-618kg, $2.60-$2.80/kg.
In the heifer pens Angus, 475-600kg, traded at $2.73-$2.80/kg, and Hereford-cross, 460-695kg, $2.55-$2.76/kg.
Prime cows, 590-750kg, managed $1.74-$1.94/kg, and boner Friesian cows, 535-723kg, traded at $1.60-$1.73/kg.
