Limited buying power for Merino meant that auctioneers were set a challenging task at the Omarama and Tekapo on-farm lamb sales, which featured lambs from 25 vendors. Halfbred lambs made a premium over Merino, which is unusual, and medium Merino returned $80-$100 and light, $50-$75.
Omarama and Tekapo on-farm lamb sales 20.02
28,000 lambs were offered on-farm with most Merino, terminal-Merino or Halfbred
Prices on average came back $20-$30 on 2019 levels
Top Merino lambs made $100-$120, with a few lines to $133
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