Cowra Sheep Report

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Report Date: 2nd April 2025

Total Yarding: 7,200

Commentary

Numbers increased considerably and quality was good for the heavy and better trade weights. The majority of the yarding consisted of heavy and trade weight lambs while the light and store grades were limited in supply. All the buyers were operating along with an extra and competition was good with the market firm to dearer across most grades.

Light lambs to the processors sold from $138 to $155 up $6/head. Medium trade weight lambs were $6 dearer while heavy trades eased $2/head and averaged from 750c to 770c/kg cwt. Heavy trades 23 to 24kg sold from $171 to $195/head.

Heavy weight lambs were dearer by $6/head while extra heavy weights eased a couple and averaged from 780c to 800c/ kg cwt. Heavy weight lambs sold from $192 to $212 while extra heavy weights sold from $212 to a top of $262.20/head.

Mutton numbers increased and quality was varied with prices experiencing big gains of $20 to $40/head. Heavy first cross ewes sold from $156 to $211.20/head and averaged from 550c to 615c/kg cwt.