CTLX Carcoar Sheep Report

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Report Date: 29th November 2023

Total Yarding: 8,100

Commentary

Numbers were up a little for a yarding of 4600 lambs. It was a fair quality yarding with some good lots of trade weight lambs along with odd pens of heavy weights. There were also the usual runs of lighter lambs suitable for the restockers.

Trade lambs were $7 dearer with new season lambs selling from $62 to $139 to average between 500c and 555c/kg cwt. Trade weight old lambs sold from $88 to $135/head. Heavy weight lambs were $12 dearer with the old lambs over 24kg selling from $138 to $174/head. Heavy weight new season lambs sold to $158/head. Lambs to the restockers were $5 to $9 dearer with the new season lambs going back to the paddock selling from $25 to $90/head. Hoggets were $30 dearer selling to $101/head. A line of woolly Merino hoggets sold to the restockers for $67/head.

There were 3500 mutton yarded where prices were up to $30/head dearer. Merino ewes sold from $20 to $80 while crossbred ewes sold from $30 to $99/head. Merino wethers sold to $88/head with most grades selling from 180c to 235c/kg cwt. Woolly Merino wethers sold to the restockers for $80/head.

Report produced by David Monk