Deniliquin Sheep Report

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Report Date: 20th May 2025

Total Yarding: 7,700

Commentary

Numbers declined down to 5600 lambs and 2100 sheep. A big component of the lamb yarding was light weights and store types under 20kg cwt, with processors only having access to a few good lines of trade and heavy crossbred lambs in each agents run. It was a dearer market, most lamb categories improving by $10 to $20/head compared to a fortnight ago. Of note was a lot stronger competition on light crossbred and Merino lambs, with agents keen to purchase lines to to feed for the late winter but having to compete against MK bag lamb buyers who also wanted numbers.

Any heavy lambs tended to be in small penlots and sold to $255 for crossbreds and $252 for Dopers. Heavy trade lambs to $235 and general run of medium domestic lambs from $172 to $210/head. Carcass prices all moved up, the better lambs costing processors 850c plus to over 900c/kg cwt at times. Buyers paid from $160 to $173/head for grown store lambs, with some very strong results for the bigger lines of light lambs at $115 to $154/head with processors often outbidding restocking and feeder orders. The most secondary lambs didn’t see as much change at down to $30/head.

Dearer mutton market over a mixed run which included a lot of smaller clean-up lots, with bigger lines in the minority. Heavy crossbred ewes $170 to $220/head, heavy Merino ewes to $180. Underneath this was a lot of sheep from $90 to $150/head. On a carcass basis good mutton was costing 530c to 620c/kg for most grades,

Market reporter: Jenny Kelly