Deniliquin Sheep Report

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Report Date: 6th May 2025

Total Yarding: 11,500

Commentary

Numbers lifted to 8000 lambs and 3500 sheep as selling resumed at Deniliquin after a month’s break due to Easter. There was a handy lead of fed lambs, some big lines of young SAMM and Merino lambs from pastoral country, and the usual mix of trades. The regular buyers attended and kept processing lamb prices in the ballpark of what the industry has recorded in recent days. The sale had a baseline of around 800c/kg for crossbred lambs, the best pens in shorter skins trending above this rate and plainer and woollier types below this benchmark down to around 750c/kg cwt. Some of the bigger lines of SAMM and Merino lambs sold strongly to restocking orders and were at dearer levels.

There wasn’t a lot of weight in the lamb run, the lead pens of crossbreds from $211 to $250/head. Buyers were still selective on long-woolled types and this impacted overall price averages on some of the heavier and trade lamb categories. General run of trade lambs over 22kg cwt from $164 to $206/head. Lighter crossbred lambs with some frame size mostly $120 to $160/head. Better grown Merino and SAMM lambs to restockers $120 to $157/head; smallest types $50 to $100 with the most tail-end pens down to $10/head. On size there was some very strong results for small Merino lambs at times.

The sheep sale had solid support at recent stronger levels, some ewes trending either side of 600c/kg cwt. But the bulk of sales were in the 500c and 400c/kg ranges depending on fat cover and size. Very light conditioned ewes are generally in the lower carcass price ranges. Heavy crossbred ewes to $172, Dorpers to $170 and Merinos with skin value to $177/head. The general run of ewes $90 to $150/head, with the lightest ewes down to $$66/head.

Market reporter: Jenny Kelly