Deniliquin Sheep Report

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Report Date: 3rd December 2024

Total Yarding: 4,800

Commentary

Another slight drop in numbers down to 2500 lambs and 2300 sheep. Most of the lamb run weighed less than 26kg cwt and the best quality was in recently shorn crossbreds. The market was dearer in carcass weight terms across the medium and heavier trades, despite some pens being borderline for finish. Light lambs were very mixed for quality and breed type.

One pen of heavier shorn lambs around 27kg cwt topped at $236/head. The sale then gathered pace over the medium trade lambs, the shorn pens in the 22-26kg cwt range selling from $190 to $230/head. The shorn lambs sold to stronger processor interest than the unshorn lambs which are now mostly dry in the skin. The lead of of the young woolly lambs sold from $184 to $207/head. On a carcass basis the best slaughter lambs were mostly in the range of 840c to 900c/kg cwt, with some pens breaking over 900c/kg. Lighter and plainer domestic processing lambs mostly $146 to $166 at varied rates from 720c to 800c/kg depending on breed and quality. MK style lambs $110 to $125/head. Very small lambs and secondary clean-up lots $25 to $66/head.

The sheep sale was dearer and comprised a few pens of crossbreds and some bigger lines of station Merino ewes. Price rates fluctuated either side of 400c/k g cwt, with the highest carcass rates recorded for leaner and lighter mutton. Merino wethers sold to $120, extra heavy Dorper ewes to $126 and Merino ewes to $114/head.

Market reporter: Jenny Kelly