Deniliquin Sheep Report

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Report Date: 28th July 2026

Total Yarding: 4,440

Commentary

Numbers reached 4040 head after no sale at Deniliquin for a month, made up of 3000 lambs and 1500 sheep. Quality varied from some good fed lambs through to a mix of wintery clean-up lots. There was also quite a few pens of Merino ram lambs. The core buying group attended in a market where lamb rates matched more recent sales, the better presented trade to heavy types trending over an estimated 1100c/kg cwt. Sheep were cheaper with the sale lacking buying depth, particularly on the lead pens of heavier mutton which sold at much lower c/kg rates compared to recent markets.

A few pens of heavy export lambs – a lot in longer skins – sold from $344 a top of $388/head but tended to be weaker on weight and cents per kilogram. Dorper lambs sold to $340. The solid part of the sale was on neat lambs from 24-30kg cwt which sold from $274 to $323/head. Merino lambs sold to $270 with the better light to medium trade types from $230 to $252 to be in the 1000c to 1100c/kg plus range depending on quality and subject to skin vaues. One buyer had a store order that was being booked to Tasmania and this soaked up most of the lighter and younger Merino lambs at $156 to $248/head. There was several pens of Merino ram lambs which sold from $212 to a top of $308/head.

There was some extra heavy pens of meat ewes in the sheep section and there was cheaper with agents asking over $300 but only getting to a top of $284/head. Most of the Merino ewes with some frame and weight from $230 to $280/head, and leaner trades from $198 to $220/head.

Market reporter: Jenny Kelly