Deniliquin Sheep Report

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Report Date: 16th July 2024

Total Yarding: 2,850

Commentary

Few more numbers but overall it remained a limited winter yarding of very mixed quality. There was no stand-out lines of processing lambs to really test the strength of the market, and prices did not reach the carcass price points of recent major sales but were still dearer than a fortnight ago in places. Just the core group of regular buyers were active. Selling agents did inform buyers that there would be some good new season lambs to come out of the region, the first lots likely to appear in early August.

A few small pen lots of heavy lambs in the 26-30kg cwt range sold from $210 to a top of $223.60/hd. The trade run was very limited for weight and lamb presentation and varied from $152 to $186/hd. Light lambs in clean-up lots from $88 to $124 for crossbreds. There was some bigger lines of light Merino lambs with minimal fat cover which sold from $57 to $110 with the tail-enders down to $29.

Buyers did not chase out the mutton market despite some reasonable pens of ewes being offered. Most sales ranged from $90 to $148, with some heavy Merino ewes carrying a skin to a top of $164/hd.

Market reporter: Jenny Kelly