Dubbo Sheep Sale Report

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Report Date: 21st July 2025

Total Yarding: 45,300

Commentary

It certainly is a big paddock out there with numbers lifting by around 4300 for a yarding of 35900 lambs. It was a good quality yarding with good numbers of well finished heavy weight lambs mixed throughout. There were fair numbers of ideal trade weights and there were good numbers of well finished Merino lambs. A large gallery of buyers competed strongly.

Lightweight lambs to the processors finished $9 cheaper with the 12kg to 18kg 2 scores selling from $119 to $215/head. Trade lambs finished firm to $5 dearer with a pen of new season trade weights selling for $303/head. 20kg to 24kg old lambs sold from $224 to $323 to average between 1150c and 1260c/kg cwt. Heavy weight lambs were up to $15 dearer with the 24kg to 30kg lambs selling from $240 to $380 to average between 1125c and 1170c/kg cwt. The heavier weights over 30kg sold from $320 to $434/head a new centre record. A pen of heavy weight new season lambs sold for $330/head or 1260c/kg cwt. Trade weight Merino lambs were $6 dearer while the heavy weights Merino lambs were $5/head cheaper. Trade weight Merino sold from $148 to $270 to average between 950c and 1045c/kg cwt. Crossbred lambs to the restockers sold from $100 to $192 while Merino lambs to the restockers sold to $157/head. Hoggets sold to $274/head.

There were 9400 mixed mutton yarded where the light and medium weight sheep were $15 cheaper and the better heavy weight sheep were $5 to $12 dearer. Merino ewes sold from $66 to $270 while crossbred ewes sold from $120 to $277/head. Merino wethers sold from $110 to $246/head with most sheep averaging between 660c and 735c/kg cwt.
Report produced by David Monk