Dubbo Sheep Sale Report

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Report Date: 21st September 2026

Total Yarding: 24,660

Commentary

Numbers were back by 6500 for a yarding of 19450 lambs. It was a fair quality yarding with odd pens of well finished new season lambs along some good lots of well finished old lambs though there were very few extra heavy weights penned. Once again there were large numbers of Merino lambs yarded.

Trade weight new season lambs finished $8 dearer selling from $208 to $290 to average between 1130c and 1165c/kg cwt. Trade weight old lambs finished firm to $4 dearer with the 20kg to 24kg lambs selling from $210 to $289/head to average between 1115c and 1135c/kg cwt. Heavy weight lambs were firm with the lambs over 24kg selling from $274 to $388/head. Heavy weight new season lambs were $10 dearer selling to $310/head. Merino lambs were $5 to $7 dearer with the trade weights selling from $195 to $270 while the heavy weight Merinos sold to $295/head. Lambs to the restockers were firm with the lambs to fatten selling from $146 to $258/head. First cross ewe lambs sold to the restockers selling from $278 to $360/head. Hoggets sold to $290/head.

There were 5210 mostly good quality mutton yarded where most grades were $13 to $30/head cheaper. Merino ewes sold from $120 to $300 while crossbred ewes sold from $180 to $350 with only one pen selling over the $300 mark. Merino wethers sold from $150 to $233 while crossbred wethers sold to $270/head.

Report produced by David Monk