Horsham Lamb Market Report

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Report Date: 15th January 2025

Total Yarding: 9,950

Commentary

Numbers were similar for the first sale of 2025 with 7,600 lambs and 2,350 sheep penned. Quality covered all weights and grades with most lambs now shorn. The regular buying group attended and operated with less urgency than the pre Xmas sale, however lambs sold to keen demand to be in the 780c to 820c/kg cwt range. Medium and heavy trade weight lambs sold from $172 to $213, with the heavy weight lambs selling from $245 to $269/head. Unshorn young lambs mostly sold from $131 to $212/head. Merino lambs lacked finish and generally sold in the ranged of $52 to $142/head. Restockers were active and paid from $105 to $201 and from $20 to $92/head for shorn lambs and paid from $60 to $131/head for unshorn lambs. The sheep offering covered all weights and grades with the medium and heavy weight sheep selling to similar demand to the pre Xmas levels, with the lighter weights selling a few dollars easier. A big run of extra heavy weight Merino ewes in a good skin sold to $174, with crossbred ewes selling to $138/head.

Light weights shorn lambs sold from $132 to $145/head and averaged 790c/kg cwt. Light trade weight lambs sold from $146 to $178/head to average 780c/kg cwt. Medium trade weight lambs sold from $172 to $195/head to average 800c/kg cwt. Heavy trade weights sold from $203 to $213/head and averaged 810c/kg cwt. Export weights sold from $216 to $235/head and averaged 790c/kg cwt. Extra heavy weight lambs sold from $246 to $269/head. Heavy hogetts sold from $81 to $189/head.

Light weight sheep sold from $48 to $68/head and averaged 300c to 360c/kg cwt. Medium weight sheep sold from $69 to $111/head with Merino mutton averaging 370c and the crossbreds averaging 345c/kg cwt. Heavy Merino ewes sold from $115 to $174 to average 420c to 450c/kg cwt. Heavy crossbred ewes sold from $90 to $138/head and averaged from 345c to 365c/kg cwt.Rams sold to $8/head.

Market Reporter – Graham Pymer.