Naracoorte Sheep Market Report

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Report Date: 21st January 2025

Total Yarding: 7,600

Commentary

Similar sized yarding of 6100 lambs and 1500 sheep. Quality remained mixed and agents noted that processors gave the best support to the lead of the fed or better finished lambs, with demand for plainer grassier types more selective. Price rates overall were described as similar to a week ago, agents estimating a rate of 760c to 820c/kg cwt over the bulk of the processing lambs.

There was limited sales from $205 to a top of $245 for heavier lambs around 26-30kg cwt, agents said. The general run of trade lambs sold from $165 to $195/head, and it was the plainer and mixed conditioned pens which mostly sold under the ballpark rate of 780c/kg cwt. Restockers paid from $130 to $160/head for bigger framed lambs to feed on, with a lot of mixed and smaller lambs selling from $70 to $120/head depending on type, quality and number in a pen. The price average over the 6100 lambs sold was $152/head.

The sheep sale was again limited with only a few reasonable lines of crossbred and Merino ewes offered, a lot of pens having less than 30 head. The heaviest ewes sold from $90 to $125/head and the lighter and mixed types mostly $60 to $80/head. The quote for mutton was similar to a week ago.

Market report compiled remotely by Jenny Kelly.