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Yarding - 38,950

Lamb numbers were cut to just 25,700 head in a surprise smaller yarding ahead of Easter and no sale at Wagga Wagga next Thursday. The drop in supply was the catalyst for a much dearer market, most grades of slaughter lambs improving by $20 to $30 per head. The hot spot of the sale was neat 22-28kg cwt lambs in short skins, with select pens of these selling at much higher rates compared to recent markets. And while everything was dearer today, it should be noted that buyers were still more reserved on any plainer lambs in long wool. As a guide, most trade and heavy slaughter lambs comfortably made over 600c/kg cwt today, with some of the neat trades and heavy trades over 700c to go above 750c on occasion. When all sales were averaged out the main lamb categories were costing processors an estimated 670c to 700c/kg cwt.

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There wasn’t a lot of super heavy lambs yarded today with most export lambs in the 30–34kg cwt range and sold from $203 to a top of $239 at a ballpark cost of 680c/kg cwt. The 26-30kg lambs showed the biggest rise on a week ago at $168 to $221/hd, the best lines of fat score 4 crossbreds averaging close to 700c/kg cwt. Neat trade lambs, 22-24kg, $144 to $192 an an estimated 685c/kg lwt. Light lambs with frame mostly $105 to $130/head. Small lambs to restockers $62 to $124/hd.

The sheep sale showed a dearer trend, good mutton trending between 270c to just over 300c/kg cwt. One extra heavy pen of crossbred ewes topped at $127, with most from $80 to $115/hd. Heavy Merino wethers to $124. Good pens of Merino ewes in a skin from $80 to $105.

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