She was a battle at Bendigo

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Yarding - 21,630

More lambs after the fortnight’s break due to the Labour Day public holiday, with 16,030 yarded. It was another sale marked by very mixed lamb quality and subdued buyer interest, particularly on plainer ‘in-between’ lambs in the 18-24kg cwt range. The best export and heavy trade lambs were similar to a fortnight ago, but plainer types under 24kg lost another $5 to $15/hd and more in places. A local agency did step in and buy trade framed and some heavier lambs to feed-on as prices weakened.

Export lambs over 30kg cwt were limited in number and mostly sold from $190 to $215 with just one pen higher to the market top of $223. The heavy 26-30kg crossbred lambs $160 to $182, and the neatest trades $135 to $148. These better style processing lambs were estimated at 570c to 620c/kg cwt. But it was a day where odd penlots and breeds such as pure Border Leicester lambs faced a fair discount and there was sales of heavy lambs that went below 550c at times. Where the market lost momentum was on lambs in the 18-24kg range, with a lot of sales from $85 to $130. The price averages for these plainer lambs was 500c to 550c//kg, which meant there was pens selling under the 500c threshold. In comparison any ideally weighted MK bag lambs still sold OK at $70 to $115/head.

The sheep sale was dearer than Bendigo a fortnight ago, improving to match more recent levels of 230c to 280c/kg cwt for good lines of mutton. Heavy Merino ewes $69 to a top of $108, big crossbred ewes to $94. General run of ewes $40 to $70/hd

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