Prices drop with smaller yarding at sheep sale
WARWICK selling agents yarded 990 lambs and hoggets, and 303 sheep yesterday.
Top lambs, account Norma Chalk of Mt Colliery, sold for $139.
In a smaller yarding, the lamb market was cheaper for all descriptions with the mutton market firm on previous sales.
Market quotations:
Crossbred lambs 46-55kg liveweight selling $122 to $131.
Crossbred lambs 42-45kg liveweight selling $112 to $123.
Crossbred lambs 36-42kg liveweight selling $108 to $117.
Crossbred lambs 35-40kg liveweight selling $198 to $104.
Crossbred lambs 60.8kg liveweight selling to $139.
Crossbred hoggets 61.2kg liveweight selling to $86 shorn (skin value)
Heavy Xbred ewes $6 Selling to $ 86 or $ 3/kg est dress weight
Light ewes $10 selling to $ 55 or $2.85/kg est dress weight
