SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT
Sheep – 7 July
Numbers remained similar this week as agents offered 3500 and 700 sheep. Quality was generally fair to good over the modest yarding with fewer rough lambs and sheep on offer.
The usual trade and processor buyers were joined by specialty butchers, feeders and restockers with competition generally steady.
Trade and heavy lambs lifted by $10 to $20 per head in places as one interstate order reappeared this week. Mutton sustained the recent high prices on a limited offering.
Crossbred light stores sold from $160 to $200 as the better types sold from $180 to $230 per head. Trade weights ranged from $240 to $255, heavy trades sold from $250 to $275 as extreme heavy weights sold from $320 to $390 per head.
Good Merino stores sold from $170 to $230 as trade weights ranged from $240 to $265 per head. Heavy trade weights sold from $270 to $290 with extreme heavy weights fetching $300 to $350 per head.
Light mutton sold from $140 to $190. Trade weights ranged from $200 to $215 with heavy sheep fetching $250 to $275 per head.
