WARWICK SHEEP SALE MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 9TH APRIL 2025
Total Yarding: 2,412 (+1,459) | Sheep Yarding: 945 (+713) | Lamb Yarding: 1,467 (+746)
The return to clear skies increased the supply of stock at Warwick to 1,467 lambs and 945 grown sheep. A full panel of wholesalers and processors attended, along with feeder and restocker buyers. Prices for all grades of lambs and mutton selling to dearer trends of $6 to $31/head. Light weight young lambs to restockers sold from $66 to $88/head. Young lambs over 16kg to restockers sold from $101 to $111/head. Light weight older lambs to butchers sold to $108/head. Lambs over 18kg to feed sold from $120 to $135/head. Light trade lambs to the wholesale meat market sold from $150 to $208/head. Heavy lambs to processors sold from $198 to $240/head. Hoggets to processors sold from $110 to $170, with those to restockers at $190/head. Light weight ewes to processors sold from $57 to $75/head. Heavy ewes to processors sold from $78 to $159/head. Crossbred wethers to processors sold from $93 to $140, with merino wethers at $72 to $146/head. Heavy ram lambs to the butcher trade sold from $154 to $194/head. Meat rams sold from $60 to $144/head.
| CATEGORY | HEAD | MIN $/HD | AVG $/HD | MAX $/HD |
| EWES & LAMBS | 3 | $126.00 | $126.00 | $126.00 |
| EWES | 532 | $10.00 | $78.39 | $159.00 |
| HOGGETS | 87 | $60.00 | $127.70 | $190.00 |
| LAMBS | 1,344 | $15.00 | $133.57 | $240.00 |
| RAM LAMBS | 125 | $30.00 | $119.10 | $194.00 |
| RAMS | 31 | $20.00 | $74.03 | $142.00 |
| WETHERS | 292 | $20.00 | $101.67 | $146.00 |