WARWICK SHEEP SALE MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 30TH JULY 2025
Total Yarding: 1,903 (+236) | Sheep Yarding: 793 (+485) | Lamb Yarding: 1,110 (-249)
The return to fine weather resulted in Warwick agent penning 1,110 lambs and 793 grown sheep. The return to a full panel of processors resulted in all lambs and mutton selling to dearer trends of $4 to $28/head and more in places. Young lambs to restockers also sold to very strong competition.
Young lambs in the 12-18kg range to restockers sold from $100 to $150/head. Young lambs in the 16-20kg range to the local butcher trade sold from $140 to $181/head. Light weight older lambs to restockers sold from $136 to $146/head. Lambs to the wholesale meat trade sold from $170 to $255/head. Lambs in the 22-26kg range to processors sold from $193 to $285/head. Heavy lambs to processors sold from $271 to $337/head.
Hoggets sold to dearer trends at $170 to $245/head. Light weight merino ewes to processors sold to $146, with the heavy ewes at $158 to $236/head. Merino wethers to restockers sold from $121 to $125, with those to processors at $132 to $196/head. Heavy crossbred and dorper wethers to processors sold from $198 to $288/head. Ram lambs to the butcher trade sold from $134 to $250/head. Rams to processors sold from $136 to $161/head.
| CATEGORY | HEAD | MIN $/HD | AVG $/HD | MAX $/HD |
| EWE & LAMB | 7 | $200.00 | $204.29 | $210.00 |
| EWES | 179 | $86.00 | $171.73 | $236.00 |
| HOGGETS | 239 | $60.00 | $203.25 | $245.00 |
| LAMBS | 1,078 | $66.00 | $226.11 | $338.00 |
| RAM LAMBS | 32 | $81.00 | $161.22 | $250.00 |
| RAMS | 73 | $100.00 | $149.08 | $161.00 |
| WETHERS | 268 | $121.00 | $174.82 | $288.00 |