WARWICK SHEEP SALE MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST 2026
Total Yarding: 2,009 (+406) | Sheep Yarding: 603 (-36) | Lamb Yarding: 1,406 (+442)
Warwick agents penned 1,406 lambs and 603 grown sheep. All the regular buyers attended and operated on a dearer market for all store and processor lambs of $28 to $40/head. Hoggets and ewe mutton also sold to dearer trends of $17 to $35/head.
Young lambs in the 12-16kg range to restockers sold from $171 to $183/head. Young lambs over 18kg to the butcher trade sold from $191 to $212 with those to restockers at $191 to $232/head. Older lambs in the 18-20kg range to feed sold from $220 to $227 with those to restockers at $230/head. Lambs in the 20-22kg range to the butcher trade improved by $40 and sold from $239 to $269/head. Lambs to suit the wholesale meat trade gained $28 and sold from $241 to $290/head. Heavy dorper and crossbred lambs to processors sold from $270 to $341/head.
Hoggets to processors sold from $185 to $251 up by $17/head. Light weight plain conditioned ewes to restockers sold from $50 to $160 and merino ewes with skin to restockers topped at $190/head. Ram lambs to processors sold from $200 to $239/head. Meat rams sold from $167 to $196/head.
| CATEGORY | HEAD | MIN $/HD | AVG $/HD | MAX $/HD |
| EWE & LAMBS | 54 | $220.00 | $220.00 | $220.00 |
| EWES | 327 | $50.00 | $144.40 | $250.00 |
| HOGGETS | 166 | $130.00 | $209.39 | $251.00 |
| LAMBS | 1,388 | $50.00 | $244.05 | $341.00 |
| RAM LAMBS | 18 | $132.00 | $195.61 | $239.00 |
| RAMS | 21 | $100.00 | $166.43 | $191.00 |
| WETHERS | 35 | $111.00 | $211.09 | $230.00 |