WARWICK SHEEP SALE MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 21ST AUGUST 2024
Total Yarding: 1748 (+417) | Sheep Yarding: 713 (+382) | Lamb Yarding: 1035 (+35)
Agents at Warwick penned 1,748 mixed quality sheep and lambs. All the regular buyers attended however one processor did not operate. Lambs to suit the wholesale meat trade improved in price from $11 to $19/head with store lambs to restockers also lifting by $3 to $5/head. All the mutton penned sold to very strong competition resulting in prices remaining firm.
Light weight young lambs to restockers sold from $56 to $68 with the crossbred selling from $62 to $81/head. Young lambs over 18kg to processors sold from $71 to $86 with those to feed at $80 to $110/head. Lambs in the 18-20kg range to feed sold from $103 to $130/head. Light trade lambs sold from $147 to $200/head. Lambs in the 24-26kg range to the wholesale meat trade sold from $168 to $212 with the heavy lambs topping at $220/head.
Light weight hoggets to processors sold from $90 to $126 with the heavy hoggets at $110 to $141 and the crossbreds topping at $168/head. Light weight ewes to processors sold from $51 to $67/head. A line of 216 crossbred ewes with 40 lambs to restockers sold to $81/head. Heavy ewes to processors sold from$80 to $110/head. Wethers sold from $70 to $90/head. Rams to processors sold from $55 to $80/head.
| CATEGORY | HEAD | MIN $/HD | AVG $/HD | MAX $/HD |
| EWE & LAMB | 230 | $81.00 | $82.28 | $110.00 |
| EWE LAMBS | 20 | $86.00 | $86.00 | $86.00 |
| EWES | 103 | $10.00 | $64.96 | $90.00 |
| HOGGETS | 268 | $51.00 | $116.28 | $168.00 |
| LAMBS | 995 | $32.00 | $150.04 | $220.00 |
| RAM LAMBS | 19 | $70.00 | $74.89 | $80.00 |
| RAMS | 53 | $25.00 | $54.66 | $64.00 |
| WETHERS | 13 | $45.00 | $83.54 | $122.00 |