WARWICK SHEEP SALE MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 2ND JULY 2025
Total Yarding: 1,980 (+7) | Sheep Yarding: 752 (+233) | Lamb Yarding: 1,228 (-226)
Warwick agents penned 1,228 lambs and 752 grown sheep. The quality across the young store lambs was not up to last weeks standard, which resulted in prices reducing from $4 to $23/head. Trade weight and heavy lambs to processors improved from $8 to $19/head. Heavy mutton sold to dearer trends.
Young lambs 12-18kg range to restockers sold from $79 to $98 with feeder operators paying to $140/head. Young lambs in the 18-20kg range to the local butcher trade sold from $128 to $154/head. Older lambs to restockers sold from $96 to $118/head. Lambs in the 18-22kg range to the wholesale meat trade sold from $135 to $202/head. Lambs in the 24-26kg range to processors sold from $172 to $270, with heavy lambs selling to a top of $308/head.
Hoggets to processors sold from $150 to $188/head. Restocker merino ewes sold to $79, with heavy dorper ewes to processors at $129 to $227/head. Merino wethers to processors sold from $140 to $160, with dorper wethers from $155 to $180/head. Ram lambs to the local butcher trade sold from $130 to $152/head. Rams to processors sold from $120 to $128, with one finding a new home at $172/head. Ewes and lambs sold to $186/unit.
| CATEGORY | HEAD | MIN $/HD | AVG $/HD | MAX $/HD |
| EWE & LAMB | 57 | $78.00 | $105.09 | $186.00 |
| EWES | 408 | $65.00 | $158.83 | $227.00 |
| HOGGETS | 78 | $112.00 | $161.28 | $188.00 |
| LAMBS | 1,215 | $48.00 | $140.88 | $152.00 |
| RAM LAMBS | 16 | $120.00 | $140.88 | $152.00 |
| RAMS | 9 | $60.00 | $116.22 | $172.00 |
| WETHERS | 201 | $60.00 | $97.46 | $180.00 |