CHRISTCHURCH STOCK SALES

Ewe prices reached the unseen level of $278 at livestock sales at Canterbury Agricultural Park, in Christchurch, this week.

A pen of nine Hawarden ewes made $170-$278 in a market lifting

$5-$7 a head. The best of them sold at a record price for the weekly market at the saleyards.

Prices were up for prime lambs by

$3-$4 and store lambs also rose $5.

Prime lambs

Values: A light yarding as a continued result of surplus grass saw prices increase by $3 to $4. Heavy lambs $160 to $180, good $143 to

$157, medium $128 to $140 and lighter

$115 to $123.

Sales included: DR & SH Harrison (Fernside) 42 lambs at $145-$165, GL & BE Morris (Okuku) 35 lms at

$145-$156, Black Rock Poll Dorset (Sedgemere) 11 lms at $159-$167, DS Taylor (Oxford) 17 lms at $149, OE Bothwell (Halswell) 24 lms at

$151-$168, PA Wordenberg (Weedons)

10 lms at $174, Summerfield Fencing (Rangiora) 13 lms at $153, Jed Vale Farming (Cheviot) 19 lms at $133-$156, J Cleave (Ohoka) 9 lms at $141-$160, Kenalla Enterprises Ltd (Weedons) 30 lms at $150-$176, BWA Lee (Leeston)

18 lms at $151-$155, E & MA Mugford (Ladbrooks) 47 lms at $150-$156, BF & RM McHugh (Manderville) 41 lms at

$151-$154, JP Elliot & LJ Nicholl (Sefton) 12 lms at $136, Amuri Area School (Culverden) 18 lms at

$140-$167, Loch Ard Ltd (Hawarden)

10 lms at $139-$149, KG Birch (Oxford)

16 lms at $155-$170, FW Davidson (Broomfield) 41 lms at $139-$177, RD Manera (Cust) 5 lms at $160-$180.

Prime ewes

Values: Prices rose by $5 to $7 in a lighter yarding. Top ewes $278, heavy

$160 to $190, medium $130 to $160 and lighter $90 to $110.

Sales included: Hill Bros (Ngahere)

97 ewes at $155-$194, D Pattullo (Peraki) 122 es at $90-$142, DS Taylor (Oxford) 12 es at $247, Miro Downs (Oxford) 55 es at $126-$147, Jed Vale Farming (Cheviot) 26 es at $115-$174, Loft Family Trust (Waiau) 12 es at

$82-$179, BF & RM McHugh (Ohoka)

13 es at $101-$107, TD Gilbert (Lincoln)

56 es at $124-$136, RJ & GM Dobby (Waiau) 14 es at $110-$132, DKS & AM Elvy (Kaiapoi) 14 es at $159, Georgiana Oborne (Takamatua) 18 es at

$98-$126, RW Burgess and Sons (Rotomanu) 38 rams and es at

$100-$139, Loch Ard Ltd (Harwarden)

9 es at $170-$278.

Store lambs

Values: in a light yarding the market increased by up to $5. Tops made $105 to $120, good $92 to $100, medium $82 to $90 and lighter $70 to $80.

Sales included: KD Boyd (Kaikoura) 159 lambs at $82-$106, Snowdon Station (Rakaia Gorge) 126 lms at $81-$101, D Pattullo (Peraki) 158 lms at $89-$107, TD & SF Anderson (Hundalee) 41 lms at $95-$120, G Niles (Somerfield) 8 lms at $108.

Prime cattle

Values: Steers made $2.60/kg$3.13, heifers $2.89-$3.06 and cows

$1.97-$2.12 and bulls $2.80-$3.10. Sales included: J C Bell (Akaroa) 6 angus hereford cross strs at

$1560-$1751, VAM Lovrich (Halswell) 6 shorthorn, ang, herf & ang herf strs at

$1486-$1710, R&DM Johnson-Stark (Motukarara) 5 devon x strs at $1244, CA Contracting (Spencerville) 13 herf friesian x strs at $1596-$1746, S&P Helps P/ship (Akaroa) 10 herf, charolais, ang herf heifers at

$1537-$1748, G Barker (Ohoka) 2 simmental x hfrs at $1829, LJ O’Carroll (Hawarden) 2 strs at $2151 to $2272, RV Farms (Cashmere) 4 strs at $1525 to $1878, 2 hfrs at $1334, GR Hayton (Clarkeville) 8 strs at $1633 to $1930, IJ Walsh (Broadfields) 4 strs at $1595 to $1712, RJ Dijkstra (West Melton) 3 strs at $1435 to $1567, Atherton Farm (Leeston) 5 strs at $1559.