MARKET REPORT

Agents penned a smaller yarding with a large offering of store lambs suiting restockers and feedlots at Corowa’s Market on Monday.

The quality was plainer this week, however, the sale did gain momentum as it progressed with buyer’s keen to operate on the small offering of premium lots. Two export processors were absent from the usual buying group resulting in softer prices trends across extra heavy weights.

The market was generally $5 to $10/head easier.

A very mixed offering of trade weight lambs were available with a number of pens taken by a feedlot buyers.

Light and medium trade weights sold to the processors from $165 to $188, heavy weights selling from $186 to $215easing $5/head to average 848c/kg cwt.

Heavy lambs 25 to 26kg were well supplied sold from $205 to $225 to slip $5/head.

Less competition resulted in some weaker trends across the extra heavy portion with over 26kg lambs easing $7 to $13, to make from $215 to $264/head to average between 761c and 795c/kg cwt.

Restockers were active on light lambs paying from $117 to $160 and down to $79/head for very light lambs back to the paddock.

Feeder lambs were a few dollars easier selling from $166 to $192/head. Mutton sold to mixed trends.

Heavy Merino ewes sold from $160 to $224 easing $7 and crossbred ewes reached $251/ head up $18/head.