Jamestown sheep market sells 18,500 sheep for first market of 2025

Nutrien Jamestown livestock agent Shannon Jaeschke talks about the trends of the market. Video by Kiara Stacey.

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00:00First sale back for 2025, $18,000-$20,000 cheap total. Some good consignments come forward from

00:04the Cooper family once again, Sean Marino's and Crossbred Lambs. Best of those have met

00:08strong demand from the top end on the trade. And then also your major feedlotters have been

00:12proactive throughout the whole sale. So that then flowed into the rest of the sale, pretty much in

00:17that lamb front, anything suitable to feedlot met strong demand. Everyone wanted their fair

00:21share throughout the yarding. And then even some of the lighter lambs that needed paddock time

00:25predominantly, even those still sold reasonably well for what they were. Some cheapies down the

00:29bottom there that, yeah, if someone was prepared longer term, there's an opportunity there.

00:34Away from the lamb front, ewes, unjoined sheep probably battling a bit. Your trade was probably

00:40the only ones really pushing on that side of it. Or an opportunist buyer. We're starting to see our

00:46first real batch of ewes that have been running with the Marino rams, whether that's terminal

00:50rams or Marino's. Unfortunately, some of them can't be scanned yet just because it's not that

00:55time frame to scan. And that's just been brought on by the seasonal conditions. And a few lines of

01:00scanned lamb ewes met not too bad of demand. And then with a bit of weight on the older sheep,

01:06process is reasonably strong. So something where you had was probably reflective of your result on

01:11the day. But the demand for some of those articles, yeah, come from further afield,

01:16not so much locally, just because of the conditions we're still having with the

01:21drier side of things until we can hopefully see an autumn break.