November Jamestown sheep market lifts lamb prices while ewes remain steady

Shannon Jaeschke and Gilbert Murcott talk us through the sale.

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00:00About 17,000 sheep total from the combined agents. A fair range of stock from

00:03marina and crossy lambs through to our breeding sheep. Lamb demand very strong

00:07throughout from light lambs through our heavy feeder lambs. Yew side of things a

00:11little bit softer across most categories. Yew hog is not quite at $300 here today

00:15and breeding ewes vary from sort of 150 through about sort of 270 or 80 on the

00:19younger breeding ewes so that job still very good buying for those that are

00:22buying but yes it's only a little bit softer than a month ago so next market's

00:25about December 11th I think it is which hopefully we'll get yeah somewhere in

00:29that 10,000 mark maybe once again. Yarding here was was very good like we had

00:33some very good crossbred lambs a lot from the up north from pastoral sort of

00:38places and and they sold extremely well anywhere up to sort of those heavier end

00:44crossbreds sort of 220 to 260. Your shore marina weather lambs they were sort of you

00:49know anywhere from sort of 160 up to 180 dollars for your shore ones and your

00:53woolly ones didn't but they were quite firm as well. Going on into your breeding

00:58ewes the lead draft of our breeding ewes was we had a great lineup of the start

01:03there had a fair bit of weight once you slip back into those sort of lighter

01:06types your 50 to 55 kilo sort of pastoral ewes they went down to sort of 190 up to

01:11230 or 40 dollars which was the majority of those young ewes. Your breeding ewes I

01:17thought was a little bit softer today your three and four year olds a lot of the

01:21yeah there's still a lot of weight but they were still only making 220 to 240 for your better ones

01:26and sort of 170 up to 190 for your for your secondary type breeding ewes. Your older ewes we

01:33didn't have a heap of weight there was a lot of woolly ones there today but they they were sort

01:38of a little bit cheaper again from last market and yeah they were making anywhere from 160 or

01:44yeah for the majority of them 160 up to sort of 220 dollars for your heavy ones