THE smaller yarding of 3500 head of predominantly crossbred store lambs and plainer Merino ewes garnered a firm market through restocker buying with store lambs making $96 a head during the May monthly Narromine store sheep sale on Wednesday.
Some 1100 store lambs met considerable interest with 279 first cross September 2014 drop lambs topping at $6 a head for breeder Tony Smith, “Broadwater”, Warren, when purchased by John Flinn, “Recluse”, Long Pocket just south of Singleton, who would put them on his lucerne paddocks to grow out and then sell them in August through Dubbo saleyards.
Brian Dutfield of Stockyard Creek, Wellington, sold 300 Poll Dorset/Merino cross store lambs at $90 a head.
These were August/September ’14 drop and off shears.
Just two pens of first cross Border Leicester/Merino ewes June/July ’14 drop, tallying 300 head topped at $152 to the Higgins family, Crookwell.
A draft of 361 Merino ewes, 4½ to 5½ years of GRASS blood and May shorn, bred by the Rodger family, “Willow Bend”, Dunedoo, were100 per cent scanned to Border Leicester rams and fetched $94 a head to the Sanderson family, Forbes.
Mark Griggs
Journalist for The Land at Dubbo.
Journalist for The Land at Dubbo.
