Prices paid for breeding ewes soared to new heights at the first of Wycheproof's annual spring store sheep sales on Friday when two new records were created.
With a monster crowd in attendance and the prime lamb, mutton and wool markets on the boil, two new record prices were created on day as buyers from across the state completed for an above average quality yarding.
The first of the records to tumble was the best ever price paid for crossbred ewes with marked young lambs at foot.
The pen of 159 BLM-cross, which had 159 percent of White Suffolk lambs, made a breath-taking $456 per outfit- which was clearly $100 a head higher than the previous best.
The line was offered by Prospect Rural of Brim while JG Warne, Culgoa sold a yard of BLM-cross young ewe maidens, unjoined at a season's high thus far of $300 per head: another record for the northwest sheep market centre.
Merino young ewes with lambs at foot made $282 a head while Merino ewe maidens, April shorn, made to $232 a head.