Corowa Market Report

May 6, 2020

Numbers reduced slightly for a mixed quality yarding at Corowa’s Market on Monday with additional secondary lambs available.

Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content

Many producers are coming to the end of their lambs with very small numbers of over 24kg lambs offered to processors.

One domestic processor was absent again this week and buyers that were in attendance were not operating fully.

The market was firm to cheaper across both sheep and lambs with heavy crossbred ewes dropping up to $25/head for the heaviest pens.

After weeks of strong trade prices, heavy trade lambs sold $5 to $6 easier and up to $10/head for light trade lambs. Light and medium trade sold from $161 to $194 and heavy trade, 22-24kg, made from $196 to $213/head.

Heavy lambs going to domestic and export processors were $5 to $6 cheaper, selling from $200 to $214/head.

Export lambs weighing 26-30kg, sold from $216 to $230 and limited pens of over 30kg lambs sold from $233 to $265/head, making up to 748c/kg cwt.

A small number of light lambs sold to the processors making from $123 to $166 with restockers stepping in on the secondary portion, paying from $135 to $166/head.

Mutton numbers were similar and sold in a firm to cheaper market.

Heavy cross bred ewes sold from $201 to $225, easing up to $25 and heavy merinos reached up to $208/head, averaging 650c/kg cwt.

Trade sheep sold from $135 to $172 and light sheep made from $120 to $132/head.