COROWA SPECIAL STORE SHEEP SALE, JAN 28: VICTORIAN and NSW restockers bid strongly on scanned-in-lamb ewes at Corowa today, pushing prices to $150.
With virtually no processor activity, restockers also paid to $161 for crossbred ewe lambs.
Corowa Associated Agents yarded close to 12,000 crossbred ewes, joined and unjoined Merino ewes, fattening lambs and Merino wethers for the sale.
Sheep sold to Deniliquin, Wagga Wagga, Blayney, Wangaratta, Benalla, Yarrawonga, Shepparton, Kilmore and Corowa.
Corcoran Parker Corowa manager Clinton Rixon described the sale as solid with prices above the processor market.
Mr Rixon said prices were $10 plus across the board, with virtually no processor competition present.
"The scanned-in-lamb ewes sold well while the young crossbred ewes were solid,'' he said.
"There was a limited number of Merino wether lambs but they sold well.''
The sale opened on the Border Leicester-Merino cross ewe lambs, April-May drop, with the first pen selling for $161.
Offered by One Cypress Pastoral, Lockhart, the 221 September shorn ewes sold to G & V Hardwick, Kyneton, through Elders Bendigo.
The balance of the pens then sold down to $82.
Unjoined one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half year old first-cross ewes sold for $87-$116, while older Bond ewes with young lambs topped at $131.
Spring shorn Poll Dorset and first-cross store wether lambs sold for $71.20-$78 and the December shorn portion for $51-$70.
Buyer demand was strong for scanned-in-lamb crossbred ewes, topping at $127 and selling down to $86.
Wangaratta restockers were active in the Dorper offering, paying a top of $152 for May-June 2006 drop ewes with Dorper lambs, aged one to eight weeks.
Shorn and joined 2007 and 2008 drop Merino ewes topped at $150 while older spring shorn, joined ewes sold for $76-$122.
Woolly Merino ewes scanned-in-lamb topped at $102 and unjoined one-and-a-half year old Merino ewes were $55-$86.
Spring shorn Merino ewe lambs sold for $64-$72 and shorn Merino wethers, 2008 drop, topped at $68.50 and sold down to $37.
