THE restocker madness for joinable and scanned-in-lamb Merino ewes continued at Urana in southern NSW today, with prices hitting $188.
Selling agents Elders and Denis Smith & Co marked the Urana 75th anniversary sale with a yarding of 12,000 sheep.Denis Smith and his wife Pauline topped the market with their family's Bimbadeen draft.
Gundagai restocker Andrew Turner paid $188 for their 257 four-and-a-half-year-old Merino ewes, Pooginook blood and August shorn.
The ewes were scanned-in-lamb with multiples to White Suffolk rams.Sheep sold to Echuca, Benalla, Cobram, Yarrawonga, Jerilderie, Hay, Cootamundra, Murramai, Barellan, Forbes and Wagga Wagga.
John, Colleen and Ashley Batten, of Oaklands, topped the joined crossbred ewe offering on $144.
Their top pen of 185 Border Leicester-Merino cross ewes, May-June 2005 drop and scanned in lamb to White Suffolk rams sold to Elders Wagga Wagga.
Merino ewe lambs sold to $86 while Merino wether lambs, May-June drop and September shorn, topped at $108 to a Cootamundra processor.
