SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT
Sheep – 16 June
Numbers increased marginally as agents offered 3900 lambs and a modest 600 sheep. The usual trade and processor buyers were active along with feeders, restockers and specialty butchers.
Quality was generally good, however trade and heavy lambs and heavy sheep sold to an easier trend. The usual trade and processor buyers, specialty butchers, feeders and restockers provided steady competition.
Crossbred light store lambs sold from $120 to $160 as the better types sold from $180 to $230 per head. Trade weights sold from $240 to $255.
Heavy trade weights sold from $250 to $275 as the few extreme heavy weights ranged from $290 to $330 per head.
Good Merino stores sold from $190 to $240, trade weights ranged from $220 to $250 as heavy trade weights sold from $270 to $290 with extreme heavy weights selling from $295 to $310 per head.
Light mutton sold from $140 to $190, trade weights ranged from $210 to $230 with heavy weights selling from $260 to $275 per head.
Cattle – 16 June
Numbers increased substantially as agents offered 740 liveweight and open auction cattle. Numbers swelled as one agent offered close to 650 store cattle.
The mostly younger cattle came forward from the Nutt family’s Oakden Hills Station at Port Augusta.
Feeders, restockers and the odd local butcher provided most of the competition with buyers represented from the Alice Springs area, Yorke and Eyre peninsulas and the local surrounding areas.
The few trade heifers on offer sold from 430 cents to 450 cents per kilogram. Pastoral steers ranged from 550 cents to 576 cents as heifers ranged from 450 cents to 530 cents per kilogram.
Pastoral feeder steers ranged from 520 cents to 530 cents as heifers sold from 420 cents to 490 cents per kilogram. A large wing of Mickey bulls sold from 432 cents to 608 cents per kilogram.
