Numbers showed a significant increase this sale as weather conditions continue to bite. Agents yarded 49100 head with 31150 of these being lambs. Quality was very mixed with some handy runs of fed finished lambs offered along with an increased offering of plainer secondary lambs. The usual buyers were present and competing in a dearer market.

Trade weight lambs lifted $6 to $10 to sell from $230 to $296/head. Heavy and extra heavies also started out strongly with heavies selling from $292 to $318/head. Export lambs sold from $313 to $380/ head. Carcase prices averaged from 1097 to 1187c/kg.

The best heavy hoggets reached $278/head.
There was just under 18000 mutton yarded and quality was very mixed. Merino ewes sold from $172 to $275/head. Crossbreds ranged in price from $172 to $285 with Dorper ewes receiving $156 to $270/head. Merino wethers reached $256/head.