A small but well-supported Jamestown sheep market was held yesterday, with nearly 6000 head penned.
Feedlotters were prominent but were unable to secure numbers of satisfactory feed-on lambs, Landmark Jamestown agent Don Cullen said.
"This enabled graziers with green feed, after the recent heavy rains, to buy the majority of lambs," he said.
Young ewes, and better breeding ewes, met strong competition and were fully firm to $8-$10 dearer.
In the larger lots, JP Carey sold 200 Gum Hill-blood July/August Merino ewes to $111 and Hylands View sold 216 August/September Gum Hill-blood Merino ewes at $112.
Best shorn 2014-drop Merino wether lambs sold to animated competition holding firm to $3 cheaper, selling from $78 to $90, while secondary shorn lambs were firm, selling from $40-$54.
The top lambs at $90 were 206 sold by AC&H Michael to Elders Gladstone, while RG&DA Hotchin sold 114 East Bungaree-bloods at $86.
There were only a few pens of woolly 14-drop Merino wether lambs, selling from $63-$68.
Crossbred lambs sold to strong competition, with the best of them trending $3-$5 dearer on quality prices ranging from $103-$111, while secondary lambs sold up from $75 to $92.
The 220 top crossbred lambs, September 2014-drops, sold at $111 to Gary Wilson were from the Schmidt Family Trust, Booleroo, who also sold a further 390 at $104 to Elders Gladstone.
The 2013-drop ewes offered also sold to strong competition, with prices up to $142, but secondary types lifted $3-$5 to prices from $110 to $125.
Boongala Ag sold the top lot, a small pen of 67 Glenville-blood May/June drops at $142 to Elders Cleve, while DM&JM Griffiths, Kimba, sold 76 July/August ewes at $131, also to Elders Cleve.
Buying support came from, West Coast, Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Plains, Murray Mallee, Yorke Peninsula, Local Areas, Mid North.
