Quality line sells well at Jamestown

There were about 9000 sheep in, down from an advertised yarding of 10,500, with Elders' Jack Coleman attributing the difference to recent rain.

Mr Coleman said the ewe sale was erratic, with the best selling to $142 but better quality ewes missing out on the money.

Landmark's Don Cullen said the best of the wether lambs were in short supply but had strong competition among feedlotters and restockers.

He said, with harvest coming to an end, many mixed operations would have more paddocks with stubble.

He said barley quality in the region may also have encouraged people to consider value adding by fattening sheep, rather than go through the silos.

Wether numbers were down, with the market firm to dearer across the line.

Garawang P/L topped the wether market with 200, seven-month, Baderloo-bloods, sold for $91.

Waterman Rural, Melrose, sold 200, six-month Lines Gum Hill-blood wethers for $90.

WH Lines & Co, Wilmington, offered 400, six-month, North Ashrose-blood, which sold for $87.

DE&LNE Hansen, Georgetown, sold 248 White Suffolk-cross six-month lambs, bare shorn, for $97, while 131, five-month, cross-bred lambs from WR Naismith, Black Rock, sold for $92.

In the ewes, McCarthy Partners, Jamestown, sold 282 1.5-year-old Moorundie Park-bloods for $142.

SJ&DM Bradtke, Mannanarie, sold 119 1.5yo Bradfield-bloods, for $134, while NW&KM Kupke, Booleroo Centre, sold 89 1.5yo, Baderloo-blood, for $132.

A line of about 750 breeding ewes were on offer from KL,LM&DK Moore, Jamestown, in a flock reduction as the family looked to increase their cropping operation.

A pen of 3.5yo Ridgway Advance-blood ewes sold for $163.

A second pen of 270 4.5yo, also Ridgway Advance-blood, made $134, while 229 4.5yo, Leachim-blood, sold for $111.

LA&SK Saegenschnitter, Eudunda, sold 42 2.5-3.5yo, Sharlu Park-blood, for $117, while JW&PJ Bowden offered 51 2.5yo, Rices Creek-blood, which sold for $116.