Jamestown ewes to $115

Pastoral-bred wether lambs were particularly hard to sell, with some small, lighter types making only $5.50-$7.

But at the top-end of the wether lamb sale DM&MA Lloyd, Burra, sold May/June-drop Gum Hill bloods – with a big jacket of wool – at $63 to H&R.

The top-price ewes at $115 were 283 Merinos Moorundie Park blood scanned in-lamb to Suffolk, sold by DJ&KL Kumnick to Elders Cleve.

Landmark Jamestown's Don Cullen said a feature of the sale was that although there was no feed in the paddocks, people were still prepared to buy sheep at reduced rates.

"We saw some prices fall to values not seen since the early 1990s," he said.

Most of the 24,000 sheep and lambs were supplied from the North West Pastoral and North East Pastoral Districts, and the remainder from Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula and Mid North.

In the ewe lamb section PJ,MC&PG Kitschke, Caltowie, sold the top ewe lambs 168 Gum Hill blood at $81 to Landmark Riverton.

BA McCarthy sold 139 ewes, May/June-drop bare shorn at $59 to Landmark Strathalbyn.

RW Nutt & Sons, Pandora Station, sold 400 F1 SAMM-Merino ewe lambs July/August-drop at $35.50 also to Landmark Strathalbyn.

A further 750 SAMM ewes 2011-drop scanned in-lamb sold at $51 to Newmarket Eurora.

Paratoo Station sold 220 ewe lambs, rising one-year-old Moorundie Park blood at $50 to Landmark Jamestown account Higgins.

Young ewes from Koomooloo Stud, 284 Koomooloo blood SIL made to $62 to Landmark Mildura, Victoria.

Middleback Station sold 285 SIL 2010-drop ewes Blackford blood at $59 to Landmark Port Augusta.

Breeding ewes made to $59, Middleback selling 500 2010-drop SIL at this price, and 350 of its 2009-drop SIL made $49.

Brooks Rockwood sold 240 ewes 2006-2008 drop SIL to crossbred rams at $59.

CR&PG Davey sold 250 ewes, 2009-drops, SIL to Dohne rams, at $57.

Wether lambs sold by CC Cooper & Co, 340 Gum Hill blood July/August-drop bare shorn, made $53 to John Mableson Livestock.

*Full report in Stock Journal, April 25 issue, 2013.