MOUNT PLEASANT
Yarding: 1647 sheep and lambs, 166 cattle
Lambs to $204
Hoggets to $165
Wethers to $150
Steers to $1440
LAMBS sold to $204 three times at the Mount Pleasant market on Thursday.
BK&KL Grigg, Mount Pleasant, and Terling Farm, Tungkillo, both achieved the top price for one and two lambs respectively, as did AMP Farms Trust, Tungkillo, for its charity lot.
AMP Farms Trust also sold a second pen of 25 second-cross lambs at $188.
The sale's second highest lamb price was $202 for singles from Indavine Pastoral Trust, Lyndoch, and RJ&RJ Wooley, Nairne.
G&JR Koopman, Charleston, sold the top hoggets, with seven making $165, while Indavine Pastoral Trust sold four at $160.
Wethers sold to $150 for EC Schultz, Tanunda, for 11 head, while G&JR Koopman sold two at $140.
Ewes made to $138 twice for L Tziros, Gumeracha, with four head and DJ Kubenk with three, who sold another six at $126.
Indavine Pastoral Trust also sold 10 ewes at $135.
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In the cattle sale, steers sold to an impressive $1440 for just the one lot - a Murray Grey from JD Crawrse, Freeling, who also sold a single Murray Grey heifer at the sale's top price of $1160 and another at $1020.
DT&EK Brookes, Hope Valley, also sold an Angus heifer at $1160, who also sold a cow at $850.
Both selling steers at $980 were Brett Skipworth and V Cook, both from Mount Pleasant.
CA Hentschke, Keyneton, sold a big Angus cow at $1200, plus two heifers at $880, two steers at $880 and a bull at $370.
Cows with calves sold to $1140 for a Murray Grey unit from GD Wicks & Son, Mount Torrens, and another at $1120, plus three cows at $1000, three at $860 and another at $780.
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