A line up of almost 5000 sheep from the one station underpinned the quantity yarded at Jamestown market yesterday.
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In total 7000 sheep were offered with 5000 of those a complete dispersal of the recently sold Koomooloo Station.
Nutrien Jamestown's Shannon Jaeschke said overall the sale went quite well.
"The feature was obviously the Koomooloo dispersal sheep with their younger breeding flock and their ewe lambs and wether lambs, which you could say they met expectations on results or even a little bit better," he said.
"A lot of those sheep have gone to the pastoral country, which is where the demand was going to come from for that sort of article for the type of sheep.
"Our better end of Merino lambs and a couple pens of crossbred lambs that we have sold today, sold pretty well with the forecast of the lamb job into the winter market."
He said the lighter types also held up reasonably well.
Making the highest price throughout the market was $128 from JBS for 57 October/November-drop, wooly, crossbred lambs from ND Chapman, Jamestown, while a run of 193 August/September-drop, March shorn, Gum Hill-blood, wethers from the same vendor made $104 to Spence Dix, and a further line of 52 made $77 to Elders Burra.
Pindari Stud, Waterloo, offered 88 August/September-drop, December shorn, 45 kilogram average, Pindari-bld, wethers which sold at $100 to Hill Livestock, while a second run of 80, 38kg av, sold to EP Livestock, Wudinna, at $72.
In the ewe offering JAS Mosey&Co, Eudunda, sold 136 July/August 2022-drop, April shorn, Greenfields-blood, at $110 to Spence Dix, Clare, while a run of 8 sold at $30 to Thomas Foods International.
Ewes offered by GR Coleman, Jamestown, from an August 2021-drop, May shorn, Baderloo-bld, scanned-in-lamb made $80 to Elders Jamestown, while a younger line of August 2022-drop also scanned-in-lamb made $60 the same way.
Koomooloo Station, Burra, sold 289 June/July 2020-2021, February shorn, ewes which had been running with a Poll Merino ram at $61 to Nutrien Clare, while 237 July/August/September, February shorn, Koomooloo-bld ewes at $56 to Prostock Broken Hill, and a line of 533 sold at $40 the same way.
The Koomooloo Station June/July 2022-drop, February shorn, scanned-in-lamb, ewe pen of 286 sold at $56 also to Prostock Broken Hill.
Within the crossbred offering, Smith Belton Partners, Carrieton, offered 71 June/July/August-drop, April-shorn, Glenville/Anna Villa-bld, which sold at $121 to JBS, and two at $60 the same way, while The Range, offered 32 September-drop, wooly, Curlew Valley-bld which sold at $50 to EP Livestock, Wudinna.
Elders Jamestown livestock agent Riley Stasinowsky said they had a small percentage of local sheep.
"They sold to a cheaper trend due to seasonal conditions and stock conditions," he said.
"Buyers were TFI, JBS, local buyers and some from the West Coast, Broken Hill and Victoria.
"The top end sold reasonably well with the best Merino lambs selling around $100, and then the live store stuff dropped off a bit with a range of $30 to $55."
He said prices were "back a little bit but that's just due to dry conditions, it's starting to come in cooler and less paddock availability with sowing of crops".
The next Jamestown market is June 20 subject to numbers.
Kiara Stacey
Journalist for Stock Journal. Kiara was in classified sales at Stock Journal before joining the editorial team in 2021. Kiara completed a Bachelor of Communication (journalism) at Deakin University the year prior.
Journalist for Stock Journal. Kiara was in classified sales at Stock Journal before joining the editorial team in 2021. Kiara completed a Bachelor of Communication (journalism) at Deakin University the year prior.
