There was a little less buying pressure on just over 4000 hoggets which lead to a slight easing in hogget sale prices. Three-quarters of the hoggets were heavy and prime but a high proportion of the lighter and medium weight hoggets were just not quite finished.
Time is running out to finish them so the decision to sell them makes them someone else's problem and may help with any remaining hoggets.
Ewe hoggets topped the sale with 11 blackface ewe hoggets from Pinegrove Farm selling for $190 and 15 shorn Texel cross ewe hoggets from John McLean making $189. These were all heavy prime hoggets with the best the males could make being $182 for 37 from Te Kawa Farm.
The heaviest hoggets probably changed very little in cents/kg and it was the medium weight section, which has been going so well, that backed off a tad.
A couple of hundred store hoggets sold to steady demand.