This vendor’s pen of 168 Romney two- tooth ewes topped the sale at the Matawhero Ewe Fair yesterday, selling for $185.
Picture by
Trevor Brown
This vendor’s pen of 168 Romney two- tooth ewes topped the sale at the Matawhero Ewe Fair yesterday, selling for $185.
Picture by
Trevor Brown
A total of 3786 ewes were sent for sale at yesterday’s Matawhero Ewe Fair, of which 1672 were two-tooths.
Nobody was expecting record prices due to the low mutton schedule, but although the amounts paid for the two-tooth ewes were down $30 on 2023, prices paid for the quality yardingexceeded expectations.
The top price of $185 was for a pen of 168 Romney two-tooth ewes from Grant and Sue Crawshaw at Nuhaka.
R and J Utting Ltd at Waimata offered four pens of capital stock ewes, due to a change in farming policy, and their first pick of 169 Romworth two-tooth ewes fetched $183.
Waitangi Terrace Station, at Kanakanaia, were paid best price of $120 for 352 five- year ewes.
