A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
PRICES eased considerably on the previous week with the store lamb section in the Matawhero sheep sale yesterday where 3100 head were presented for sale.
The sale attracted a small bench of local buyers.
“The best of the male store lambs from Amua Station at Te Karaka went for $95.50,”said sales commentator Peter McGrannachan from PGG Wrightson.
“Other good male lambs sold for $80-$85, medium types $70-$75 and lesser sorts for $50. There was a very good line of ewe lambs and the best of them, a line of shorn lambs from Puhoro Station Ltd of Wairoa, fetched $88.”
The medium ewe lambs made $60-$65 and the lighter types sold down to the $35-$40 mark. Mr McGrannachan said one pen of store two-tooth, woolly ewes, scanned dry, made $62.
“I think the prospect of more cold weather coming upon us may have caused the slowdown in the store sheep market. It was obvious from the caution buyers showed yesterday.”
