Feilding stock sale

Plenty of lambs were yarded at Feilding.

Yesterday's Feilding Prime Sale may have been a "short week" sale but plenty of lambs were yarded - approaching 5000.

Though there appeared to be few buyers, sale prices continued to firm for medium-weight prime lambs by $2-3/head and the heaviest lambs stayed steady on last week.

These are the headline lambs, with AR Horton selling 25 for $161 and exactly 200 lambs sold for over $150/head but those medium lambs, generally ewe lambs, is where the cents/kg paid lifts perceptibly.

The proportion of medium-weighted lambs overall was slightly higher than last week.
Store lambs also continued to sell for firm demand and at better levels than the Friday store sale but most are forward store and not in need of much finishing.

Ewe numbers were reduced. Scanning is not bringing big numbers out, which may suggest most early ewes are in lamb.

They remained steady on last week with good money for good ewes and they make scanned ewes look cheap.

Again, big woolly wethers lifted the average for male sheep.

Cattle numbers eased, with little weight offered in the steer and heifer pens and the few beef cattle were just medium.

Cows actually firmed on those reduced numbers.

No beef cows were offered this week.

One light young Angus bull was the extent of the bull sale.

Prices
Sheep (5741): lambs (4851); heavy prime (1040), 50-62kg, $136-$161, $2.50-$2.75, steady; medium prime (3036), 38-50kg, $116-$137.50, $2.70-$2.85, firm; store (775), 26-40kg, $54-$115, $2.30-$3.05, firm; ewes (788); good, heavy (100), 26-30kg, $117-$133, $4.40-$4.50, steady; medium (517), 21-25kg, $89.50-$115.50, $4.30-$4.60, steady; lighter (171), 16-20kg, $57-$87, $3.60-$4.40, steady; 2ths (60), $89-$120; male sheep (42), $38-$126.

Cattle (140): steers (4), 440-660kg, $1135-$1749, $2.58-$2.65, firm; heifers (23); 450-460kg, $1030-$1177, $2.29-$2.56; lesser sorts, 350-396kg, $633-$871, $1.81-$2.20; cows (112); good, heavy, 451-670kg, $857-$1333, $1.99-$2.11, firm; boners, 390-521kg, $686-$1042, $1.61-$2.00, firm; lesser sorts, 306-500kg, $443-$545, $1.28-$1.45; bull (1), 270kg, $545, $2.02.