Trade lamb prices hit record highs

By Leann Dax
Updated January 19 2018 - 12:11pm, first published January 18 2018 - 1:09pm
SALES: Peter Dargan from Rodwells Wangaratta with Stewart Thrum of "Wilangarie" Greta West, who sold 36 lambs for $148.00 at Corowa.
SALES: Peter Dargan from Rodwells Wangaratta with Stewart Thrum of "Wilangarie" Greta West, who sold 36 lambs for $148.00 at Corowa.

The lamb market seems to have moved away from its traditional seasonal-influenced price pattern of premiums in the winter and lower returns in the summer. That is a key query posed by the opening rates after the Christmas holiday break, which recorded its highest ever trade lamb prices according to buyers and agents at Wagga in NSW. Wagga Agents said only a fortnight ago, neat well-finished shorn trade lambs hovered close to the 800c/kg carcass weight mark with all domestic and export processors scrabbling over the top of each other to secure supply.

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