A LINE of one year-old scanned-in-lamb (SIL) Border Leicester-Merino ewes reached the market high of $230 a head at Corowa’s, NSW, special sheep sale on Thursday.
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Combined agents yarded 5000 head and Corcoran Parker’s Clynt Rixon said prices were fully firm and on par with recent sales.
“Compared to Wycheproof, we’d be right up there,” Mr Rixon said.
Rodwells Finley purchased the top-priced draft of 168 May/June 2009-drop BLM ewes, October-shorn and SIL to Poll Dorset rams for $230, offered by Gerradale, Brocklesby, NSW.
This price was followed closely by a pen of 228 first-cross SIL BLM ewes, same age and December-shorn, for $228, account Uyanyah, Brocklesby.
Joined crossbred ewes mainly sold firm from $190-$230.
In the unjoined crossbred ewe lanes, Trevor Rhodes and his son Chris, Warragoon, Savernake, were on deck to see their first pen of 93 BLM ewes, June/July 2009-drop and March-shorn fetch a top of $186.
These were secured by Rodwells Shepparton, while a second pen made $175.
Mr Rixon quoted unjoined crossbred ewes from $136-$186.
The sale opened with a pen of 224 BLM ewes, 4.5 years-old, November-shorn with 309 lambs at foot, for $220, account ML and BL Chambers, Thornbury Park, Rutherglen.
These were purchased by Peter Millington, Landmark, Albury, NSW, for Fewerherdt Pastoral, Walla Walla.
