Confidence in sheep job returning at Swan Hill

Andrew Miller
Updated October 2 2020 - 11:09am, first published October 1 2020 - 1:00pm
TOP PRICE: These Minyara, Morton Plains, SIL Mulloorie-blood ewes topped the sale at Swan Hill, going for $360 a head. Agents said they were pleased with the result, with sheep going back into local paddocks.
TOP PRICE: These Minyara, Morton Plains, SIL Mulloorie-blood ewes topped the sale at Swan Hill, going for $360 a head. Agents said they were pleased with the result, with sheep going back into local paddocks.

Our ewes are never as big and bloomy as Hay, so they didn't make as much, but in the current market, the decent lines of young ewes sold very well.

- Jason Pickering, Nutrien Ag Solutions

Scanned-in-lamb Merino ewes topped at just under $400 a head at the annual Swan Hill Stock Agents Association Annual Breeders Sale.

Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller

Journalist

I'm a general reporter with Stock & Land, with a special interest in irrigation issues. I completed my cadetship, with the Age, in 1980. Over my career, I've worked for ABC radio news (Mt Isa, Qld) and at provincial and suburban newspapers.

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