Prime lamb prices rose throughout September at Coalgate, where Charollais-cross lambs took top honours last Thursday at $266. Other very-heavy lambs rose to $210-$256, with heavy steady at $190-$209.
Store lamb volume fell to only 378, with most contained in a single pen of 277 lesser mixed-sex at $95, with the balance $110-$145.
It was a short and sharp affair in the cattle yards where the store pens remain low on stock. Angus, 437kg, were the best of the 2-year steers at $3.25/kg, with Hereford-Friesian, 440kg, next at $2.70/kg. In the yearling pens Angus steers, 202kg, were $3.71/kg with other Angus steers, 248kg, making $3.43/kg.
Coalgate store and prime cattle; all sheep 26.09
Limousin bulls, 660-730kg, sold for breeding at $2450-$2600
Vetted-in-calf Angus heifers, 418kg, fetched $2.58/kg
Boner Friesian cows, 691kg, made $2.11/kg
Very heavy ewes were $202-213, with heavy $193-$194
Ewes with lambs-at-foot sold from $109 to $121 all counted
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