{"id":31689,"date":"2018-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/temuka-sale-21-5\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:00:00","slug":"temuka-sale-21-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/temuka-sale-21-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Temuka sale 21.5"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

A larger instance of half-bred and Corriedale were offered in the store lamb pens, and while there was an overall easing in prices, some sections were steady to lifting. The easing was due to a softer tone for heavy mixed sex at $119-$133, and medium, $99-$114, but those in between were steady to lifting at $110-$120. Heavy male lambs were consistent at $115-$131 with most other males making $104-$110, while good ewe lambs sold on a steady market at $112-$126.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The prime lamb market was very solid at $120-$169 for the majority, with a few lines making it to $170-$180.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One buyer proved hard to beat in the ewe pens, taking almost a clean sweep of both this section and the adult male sheep. This resulted in a firm market for all types, though a wide variance in prices reflected the range of ewes on offer. The top lines made $190-$250, and at the other end light ewes still had healthy price tags of $80-$107. Most of the male sheep traded at $110-$150, with one line of 15 wethers making $179.<\/p>\n

The saving grace for the prime and boner market at Temuka was that numbers are unusually low, as vendors are only offloading out of necessity and keeping it to a minimum as much as possible.<\/p>\n

The boner market continued to claw its way back up and the low numbers were fairly easy for the buying bench to absorb. There were two main price brackets for Friesian cows – better types, 496-578kg, sold for $1.45-$1.53\/kg, and 420-484kg, $1.39-$1.49\/kg. The one section to really suffer was the boner heifers, with these only making cow price as the majority traded at $1.40-$1.52\/kg.<\/p>\n

Smaller tallies worked in favour of the bull section, where 28 Friesian, 554-606kg, firmed to $2.40-$2.44\/kg, with 493-650kg Angus and Hereford making $2.36-$2.42\/kg.<\/p>\n

The prime market struggled, even with just 27 steers and 18 heifers penned. Steers made $2.57-$2.66\/kg, though one line of two Angus did manage $2.70\/kg. Five Angus heifers, 520kg, sold for $2.63\/kg, with Hereford-Friesian, 402-585kg, selling over a tight band of $2.45-$2.51\/kg.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High prices drew yet another big yarding of lambs to Temuka on Monday, while lower numbers in the rostrum was the saving grace for the market.\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t