Numbers reached 4004 head at the Deniliquin Sheep Sale on Tuesday, after no sale in the town for a month, made up of 3000 lambs and the rest being sheep.

Quality varied from some good fed lambs through to a mix of wintery clean-up lots.

There were also quite a few pens of Merino ram lambs.

The core buying group attended in a market where lamb rates matched more recent sales.

Total sales came to $963,233, for an average of $240.56.

The better presented trade to heavy types trended over an estimated 1100c/kg cwt.

Sheep were cheaper with the sale lacking buying depth, particularly on the lead pens of heavier mutton which sold at much lower c/kg rates compared to recent markets.

A few pens of heavy export lambs - a lot in longer skins - sold from $344 a top of $388/head, but tended to be weaker on weight and c/kg.

Dorper lambs sold to $340.

The solid part of the sale was on neat lambs from 24-30kg carcase weight, which sold from $274 to $323/head.

Merino lambs sold to $270. The better light to medium trade types sold from $230 to $252 to be in the 1000c to 1100c/kg plus range, depending on quality and subject to skin values.

One buyer had a store order that was being booked to Tasmania, and this soaked up most of the lighter and younger Merino lambs at $156 to $248/head.

There were several pens of Merino ram lambs, which sold from $212 to a top of $308/head.

There were some extra heavy pens of meat ewes in the sheep section, and there were some cheaper with agents asking more than $300 but only getting to a top of $284/head.

Most of the Merino ewes with some frame and weight sold from $230 to $280/head, and leaner trades from $198 to $220/head.

Top sales:

Suckers - Holden Pastoral Co, $370 and $320.

Old lambs - Colligen Creek Farms Trust, $388; HL & J Thomson, $346; ANC Bradford, $344.

Sheep - AFA Wanganella, $300; Yarabah North, $274.

~ Details supplied by Meat Livestock Australia market reporter Jenny Kelly and Deniliquin Saleyards manager Greg White on behalf of the Deniliquin Associated Agents.

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