Records have tumbled at another sheep sale with lambs selling to a national record high of $460 a head on Tuesday, with a whopping 59,050 yarded at the Central West Livestock Exchange.
The top price lambs were presented by Goimbla Partnership, Matthew and Kylie Parker from Eugowra.
They were on lucerne before being feedlotted in the leadup to sale, livestock agent and director at MCC Chudleigh Dobell, Adam Chudleigh, said.
And the record-lambs were an all-local effort, bred by the Townsends at Eugowra from Morrisons’ first-cross ewes and Ridgehaven rams, he added.
“Unbelievable” was how Mr Chudleigh described the sale.
“They all weighed over 90 kg and up to 114kg, 115kg,” he said.
“He’s grown them out well, taken his time with them and been rewarded.”
The next pen, also presented by Goimbla, sold for $437 a head.
This week's record of course breaks a national record set here in Forbes just last week and the region and livestock exchange are reaping the rewards.
“Lambs have travelled distances to come to the market,” Chudleigh said.
“We’ve still got a lot of Queensland sheep there, a lot of northern NSW sheep, even western Riverina sheep coming up which is great to see.”
With lower yardings resulting from drought down south, the demand from processors continues and this region has had a decent enough season to be able to hold on to stock.
While the extra heavyweight lambs were destined for export, Tuesday’s sale saw a continued excellent prices for trade lambs on a cents per kilo basis, Mr Chudleigh said.
“Good domestic trade lambs are making $11 and $12.50 a kilo,” he said.
“Another really good highlight of today’s market was that we saw probably 1000 new season lambs, not even six months old, they made anywhere from $280 to $304 - that’s massive.”
This was all on the back of a Monday cattle sale the agent described as “phenomenal”.
“We’ve got both northern and southern processors competing and also northern and southern feedlotters competing,” Mr Chudleigh said.
“So it’s a very good time for the livestock sector.
“It might not be there forever but at the moment we’ll ride the high.”