LAMB PRICE RISE

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 29

LAMB PRICE RISE

Heavy Weights Unchanged The woolly iamb schedule was adjusted for the first time since the opening of the present export kiMing season at the week-end. Advice of this was received yesterday. Prices to producers for all woolly and shorn lambs up to 3151 b have been advanced by Id per lb. There is no change in rates for heavier lambs. Prices for most classes of ewes have also been raised by Id per lb. For prime ewes over 731 b and overfot ewes the rise is id per lb. The new schedule rates are:— Weelly Lamb, Prime: 20 to 281 b, 234: 39 Io 361 b. 21}d, 37 to 421 b, 18}d: 43 to 561 b. 17id; 51 to 561 b, 1514. Second quality: 20 to 281 b, 234 : 29 to 38lb, 2144: over 3«M*. 1814. Alpha: over 17ib, 154. Sheen Lamb* Prime: 20 to 2»lb, 20J4: 28 to 361 b. Ifild; 37 to 421 b, Ifiid; 43 to 501 b. 1514: 51 to Sfilb. 1314. Second quality: 20 to 281 b, 20|4; 29 to Sfilb. 1814; over 3«lb. 1644. Alpha: over 17>b. 12|4. ■was Prime: up to 4Mb, B}d; 48 to Sfilb. 7}d; 57 to 641 b. fid; (5 to 721 b, 4d: 73 to 861 b, 2}d; over SOlb and over-fat. 24. Second quality: up to 4Mb, Sid; over 4Slb. 7}d; export manufacturing. 7ld.