Addington market Lamb prices down, sheep up

Press, 10 February 1983, Page 11

Addington market Lamb prices down, sheep up

Store lamb values eased but prices for adult sheep showed a slight rise at the Addington market yesterday. Although the yarding of almost ■ 11,000 store lambs was less than half the number offered last week, demand for lambs was weaker. The buying gallery was small and with little competition from southern buyers over-all values declined by 50c a head. Most lambs sold between $ll and $l4 with few sales over $l5. Poor lambs were $4 to $7. A well-bred line of woolly Romney ewe lambs sold for $lB.lO and a pen of shorn Romneys made $lB. Smaller Romneys were $ll to $l5 and a pen of Coopworths made $16.60. Some top lines of annual draft ewes created a little more interest in the adult sheep section. Many sales of well-conditioned ewes were made from $l2 to $l4, with an excellent line of fouryear Corriedales from A. T. and A. W. Black (Kekerengu) making to $17.20. Ewes which were hard to sell at $9 to $lO last week regularly made $ll yesterday. The over-all quality of the adult section was much better than recent weeks, although several pens of light sheep sold from $4 to $B. Store cattle had a strong sale with West Coast. Mid-Canterbury and local buyers. The over-all quality of the cattle offered was better than stock offered at recent Tuesday sales and this was reflected in an improvement in values. Competition was keen for several pens of adult .cattle in forward condition. A line of 21'zyear South Devon steers from T. G. Maxwell (Greta Valley) sold to $382, and Angus cross steers of the same age from the Teviotdale Estate (Amberlev) sold to $372. Good 2*2-year steers made from $2BO to $320 with heifers to $250. Top yearling steers made to $240 w’ith good steers selling round $2OO. Best yearling heifers sold .to $214. Sales included: Wether lambs; J. P. D. Hall (Tai Tapu). 300 shorn Coopworths at $10.20 to $l4; A. W. and S. S. Robinson (Kirwee), 200 shorn Coopworths at $12.30 to $14.20; Lands and Survev Department (Bell Hill) 2310 Perendales at $9.40 to $14.60; R. L. A. McMillan ■ Hawarden). 165 Down cross at $13.20 to $14.20; J. D. O’Rourke (Christchurch), 101 at $16.50; E. H. Lunn (Hanmer Springs), 527 mixed-sex Halfbreds at $14.30 to $18.20; D. A. Philpott (Okuku), 568 mixed-sex Corriedales at $12.60 to $l7; R. S. Rossiter (Oxford), 259 mixed-sex Coopworth and Down cross at $11.60 to $14.40; W. H. and R. Croft (Omihi), 174 Corriedales at $ll to $11.30; Estate J. L. Mora (Tai Tapu), 110

shorn mixed-sex Romneys at $11.20 to $14.60; N. Smith (Rangiora). 120 mixed-sex Down cross at $12.9,0 to $15.30; T. P. King (Okarimio), 269 Romneys at $11.60 to $l4; M. C. Gilbert (Kaituna Valley), 145 Perendales at $12.20 to $17.40; C. J. Hatton (Glentunnel), 313 Perendales at $11.20 to $l6. Ewe lambs: D. J. Keehan (Duvauchelle). 250 Romneys at $15.30 to $15.50; T. P. King (Okarimio). 240 Romneys at $12.60 to $14.10. '

Adult sheep; J. S. Scott (Heathcote). 281 4-year Corriedales at $6.80 to $11; J. J. and J. R. Smith (Kaikoura), 209 4-year corriedales at $12.80; E. A. Hutchinson (Little River). 100 annual draft Romney-Coopworth cross at $9.70; M. L. Crampton (Cheviot), 129 5-year Corriedales at $12.30; P. H. and D. Loughnan (Scargill), 76 annual draft Corriedales at $9; D. J. Keehan (Duvauchelle), 331 Perendale and Romney ewes at $ll.lO and $5.80; J. M. and C. N. Le Cren (Parnassus). 339 Annual draft Corriedales at $l3; W. A. Gray (Teddington), 168 annual draft Romneys at $10.20; M. G. White (Robinsons Bay). 79 annual draft Romneys at $11.10; Matariki Farm (Clarence Bridge), 202 annual draft Corriedales at $10.40; D. R. Shipley (Harewood), 297 annual draft Corriedales at $9 to $11.80; N. D. Shipley (Harewood), 292 annual draft Corriedales at $11.50 to $14.50; Estate W. N. Masefield (Kekerengu), 137 4-year Ccorriedales at $15.70, and 87 5-vear Corriedales at $l5; A. T. and A. W. Black (Waiau), 739 4-year Corriedales at $12.40 to $17.20; Troqueen Farm (Ward). 208 annual draft Corriedales at $13.10; Lands and Survey Department (Bell Hill), 1308 annual draft Perendales at $13.40 to $14.20.

Yearling cattle: M. Marriott (Kaituna). 33 Hereford and Angus-Hereford cross steers at $202 to $238, and 20 heifers at $l6B to $214; L. A. and G. L. Ferguson (Sheffield). 35 Angus heifers at $l3O to $162: T. G. Maxwell (Greta Valley). 20 Angus and Angus cross heifers at $l5B to $l7O. and 20 Hereford heifers at $146 to $150; J. K. Forrester (Hawarden). 9 Hereford steers at $222, and 13 heifers at $134. Adult cattle: M. Marriott (Kaituna). 11 Angus cross steers at $314. and 16 heifers at $174 to $250; T. G. Maxwell (Greta Valley). 19 South Devon cross 2*6-year steers at $340 to $382. and 12 Angus cross 21'z-year steers at $3OB to $360; Teviotdale Estate (Amberley).. 25 212-year Angus cross steers at $262 to $372; H. and R. Withell (Flaxton). 13 Hereford 2-yean steers at $326; G. J. Power (Flaxton), 11 Hereford and Angus cross 2-year steers at $296, and 10 heifers at $248.