Crossbred lambs’ wools feature

Press, 23 February 1989, Page 16

Crossbred lambs’ wools feature

Several lines of wellprepared crossbred lambs’ wool was a feature of the Timaru wool sale in Christchurch yesterday. The wool was of good colour, with the dry weather leading to a lack of yellow discolouration.

The Wool Board gave heavy support to the lamb’s wool, taking about 40 per cent of the offering. Crossbred fleece wool in the sale showed the effects of the drought. Wool was short in length, of a finer micron, and

lower in yield.

Prices continued the slight easing trend of recent sales, with the market indicator dropping two cents to 673 c per clean kilogram. The combined offering of 2391 tonnes in 20,266 bales at the Timaru and Invercargill sales held yesterday included: 47 per cent crossbred lambs, 26 per cent crossbred fleece, 11 per cent crossbred second shear, 2 per cent Merino and Halfbred fleece.

Compared with the Dunedin sale on February

16, Merino fleece was 4 per cent cheaper, Halfbred fleece, 2 per cent cheaper, crossbred fleece and second shear, unchanged, with first lambs up to one per cent cheaper.

The Wool Board made bids on 57 per cent of the combined offering and had 35 per cent either sold or passed to it.

The order of the Timaru sales was: Pyne, Gould, Guinness 104 lots, 1127 bales; Wrightson, 350 lots, 2927 bales; total 454 lots, 4054 bales.