{"id":22994,"date":"2025-08-08T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22994"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:32:46","slug":"lamb-rates-in-australia-slam-back-to-back-records-to-a12-kg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/08\/08\/lamb-rates-in-australia-slam-back-to-back-records-to-a12-kg\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb rates in Australia slam back-to-back records to A$12\/kg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dorper and merino traders in Australia are cashing in on record rates from tight markets with surprisingly big lamb sizes. Their rates topped A$479.50 ($312.63) a head on August 7, 2025, just days after scoring another record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia has had a busy marketing year at home and abroad and expects annual sheep exports<\/u><\/a> to surge by 25% in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At home, Griffith stockyards in eastern Australia sold 34 second-cross specimen for A$460 ($299.92) a head or $A12 ($7.82)\/kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day later, 55 second-cross lambs weighing 92 kg apiece with carcass weights at 43 kg garnered A$480 (US$312.63)\/head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This back-to-back showing began end May, with yards in southern Australia and New South Wales (NSW) repeatedly crashing weekly peaks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpirited bidding<\/u><\/a>\u201d in NSW had a ripple effect in the most recent Griffith sale and helped push prices, reported ABC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tight Supplies but Good Market Weights<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With\u00a0market speculators expecting yet a higher record soon, increasingly low supplies due to drought are counterbalancing decent weights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) reported that the latest weekly sale brought lamb totals to 6,050, down by 950<\/u><\/a> head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, most market entries are either heavy or ultra-heavy, with the Dorper breed showing weight range versatility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sales of less heavy animals were at least A$6 ($3.91) lower than for heavier equivalents. For instance, 26 kg weights garnered A$335 ($218.42) a head, while 30 kg ones a maximum A$380 ($247.76). Those below 90 kg could get away with over A$400 ($260.80), sometimes averaging A$12.40 ($8.08) per live kg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all is rosy, however, for according to agents, lambs from eastern Griffith are underweight from prolonged pasture dryness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is with trepidation therefore that agents are looking to future weeks with only a few  heavy-set stockyard offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some are exploiting competition for the available heavies while they last, others are capitalizing in booming merino wethers\u2019 rates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A most recent wether carcass sale averaging 36 kg garnered A$370 ($241.24)\/head, an almost certain record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time is therefore now to take advantage of spirited\u00a0Aussie sheep prices<\/u><\/a>\u00a0before they plunge back to A$36 ($23.47)\/head. The statistics below indeed show how far lamb rates in Australia can scale up and down.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistics\u00a0on Australia Lamb Rates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Live sheep (lamb) prices in Australia normally follow a pattern that recurs based on population and pasture conditions. Regarding population, it hit a decade high of 78.75 million head in 2023, per the Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA<\/u><\/a>). This populous herd plunged prices for 8 months by 62%, year-on-year. After recovering from October 2023 onward, rates gained by 158% henceforth, up to January 2024.  Regarding pastures, 2023 also brought dry conditions in Australia, forcing farmers to deflock at throw away prices. Sheep stock market prices in the 2020-25 period averaged A$2.67<\/u><\/a> ($1.74)\/kg vis-\u00e1-vis occasional records of above A$7 ($4.56)\/kg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How<\/strong> do lambs sell in Australia during the low season?<\/strong> <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever prices fall due to oversupply or low demand, prices usually range from $35 to A$50 <\/u><\/a>($22.82-32.60) a head. For instance, early March 2023 pinned the price at slightly above A$40 ($26)\/head. The mid-month then brought them to below A$40 ($26.08) a head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the upper reach of sheep prices in Australia<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever Aussie sheep\u2019s prices escape single digit figures, they garner double digits, and climb from A$36 ($23.47) to $300 ($195)\/head. An example is 2020 and August 2025, two times when prices soared to between A$7 and A$12<\/u><\/a> ($4.56-7.82)) a kg. In 2020, just as in 2025, drought was the major factor for the record surge in rates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dorper and merino traders in Australia are cashing in on record rates from tight markets with surprisingly big lamb sizes. Their rates topped A$479.50 ($312.63) a head on August 7, 2025, just days after scoring another record. 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