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Lamb records smashed
23 Jun 2004
Records were smashed again this week, with a pen of export lambs going for $192.10 at Bendigo, surpassing the previous record set at Ballarat last week by $21. The pen of extra heavy fat score four Texel cross lambs weighed an estimated 40kg carcass weight, and were sold by the Chambers family of Marong, near Bendigo. Allowing for a $25 skin, the top pen reached a carcass weight price of 418c/kg. The lambs were sold to Southern Meats of Goulburn.
A National Livestock Reporting Service officer was amazed at the prices paid at Bendigo and said the total yarding of 16,763 lambs would have averaged more than $100. Meat and Livestock Australia's Peter Weekes said he expected prices to remain high until mid-September, with the shortage of numbers set to continue.
Weekly Times, 23/6/04, page 3.
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