Export prices continue to drop

Prices on Australian exports continue to drop compared with the same time last year, for grain and livestock.

Lamb numbers at Horsham Regional Livestock Exchange last week reached 6000 with 3200 sheep. April 12 saw 10,600 lambs and 2300 sheep yarded.

Graham Pymer’s market report showed quality was mixed on Wednesday last week, with lead pens showing good finish and weight.

Light-weight lambs sold from $86 to $127 a head and light-trade lambs sold from $126 to $155 a head.

Medium-weight lambs sold from $150 to $175 a head, heavy-trade-weight lambs sold from $168 to $186 a head and extra-heavy lambs sold from $222 to $252 a head.

Merino lambs sold mostly from $140 to

$171 a head, while merino ewes sold for up to $158, crossbred ewes sold for up to $158 and heavy merino wethers sold for up to $175 a head.

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry reported Australian export prices, as of Thursday, for mutton, lamb and live sheep, were between 18 and 27 percent lower than in April last year.

Mutton was exporting at 420 cents a kilogram, lamb was exporting at 676 cents a kilogram and live sheep were exporting at $93 a head.

Grain prices were between 15 and 30 percent lower than in April last year.

Milling wheat exported at $469 a tonne, feed wheat sold for $443 a tonne and feed barley exported at $416 a tonne. Canola was exported at $895 a tonne.

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