Lamb-price record set at Griffith, NSW, prime sheep sale

Heavy lambs have sold just $4 shy of the Australian record at Griffith in the NSW Riverina. Find out who bred them.

The record-breaking lambs sold at the Griffith, NSW, sheep sale last week. Picture: Jenny Kelly

Heavy lamb prices came within a whisker of setting a new Australian record late last week as the prime market took off again after a brief lull.

Bidding reached $376 for a pen of lambs at Griffith in NSW last Friday, smashing previous records at that centre and coming within $4 of the overall Australian record of $380, which was achieved at Ballarat in February last year.

Export processor Southern Meats of Goulburn, NSW, paid the $376 for a line of 97 second-cross Poll Dorset lambs bred by the Flagg Family Trust of Townswell Park at Barellan.

The family are noted sheep producers, last year selling first-cross ewe lambs at the annual Barellan special crossbred sale for $450, which was claimed as an Australian record for that breed of commercial sheep.