Monaro Livestock and Property agent Will Dixon said prices lifted for all categories of lamb and mutton.

He reported heavy trade older lambs to $140 a head, with most sales between $130-$138.

“Medium trade new season lambs were well supplied with some excellent pens receiving dearer prices, between $129-$134,” he said.

“There was a large yarding of store lambs up to $10-$11 dearer, with most sales between $75-$112.50 with a large crowd of restockers on hand.

“Mutton was firm to dearer with heavy woolly wethers to $120.50, medium mutton between $80-$93 and restockers paying out to $130 for sound older Merino ewes.”

RR&AR Norton sold 50 suckers for the top price of $134, with Tom Burke & Son a close second selling a pen of 92 at $133.50.

Merino lambs made a top of $140, with both MJ&CA Caldwell and J&R Rudd selling pens at that price.

Gourock Partnership had the top two pens of store crossbred lambs with their unshorn August-September 2011-drop second-cross Poll Dorset-Border Leicesters.

The best 304 of the lambs made $112.50, with a further 622 making $111.50.

Middleview Partnership sold 188 unshorn, August-September 2011-drop, Dorset-Merino lambs for an average of $92.50.

They also sold 103 five-year-old Middleview-blood Merino ewes for $101.

Farm Partnership Australia sold 58 September-shorn one-year-old first-cross ewes at $144, making top price of the sale.

N&M Walters sold 236 June-shorn, six-year-old, Severn Park-blood Merino ewes at $130.

Col Evans Estate sold 104 February-shorn, mixed aged Merino wethers at $120.50, topping the wether section.

The next sheep and lamb sale is on January 9, 2012, and there are already a large number of sheep booked in.