Greetings Fellow Shepherds,
What a beautiful fall it has been. Harvest seems to be wrapped up in most areas. A bigger concern for most of us is the lack of moisture. A slow measurable rain before freeze up would by beneficial to all.
For most producers, our 2022 lamb crop is gone, or almost gone, and a new crop of lambs will be dropping soon. What a complete difference in market prices from a year ago, and we aren’t talking about favorable prices either. For those producers who don’t have a contract with Superior Farms and rely totally on the cash market it hasn’t been so good for them. Cull ewe market had remained somewhat favorable all year long and there’s still demand for good quality breeding stock. Center of the Nation sale prices were holding steady as well as other seedstock producer sales.
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Dakota Lamb Growers Cooperative 