Local and international factors collide to send store sheep prices soaring

Gregor Heard
Updated November 19 2019 - 6:41pm, first published 6:10pm
Kim, Rosie and Jack Skeer, Thornlea, near Millicent, SA, with their agent Owen Merrett, Pinkerton Palm, Hamlyn and Steen, Millicent.at the Naracoorte sale last week.
Kim, Rosie and Jack Skeer, Thornlea, near Millicent, SA, with their agent Owen Merrett, Pinkerton Palm, Hamlyn and Steen, Millicent.at the Naracoorte sale last week.

A CLASSIC combination of clement local conditions in far southern Australia and a buoyant outlook for the sheep meat sector has conspired to send first cross ewes break the magical $400 a head mark.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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