Big numbers of WA sheep heading east

By Aidan Smith
December 20 2019 - 5:30pm
Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA livestock committee chairman Chris Patmore, Eneabba/Perenjori, said he sold 500 store crossbred wether lambs to an Eastern States buyer earlier in the year, which filled half a truckload.
Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA livestock committee chairman Chris Patmore, Eneabba/Perenjori, said he sold 500 store crossbred wether lambs to an Eastern States buyer earlier in the year, which filled half a truckload.

THE driest conditions in history for some parts of the Esperance region have forced sheep producers to offload new season lambs as soon as possible with thousands sent across the border to a South Australian feedlot.

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