Demand was strong at the annual Longlands Station store lamb sale at Kyeburn in Maniototo last week.
Longlands Station leaseholder Logan Dowling said not as many buyers were at this year's sale but prices were good as demand held throughout, prices averaging $105.
This is the eighth year Dowling and his wife Fiona have auctioned store lambs on farm — the lambs are from black-face Dorset rams and Romdale ewes.
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This year they sold a total of 3600 store lambs to local buyers "and a few have also made their way further south" he said.