That is the $64,000 question Looking at market graphs for the past eight years, my feeling is some slightly better prices are in the wind.Nothing in a market-reliant business is ever chiseled in stone, and I am timid of making an overall blanket state-ment that says, "Prices to rise for Christmas markets." The sheep industry has been suffering from some instability that I believe will right itself in the next few months, maybe not back to the $2-plus per pound state, but to where a fair living can be made from keeping sheep. The best prices are always going to be for the best-condition lambs.Don't fool yourself into thinking the market has gone completely topsyturvy, and that thin lambs are going to make big prices; feeder lambs will make feeder lamb prices. Unfinished heavy lambs fall into the same category because the market doesn't know what to do with them. Anyone who has to finish them has only a small margin in which to finish the lamb properly and make it fit to kill.
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