A total of 4700 sheep and lambs went under the hammer at the Griffith market on Friday.
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It was the first offering in five weeks, and the start of selling at the centre for 2022.
Meat and Livestock Australia's National Livestock Reporting Service stated that it was a fair to good offering.
Store lambs were limited and there was a good run of heavy trade lambs. Extra heavy weights were limited. The market trend was strong.
The few store lambs sold from $145 to $170/head.
The bulk of the lambs were 23 to 26kg cwt and sold from $207 to $234/head averaging around 900c/kg cwt.
Heavy lambs $260 to $295 with a very heavy pen reaching $300/head. Mutton numbers were limited and most were heavy Merino ewes.
Prices were also strong with the bulk of the Merinos selling $190 to $195 and heavy crossbred ewes reached $210/head.
Most averaged 600c to 620c/kg cwt