Sheep Markets Steady, Higher This Week

Slaughter lambs at San Angelo were $20-30 higher at Tuesday’s sale, ewes $3-5 higher. Goldthwaite was $10 higher. Hamilton, steady. New Holland, Pennsylvania, steady.

            The USDA estimated lamb and mutton meat production for the week ending October 3 totaled 1.96 million pounds on a slaughter head count of 35,000. The previous week’s t…