No kidding, goats are fetching record highs of $8.50/kilogram over the hooks - and prices are expected to continue to rise.
Despite numbers down due to unprecedented seasonal conditions, the price of goats has smashed the high of $7.50/kg recorded in 2017.
On Monday prices were already at $7.80/kg but that night Elders Broken Hill posted on Facebook it could offer $8.50/kg over the hooks "as an after marketing fee price on goats".
Ben Finch from Elders Broken Hill said demand for goat meat was at an all time high with his customers coming fro South Australia and Victoria.
But given the dry season, he said the supply of goats had diminished.
"Finding any supply is difficult...prices will go higher," Mr Finch said.
In a short period of time, Mr Finch said prices had jumped dramatically from $6.20/kg to $8.50/kg in just eight weeks.
The Land reported on April 19 that goats were fetching $7/kg over the hooks.
Pastoralists' Association of West Darling (PAWD) president Lachlan Gall, from Coogee Lake Station north of Broken Hill, said the current prices were a reward for those goat producers that had managed to retain numbers.
"Or those that were lucky enough to have un-managed goats on their property through this unprecedented dry spell we are experiencing in the far western NSW," Mr Gall said.
Meat and Livestock Australia goat industry project manager Julie Petty confirmed goat prices had reached $8.50/kg over the hooks, which was a new record.
"I didn't think it would get to $8.50/kg but it could go higher...it will come back to what the end customer will pay," Ms Petty said.
At a game butcher in Adelaide last week, she said diced goat meat was retailing for $26/kg.
Ms Petty said Queensland and NSW, both major producing regions, were under pressure from season conditions.
"Queensland has recorded rain and is looking at restocking so it will depend on what NSW has been left with after de-stocking," she said.
But Ms Petty said once it would reached it peak, there would be a price correction.
"Last time (2017) there was a price correction to $5/kg, I feel that will happen again but when and how much by I don't know," she said.
Ms Petty will be speaking at the PAWD AGM tomorrow (May 9) where she will give an overview of what's happening in the market place and what is driving it including population data.