Market Report 6 August 2024

6th Aug 2024

Cattle – 1650

Light well bred yearling steers attracted strong demand reaching a top price of 426c/kg in a yarding of 1,650 head. The yarding consisted of a large percentage of yearlings, and a good penning of cows. Quality of the young cattle was good with several runs of well bred steers and heifers that were off crop. However there was also some plain cattle through the sale. Competition was strong with restockers and backgrounders keen to acquire suitable cattle, resulting in light restocker yearling steers selling from 300c to 426c/kg. Feeder buyers were also active in the market paying from 308c to 388c for the steers and feeder heifers ranged from 308c to 340c/kg. The yarding of export cattle consisted of A few pens of grown steers and there was some good runs of grown heifers, while cows were well supplied with a large number of heavy cows off crop, and there was also some plain conditioned cows through the sale. The market held firm with 2 score cows selling from 200c to 275c, 3 score cows averaged 280c and 4 score cows ranged from 291c to 318c/kg. There was a good yarding of bulls with the top priced heavy bull reaching 350c/kg.

Vendor	District	Stock	c/kg	kg	$
LAMEY CONTRACTING	COOLATAI	ANGUS BULLS	270.20	1020kg	$2756.04
EC WITHERS & CO	WARIALDA	D’MASTER BULLS	265	810kg	$2146.50
CJ & EA WALKER	GLEN INNES	ANGUS X STEERS	380.20	520.83kg	$1980.21
AL MCCOSKER	GOONDIWINDI	8T ANGUS STEERS	350.20	700kg	$2451.40
GE & CA BALLAM	INVERELL	ANGUS X STEERS	360	434.44kg	$1564.00
AL & ED UEBERGANG	NORTH STAR	ANGUS X STEERS	388.20	393.75kg	$1528.54
COORANGA PAST CO	INVERELL	D’MASTER X STEERS	360	435.71kg	$1568.57
EC WITHERS & CO	WARIALDA	ANGUS STEERS	374.20	413.33kg	$1546.69
SA & DJ MCCABE	ASHFORD	ANGUS X STEERS	398.20	360kg	$1433.52
EC WITHERS & CO	WARIALDA	ANGUS X STEERS	374.20	297.78kg	$1114.28
GL & WI GALLAGHER	RED RANGE	2T HEREFORD X HEIFERS	318.20	409kg	$1301.44
GL & WI GALLAGHER	RED RANGE	4T HEREFORD X HEIFERS	310.20	424.55kg	$1316.94
KELLYS RURAL SALES	MOREE	CHAROLAIS X HEIFERS	346.20	560kg	$1938.72
KELLYS RURAL SALES	MOREE	ANGUS HEIFERS	340	383.33kg	$1303.33
SA & DJ MCCABE	ASHFORD	CHAROLAIS X HEIFERS	350.20	360kg	$1260.72
MUNGLE PAST CO	NORTH STAR	ANGUS COWS	318.20	675.91kg	$2150.74
YETMAN PAST CO	YETMAN	ANGUS COWS	304.20	668.18kg	$2032.61
YETMAN PAST CO	YETMAN	SHORTHORN X COWS	306.20	557.60kg	$1707.37
RA & MA WATTERS	ASHFORD	ANGUS COWS	309.20	651kg	$2012.89
TJ & M LEADBEATTER	MYALL CREEK	CHAROLAIS X COWS	294	540kg	$1587.60
GL & GI GALLAGHER	RED RANGE	HEREFORD COW	287.20	550kg	$1579.60
EC WITHERS & CO	WARIALDA	D’MASTER X COWS	288.20	545.71kg	$1572.75