Inverell Cattle Sale Tuesday 24th September.
Inverell penned 1384 good quality cattle a reduction of 330 head.
Backgrounders and feeders were competitive and yearling steers variable with a feeder handling multiple weights holding back with his demand.
Yearling heifers were cheaper for the most part where some quality fell away.
Light background steers 8c to 12c/kg cheaper however similar weight feeders sold to substantial gains 376c to 418c/kg.
Medium steers to feed slipped 35c/kg to average 344c/kg.
There was an excellent offering of two tooth steers estimated at 700kgs and these sold 340c to 348c/kg.
Light background heifers were firm 236c to 358c/kg.
Medium and heavy weight feeder heifers slipped 15c to 26c/kg with both categories selling to 320c/kg.
Grown steers made to 338c/kg to process and the similar heifers sold to 318c/kg to lose 3c/kg. Cows to the paddock were up to 18c/kg dearer and medium weights sold to a slight gain.
Heavy cows slipped 10c to 13c/kg.
The best bulls 268c to 310c/kg.
Stephen Adams MLA.
Inverell Sheep & Lamb Sale Tuesday 24th September.
Inverell lamb numbers reduced by 2300 and grown sheep inceased to 1118 for an offering of 1830 back 2085 on last sale.
Lambs sold to cheaper trends for the most part.
Sheep trends were mixed with heavy ewes and wethers selling to slightly dearer trends.
Medium Dorper ewes also sold to a dearer market.
All the regular buyers attended.
Light trade Merino lambs were up to $28/head dearer.
Heavy trade cross bred lambs slipped up to $34/head with similar losses for heavy cross bred lambs and they sold $185 to $191/head.
Lambs in excess of 30kgs cwt slipped $28/head and Dorpers of the same weight made $200 to $220/head.
Heavy hoggets both cross breds and Dorpers sold to $100/head.
Medium ewes $13/head dearer and heavy ewes $17/head better selling up to $90/head.
The best wethers made to $100/head and Merino rams $20 to $58/head.
Stephen Adams MLA
Roma Cattle Sale Tuesday 24th September
8576 HEAD SOLD THIS WEEK. BETTER QUALITY LINES STILL SOLD WELL WITH LESSER QUALITY CATTLE COMING ON THE MARKET WITH THE SEASON.
YEARLING STEERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 446 TO AVERAGE 399 OR $969
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 408 TO AVERAGE 386
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 408 TO AVERAGE 379
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 386 TO AVERAGE 366
GROWN STEERS C3 SCORE TO PROCESSORS 600 TO 750 KGS SOLD TO 340 TO AVERAGE 318
YEARLING HEIFERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 336 TO AVERAGE 273
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 342 TO AVERAGE 305
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 336 TO AVERAGE 309
COWS UNDER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 275 TO AVERAGE 230
D3 COWS SOLD AT 285 CENTS/KG
COWS OVER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 278 TO AVERAGE 252
D3 COWS SOLD TO 328 TO AVERAGE 301 OR $1890
BULLS OVER 600 KGS SOLD TO 311 TO AVERAGE 286 OR $3137
THIS IS CHARLES WEYMAN JONES IN ROMA.
News items from The Land & QCL
WoolPoll voting opens, growers across Australia urged to have their say
Wool growers across Australia can now vote in this year’s WoolPoll to have their say on the future levy rate paid to Australian Wool Innovation to fund their future research, development and marketing activities.
The grower vote, held every three years, allows producers to have their say on the size of the levy on theis a voluntary vote of wool levy payers who have paid at least $100 in wool levies over the past three years,
The important grower vote, held every three years, asks sheep producers to determine the size of the levy paid to AWI, with the current rate at 1.5 per cent of the greasy wool sale price.
The levy dropped to 1.5pc in the 2018 WoolPoll and has stayed there since, though AWI has called for growers to vote for a return to 2pc, citing dwindling reserves as making the change necessary.
Building resilience in rural communities across Australia
With the help of a John Deere tractor, Active Farmers is growing and continuing its focus of putting downward pressure on suicide rates in rural Australia.
Active Farmers CEO Mark Slater said the not-for-profit was looking at new strategies and how to move forward.
He said we are looking at potentially putting a mental health first aid curriculum in place for our trainers and members of the community.
Mr Slater says we are always going to be focused on building community resilience, improving mental health and ensuring we put downward pressure on suicide statistics in regional Australia.”
Founded in 2015 Active Farmers now runs more than 300 classes in 63 communities across Australia.
Mr Slater said isolation was a major challenge for farming communities.
Hutcheon and Pearce and John Deere Australia, Active Farmers is currently raffling off a tractor to help the organisation continue to grow.
All funds from the raffle will go into community fitness in regional Australia and making sure we’re putting preventative health measures in place.
The raffle will be drawn on November 21 and tickets can be purchased on the Active Farmers website
The latest science has found for reducing methane – it’s abundant and cheap
The latest answer to reducing enteric methane from cattle comes is in the form of an edible clay mineral found in abundance across arid Australian environments.
Scientists at the University of Newcastle have modified halloysite and added it to livestock feed to deliver a 30 per cent decrease in methane production over a 24-hour period, with no harm to the cattle.
The naturally occurring product comes with the added benefit of reducing gut acidity and parasites.
But it is the cost-effective nature of this solution, and the fact it could possibly be delivered at an economically viable rate even in large-scale extensive systems, that has the beef game most interested as the industry pushes on towards its goal of being carbon neutral by 2030.
Does anyone really want renewables in their backyard, whether they’re farmers or not?
A primary producer was asked what her message would be to those who criticised farmers who whinge about not wanting renewables in their region.
Her message was simple: Who would really want it in their backyard, no matter where they lived?
If there was a wind farm earmarked offshore from Bondi Beach, the inner-city set would riot (not to mention the tourism and real estate industries).
If we kicked the roof top bars off Sydney’s tallest buildings to replace them with a 177,000-panel solar factory to go straight into the grid, there would be hipsters screaming up and down Oxford Street. But when it’s at Mitchells Flat, it doesn’t even raise an eyebrow within the peri-urban fringes.
Agents say slight slip in lamb market shouldn’t be cause for concern
As the first month of spring draws to a close, most selling centres across the state have reported a decrease in lamb supply this week, with mixed-quality yardings selling to a slightly cheaper trend.
However, agents say it’s no cause for concern.
The NSW Trade Lamb Indicator finished Tuesday’s trading on 777 cents a kilogram (carcase weight), which was back about 8c/kg on the same time last week.
Following suit, the NSW Light Lamb Indicator recorded a weekly drop of 15c/kg to 600c/kg, about the softest it’s been since late June, while the NSW Heavy Lamb Indicator also slipped 22c/kg to round out at 783c/
NSW government seeks a please explain on wild dog management
NSW Minister for Agriculture Tara Moriarty has approached her state counterparts in Victoria and the ACT for a please explain on wild dog management.
The Victorian government established a protected zone for dingoes in the north-west of the state and big desert regions on March 14 this year, raising the concerns of southern producers and wild dog management groups.
Then in June, the ACT government informed the NSW government it was planning to recognise dingoes as a “genetically distinct species with cultural and ecological significance”.
Both announcements have southern producers concerned the new policies may lead to an increase in dingo and wild dogs entering the state, causing increasing stock losses.
Cattle bucks go begging while gun-shy producers stand in knee-deep grass
Cattle trading margins are among the best they’ve ever been but the opportunity to make money from beef is going begging in so many places.
A hangover of panic stemming from the drastic drop in prices this time last year, and a lack of faith in weather forecasting, is making producers gun-shy about taking on more stock, especially where it requires additional debt, agents and consultants are reporting.
Cattle prices are now close to double what they were at the worst of the collapse late last year and the expert opinion is that they will, at the very least, hold their ground into the first half of next year.
More importantly, the extremes and the volatility endured in recent years is finally abating. That should bring with it some confidence to stock up where there’s feed and invest on-farm but the consensus is producers have been slow to move.
