Inverell Cattle Sale Tuesday 1st October.
Inverell penned 677 good quality cattle reducing by half with rain events through the drawing area.
The regular buyers attended but not all operated. Most sale categories sold to cheaper trends.
Light background steers sold against the trend to be 6c to 7c/kg dearer however medium background steers slipped 7c/kg.
Similar weight feeders back 5c/kg 300c to 366c/kg.
Heavy yearling steers to process declined by 19c/kg and heavy feeders lost 5c/kg.
Light yearling heifers to background slipped 13c/kg selling to 322c/kg and medium feeders were firm 295c to 336c/kg.
Heavy yearling heifers to process were cheaper.
Heavy grown steers to process gained 10c/kg but the heifer counterparts lost 6c/kg.
Medium cows gained 17c/kg heavy cows slightly cheaper 290c to 310c/kg.
Bulls sold up to 13c/kg better 276c to 316c/kg. Stephen Adams MLA
Roma Cattle Sale Tuesday 1st October.
8940 HEAD SOLD INCLUDING OATS FED BULLOCKS, 1700 COWS AND WESTERN FEEDERS. THE MARKET REMAINED FIRM.
YEARLING STEERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 406 TO AVERAGE 386 OR $996
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 420 TO AVERAGE 371
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 390 TO AVERAGE 370
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 378 TO AVERAGE 358
GROWN STEERS
400 TO 500 KGS C2 SCORE TO FEEDLOTS SCORE SOLD TO 376 TO AVERAGE 365 500 TO 600 KGS C3 SCORE TO PROCESSORS SOLD TO 350 TO AVERAGE 287 600 TO 750 KGS C3 SCORE TO PROCESSORS SOLD TO 350 TO AVERAGE 334
YEARLING HEIFERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 324 TO AVERAGE 276 280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 330 TO AVERAGE 291 330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 340 TO AVERAGE 286 OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 310 TO AVERAGE 308
COWS OVER 520 KGS
D3 COWS SOLD TO 275 TO AVERAGE 274
D4 COWS SOLD TO 299 TO AVERAGE 285 OR $1841
BULLS OVER 600 KGS SOLD TO 288 TO AVERAGE 268 OR $2925
THIS IS CHARLES WEYMAN JONES IN ROMA, REPORTING FOR RESONATE REGIONAL RADIO
Some News Items from The Land & QCL.
What shires are having a bumper season and which ones are doing it tough.
The scope of the year-on-year improvement in crop production in northern NSW and southern Queensland and the deterioration in South Australia has been reflected in data provided by technology business DAS (Digital Agricultural Services).
DAS uses a metric called Net Primary Productivity (NPP), a biophysical estimate of plant growth rate to measure crop progress, with DAS chief executive Anthony Willmott saying there was strong correlation between NPP and final crop yield.
The big spike in crop prospects in one of Australia’s largest, but most volatile cropping regions in north-west NSW and southern Queensland is borne out by the DAS data, which shows the top eight local government areas (LGAs) by NPP as a percentage of the 10-year average were in northern NSW or southern Queensland.
Leading the way was Walgett in NSW incredibly over double the long term average, at 103 per cent above average, followed by neighbouring municipalities in Moree Plains, NSW, and Balonne, Queensland, both at 79pc above average.
The statistics show an equally dramatic swing, but for the negative, in South Australia, where a severely drought impacted harvest appears increasingly likely.
The geographic spread of the drought in SA is demonstrated by the fact the worst three performing LGAs are from right across the state, with Mount Remarkable, in the Upper North and Streaky Bay, on the Eyre Peninsula the equal worst and Murray Bridge, in the Murray-Mallee in third.
The full top ten LGAs are; Walgett, Moree Plains, Balonne, Queensland, Coonamble, Tamworth, Liverpool Plains, Inverell, Brewarrina, Mount Marshall, WA, Narambeen, WA
Have a say in what matters in your patch
Local Land Services (LLS) is currently rolling out the Measuring What Matters project, providing land managers the opportunity to have their say in a survey about how they can better manage what matters in their patch.
Now in its second year, the state-wide survey is currently open for land managers of two hectares of land or more in NSW.
The survey will directly feed into how Local Land Services meets the needs of local land managers and the services it provides to support improvement in their land management practices.
To further bolster the project, LLS are calling on more participants to join the survey.
The 15-minute survey, as well as a follow-up survey each year for 5 years, seeks to understand how threats on properties are managed, how soil, water, vegetation and production assets are managed, and levels of preparedness for change and emergencies. For more information, email measuringwhatmatters@lls.nsw.gov.au
Hunters and LLS share ideas to boost northern NSW pig control
Recreational pig hunters and Northern Tablelands Local Land Services (LLS) are working to find common ground in the management of surging feral pig populations.
A northern NSW committee model involving farmers, LLS, public land managers, researchers, professional pest controllers, deer hunting representatives and the Australian Pig Doggers and Hunters Association (APDHA) has opened the door to free and frank discussions about roles in managing pigs and other species into the future.
Northern Tablelands LLS general manager Paul Hutchings said the diversity on the panel had created a broader approach to pest animal management issues and was helping focus on new levels of effectiveness.
The Northern Tablelands Regional Pest Animal Committee (RPAC) was formed in 2017 to inform development of the Regional Strategic Pest Animal Management Plan and has opened its doors to hunters to offer their point of view on control measures and field-based knowledge of feral pig behaviour.
Australian Pig Doggers & Hunters Association national president Ned Makim Inverell, who sits on the RPAC committee, and he feels hunters have something to offer, not just in terms of the numbers of pigs hunters remove, but in offering an insight into how pigs operate, landholder relations and long-term strategic thinking.
Fire ant spread could kill six people and sting Qld householders $188m/yr
Queensland householders could be stung for up to $188 million a year to combat the impact of red imported fire ants if the pest continues its slow march out of south-east Queensland.
A report released by the Australia Institute on Monday predicts that RIFA could spread to far north Queensland by 2035 and, if that were the case, a third of the population, or 1.5 million Queenslanders, could be stung a year.
The research detailed that, of those stings, 30,000 people would suffer an anaphylactic reaction, causing six deaths, and 116,000 would seek medical attention
Reducing frost toll on wheat in new research project
A total of 400 varieties of wheat are being put under the microscope in the aim to reduce frost toll on crops.
Charles Sturt University plant scientist Dr Sergio Moroni is involved in one element of a larger Grains Research and Development Corporation project aimed at developing genetic approaches to decreasing frost sensitivity.
The CSU part of the project involves the varieties being tested in phytotron plant growth chambers to get a baseline of what varieties may be less vulnerable to late frosts.
Dr Moroni says the chambers can go down to minus 10 degrees Celsius which allow us to mimic what may happen in a frost.
Top end stays strong, data proving a selling point.
There has been a series of strong studstock results over the past fortnight, and agents say larger, established studs that are focused on Australian Sheep Breeding Values are breaking away from those relying solely on raw scans.
Rick Power, Nutrien, said sales over the past fortnight were tracking about as expected, with some standouts from larger operators.
He pointed to the strength of Yarrawonga, Harden, where all 278 rams sold to a $20,000 top and $4183 average.
Mr Power said studs like Yarrawonga that offered a uniform draft, large numbers of Poll Merinos, along with good data to match, were performing well.
He said it makes it easy for large operations, or wool reps who travel a long way for a client, it makes it easy at a large stud like that.
Mr Power says Kerin Poll, another stud that is heavily data driven, recorded a full clearance of 541 rams to average $2839. The average was up from last year’s $2740 for 500 rams.
In the meat sheep, Gooramma Poll Dorsets had a strong result, selling to $23,000 with a full clearance of 136 rams to average $3542.
