Inverell Cattle Sale Tuesday 22nd October.
Inverell penned 1105 mixed quality cattle same as last sale.
A major cow buyer was absent with their plant closed for maintenance while a long absent cow operator returned.
This combination did not enhance the cow market nor did the general trend improve through the yearling results.
Light yearling steers to background were back 30c/kg 240c to 402c/kg and light feeders were substantially cheaper.
Medium feeders affected a minor loss 310c to 366c/kg while heavy feeders sold to firm trends.
Light background heifers lost 5c/kg and medium heifers to feed on were back up to 45c/kg to top at 296c/kg with a lack in quality a major factor.
Heavy feeders dropped 18c/kg conversely heavy processor yearling heifers gained 21c/kg selling 278c to 308c/kg.
Medium weight cows sold to a marginally dearer trend 254c to 254c/kg.
Heavy cows sold to a minimal loss 260c to 272c/kg.
Heavy bulls sold to cheaper trends of 3c to 7c/kg and topped at 288c/kg.
Stephen Adams MLA
Inverell Sheep & Lamb Sale Tuesday 22nd October
Inverell penned 2148 lambs and 2172 grown sheep an increase of 2270 head to4320 in total.
It was a good offering of lambs with dearer trends through the medium and heavy drafts. Sheep were generally dearer.
The regular buyers attended alongside a QLD operator and the return of a major player after maintenance at their plant.
New season lambs sold to $215/head.
Trade lambs up to $12/head better and made to $187/head.
Trade Dorpers sold to a cheaper trend $140 to $147/head.
The heavier drafts were $39/head dearer $220 to $235/head.
Dorper lambs 26kgs to 30kgs cwt gained $20/head similar cross bred lambs $16 better selling $219 to $238/head.
Lambs in excess of 30kgs cwt up to $47/head dearer reaching $262/head. Heavy hoggets sold to $120/head.
A line of young Merino wethers sold to $67/head and the ewe portion made $49/head both to the paddock.
Medium cross bred ewes $14/head dearer $67 to $80/head.
Heavy Merinos were $8/head better and a line of Merino wethers sold $95 to $100/head to process.
Stephen Adams MLA
Roma Cattle Sale Tuesday 8th October.
5758 HEAD SOLD YESTERDAY. A VERY SOLID SALE FIRM ON VALUES.
YEARLING STEERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 440 TO AVERAGE 407 OR $1058
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 432 TO AVERAGE 379
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 388 TO AVERAGE 362
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 380 TO AVERAGE 349
GROWN STEERS TO PROCESSORS
500 TO 600 KGS C3 SCORE SOLD TO 332 TO AVERAGE 320
YEARLING HEIFERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 328 TO AVERAGE 277
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 338 TO AVERAGE 312
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 338 TO AVERAGE 260
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 318 TO AVERAGE 300
COWS UNDER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 240 TO AVERAGE 221
COWS OVER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 272 TO AVERAGE 247
D3 COWS SOLD TO 291 TO AVERAGE 281 OR $1648
BULLS OVER 600 KGS
SOLD TO 293 TO AVERAGE 272 OR $2970.
CHARLES WEYMAN JONES IN ROMA.
Live sheep exports by sea, what’s next on the chopping block?
First it’s banning live sheep exports by sea.
But farmers want to know what’s next on the agricultural chopping block in the government’s ‘anti farming decisions’.
Farmers are concerned switching off market access for live sheep will have serious consequences right across the country – and that includes NSW.
For prime lamb producer Steven Davis, Brenwick (between Dubbo and Gilgandra), the ban is most concerning for its implications for agriculture on a broader scale.
He says ‘With more sheep coming into the eastern markets there could be a bit of an imbalance in supply and demand over in the eastern states, so that would have an impact on prices here potentially.’
Mr Davis said Labor was catering to a vocal minority group who wanted to close livestock farming down.
Thrilling result’ for Hazeldean with near perfect clearance
Commercial buyers were strong at Hazeldean’s Merino and Poll Merino ram sale at Cooma.
A total of 205 of 208 rams sold to a top of $10,000 and for an average of $2834 to buyers from NSW, Victoria and South Australia.
The top-priced ram was Hazeldean 23000101 which sold for $10,000 to long term repeat buyer Greystones, Rowsley, Victoria.
Ombudsman support to get renewables right is “long overdue”
The energy and water Ombudsman will now have powers to offer independent advice and dispute resolution services to landholders impacted by renewable energy infrastructure projects.
The government has expanded the function of the Ombudsman by announcing today (October 22) $1.3 million in funding to provide transparency and accountability in addressing complaints by landowners hosting renewable energy generation and transmission projects.
The Ombudsman will engage with residents to understand their concerns, identify any widespread issues requiring action and connect them with appropriate channels when complaints fall outside their jurisdiction.
Armidale Mayor Sam Coupland, who is also the chair of the Coalition of Renewable Energy Mayors, said this was “long overdue”.
How Stoktake could stop animal thefts in their tracks with AI technology
Facial recognition technology powered by artificial intelligence could revolutionise Australia’s cattle industry by preventing livestock thefts and streamlining management practices in large-scale processing facilities.
The technology developed by Australian company Stoktake is undergoing a patent process and was made possible by evokeAG’s Startup Program.
The program is designed for inventors and innovators to showcase solutions to key challenges in agriculture, allowing them to attract investment and develop partnerships to commercialise the products.
Self-described enterprise architect Phillip Zada said Stoktake was developed by a group of software engineers who took part in a “hackathon”, designed to challenge developers and take them out of their comfort zones.
Mr Zada says “Stock theft is pretty high and we hope this technology will help that,” Mr Zada said.
He said a research paper out of University of New England from the Centre of Rural Criminology showed 15 per cent of farmers are impacted by livestock thefts, but many farmers don’t report it because they have a mindset of ‘what can be done once an ear tag is taken out’.”
Frontier country: Why booming India has ag exporters excited, and uncertain
After two decades of a flourishing, and sometimes turbulent agricultural trade romance with China, Australian farmers are getting serious about export dating opportunities with India.
The world’s most populous nation, with 1.42 billion people, is already Australia’s fifth largest export market, and an enticing – and potentially huge – farm sector trade partner.
In key categories, notably pulse grains, cotton, wheat, canola, sugar and sheepmeat, Australian export growth to India averaged well above the subcontinent nation’s total import trends between 2019 and 2023.
Globally, India is the world’s seventh biggest consumer of imports, with a shopping list worth almost $1 trillion last year.
What good is infrastructure, if you can’t make a call?
When primary producers are having yarn at the sale you can guarantee conversations eventually turn to one of three things – weather, prices or the lack of phone service.
Despite our increased reliance on communications and years of complaints from farmers and rural residents, telecommunications is still severely lacking in regional and rural NSW.
You don’t just have to be on an outback dirt road in far west NSW for the phone to drop out, it happens along Australia’s most used road, the Pacific Highway.
In the latest government brainwave, posties (Australia Post staff) have been enlisted to help map Australia’s worst mobile black spot areas.
The posties will capture the data testing the service across more than 180,000 kilometres of regional and rural roads for the next three years.
But why has this not been done years ago? And if the telcos are using posties, why not also add stock and station agents or agronomists to the list? They not only do the miles but get onto farms where rural businesses are run.
