Inverell Cattle Sale – Tuesday 25th February.
Numbers were well up this week for a yarding of 1980 head.
Included in the yarding was a larger offering of cows, while feeder and background cattle were also well supplied.
Quality of the yearling cattle was good with mainly well finished and well bred steers and heifers through the sale.
Competition was strong for all classes of young cattle with feeder and background buyers keen to acquire numbers.
Re-stocker weaner steers sold to a top of 416c, while medium weight feeder steers sold from 320c to 398c, and heavy feeder steers ranged from 334c to 375c/kg.
Yearling heifers to feed and background met a solid market selling from 280c to 336c/kg.
Grown steers were in limited supply to be slightly dearer selling from 316c to 356c/kg to process.
There were several drafts of heavy well finished grown heifers that reached a top price of 334c/kg.
There was plenty of weight in the large penning of cows that sold 8c to 10c dearer, with 3 scores ranging from 265c to 280c, while heavy cows sold from 280c to a top price of 318c/kg.
Heavy bulls sold to 312c/kg.
Report compiled by Doug Robson.
Inverell Sheep & Lamb Sale Tuesday 25th February.
There was a yarding of 2,612 sheep yarded which included 1,607 lambs.
Quality of the lambs was good with mainly trade and heavy lambs offered.
Dorper lambs were also well represented.
The market was generally strong with trade lambs selling from$95 to $136 while heavy trade lambs sold from $147 to $198 and extra heavy lambs ranged from$231 to $250/head.
Dorper lambs toped at $240, and hoggets sold to $152/head.
The yarding of mutton consisted of a good supply of ewes and several pens of wethers. The market remained strong throughout the sale with ewes selling to $160 and wethers toped art $144/head.
Dorper mutton sold to $160/head.
Report compiled by Doug Robson.
The dates have been announced for this year’s run of Annual Weaner Cattle Sales at Inverell.
The first sale will be conducted on Thursday 20th March, other sales will follow on 3rd April 10th April 24th April & 8th May.
ROMA STORE SALE TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25
6745 HEAD SOLD. ALL BUYERS OPERATING WITH THE MARKET DOWN ON LAST WEEK’S HIGHS BUT STILL VERY STRONG
YEARLING STEERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 488 TO AVERAGE 405 OR $1051
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 452 TO AVERAGE 389
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 428 TO AVERAGE 383
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 408 TO AVERAGE 370
YEARLING HEIFERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 364 TO AVERAGE 284
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 354 TO AVERAGE 322
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 362 TO AVERAGE 348
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 362 TO AVERAGE 333
COWS UNDER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 260 TO AVERAGE 226
COWS OVER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 305 TO AVERAGE 253
D3 COWS SOLD TO 318 TO AVERAGE 291 OR $1861
BULLS OVER 600 KGS 308 TO AVERAGE 281 OR $3026
THIS IS CHARLES WEYMAN JONES IN ROMA, REPORTING FOR RESONATE REGIONAL RADIO
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