Inverell Cattle Sale – Tuesday 29th April.
There were 1,262 head yarded, consisting of a good supply of yearlings and a fair penning of cows.
The yarding of young cattle consisted of several runs of well-bred yearling steers and heifers suitable for restockers and feeder buyers.
The market continued to be strong throughout the sale, however was difficult to compare to last week’s small numbers, but was favourable to other sales this week in the north.
Restocker weaner steers sold to a top of 448c, while light restocker and background yearling steers ranged from 408c to 440c/kg.
Feeder steers met keen demand ranging from 385c to 386c/kg.
Feeder heifers made similar gains ranging from 320c to 386c/kg.
There was a limited supply of grown steers with steers to process selling to 350c and feeders sold to 378c/kg.
There were several pens of grown heifers to process toped at 340c and feeders sold to 364c/kg.
The cow market remained firm with 3 scores averaging 266c and 4 score cows sold to 298c/kg.
The heavy weight bulls offered reaching a top price of 320c/kg.
Report by Doug Robson.
ROMA STORE SALE TUESDAY APRIL 29
8433 HEAD SOLD YESTERDAY. WITH ROADS REOPENING NUMBERS ARE INCREASING. QUALITY YOU STEERS MET STRONG DEMAND FROM RESTOCKERS WITH HEAVY COWS STABLE ON LAST WEEK.
YEARLING STEERS C2 SCORE
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 482 TO AVERAGE 435
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 448 TO AVERAGE 395
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 410 TO AVERAGE 375
GROWN STEERS C3 SCORE TO PROCESSORS
500 TO 600 KGS SOLD TO 386 TO AVERAGE 356
600 TO 750 KGS SOLD TO 360 TO AVERAGE 348
YEARLING HEIFERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 392 TO AVERAGE 339
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 372 TO AVERAGE 329
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 358 TO AVERAGE 340
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 360 TO AVERAGE 353
COWS UNDER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 273 TO AVERAGE 255
D3 COWS SOLD TO 300 TO AVERAGE 286
COWS OVER 520 KGS
D3 COWS SOLD TO 314 TO AVERAGE 300 OR $1835
BULLS OVER 600 KGS SOLD TO 314 TO AVERAGE 300 OR $3199.
THIS IS CHARLES WEYMAN JONES IN ROMA, REPORTING FOR RESONATE REGIONAL RADIO
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