Inverell Cattle Sale Tuesday 3rd December
Inverell penned 958 less to offer 1263 good quality cattle.
All the regular buyers attended although not all exporters operated.
Trends were dearer for the most part.
Limited weaners were dearer steers reaching 428c/kg the best of the heifers 342c/kg.
Light background steers dearer 338c to 426c/kg with the medium feeders significantly dearer 394c to 412c/kg.
Medium feeder steers were marginally cheaper on a quality angle selling 284c to 376c/kg.
Heavy feeders sold to strong trends 346c to 376c/kg.
Light background heifers were slightly cheaper again with a quality influence. Medium background heifers sold to dearer trends 316c to 340c/kg.
The heavy feeders also dearer 328c to 340c/kg.
Heavy grown steers ranged 344c to 346c/kg the heifer drafts dearer 304c to 328c/kg.
Heavy cows marginally dearer 260c to 288c/kg.
Medium weight cows also selling to dearer trends 226c to 250c/kg.
The heavy bulls 260c to 304c/kg.
Inverell Sheep & Lamb Sale Tuesday 3rd December.
Inverell penned 2450 sheep and lambs with all but one domestic buyer attending. There were numbers of light Dorper cross lambs on offer as well as good drafts of mid-range lambs and a handy offering of grown sheep.
Light two score lambs did sell to cheaper trends.
Limited new season lambs ranged $140 to $200/head.
Light lambs to the paddock were cheaper $44 to $133/head.
Trade lambs slipped $7/head $155 to $172/head.
Heavy trades lifted $28/head $195 to $218/head.
Lambs over 30kgs cwt made to $265/head.
Heavy hoggets sold to $132/head.
Grown sheep were dearer.
Merino ewes to $120/head while heavy crossbreds sold $100 to $133/head and Dorpers $16 better making up to $125/head.
A pen of heavy crossbred wethers sold to $142/head.
Stephen Adams MLA.
ROMA STORE SALE TUESDAY DECEMBER 3
3391 HEAD SOLD YESTERDAY. WITH RAIN REDUCING NUMBERS OFFERED AND INCREASING THE NUMBER OF LOCAL BUYERS, VALUES SKYROCKETED FOR QUALITY LINES.
YEARLING STEERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 506 TO AVERAGE 473 OR $1225
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 490 TO AVERAGE 443
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 472 TO AVERAGE 419
OVER 400 KGS SOLD TO 416 TO AVERAGE 408
GROWN STEERS
400 TO 500 KGS SOLD TO 396 TO AVERAGE 363
500 TO 600 KGS C3 TO PROCESSORS SOLD TO 359 TO AVERAGE 349
YEARLING HEIFERS C2 SCORE
200 TO 280 KGS SOLD TO 326 TO AVERAGE 300
280 TO 330 KGS SOLD TO 332 TO AVERAGE 278
330 TO 400 KGS SOLD TO 341 TO AVERAGE 330 OVER 400 KGS SOLD AT 329
COWS OVER 520 KGS
D2 COWS SOLD TO 268 TO AVERAGE 251
D3 COWS SOLD TO 292 TO AVERAGE 281 OR $1687
BULLS OVER 600 KGS SOLD TO 304 TO AVERAGE 290 OR $3184
THIS IS CHARLES WEYMAN JONES IN ROMA, REPORTING FOR RESONATE REGIONAL RADIO
How much the rain will push the cattle market up and where the premiums are
Frenzied buying across Queensland and NSW saleyards is tipped for the run into Christmas with massive stretches of cattle country now soaking wet or sensationally green.
Agents say there is also now a strong chance of a lot of Queenslanders heading south to the big January weaner sales to buy up.
Re-stockers and feed lotters where rain has fallen will be looking to background as many as they can on the big bodies on feed now guaranteed for summer.
At the same time, processors in the north are being forced to pay ‘rain money’ to secure what they need to see out the year’s kills.
Agents are predicting a jump of at least another 25 cents a kilogram live weight across most categories over the next fortnight
A local sheep & cattle producer is amongst the 2025 RAS Rural Achiever finalists vying for top award
Growing up in Northern NSW, James Gilmour is deeply passionate about supporting the vitality and sustainability of rural communities.
He has participated in Sydney Royal Easter Show Young Judges competitions since 2015, where he has gained the experience to mentor young wool classers and other Young Judges, advocating for inclusivity and leadership despite physical challenges.
He has worked closely with farmers and agricultural organisations, particularly through his role as a wool classer and his role as Chief Farm Produce and Junior Judging Steward at the Warialda Show, to champion local industry.
He manages the self-founded White Gold sheep studs and has recently established JAG Santa Gertrudis stud.
NSW Young Auctioneers.
The ten finalists have been selected for the NSW Young Auctioneers Competition.
They include.
Darcy Brennan – Lehman Stock & Property Inverell, Luke Richards – McGregors Livestock & Property Warialda and former Inverell resident William McLachlan who works for Elders Rural Services Wagga Wagga.
Ag production to hit near-record high despite dry setbacks and the fall in grain prices
Australian farmgate production values keep climbing despite tough seasonal conditions in southern Australia and weaker winter crop markets.
The gross value of agricultural production for 2024-25 is tipped to break $88 billion – up about $2b in the three months since commodity forecaster the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences last did the sums.
That’s $6b more than ABARES anticipates farm production was worth last financial year.
However, lower global grain prices will cut into our total overseas sales values this financial year, with agricultural exports tipped to be worth about $1.3b less than 2023-24, at $70.1b.
Female butchers are slicing their way to the top of the industry
Women across NSW are cutting through the stereotypes and taking butchery on as a job.
While there has been a slow rise of women stepping into the careers, head teacher of meat and allied trades, Granville TAFE NSW, Ben Barrow, said currently, five per cent of butcher apprentices are female throughout the state.
Mr Barrow says they certainly bring another dimension of excellence to their window displays and attention to detail in their slicing tasks, value-adding and execution of products.
He anticipates that there will be further growth in numbers in the next enrolment period.
Tamworth store sale firm for quality, prices easing for lesser quality pens
Tamworth Livestock Agents offered 3068 head at their November 29 store sale, with prices remaining firm for quality lines, which, according to one agent, were in fewer numbers than at the previous sale.
Davidson Cameron and Company’s Tamworth livestock agent, Scott Newberry, said the sale was well supported by a solid inquiry from Northern Tablelands and New England buyers looking for mouths to help consume the late spring flush the region is enjoying.
Sale results according to data from the Tamworth Regional Livestock Exchange, included 376 cows and calves were priced between $825 and $2700, averaging $1815.
101 PTIC cows topped at $1660 to average $1309.
21 PTIC heifers were priced between $1060 and $1440, averaging $1357.
1084 heifers sold to a top of $1150, averaging $781.
1333 steers topped at $1385 and averaged $1036.
