Numbers lifted this sale with agents yarding 1231 head. Quality was fair with some excellent lines of well bred cattle on offer. The usual buyers were present and competing in a dearer market.
Yearling cattle jumped significantly with steers to feed lifting 20c to 30c/kg. Prices ranged from 470c to 630c/kg. Finished lines to processors sold from 496 to 529c/kg. The heifer portion followed a similar dearer trend with those to feed selling from 500 to 561c/kg. Processors paid from 466 to 549c/kg for the finished types.
Heavy steers and bullocks sold from 480 to 500c/kg. Grown heifers ranged from 430 to 492c/kg. Cows were firm to 4c/kg better with heavy finished cows from 396 to 426c/kg and plainer types 373 to 385c/kg.