Yarding 1605
Steers to $1620
Heifers to $1300
Cows & calves to $2600
Bulls to $3600
IN A sizeable yarding of 1605 cattle, it was difficult to predict values at Pakenham’s store cattle sale this week.
There were a few feature lines, including a run of bulls from Cheltenham Park Angus and Glenburn Station; and Angus steers and heifers from Barragunda Estate and Blackwater Park.
But the yarding was mixed, with plain cattle drafted alongside well-prepared animals.
Buyers seeking cattle for Bendigo and Ballarat districts vied alongside butchers, South and Central Gippsland re-stockers and a number of feedlot operators or their representatives.
There was considerable interest in the complete drop of Spring-2016, 13-14mo, Angus steers and heifers, sired by Innesdale bulls and sent in by Barragunda Estate Pty Ltd, Cape Schanck.
The 54 steers sold to $1395, top pen average liveweight, 416kg; the line of steers averaged $1262. The 56 heifers, top pen 388kg, sold to $1185, ave $1071.
A draft of 20-23-month-old Angus steers, vendor Blackwater Park, Pakenham, sold to $1620 twice – for a pen average liveweight 529kg, Tiarna-bloodline and Ballarat-district bred; and a pen $510kg, Cherrymount-bred with Franc-bloodline. The draft averaged $1604.
Angus-Black Simmental steers, 558kg, vendor G Colella, Bellarine Peninsula, sold at $1610; a second pen, 461kg, sold at $1435.
Moopark, Hilldene, sent in Angus steers, 485kg, for a return of $1570.
Windsor Park, Lilydale, sold Angus steers, 492kg, to $1495.
Avondale Angus, Tallarook, sent in Angus steers 435kg $1440. A second pen, 395kg, sold at $1240.
Te Mania-bloodline Angus steers, ex-Wonga Station bred, vendor B Pitman, Yannathan, 10-12mo weaned and 422kg, sold at $1400.
D&S Hickmott, Angus steers 474kg, sold at $1350.
B&J Tourk, Iona, sent in Angus weaned steers, ave 422kg, that made $1305. Their heifers, 371kg, made $1080.
Thorpdale’s G O’Connell sold Charolais steers, 430kg, $1240 and heifers, 372kg, $1100.
Weaned Hereford steers, 398kg, vendor E Cole, Balnarring, sold at $1220.
Fenwick Stud Farm, Woodstock, sold Hereford steers 402kg, $1220.
Angus steers, 385kg, vendor K&C Barker, Caldermeade, sold at $1210.
Malanda Pastoral, Stradbroke, sold Hereford steers $1000 and heifers $800.
M Romano, Nagana, sold 510kg Angus heifers $1300.
Noel Thompson, French Island, sold Charolais and Angus heifers to $1280. His steers, 424kg, sold at $1310.
A run of bulls, in particular from two vendors, sold to $3600.
Cheltenham Park Angus, Carrajung, sold their annual draft of rising-2yo Angus bulls. Lots L42 and L57, Time Out and Berkley respectively, sold at $3600. Lot L13, a Fullhouse bloodline, sold at $3280. The draft averaged $3326.
Glenburn Station, Glenburn, sold 15 2yo Angus bulls, Dunoon, Rennylea, Ardrossan and Strathewen bloodlines, to a top of $2450, average $2115.
A pen of 2.5yo Charolais-Shorthorn heifers with Charolais Cactus Point bloodline calves-at-foot (CAF), vendor Lindsay and Joan Fechner, Koo Wee Rup, sold at $2600. Angus heifers and CAF, same vendor, sold at $2390.
NL&DD Renshaw, Warragul, sold Angus cows with third and fourth CAF, $2600.
S&M Gummer, Warragul, sold Red Limousin cows and calves, $2260.
Mulder & Moore, Nilma North, sold Angus cows with second calves, $2240.
J&R Farming, Darnum, sold Hereford cows with Red Baldy calves, $2125; and Charolais cows and calves, $2100.
Angus cows with Limousin CAF, vendor J&N Heard, Trafalgar, sold to $2075.
Much of the remaining cows and calves were plain and even those units depastured to bulls did not sell higher than $2000.
A Havelock, Euroa, sent in 5-7yo Charolais-Angus cows, pregnancy-tested-in-calf to stud Angus bull, sold to $1600.
