Yarding 2332
Steers to $1650
Heifers to $1240
Cows & calves to $2390
EAGER buying resulted in a strong market at the Leongatha store sale last Thursday, where 2332 cattle were yarded.
There were a couple of feature lines in the sale, where grass finishers, benefitting from pasture and crop growth after mid-year flooding, pushed buyers for feedlots and meat suppliers – including O’Connors, Westside and Midfield Meats and TFI, JBS and Hopkins River feedlots.
Well-bred and prepared cattle with size and weight sold well, but there were also a lot of cross-bred cattle and small pen-lots in the market; and these sold at prices to match their condition, but mostly above the $1000 floor price for steers.
Steers sold to $1650, for a pen of 0-2-tooth weaned Angus steers, 588 kilograms, by vendor Bronwyn Woodward, Hazelwood.
M Berry, Wonthaggi, also sold Angus steers, 543kg, for $1540.
Glengarry’s P Hare sent in weaned Angus steers, 539kg, for $1510.
Merlewood- and Pinora-bloodline 20-month-old Black Baldy steers, 515kg, sold at $1500 – by vendor MS&NJ Bracecamp, Berrys Creek. A second pen, 518kg, also sold at $1500.
In the first feature line of the day, AF Sheridan & Partners, Bengworden, sold 126 Angus steers, July-August-2016-drop, Barwidgee and Lawson bloodlines. The top-weight pen, 496kg, sold at $1450; the top-priced pen, $1480, realised an average 485kg.
Troppobono Holdings, Korumburra, sold Black Baldy bullocks, 565kg, at $1430; a second pen, 567kg, sold at $1410.
Pure South Devon steers, 488kg, by vendor Brown and Norden, Wonga, sold at $1310.
AJ&BR Moyle, Wonthaggi, sold Angus steers to $1300, for three beasts averaging 445kg; the remainder of the pen, 355kg, sold at $1160.
Three generations of the Bowman family, The Ridge Pastoral, Rosedale, witnessed the sale of their EU-accredited line of 415 August-October-2016-drop Hereford-Angus and Hereford yard-weaned and grassfed steers and heifers.
The 235 steers sold as follows – Black Baldies with Te Mania and Landfall bloodlines, top pen average 409kg, sold to $1290. The Hereford steers, Injemira and Allendale bloodlines, sold to $1170 – average liveweight 353kg; the top-weight pen, 354kg, sold at $1140.
A line of 12mo Pertangus-bloodline Angus steers, 451kg, from Katelea Pastoral, Bass, sold at $1250; the same vendor sent in Banquet-bloodline Angus steers, 411kg, $1190.
Bucket-reared Angus steers, 447kg, recouped $1245, by vendor S&V Collins, Leongatha.
T&C Collins, Mirboo North, sold Black Baldy steers, 422kg, at $1240 and Hereford steers, 428kg, at $1190.
Among the female cattle, Bulleondura, Mirboo North, sold Angus and Black Baldy weaned heifers, 431kg, at $1240. A second pen, 368kg, sold at $1070.
Ajay Nominees P/L sold Dunoon-bloodline Black Baldy and Angus heifers, 426kg, at $1225.
AJ&BR Moyle, Wonthaggi, sold Banquet-bloodline Angus heifers, 430kg, at $1200.
The Ridge Pastoral, Rosedale, sold Black-Baldy heifers, 388kg, to $1140 and Hereford heifers 341kg, to $1050. These cattle were the same age and bloodlines as the steers.
The price of heifers held up, mostly because feedlot and meat buyers were trying to make up their orders, after being overrun by restockers buying steers.
WJ Berry, Wonthaggi, sold their annual draft of 8-10mo Angus heifers, Te Mania bloodline, weaned two weeks, $790.
Kelvin and Julie Park, Tarwin Lower, breed Square Meater-cross calves and had to sell an Angus cow with calf, $2390 – because the cow stands too tall for the bull.
Angus pairs from B&K Jan, Seaview, returned $1920.
M Babos, Leongatha, sold two cows with British White bull calves-at-foot, for $1900.
L Boucaut, Carrajung South, sold a mix of depastured cows with calves, for $930 to $1600.
Hazelview, Tarwin, sent in Angus pairs for a return of $1480.
