Yarded 1415
Steers to $1700
Heifers to $1140
Cows & calves to $2540
IT WAS a mixed yarding of 1415 cattle at Pakenham’s store sale last Thursday, where cows and calves were highly sought after.
Overall, prices held up across the yarding and in some places, heifers outdid their brothers.
There were plenty of pens of well-prepared cattle with size and weight that attracted grass finisher and feedlot attention.
Small pen lots were highly sought by some buyers who pushed this competition.
There were also pens of Friesian and dairy-cross cattle that were buoyant in price, again particularly among restockers looking for small pen lots.
Some of the cattle looked a bit rough and some of them definitely could have done with a drench applied a month or so prior to sale.
Steers sold to $1700, a 655 kilogram Paringa-bloodline Charolais steer sent in by Endevour Corporation, Pakenham – the remainder of their steers sold to $1180, weight 365kg on that pen. The same vendor’s heifers, 330kg, sold at $1135.
Among the remaining heavy steers, P&R&MP McDonald, Maffra, sold Hereford steers, 590kg, $1550 and a 700kg Black Baldy steer, $1690.
PJ&JA Russ, Glendownes, sent in Angus steers, 597kg, $1660.
Durrumbandi, Yellingbo, sold Angus steers, 492kg, $1450.
A Willoughby, Bayles, sold Angus steers, 477kg, $1380.
Pakenham’s S Rabba sold Angus steers, 480kg – the polled sold at $1355, the horned animals sold at $1305.
JFC Pastoral, Yannathan, sent in Angus steers, 485-522kg, sold at $1350.
K&K Vistarini, Modella, sold Hereford steers, bred in East Gippsland, 486kg, $1340.
TA Davies, Merricks North, sold Angus steers, 428-450kg average liveweight, $1340. Their second pen, 446kg, Fernleigh-bloodline, sold at $1330.
Gundabah Station, Cape Schanck, sold Angus steers, 450kg, to $1290.
DW Hasthorpe, Tanjil South, sold Angus steers, 406kg, $1210.
JR Cromb, Perry Bridge, sold a line of Angus steers and heifers – the top pen of steers, 402kg, sold at $1190. Heifers, 377kg, sold to $1000.
Charolais steers, Ashwood Park bloodline, 403kg, sold at $1150. Vendor was Nave Pastoral, Willow Grove. Their second pen, 326kg, sold at $1030. Nave Pastoral’s top pen of heifers, 371kg, sold at $1040; their second pen, 29kg, sold to $920.
W Powell and MG Dickson & Co, Moorooduc, sold Leawood-bloodline Angus and Black Baldy steers, 330kg, $1130.
Blackwood Grazing, Trafalgar, sold a line of 18-20mo Angus steers to $1380 – this pen averaged 427kg. The draft averaged $1286. The same vendor’s heifers sold to $1150.
A Abrahams, Kilcunda, sold Banquet and Te Mania bloodline Angus heifers, 324kg, $910; a second pen sold at $790.
Among the large yarding of cows with calves-at-foot (CAF), a pen of Blonde d’Aquitaine pairs sold at $2540. The cows had had the opportunity to be rejoined to a Blonde d’Aquitaine bull. Cows averaged 634kg and calves averaged 184kg. Vendor was Ben Fox, ‘Sandford’, Corowa.
A further pen from the same vendor sold at $2260. A 27-month-old Blonde bull sold at $1840.
J Koolstra, Heath Hill, sold 2nd and 3rd calver Limousin cows with CAF, $2450.
Waterford, Macedon, sent in Angus cow with Charolais calf, running back with a Charolais bull, $2250. Charolais pairs also running back with the same bull returned $2150.
The same vendor sold Charolais cows, pregnancy-tested-in-calf to Charolais bull and due to calve in January, $1590.
A Palgrove-bloodline rising two-year-old Charolais bull, 935kg and semen-tested, sent in by Waterford, realised $2700.
G Murray, Nar Nar Goon, sold Charolais cows with second calf at foot, by a stud Banquet bull, to $1990.
‘Hilandale’, Drouin, sent in six Charolais pairs, the cows running back with the same bull, $1950.
Joy Morgan, Kangaroo Ground, sold an Angus-Friesian cow with grown calf, $1900.
Square Meater cows and calves, with opportunity back to the same bull, realised $1725 – vendor was W&V Tomlinson, Arthur’s Creek.
It was marked that there were some pens of cows and calves where it was obvious the heifer was joined too soon – prices bid reflected this.