Strong competition for plain condition cows and calves

By Peter Kostos
Updated December 21 2018 - 2:18pm, first published December 20 2018 - 6:00pm

Leongatha agents offered a piecemeal yarding of just 600 head in their last store sale of 2018.

The best competition of the day was for a run of very plain condition cows and calves that came all the way from Candello, near Bega, New South Wales.

James McMillan sent similar cows and calves to the previous Leongatha store market, due to losing the lease of a farm.

Producers who purchased some of these cows and calves last time, returned and bought again, but paid more this time around.

The McMillan cows and calves sold between $980 and $1420, and averaged over $1200, which was $150 higher.

C McFarlane, Leongatha South, sold a single Charolais-Friesian cow with a good quality Charolais calf for $1700.

Except for a single Hereford bullock that weighed 780 kilograms liveweight, which made $1810, most older steers sold between $1250 and $1450.

These steers, weighing over 400kgs, sold at cheaper rates to the previous sale, but the quality was not as good.

Younger steers of better quality sold between $800 and $1100 with most equaling 275 to 300c/kg lwt.

SJC Farms, Thorpdale, sold 32 Angus steers from $740 to $1020.

Several pens of Friesian steers were offered, which weighed mostly from 300 to 475kgs. These sold at unchanged rates, selling from $660 to $900 per head.

Several ones of yearling heifers, which were in prime condition, and weighed between 323 and 370kgs, sold to processors from $840 to $1020, or 268 to 276c/kg lwt. these sales were unchanged.

Other heifers sold mostly from $500 to $780, and were generally firm on the previous sale too.


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