Public holiday causes small Bairnsdale yarding

Despite the small turnout, present agents reported promising results for well-bred and heavy cattle.

Sharp Fullgrabe and Company owner Graeme Fullgrabe said there was a good plethora of buyers at the sale, including several fatteners from South Gippsland.

"It was only a very little sale but it went very, very well and if we had yarded 1000 cattle, we could have sold them easily," he said.

"A lot of agents pulled out because of the public holiday but it would have been a ripper sale because at the next one coming up on October 11, there's between 2000 and 3000 cattle to be sold that day and this was the only sale on that day.

"We had some older steers which we started on. They weighed 516 kilos and made $1360 and that worked out at 263 [cents a kilogram] and then we had some nice yearling steers from Murphy Investment [Family Trust] and they weighed 330 kilos and made $940 or 280c/kg."

A pen of weaner steer calves from Boydtown Pastoral Company at Eden sold for $690 or 328c/kg.

"We had a run of Angus heifers from Wyndham between Pambula and Bombala owned by N and J Umback and they weighed 280 kilos and made $715, which worked at 263 a kilo," Mr Fullgrabe said.

"The seconds of them, 24 of them, weighed 240 kilos and made $645 or 262 a kilo and the little Boydtown heifers made $500 and they weighed 210 kilos.

"So, per kilo and quality-wise, they sold well but there weren't big numbers unfortunately."

He said the next two Bairnsdale store sales would draw large numbers of cattle.

"There will be 2500 to 3000 cattle here in Bairnsdale on the 11^th of October and it's so bloody dry you have to do something with them," he said.

Landmark East Gippsland livestock manager Brad Obst said the "cattle made what they were worth" despite the small numbers.

"There was one feedlotter there and he purchased some cattle and the balance of the rest went to South and West Gippsland grass fatteners as well as some limited local support," he said.

Hammond Logging sold 13 Angus steers, 432kg, for $1400 or 324c/kg.

M and D Blennerhassett sold five Angus steers, 372kg, for $1134 or 305c/kg.

Mick Traill sold 16 Angus steers for $685 and 14 Angus heifers for $600.

Hammond Logging sold 19 Angus heifers, 338kg, for $940 or 278c/kg.

A Bott sold eight Hereford Angus-cross heifers and calves for $1360 and nine Angus heifers and calves for $1200.