Small yarding doesn't dent buying support at Echuca

About 500 cattle were penned with a representation of all categories of stock.

FP Nevins & Co agent Tony Hooppell said the "job's been pretty buoyant, and this was no different".

A feature of the penning was a draft of Charolais steers, six to eight months, with the lead pen of six, weighing 330 kilograms, making $1565 or 474 cents a kilogram.

The next of the draft was a pen of 11 weighing 280kg that sold for $1380 or 492c/kg.

The third take of the draft was a pen of nine that weighed 240kg and sold for $1340 or 558c/kg.

A pen of nine Angus/Friesian-cross steers, sold account Ireland, weighed 390kg and sold for $1510, 397c/kg.

Mr Hooppell it was a great result for the that breeding.

He said feed and a lack of numbers to go onto the feed was driving the market.

The season was just staring to dry off in areas that missed the recent rains.

"It's been good for the guys making hay, but ground is getting hard and the puddles have dried up," he said.

Neil Maddison, Maddison Livestock, said demand was strong from the local region as well as the north east and Finley, NSW.

He said it was a touch better with good numbers of cows and calves that sold well.

There was plenty of grass about and many were hanging onto cattle.

He said a pen of Limousin rising two-year-old heifers with calves at foot account P & C Eade, made $2680.

Other lines included a pen of five Angus steers, 12 months, that made $1615 account G Jacotine.

The same vendor sold five Limousin-cross heifers, 12 months, that made $1530.