Shepparton cows and calves sell to $4650 in mega spring store sale

Northern Victorian agents yarded 2100 cattle for the feature market, with buyers travelling from southern Victoria and northern NSW to purchase lines of cattle.

The market featured a whopping 350 cow and calf units which sold to $4650, while other units made more than $4000 on multiple occasions.

The sale also boasted 1300 beef-bred steers and heifers, and an abundance of Friesian and F1 cattle.

Mulcahy Nelson director Sam Nelson said a feature of the sale was the "exceptional" draft of cows and calves.

"I thought that was the best line-up of cattle Shepp has had for a very long time," he said.

"We're not recognised as a breeding area but there is more and more beef cattle infiltrating the area now so I certainly felt the cattle sold to our expectations and above."

Cattle were bought for clients at places including Geelong, Ballarat, Wangaratta, Wodonga and Gundagai, NSW.

Regular store cattle buyer Duncan Brown, Albury, NSW, was present and bought cattle for several clients, while some feedlotters competed with the dominant restockers.

South Gippsland agent Damien Minogue, Elders Leongatha and Korumburra, was among the buyers who travelled the furthest for the sale, purchasing 56 cow and calf units and close to 80 steers.

Mr Nelson said only a handful of cow and calf units remained in the local district.

A feature of the sale was a consignment of 55 cow and calf units and 190 mostly Angus steers and heifers, 12 months, consigned by partnership Malcolm & McDonald, Invergordon.

The vendors sold 12 Charolais cows with calves at foot, with the cows pregnancy-tested-in-calf to calve in March and April 2022, for $3900, and 12 Hereford/Angus-cross cows with calves at foot for $3350.

The draft of cows and calves averaged an impressive $3440.

The partnership also sold 28 Angus steers, 358kg, for $2260 or 631 cents a kilogram, 20 Angus steers, 304kg, for $2100 or 690c/kg and 16 Angus steers, 314kg, for $2180 or 694c/kg.

In their heifers, 15 Angus heifers, 344kg, made $1950 or 566c/kg and 16 heifers, 319kg, made $1950 or 611c/kg.

Paul and Anne McMahon, Echuca, sold 25 cow and calf units including the first pen of 14 Charolais cows with calves at foot for $4250, and 11 cows and calves for $4000.

Terry Bansemer and Shirley May, Randell Park, Harston, sold the sale-topping pen of one Charolais cow with a calf at foot for $4650, and sold another 11 units including seven cows and calves for $3750.

Elders Shepparton livestock manager Andrew Kyle said agents were overwhelmed by the support of buyers.

"The beauty of Shepp is that there is something for everybody," Mr Kyle said.

"The season has been very buoyant everywhere and the rain we've had just recently has given everyone a lot of confidence.

"People have feed in the paddock and I guess they just want it eaten off."

Baroda Park sold nine Angus cows with Limousin calves at foot for $3350 while T Robinson sold six Angus and Red Angus cows with calves for $3450.

M Ciararella sold 17 Angus heifers with calves at foot for $3550, while Danzuille Speckles dispersed a pen of eight Speckle Park cows with calves at foot for $3600.

T & L Hicks sold eight Simmental cows with calves at foot for $3650, while Family Fresh produce sold eight Angus cows, third and fifth calvers, with nine calves at foot, two to six weeks, for $3350.

Paul Burnett sold 10 Angus cows, second calvers, with calves at foot for $3500, while B & K Glass sold 12 Black Baldy cows, not rejoined, with calves at foot for $3200.

In the steer section, Garrison Cattle Feeders bought the first pen consigned by F & M Leyden, who sold 11 steers, 509kg, for $2550 or 500c/kg.

JCL Farms sold 12 Angus steers, 440kg, for $2580 or 586c/kg to Elders Leongatha.

B Carey sold eight Angus steers, 442kg, for $2580 or 583c/kg, while S Skilling sold four steers, eight-10 months, 343kg, for $1900 or 553c/kg.

B & N Garner sold eight Charolais-cross steers, 411kg, for $2160 or 525c/kg.

M Sutton sold seven Hereford steers, 378kg, for $2100 or 555c/kg, while Glenlossit sold seven Angus/Simmental-cross steers, 275kg, for $1840 or 669c/kg.

WR Mactier sold 12 steers, 299kg, for $1880 or 628c/kg, while M Lawless sold 18 Black Baldy steers, 278kg, for $1650 or 593c/kg and 14 Angus steers, 218kg, for $1620 or 743c/kg.

In the heifers, JCL Farms sold seven Angus heifers, 390kg, for $1950 or 500c/kg.

DPM Pty Ltd sold 31 Angus heifers, 320kg, for $1870 or 584c/kg.

P & D Breman sold 12 heifers, 12-13 months, 368kg, for $2020 or 548c/kg and 12 heifers, 333kg, for $1900 or 570c/kg.