Euroa steers sell for more than 800c/kg

Nutrien Ag Solutions Wangaratta auctioneer Daniel Fischer said while the heavier feeder steer section was on par with previous sales, prices for medium-weight stock again lifted.

"Quality was probably the driving factor in that," Mr Fischer said.

"It's not everyday you can get big runs of calves like that and I think that's why they sold so well.

"I would say when you got into those 300-340-kilogram cattle they could have inched up another $50-70 a head."

He said there were opportunities to buy heifers in the $1450-$1600 bracket.

"Little steers were dear, as they have been everywhere," he said.

"A month or six weeks ago those steers were commanding $2000 and $2150 and all of sudden those steers are commanding $2200-2300.

"I think that's what's caught a lot by surprise."

After the first run of heavier cattle, agents were able to buy cattle to put back into the paddock.

Mr Fischer said Nutrien Wangaratta was strong on the heifers, while Nutrien Euroa picked up steers.

Agents yarded 1552 head of steers, heifers, cows and calves.

The yarding was bouyed by more than 400 head of cattle sold by Minto Gen Pastoral, Deniliquin, NSW.

Delaney Livestock and Property manager Anthony Delaney said the Minto Glen draft was of excellent quality.

"Typically they get taken out and sold to the feedlots, but the way the market was and due to the expansion of that herd, they have come to market," Mr Delaney said.

Commission buyers Andrew Lowe and Peter Touhey, along with Charlton and Conroy Brothers Feedlots, took most of the heavier end of the steers.

Local, Gippsland, north-east, Albury, NSW, and Shepparton agents operated on most of the yarding, which weighed between 300-400kg.

Nutrien Ag Solutions Euroa livestock agent Russell Mawson said there was an extensive range of prices, from 550-1000 cents a kilogram.

"The cattle were as good as we have seen for a while here," Mr Mawson said.

He said there were probably 200 weaners, which were usually sold at the annual Black Friday sale, in the yarding.

"We had three or four rotten seasons, and this is starting to put a little bit more back into the closet because a lot of people were living on overdrafts," he said.

Emerald Receptions, Strath Creek, sold seven head of Merridale-blood steers, 502kg, for $2600 or 517c/kg.

Ortus Sean Nominees, Miepoll, sold four steers, 560kg, for $2740 or 489c/kg.

G & P Rowe, Lurg, sold 13 Alpine-blood steers, 458kg, for $2620 or 572c/kg.

Homeleigh Holdings sold 15 Jade Park-blood steers, 421kg, for $2570 or 610c/kg.

Lock-a-Bar sold 20 Alpine and Newblax-blood steers, 411kg, for $2470 or 600c/kg.

"You can see the feed growing at an inch a day," Mr Fischer told the gallery.

GF & DA Comerford, Mansfield, sold 10 Morganvale and Ravensdale-blood Poll Herefords, 449kg, for $2490 or 554c/kg.

Kobyboyn Partnership sold 11 Alpine-blood steers, 336kg, for $2140 or 637c/kg, and their seconds, 11 steers, 329kg, for $1970 or 599c/kg.

Most of the draft offered by Minto Glen was snapped up by Mr Lowe.

Minto Glen's first pen of Alpine and Welcome Swallow-blood steers, 390kg, sold for $2470 or 633c/kg, while the second pen of 21, 376kg, sold for $2480 or 659c/kg.

D W Howie and Sons, Mansfield, sold 30 Alpine and Kelly Angus-blood steers, 341kg, for $2360 or 692c/kg.

WJ Newton, Oxton, Euroa sold 23 Merridale and Margni Park-blood steers, 265kg, for $2140 or 807c/kg.

Finlay Pastoral, Goormam, sold 10 Rennylea-blood steers, 212kg, for $1710 or 806c/kg.

Mitchell Park, Euroa, sold 15 heifers, 336kg, for $2020 or 601c/kg.

G & D Casey sold six Margni Park-blood heifers, 396kg, for $2190 or 553c/kg.

J&H Penny sold five Merridale-blood heifers, 325kg, for $1910 or 587c/kg.

Homeleigh sold seven Jade Park heifers, 365kg, for $2000 or 578c/kg.

Lock-a-Bar sold 18 heifers, 338kg, for $1940 or 574c/kg.

Cobram Estate sold 13 heifers, 290kg, for $1850 or 638c/kg.