It was an all-local affair at the Northern Victoria Livestock Exchange at Wodonga this past Thursday for the their June special store sale.
The gallery saw a significant lack of feedlot or commission buyers, meaning local buyers had the best pick of the bunch on offer with slight reductions in prices, although agents called the sale a firm result.
About 1600 cattle were yarded on the day, which was upward trend on previous sales.
Corcoran Parker senior livestock agent Leigh McEvoy said that was due to many factors.
"It was a combination of the end of financial year, and the fact that it is the midst of winter, which has seen weather be quite cold and wintery in and around here for the last month," he said.
"People may be possibly lightening off a little bit as well, but the quality on offer was really good today."
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With the smaller numbers in the gallery and the larger offering in the pens, there was a wide variety of stock to choose from.
"Agents were happy with a firm sale this week, without the larger field of buyers there this week," he said.
"No feedlotters or commission buyers here meant a lot of cattle got lapped up locally to restockers which was quite pleasing.
"It is unusual to see no feedlotters or commission buyers, and I don't know why that would be, or if there were other sales on, but I'm glad for the local buyers."
Mr McEvoy said there was a lot of interest in cattle in the range of 250 to 320 kilograms, with little on offer on the heavier side.
Steers up to 320kg had topped up to about 725 cents a kilogram or $2250 a head, while lighter steers up to around 270kg had a top price of 770c/kg or $2070 a head.
Heifers sold very at the sale as well with lots up to 320kg making up to 570 c/kg or $1800 a head while lighter weighted heifers up to 300kg were regularly past 600c/kg.
Auctioneer Peter Ruaro from Ruaro/Rodwells stock agents said that despite the diminished attendance, there was only a slight softening in prices.
He said the gallery was still competitive and would have picked up weaner cattle for a bargain.
"There seemed to be a good sense of people who kept things competitive, but knowing things were locally focused, it wasn't a surprise to see some of the weaners lower a bit by ten to 15 cents," he said.
D Davidson sold 10 Angus steers, 454kg, for 546c/kg or $2480.
Yacca Pastoral sold 36 Angus steers, 257kg, for 785c/kg or $2020.
J Yensch sold 33 Angus steers, 271kg, for 732c/kg or $2010 and another pen of 24 Angus steers, 310kg for 648c/kg.
DH & LC Cameron sold 15 Hereford steers, 283kg, for 685c/kg or $1940.
Marcus Nixon sold 12 Limousin steers, 328kg, for 594c/kg or $1950.
KA & JB Klemm sold 45 Angus steers, 325kg, for 686c/kg or $2230.
PC & RL Hibberson sold six Angus steers, 438kg, for 566c/kg or $2480.
CPA Packers sold 14 Angus heifers, 329kg, for 553c/kg or $1820.
Mundiwa Pastoral Trust sold 21 Angus heifers, 323kg, for 576c/kg or $1860.
J & G MacDougall Family Trust sold eight Angus cows with eight calves at foot sold for $3160..
Noel Ryan sold 6 Angus PTIC cows, 633kg, for 481c/kg or $3050.
RK & JE Washusen sold 10 Angus PTIC cows, 614kg, for 427c/kg or $2620 and another pen of five Angus PTIC cows, 536kg, 437c/kg or $2340.