Mortlake August store cattle sale features 1100 steers, heifers

Agents yarded 1152 cattle for the fortnightly Western Victoria Livestock Exchange market where local restockers were out in force, taking home a large portion of the cattle on offer.

Mortlake Stock Agents' Association president Jack Hickey said the yarding was dominated by dairy and dairy/beef-cross yearling and weaner cattle, while a handful of beef weaners sold to strong demand.

"Usually, the first sale of the month is a sale where we put more crossbred cattle in," he said.

"Our next fortnightly sale will feature predominantly runs of beef cattle.

"There were some nice runs of Angus/Friesian-cross steers and they sold quite well too."

Mr Hickey said the best runs of the Friesian cattle sold to and a bit beyond 200 cents a kilogram.

"The sale was dominated mostly by locals, along with a few feedlotters and AuctionsPlus which was quite active too," he said.

"We also had two or three processors who were active on the rail, buying most of the bigger heifers."

R McLeod sold the dearest pen of four Angus-cross cows with calves at foot for $1875 a unit.

Ray Goodman sold eight Angus cows with calves at foot for $1650, while J & H Frim sold 22 Angus cows with calves at foot for $1500.

A & M Mahony sold the top pen of PTIC Angus heifers with eight knocked down for $1650, plus 18 heifers for $1500.

Woodlawn Pastoral sold 19 PTIC heifers for $1425

WVLX data revealed weaner heifers sold to a top price of 370c/kg to average 266c/kg, while weaner steers sold to a top price of 315c/kg to average 260c/kg.

Tuckett Family Farms sold 20 Angus-cross weaner steers, 202kg, for 315c/kg.

Meanwhile, grown heifers sold to a top price of 312c/kg to average 293c/kg, while grown steers sold to 320c/kg and averaged 254c/kg.

Woodlawn Pastoral sold 12 Angus/Hereford-cross grown heifers, 368kg, for 312c/kg.

R Dent, Mt Clay, sold three grown Angus-cross steers, 500kg, for 320c/kg.

EJ & L Derooy sold 13 Angus heifers, 397kg, for 320c/kg.

Willow Bend Speckle Parks sold 11 Speckle Park-cross heifers, 314kg, for 268c/kg, and 10 heifers, 218kg, for 230c/kg.

GM, DG, SM Hooker sold 16 Hereford-cross heifers, 96kg, for 270c/kg, 20 heifers, 98kg, for 280c/kg and 24 heifers, 96kg, for 270c/kg.

The four pens were bought by PPHS Naracoorte, SA.

In other notable sales, W Couch sold nine Angus steers, 353kg, for 352c/kg and AH & VM Bond sold five Angus-cross weaner heifers, 171kg, for 370c/kg.