Fat Cattle Report
Good morning, this is Hugh Edwards taking a look at the weekly livestock market reports out of Dubbo for the first week of November, 2023. Tallied numbers this week included –
3300 fat cattle
13200 lambs
6700 mutton
Into the cattle pens firstly, where it was a mixed yarding, with some good numbers of yearlings for feeders but only limited trade cattle. Grown steers, heifers and cows were in good supply along with a large supply of secondary type cattle.
Young kill cattle were 10 – 20 cents cheaper with quality being the main factor, with prime yearlings bringing 150 - 220c/kg.
Feeder steers and heifers were 10 – 15 cents dearer with feeder steers selling from 164 - 233c/kg, while the feeder heifers made 145 - 214c/kg.
Young restockers sold to a stronger demand gaining up to 20 cents, with steers selling to a top of 272c/kg and 228c/kg for heifers.
Grown steers and heifers were 10 – 20 cents dearer with the prime grown steers making 170 – 223c/kg, while the heifer portion brought 170 – 204c/kg.
Cows were unchanged, with the medium 2 & 3 score cows selling from 125 - 163c/kg, while the prime heavy weights made 155 - 195c/kg to average around 173c/kg.
Fat Sheep & Lamb Report
Into the lamb pens now, where it was a plainer quality yarding with the odd pen of well finished heavy weight and trade lambs.
Trade weight new season lambs were firm to $5 cheaper selling from $56 - $115 to average 450 – 495c/kg.
Trade weight old lambs were sold $5 - $10 cheaper selling for $50 - $117.
Heavy weight lambs were $5 cheaper with old lambs over 24kg selling from $112 - $150 to average between 460 – 480c/kg.
Merino lambs were unchanged with trade weight Merino lambs selling from $40 - $78.
Into the mutton pens now, where most grades gained $5 - $10.
Merino ewes sold from $10 - $50 while the crossbred ewes brought $10 - $46 and the Merino wethers topped at $49.
Most mutton is selling between 100 – 150c/kg.
Well that about wraps it up for another week.
So until next week ……………………………….bye.
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