Fat Cattle Report
Good morning, this is Hugh Edwards taking a look at the weekly livestock market reports out of Dubbo for the 1st week of September 2023.
Tallied numbers this week included –
5700 fat cattle
19700 lambs
11600 mutton
Into the cattle pens firstly, where it was a pretty good quality yarding. With some good runs of well finished cattle to suit processors feeders and backgrounders.
Young kill cattle were 20 – 30 cents cheaper with prime vealers topping at 260c/kg. Prime yearlings bringing 166 - 270c/kg. Feeder steers and heifers were 30 – 40 cents cheaper with feeder steers selling from 153 - 310c/kg, while the feeder heifers made 115 - 230c/kg. Young restockers were sold to a weaker demand losing 60 cents, selling to a top of 275c/kg for steers and 250c/kg for heifers.
Grown steers and heifers were 15 cents cheaper with the prime grown steers making 228 – 285c/kg, while the heifer portion brought 200 – 265c/kg. Cows were 5 – 10 cents cheaper, with the medium 2 & 3 score cows selling from 120 - 208c/kg, while the prime heavy weights made 210 - 243c/kg to average around 225c/kg.
Carter Lindsay & Weber sold the following cattle for their clients –
Firstly to Coonamble for the Hegarty family, who sold well finished 6 tooth Shorthorn cross bullocks for 265 cents, they weighed in at 663kg coming back at $1757.
Down the road to Tooraweenah for the McWhirter family of “Springfield”, who sold well bred Angus cross steers off the crop, in fresh condition bringing 282 cents and weighing up at 576kg bringing $1625.
To Trangie now for the O’Neill family of “Nellady”, who sold well bred Hereford cows in fat condition weighing 763kg making 223 cents and coming back at over $1702.
Across to Wongarbon for the Altus family of “Albion Hills” who sold well bred Angus steers in fresh condition for 300 cents, weighing 432kg making over $1297.
Lastly to Geurie for the Paxton family, who sold properly finished Friesian steers that weighed a massive 755kg selling for 215 cents and coming back at $1623.
Fat Sheep & Lamb Report
Into the lamb pens now, where it was a mixed quality yarding with good selection of well finished heavy weight lambs alongside the odd pen of neat trade weights. There were also some good pens of well finished new season lambs and a large percentage of lightweight secondary types.
Trade lambs were $25 cheaper with old lambs being $35 - $110/head averaging 360 – 400c/kg. Trade weight new season lambs sold from $75 - $118 averaging 430 – 450c/kg. Heavyweight lambs were $20 cheaper with lambs over 24kg selling from $92 - $141 to average between 400 – 415c/kg. Heavyweight new season lambs topped at $126. Merino lambs were $25 cheaper with trades making $23 - $68 and heavyweights $84 - $110.
Carter Lindsay & Weber sold the following lambs for their clients -
Firstly to Tottenham for the Plummer family of “Trigoona”, who sold heavyweight crossbred lambs in a fresh 3 & 4 score condition, off the pellets for $120.
In the same district for the Cook family of “Glenidol”, who sold well bred heavy Merino lambs in a fresh3 score condition to the local exporter for $85.
And lastly to Nyngan for the Cleaver family off “Murrabee”, who sold well bred heavyweight crossbred lambs in fresh 3 & 4 score condition with 8 weeks skin making $110.
Into the mutton pens now, where most grades were represented in a good quality yarding that saw everything lose $20 - $30/head. Merino ewes sold from $10 - $64 while the crossbred ewes brought $12 - $80 and the Merino wethers topped at $67/head. Most of the better sheep averaged 160 – 190c/kg while the lighter sheep averaged 105 -130c/kg.
Well, that wraps it up for this week.
So until next week …………………. Bye
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