Yarding: 440 Change -198
MOUNT GAMBIER CATTLE
Wednesday, March 9
Numbers fell away as agents yarded 440 head of liveweight and open auction cattle.
These sold to a smaller field of trade and processor buyers along with some strong feeder orders and a number of active restockers.
Quality is falling away on the sales of previous weeks with a very mixed offering coming forward however strong feeder support continues to push the market to dearer rates.
Vealer numbers were small with steers reaching 555c and the heifers 570c/kg.
Yearling steers to the trade made up to 493c with similar heifers making from 426c to 498c/kg.
Feeders were operating from 492c to 555c on the steers and from 424c to 520c/kg on the heifers as restockers were active from 500c to 520c/kg.
Grown steers and bullocks were a very mixed penning with the trade active from 435c to 471c with feeder support from 470c to 535c/kg.
Grown heifers to the trade made from 382c to 491c with feeder support to 518c as manufacturing steers mainly ranged from 300c to 385c/kg.
Heavy cows returned from 344c to 390c with the lighter pens to the trade making from 230c to 324c/kg.
Feeders were active here from 305c to 349c with restocker support from 340c to 372c/kg.
Heavy bulls ranged from 265c to 308c with lighter types reaching 455c/kg.
Yarding: 709 Change: -197
NARACOORTE CATTLE
Tuesday, March 8
Numbers eased as agents yarded 709 head of liveweight and open auction cattle.
These sold to the usual field of trade and processor buyers along with feeder and restocker orders.
Quality dipped on the previous weeks sale with only a small number of pens with both weight and condition to attract the trade interest as feeders and restockers operated very strongly to drive the market to dearer rates this week.
Vealer numbers were small as steers reached 547c, and the heifer portion made up to 550c/kg.
Yearling cattle to the trade were scarce with insufficient numbers to provide a quote, as feeders were active here on steers from 540c to 658c for light weights.
The similar heifers made from 562c to 602c/kg.
Grown steers to the trade made from 475c to 534c, with some old style bullocks making from 320c to 360c/kg.
Feeders operated here from 442c to 581c/kg.
Grown heifers to the trade made from 440c to 502c, with feeders active from 533c to 540c/kg.
Heavy weight cows to the trade made from 354c to 382c/kg.
The light weight types made to 320c, with strong feeder support here from 308c to 354c/kg.
Heavy weight bulls returned from 270c to 326c, with light weights reaching 485c/kg.
Yarding: 4391 Change: -2024 Lamb: 3253 Change: -520 Sheep: 1138 Change: -1504
NARACOORTE SHEEP AND LAMB
Tuesday, March 8
Lamb numbers fell a little as sheep fell by over half with agents yarding 3,253 lambs and 1,138 sheep to total a combined 4,381 head overall with a fall of over 2,000 on the previous weeks sale.
The usual field of trade and processor buyers were present however not all were fully active on a very mixed offering which sold from firm to dearer rates this week.
Light store lambs to restockers ranged from mainly $66 to $114 with the heavier pens making from $142 to $166 with a handful of Merino lambs returning to the paddock from $136 to $146/head.
Light lambs to the trade made from $132 to $146 with the medium to weighted trade lambs ranging from $146 to $202 with the heavy and extra heavy lots making from mainly $202 to $245 with an isolated sale at
$262/head to a butcher.
Sales for the trade lambs were mostly from 720c to 780c/kg cwt.
More Merino lambs came forward this week with lighter pens making from $142 to $162 with the heavier lots making from $182 to $192/head.
Hoggets ranged from $105 to $178 with light crossbreds making from $105 to $130 as light Merinos made from $88 to $118/head.
Medium weighted sheep returned from $132 to $162/head with most sales from 540c to 580c/kg cwt.
Heavy Merinos made from $158 to $182 as heavy crossbreds ranged from $182 to $201/head.
