Yarding: 2524
With several patchy storms giving some people very good falls of rain over the past week, numbers were back by 540.
It was a pretty good quality yarding with good numbers of young cattle to suit the feeders and processors along with good numbers of cows. There were also a few pens of well finished grown steers yarded but very few well finished grown heifers.
All the regular buyers were operating along with an additional northern feeder operator.
Young cattle to the trade were 12c to 15c dearer with the prime steer yearlings selling from 303c to 318c, while the prime heifer yearlings sold from 291c to 310c/kg.
Feeder steers and heifers were 14c to 19c/kg dearer.
The feeder steers sold from 291c to 345c while the feeder heifers sold from 280c to 317c/kg.
Grown steers were up to 10c dearer with the prime medium and heavy weights selling from 280c to 321c/kg.
Grown heifers were close to firm selling to 292c/kg. Plain conditioned cows were up to 25c dearer, while the better finished cows were 10c to 18c/kg dearer.
Two score cows sold from 170c to 231c, while the better 3 and 4 scores sold from 224c to 284c with the prime heavy weights averaging 268c/kg.
Bulls for the live export trade sold to 307c while bulls to the processors sold to 286c/kg.
(Article source: Meat and Livestock Australia)
Elders Dubbo sold this pen of Angus steers for a sale topping 345c/kg.