Yarded: 1815
EYCI: 942c/kg
Feeder steer rating: -5pts
Steers: 360-500kg $1830-$2300, av 503c/kg; 280-360kg $1660-$1900, av 559c/kg; 200-280kg $1405-$1600, av 604c/kg
Heifers: 360-500kg: $1640-$1940, av 508c/kg; 280-360kg $1400-$1840, av 525/kg; 200-280kg: $1030-$1705, av 567c/kg
Finley, NSW identities, Greg McNamara, Elders and Jack Hawkins were well pleased with the sale of the Hawkins family Woolamia Pastoral Angus weaners that averaged about $6/kg across 200 head
A HEIGHTENED demand for feeder stock featured strongly as selling entered the new financial year at NVLX (Wodonga saleyards) on Thursday.
Competing for a penning of 1815 in the monthly Elders and Nutrien-Paull & Scollard series of store cattle markets, a smaller gathering of feeder buyers lifted bid rates by an average of 10 cents a kilogram liveweight on steers and as much as 50-60c/kg on heifers in order to secure numbers.
Elders’ Brett Shea and Oliver Mason said the demand for feeders was a scramble.
“They bid all colours and all breeds”, the auctioneers said. “And, they also bid on all lots including the single sales.
“Yes, they were all keen but there weren’t the numbers to go around and one buyer in Teys Charlton was the standout” they said.
On the restocker front, Mr Shea said although the yarding was reduced in size compared to their month earlier market, the yarding still managed to feature a several of large breeder lines processing quality genetics.
“The inquiry in these instances was stronger than we’ve seen before” Mr Shea said. Most of mid-200kg weight steers were sold beyond $6/kg and up to $6.50/kg, and their heifer sisters to $6/kg” he said.
“It was very rewarding for those breeders who have invested in those superior genetics”.
Nutrien-Paull & Scollard auctioneer Luke Deimel agreed and added that in order to secure numbers and lines of these well-bred steers bids north of $1600/head were required.
That money he said was also required to purchase a larger than normal supply of coloured weaners.
“There was good supply of the breeds other than Angus. Mr Deimal said. These including Hereford, Charolais-, Limousin- and Santa Gertrudis-crosses and they all sold very well without the usual discounts”.
Watch Beef Central’s post-sale interview with Luke Deimel.
To open the market, a limited supply of breeding females again met a strong inquiry.
Staghorn Flat vendor, Wattledale sold a yard of five 2nd-calf Angus cows with 8- to 12-week-old Angus calves at foot. Not rejoined, these made $3580 while a yard of 10-by-10 mixed-aged Hereford cows, with 2 to 3-month-old Hereford calves at foot, made $2820.
A yard of four-by-four 3rd and 4th calf Angus cows, from the same vendor, – Gundabooka P/L, Everton – with similar calves at foot and also not rejoined, made $2940.
Other smaller lots of cows, with small calves at foot, made $2600 to $3020 per outfit.
The opening run of grown steers contained some large pen lots as bidding one single sales rose to a best of $2470/head.
AH Turnbull, Tallangatta South, sold 12 Charolais steers, 446kg at $2200 while the vendor’s second pen lot of 18, 407kg, made $2040.
Lemon Gum Farm, Gundowring, sold 10 Angus steers, 364kg at $1885 while KJ Jackson sold 11 Hereford steers, 370kg at $1830.
Watch the live vision shot by Beef Central of the opening steer run of sale
Tocumwal, NSW vendor, the Bauer family sold a mixed consignment of Angus and Angus Limousin-cross weaners, rising to 12 months.
The tops of the Bauer draft, 10 Angus, 418kg, made $2150 while a second pen of six, 338kg, made $1805.
A&M Palmer, Sandy Creek, sold 16 Angus, 359kg at $1900 while Lebner & Permezel, Towong sold 13 Angus 350kg, at $1850.
The Hawkins family, Finley, NSW trading as Woolamia Pastoral Co offered a feature line of Angus mixed-sex weaners comprising 100 steers and 96 heifers.
The top 25 of the Woolamia draft, 325kg, made $1810, a second yard of 36, 297kg made $1755, a third pen of 30, 285kg made $1745 while a fourth lot of 19, 250kg made $1560.
Another featured large line was consigned to the market by P&G Lavis, Bungowannah.
The Lavis’ top draft-pen of 27 Angus, 332kg, made $1835 while a second yard of 26, 286kg, made $1740.
Holbrook, NSW vendor, J, V & G Yensch sold 32 Angus, 329kg at $1835 while BW & PM Boardman sold 19 Angus, 332kg at $1780.
The inclusion of an off-site bidder via the Stocklive auction platform was an added benefit especially for sellers supplying lines and pens of coloured cattle.
RR&JC Trethowan, Cookardina, NSW sold 13 Angus-Hereford steers, 428kg at $2140 while a second pen of straight Hereford steers, 418kg, made $2030.
A second Hereford yard of 16 from the Trethowan draft, 392kg, made $1970 while FJ Corrigan sold 15 Hereford, 377kg, at $1915.
ER Cheers and Sons, Goolgowi, NSW sold 23 Hereford steers, 338kg, at $1815.
Drafts of European and other cross-breeds were also supported by online bidding.
W&D Ferguson, Rennie, NSW sold 26 Santa-Angus steers, 381kg, at $1940. PJ &SL Wallis, Walbundrie, NSW sold 18 Charolais, 378kg, also at $1940 while yards of Limousin-Angus steers from the Bauer family, Kiamunjie, Tocumwal, NSW, 20, 386kg, and 18, 335kg made $1915 and $1760 respectively.
Large lines in the heifer run were not well supplied.
With dairying as their main game, Tanya Bauer, with children Ryan and Sarah, traveled from Tocumwal, NSW for the sale of their Angus and Angus-Limousin weaners that made to $2150 across a draft of about 120 head.
Nixon Partners, Rennie, NSW sold 18 Hereford, 373kg, at $1800, Kiamunjie, Tocumwal sold 28 Limousin-Angus, 359kg at $1730 and 14, 324kg at $1650 while Lebner & Permezel, Towong sold 17 Angus, 315kg at $1725.
The Hawkins family’s Woolamia line of 96 Angus heifers were sold over three drafted pens.
The first pen of 23, 318kg made $1765, the next yard of 45, 291kg, made $1680 while a third pen of 28, 255kg, made $1520.
Following a highly successful clearance in the previous month-earlier market Craig McNabb, Moama, NSW sold another lift from his CM Pastoral-drop Charolais-Santa Gertrudis weaners.
The steer portion, weighed at 258kg in a pen of 31, made $1570 while his top 40 heifers, 267kg, made $1600 with both sold to the same Elders Shepparton account.
Successful buyers loaded buys to Toowoomba Qld, Yass and Merriwa, NSW, Charlton, Vic and local border areas.
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