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The annual Roe Creek cattle sale ahead of the Alice Springs Show featured an impressive lineup of quality cattle.

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00:00There was a big crowd out for the annual Roe Creek cattle sale, held ahead of the Alice

00:07Brink show.

00:12More than 4,000 head of cattle were brought in from surrounding stations, while buyers

00:15flew in from all over, but particularly Queensland and South Australia.

00:19Prices reached a top of 362 cents a kilogram, or $1,770 a head.

00:26The cattle was exceptional, the best I've seen in seven years.

00:29Our cattle at the lead of our run got well over $3.

00:33We got up to $3.60 for a pen of the Fogarty family EU steers in from Palmer Valley.

00:38They had a great run of up nearly 700 black and black Mawley steers here, which were well

00:44above them, all had three pluses in them.

00:47We got background on the red cattle, and they dropped back down to the low threes.

00:52Our store cattle came back down, and the Framier cattle still got over $3, and we got back

00:57down to the high $2.70s or $2.80s for some little cattle over the back, but overall,

01:02in our sale, very good, and I think the other guys have had a pretty reasonable sale with

01:06the quality of their cattle.

01:07I suppose what we saw with the pricing was reflective of what we've seen around any of

01:12the sales that have been around.

01:13The nation is a feedlot, operators were here, and they were here in force, and they certainly

01:19supported those cattle that were on the better side of the threshold of 80 to 400 kilos.

01:22Those heavyweight cattle were well-received and priced accordingly, and probably our grassweight

01:29cattle were, what we've seen everywhere else, just a little bit less per kilo because of

01:33the grass factor versus the feed factor.

01:35It was a good line-up.

01:36A lot of the cattle also had some good grades up here over the last few months, and their

01:41cattle are showing good life for age, and the cattle is a bit, they'd be one of the

01:46best lines-up of cattle that I've been coming up here for three years, so in the three years,

01:51this one's the best one by far.

01:53Credit to the vendors in Central Australia, the quality of the cattle, didn't matter what

01:57breed they were, they presented up really well, and yeah, showcased the area really good.