PPHS Naracoorte weaner sale

Livestock director at PPHS, Richard Harvie gives an update on the weaner sale at Naracoorte.

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00:00I thought that our result at the end of the day was quite successful.

00:03Us as a company, we end up yarding 2370 odd cattle today.

00:07Bit of a mixture of a few older cattle and some weaned, good weaned and locally 2024 crop calves.

00:13So representation was pretty good across the board.

00:16We saw at the top of the stairs in the older cattle today at $2000,

00:20a lot of those bigger feeder type cattle were in that vicinity of $3.20 to $3.60 a kilo,

00:25which has been representative of what's been happening.

00:28Our good weaned calves, and all very, very well weaned, the producers did a good job this year,

00:33topped at $1460 for some beautiful calves at around that 390 odd kilos.

00:38Then we had also our better runner, heavier calves,

00:41probably just topped the pace of fraction in that $3.60 to $3.80 odd a kilo.

00:46But once we hit that sweet spot, 280 to 330 kilos,

00:51suddenly you saw this job change and it was $4.20 even up to $4.45.

00:55So New South Wales underpinned that job to a degree, but there was still good local competition.

01:00Heifer yarding today, we had another 700 odd heifers, about some outstanding presented heifers today as well.

01:05$1400 of the Jarrah heifers, which have gone out to be joined and come back next year,

01:10they represented at nearly $4 a kilo, which was good.

01:13A lot of our heifers were sorted $2.90 to $3.40 a kilo, or coming back at $900 to $1100.

01:19So again, we thank everybody and it worked out not too bad.

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