Well-bred weaners a highlight in outstanding quality yarding at Wodonga

A total of 5893 cattle was yarded at the Northern Victoria Livestock Exchange.

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00:00To go to 6,000 cattle yarded here today,

00:03grain steers, beautiful runner weaner steers,

00:06grain heifers and heifers.

00:08We started off with some very heavy steers

00:10right at the front that were over 500 kilos.

00:12I think they were 537 kilos,

00:13made just to go to $4.

00:16Once you come back into that proper feeder weight,

00:18they were making around that 420.

00:20When we got back into the weaners, the heavy weaners,

00:22the 400 plus kilo weaners,

00:24they were similar sort of money, $4 to $4.20.

00:26Once you come off in the weight,

00:28they kicked right up there to $4.50.

00:30And then as the weight come back,

00:31the lighter weaners, you know,

00:32your 240, your 50 kilo calves are making well over $5.

00:36That was super strong in the steer market.

00:39The really good runner heifers,

00:41the feeder style heifers up to sort of $3.80 or $3.90.

00:44A lot of heifers sort of making anywhere between

00:46sort of $3.50 and up to $3.80.

00:48It was an extremely strong market.

00:50A really nice yarding of cattle,

00:52which it always is here in our January weaner sales.

00:54And very positive on probably where we were

00:58at the end of last year with some of the weaner sales.

01:00It was a, yeah, it was nice to see

01:02with a lot of Northern support

01:04with the rain that they've had up there

01:06and into the New England

01:07and a few locals working in the market.