Northern buyers keep solid floor under coloured calf prices at Hamilton

Buyers predominantly came from NSW, with a handful of local buyers for the heifers.

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00:00We had our Hereford's and our Mix-X Euros. Majority of our Hereford skis were sort of 360 to 380 odd,

00:0790. You know we had a few sort of lines get out to you know 395, 4 dollars so you know it wasn't

00:12too bad, they had a bit of weight. Repeat buyers on those. End of the Euros, they sold well.

00:18You know most of your Charolais cross skis and stuff like that are making sort of 370 to 390

00:23odd, which was good. We had the feature limousines again and I think they probably averaged close to

00:28440 a kilo. So on the ski job, Heffer's probably on the limos back to around sort of 385 or 90,

00:36something like that average on them. So they sold very very well. The cattle presented very well for

00:40the season we've had. So it wasn't a bad result. Certainly was a lot dearer than this time last

00:46year so that's one positive. Dominated by the northerners today, there's been a couple of big

00:50commission buyers here today that have bought and psyched up a hell of a lot of cattle, which

00:55without them I'm not too sure where they would all be headed. But yeah, very strong on quite a fair

01:01few of the top lines of the Herefords but definitely on the Euros. Pushed by the odd

01:05local and timers but more or less the northerners buying cattle head back into New South.

01:12Kept a huge floor on that and they were very strong.