Black heifers come out on top at Hamilton’s last weaner sale

Around 3600 black and Hereford heifers were penned at the sale.

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00:00We've had a pretty good day here at Hamilton, about 3,500 to 3,600 black and herefin heifers

00:04were penned by the independent agent. The start of the breed of heifers or the better end that

00:07have gone back to the paddock for a breeding program, they topped at $4.40.

00:10With Victorian partials, 387 kilo heifers. Most of the breed of heifers lines that have

00:16been taken back to the paddock to go back into their programs are probably $3.50 up to $4.40.

00:22Majority $3.50 to $3.80. A few outliers. Once we've gone back into the black,

00:28it's all your fattening heifers, three to 330 to 340 kilos. Throw a blanket over $3.10 to $3.40

00:35pretty much for a whole lot of them. Really good support from the North, South Australia, Tasmania

00:41and locals. So we've had a pretty good outcome there. Move on to the herefins, they were a bit

00:46tougher. The best of the herefins I think made $3.20 for some of the Arana heifers.

00:52The Wheeler heifers sold pretty well at $3.00, pretty much blanket over the whole lot.

00:56But yeah, a little bit tougher on the restockers. And then when it came to fattening herefins,

01:02mostly under $3.00 a kilo. So we had a good run of Simis here. I think they topped $3.40.

01:09And pretty much, the Simis probably stayed in line with the blacks and sold reasonably well.

01:14And then on the bottom end of our blacks, over 300 kilos, they were

01:17very strong. $3.10 to $3.40 again. But the whole way through, no moles in the job whatsoever.