Strathalbyn cattle weights down as prices surprise agents

Elders Strathalbyn branch manager Danny Reynolds provides an overview of the Strathalbyn store cattle sale

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00:00What do you think of the weights that came in today, Danny?

00:03Weights, obviously Quentin are getting lighter every sale and they're definitely lighter today

00:07than what they've been. A lot of the cattle were in that 250 to 300 bracket, but closer to the 250

00:13than the 300. Still had that small run of heavier cattle at the start there, we've had about 11

00:18pence on the other end, that 350 up to 400, but once you got away from that, very quickly back

00:24to your 280s, 270s, 250s and so on, so a lighter yarding as you would expect.

00:30And what were prices like on the different weights of steers that were in today?

00:34Actually, I was very pleasantly surprised with the market today with what's going on

00:38rest of the country, interstate, and then some of the markets in Victoria yesterday

00:41were a bit worried she was going to be pretty tough, but it's actually turned out to be quite

00:45solid, which is always pleasing to see, but your heavier feeder steers opened up around that $3.30

00:51or thereabouts, which I'm very happy to see that at the moment. Getting to those mid-range steers,

00:57again you're between $3.00 and $3.30, but as we got lighter it got a bit tougher and at some

01:02stages these steers were down at $2.80, $2.90 at the lighter end. So all in all, I was happy with

01:09the steer run. And what did you make of the prices on heifers overall? Actually very surprised,

01:15I think that job was almost firm, it was back in places, but for what we were expecting it was a

01:20hell of a lot better than what I thought it would be. The bottom end of that job, there were heifers

01:26at the lighter end around that $2.20 or thereabouts, but a lot of them up around that $2.70, $2.80.

01:32Some of those top heifers were up nudging $3.00 a kilo. The 300 plus, like 350 to 400 year feeders

01:40were very strong on those and they were up around that $3.20, $3.30, so you can't argue with that, that's ridiculous.

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