Strathalbyn May 2 sale update with Elders livestock agent

Elders agent Ben Paues said the steers were consistently around the $4 mark.

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00:00Steers today, yeah those heavier types were sort of a little bit up and down to start with

00:05but I think pretty consistently they were sort of $3.80 and in some occasions $4.00.

00:12As soon as you lose that weight they sort of came back into that lower bracket and they were

00:18sort of $3.80 and in some places up to $4.20 but pretty consistently around that $4.00 mark

00:23which is pretty good to see. And how did the heifers go notice the lighter types

00:28were probably a bit off today? Yeah the lighter types have been struggling for a little while now

00:33unfortunately but the heavier types were sort of pretty good. The well-bred Angus types could have

00:39been up to $3.50 in places today which is really pleasing. So yeah the lighter types certainly

00:44struggled again today. And what type of buying crowd did you have here? A lot of interest from

00:48the southeast today which is really good to see. Plenty of pink shirt interest which was another

00:53really good thing about today. Yeah a couple of local buyers which was also good. Normally we

01:01have a fair bit of interest from the mid-north today but had a couple of buyers missing so that

01:06may have affected the sale just a little bit but I think the southeast was pretty prominent today

01:10which was which was a really good sign.