Quick trip around the weekly store sales: Prices rise as restockers dip into the market

The Land journalist Alexandra Bernard looks at the trends in the NSW store cattle market this week. Video by Alexandra Bernard.

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00:00I'm Alexandra Bernard and this week in the store cattle market prices rose at sale yards across

00:06the state. With good seasonal conditions in the central tablelands and the north,

00:12restockers were active in the market. At car call last Friday, restockers stepped up,

00:18putting a floor in the market and picking up lighter calves with the hope of a strong spring

00:23coming through. These lighter calves sold for $50 a head dearer. Meanwhile, up at Tamworth, despite a

00:31smaller gallery of buyers, prices were firm to dearer, with feature cattle a highlight of the sale.

00:39Queensland buyers were particularly strong on weaner steers as well as feeders and back rounders

00:45competing.