Local buyers back Ballarat store cattle sale to keep prices steady

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Elders Ballarat territory manager James Gadd, talks about the monthly store sale at Central Victoria Livestock Exchange, Ballarat. Video by Andrew Miller.

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00:00The sale overall today in Ballarat was cheaper compared to last month.

00:05Still seeing plenty of demand for lighter weaner cattle, going from anywhere to Gippsland to

00:10South Australia and even still going up north again, sort of central New South Wales.

00:14The feeder sort of job on the steer end and the heifer end was definitely softer,

00:20probably due to just an absence of a few feedlot buyers, but still sold well,

00:24just a little bit cheaper compared to last month's exceptional sale.

00:28So do you think this will continue, this sort of flattening trend, this plateauing trend,

00:33or do you think prices will start to move up again?

00:37Oh look, it's very hard to say, a crystal ball would be a wonderful thing, but I think it's going to be

00:40very season dependent if we get a bit more rain locally and sort of widespread across Victoria.

00:46Certainly I think things could get a little bit dearer, but just people are

00:48probably a little bit hesitant as to where it's all going to go at the moment.

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