00:00It wasn't a heap of outstanding quality, but those really outstanding pens that were here
00:04have sold to a premium price.
00:06Probably some of those secondary cattle going off the back of the A-grade ones,
00:10repping a reward as well.
00:12Not too dissimilar sense of kilo, but still a little whisker behind.
00:17$5.10 through to $5.30 odd for most of those heavier peters steers,
00:22whether they're 420 through to 520 kilos.
00:26Coloured steers, not all that much behind them.
00:28Step back in the weight range here at sort of 340 or 50 kilos to the 520.
00:34They're probably upping the road a bit more, like $4.30 to $4.55 or $6.60 in places.
00:39It's those real light steers ones that start getting under 300 kilos.
00:44But they're pushing out to $5.80 to near sixes, I think, from Odison 1.10, get to,
00:51which is still pretty good money.
00:53What they're making in the north and what they're making down here,
00:55I'd say it's pretty good buying.
00:58But if you're selling them as well, you'd probably have to as well.
01:01Yeah.
01:01And then if we talk about heifers, I know there was a difference between,
01:04obviously, if they're going back to a bull or getting fed,
01:07but we're here in front of a pen that made $5.42, I believe, a kilo.
01:13Just tell us a little bit about that and us why it's the heifer job.
01:17Yeah, look, this pen we're next to here, Peter and Danis Cootes,
01:20genuine breeder, haven't retained anything, spent plenty of money on genetics too.
01:25We've had two fellas go head-to-head here today.
01:28It's taken down to $5.42 for the top pen here and $5.40 for the second pen.
01:34But, yeah, it just goes to show quality.
01:37People buying them to put a bull with them and bring them back into a PDIC female program next year
01:42is what most of those guys would have done.
01:44But, look, that's the highs of it.
01:47You step back into $4.80 to $5 for most of your feed of heifers.
01:52Good colours, probably $10 to $15 less.
01:55Yeah, those 300 to 380 kilo heifers, they're probably a whistler behind the heavier feeders.
02:03They're sort of somewhere $4.70 or $8.90.
02:08And those folks are lighter heifers.
02:10We haven't seen a real big premium for them.
02:12Look, there's a couple of hens of watery cattle here that have made $4.50 and $6.50,
02:17but most of those well-bred, light, 250 to 700 kilo heifers,
02:22they've still been made.
02:26But, yeah, once again, quality is the key.
02:29You do have some off times that are going to make less sense a kilo,
02:32and that's for a key reason.
02:34And do you think, finally, there's a bit of optimism in this job?
02:37Like, you know, it feels like there is a bit of willingness to step up the road with these cattle?
02:43Oh, look, there probably is, but there's still so much uncertainty out there.
02:47It doesn't matter who you talk to, whether it's a row centre, a trainer, a leader,
02:51like, there's so much uncertainty, the price of fuel, everything that's happening in the Middle East as well.
02:58Look, I think there is a bit of positivity out there with World Children's of Protein,
03:02but it still comes back to willingness to actually go out there, buy the cattle,
03:08and put you on the front line, and sort of be willing to take the dead on as well.
03:1520 mils of rain would be good.
03:16I think you would have seen a completely different story here today.
03:18If you had to have 20 mils of rain, there'd be a fair bit more positivity about people
03:23coming to livestock because they know they're going to have the grain feed.
03:26Who knows what's going to happen with this germination?
03:28We're not going to talk a lot.
03:32Let's go.
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