Fat Cattle Report
Good afternoon, this is Steve Gay taking a look at the weekly market reports out of Dubbo for the first week of December, 2019. Yesterday’s cattle numbers were similar to the previous sale for a total of 3890. The quality was light and young with a few pens of heavy cows and finished cattle scattered throughout. Overall the market was probably firm with the exception of feeder heifers which are probably slightly stronger. The local restockers helped drive the market on the young plain conditioned cattle.
Finished yearling steers to the butchers peaked at 270 cents, restockers paid up to 315 cents for steers calves and medium weight feeder heifers weighing up to 400kg averaged between 258 and 275 cents.
Heavy feeder steers topped at 288 cents, processors paid up to 275 cents for grain finished heavy steers.
Cows topped at 230 cents for the heavy end and plain cows sold from 70 to 154 cents and averaged 120 cents. Most medium weight cows with cover sold from 160 to 210 cents to average 190 cents.
Carter Lindsay & Weber sold the following stock for their clients –
Matt and Rachel Adams from Mendooran and sold Angus steers for 278 cents, they weighed 258kg and returned $718.
The Kirby family from Molong sold Angus cows for 226 cents, they weighed 560kg to come back at $1268.
And for Ray Green from Coonamble, who sold finished Angus heifers weighing 302kg, they made 235 cents and they came back at $853.
Fat Sheep & Lamb Report
Mondays lamb sale now had a small yarding of 8900 lambs and 10,000 sheep. Most finished grades lacked weight and quality throughout the lamb market. There were plenty of good quality store lambs as well as some very ordinary drought affected lambs penned.
Export weight lambs sold from $180 to $223. Trade crossbred lambs to the butchers sold from $155 to $165. Medium trade weight Merino lambs averaged $138, crossbred lambs to the to the restockers were $10 cheaper selling from $95 to 131 and averaging $115. New season unshorn lambs to kill averaged from $142 to $198.
Mutton prices eased by around $10 to $20 for the 3 scores and under, whilst heavy drafts sold firm.
Light Merino ewes sold from $58 to $106
Medium weights averaged between $127 and $141
Heavy Merino ewes topped at $175, crossbred ewes topped at $217
The best wethers reached $210.
Just a few quotes that were noteworthy this week, Tyler Spinks from Gulargambone topped the sale with some Aussie White cross Dorper lambs for $223 and $203 for the mothers of the lambs.
Matt and Kylie Whale from Wellington sold another run of Dorset store lambs for $105.
And Glenn and Lisa Johnstone from Warren, who sold shorn younger Merino wethers in 3 and 4 score condition for $122.
Well that about wraps it up for another week – just a little joke for the weekend -
A Yorkshireman’s dog dies and, as it was a favourite pet, he decides to have a gold statue made by a jeweller to remember it by.
Yorkshireman: “Can tha’ mek us a gold statue of ma dog?”
Jeweller: “Do you want it 18 carat?”
Yorkshireman: “No, yer daft bugger, I want it chewin’ a bone!”
So until next week ...................... Bye.