Sweet sound of success for vendors

Catherine Miller
Updated September 22 2015 - 1:24pm, first published August 31 2015 - 4:00am
James Darling, Duck Island, Keith, and PPHS director Robin Steen in the top pen of spring 2014-drop steers which made $1100. Duck Island would normally sell calves at heavier weights to feedlotters or over-hooks as EU bullocks but Mr Darling said he sold the lightest calves in the drop to lighten his stocking rate, after receiving only 244 milliimetres of rain for the year. In total
James Darling, Duck Island, Keith, and PPHS director Robin Steen in the top pen of spring 2014-drop steers which made $1100. Duck Island would normally sell calves at heavier weights to feedlotters or over-hooks as EU bullocks but Mr Darling said he sold the lightest calves in the drop to lighten his stocking rate, after receiving only 244 milliimetres of rain for the year. In total

VENDORS were grinning from ear-to-ear at Naracoorte combined agents' monthly store cattle sale on Thursday last week as prices continued their climb.

Catherine Miller

Stock Journal's livestock editor and South East correspondent.

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