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SALE-O: Rhyme, 15, with parents Lance and Lyric Anderson and Bryan Hayden, Buchan Station, Buchan, sold 85 Angus steers, 12-14 months, to a top price of $2440.

Agents yarded more than 2000 cattle at the feature sale on Tuesday.

NSW, SA backgrounders, Victorian feedlots among Bairnsdale buyers

Agent chat: Farmer Colin Chapman, Meadows was catching up with FPAG stock agent Brian Eiseman, and FPAG's Michael Quirk before the Strathalbyn market got underway.

The sun was shining as the Strathalbyn market got underway yesterday, with fierce bidding competition and a regained job confidence drove prices above agent expectations.

Strathalbyn sale 'exceeds expectations'

Eighteen month old Zeke Reynolds, Bordertown, was at his first market with his father Tom Reynolds, who bought some South Devon heifers for $1050. Tom is also a livestock carrier and co-owner of Pine Hill Livestock.

PRICES for coloured lightweight heifers were back nearly a dollar a kilogram on the previous month at the Naracoorte combined agents' monthly store cattle sale on Thursday - and even the other steer and heifer categories also had big falls.

Rates plummet at Naracoorte store cattle sale as buyer confidence takes hit |PHOTOS

TEMPORARY DROP: Delaney Livestock and Property auctioneer Anthony Delaney says he expects the dip in store cattle numbers to only be temporary.


FMD risk needs a 'measured' approach, says TEM's Andrew Whitelaw.

'Keep calm and carry on' over FMD, says analyst

The obvious question this raises is what the second half holds in store.

Half-year beef exports' low point

Tully Jones, 5, and Max Jones, 2, with Erin Smith, 2, and Rylee Smith, 5, Pewsey Vale.

SHEEP numbers were up by almost 200 head at Mount Pleasant this week, with strong competition from regular buyers ensuring solid prices.

Bumper yarding at Mt Pleasant | PHOTOS

UP NORTH: Rabobank senior animal protein analyst Angus Gidley-Baird speaking at the Alice Springs Show. 

Australian cattle prices could rise further in the years to come, as overseas production falls.

Market surprises to continue

If the outcome for beef in the NZ deal is anything to go by, the task ahead for Australia is not going to be easy.

EU, NZ trade deal completed

Andrew Bennett, Bendulla, Mundulla, (pictured with his agent Elders Bordertown branch manager Brenton Henriks) sold 61 yearling steers at the Naracoorte store cattle sale to a $2010 high, averaging $1957.

It was a smaller month for markets, with throughput down somewhat, but prices on select stock remained firm. FREE TO READ

Around the markets - June

Tim Merrett, Merrett Livestock, Millicent, with the EU cows and calves from one of his clients Woodlands Grazing, Millicent. The Simmental cross cows with March/April drop calves sold for $3950.

Prices for feeder weight cattle at the the Naracoorte combined agents' monthly store cattle sale last Thursday remained close to the previous month, but middle weight runs were back.