Catherine Miller

BlazeAid has set up camp at Yakka Park in Lucindale ready to help those hit hard in the Blackford blaze get back on their feet.

Prices in the final and largest heifer weaner sale for the season at Naracoorte came close to matching the strong steer cents a kilogram rates achieved the previous day.

Heavy feeder steers may have been back at least 10c/kg at the final Naracoorte weaner sale for the season but light weight steers took another jump selling to $5.52/kg.

For more than 35 years Duck Island has been managing a composite herd with high fertility and meat quality.

The Blackford blaze has left a trail of destruction, but among the hardest hit was Hillcrest Pastoral Company, which had four of its properties at Avenue Range and Lucindale in the line of fire.

Good fire preparation, a clear plan and a bit of luck have minimised the demage at The Washpool, Avenue Range, from last week's Blackford blaze.

The Lucindale community is still counting the cost of last week's Blackford blaze which tore through more than 14,000 hectares, but CFS incident controller Patrick Ross says the fire ground could have been three times larger if not for the Jacky White Drain, west of Lucindale.

There was strong demand for PTIC females at Naracoorte's annual breeder sale with young Angus heifers due to calve in late summer-autumn hitting a $3100 high.

Nearly 70 trucks, plus utes and trailers, carrying more than 3000 bales of hay made their way to fire-ravaged Lucindale on the weekend in the Mount Gambier Hay Run.

Premier Steven Marshall has praised the "resilient and hard working" Lucindale and Avenue Range communites in how they enacted their bushfire plans and how they responded to the devastating blaze which ripped through more than 14,000 hectares within a few hours on Monday.