WARRNAMBOOL, VIC
* Yarding: 3900
* Weaner steers to $3.38/kg
* Weaner heifers to $3.15/kg
* Grown steers to $3.31/kg
* Grown heifers to $3/kg
SOUTH-west Vic cattle producers enjoyed “one of their best ever” store sales on Friday, with prices reaching up to $3.38 a kilogram for weaner steers and $3.15/kg for weaner heifers at Warrnambool.
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Saffin Kerr Bowen Rodwells livestock agent Simon Henderson said the big yarding of 3900 head did not dent demand.
Excellent prices and dry conditions attracted the big yarding.
Mr Henderson said the sale was “one of the best ever”, with the $3.15/kg for unjoined heifers likely to come close to the record for such cattle. Warrnambool Livestock Agents Association president Anthony Mahony said grown steers made up to $3.31/kg. Local producers competed with buyers from northern NSW, the Riverina, Gippsland, Vic, and South East.
