NARACOORTE
Yarding: 373
Steers to $1115, av $967
Heifers to $1035, av$829
PRICES rebounded at the Naracoorte combined agents’ monthly store cattle sale with well-bred Angus weaner steers selling up to $3.69 a kilogram.
At the September sale rates fell off a cliff but on Thursday the 350 head-yarding, all from the Upper South East regained much of that ground.
An outstanding run of March-April 2018 drop Angus weaners from Ken Sawers, Canowie, Coonalpyn,met the strongest competition in the smallest yarding for the year.
This included the $1115 sale-topping steers.
The 18 Angus weighing 302kg were snapped up by Pinkerton Palm Hamlyn & Steen Penola, equating to $3.69/kg.
Canowie’s 83 Coolana and Ravenswood blood steers averaged $953 and 74 heifers topped at and averaged $713.
Handley Pastoral Company, Meningie, sold the sale’s opening pen, 19 black baldies weighing 386kg for $1100 to Teys Charlton.
The next pen of eight Hereford crosses with some Euro content, which weighed 10 kilograms less than the black baldies made $1055.
Handley Pastoral Company had two pens of 10 heifers which made $1030 and $945, equating to $2.67/kg and $2.78/kg.
Their cattle were November 2017-February 2018 drop.
The Woodard family, Peel Pastoral, Wrattonbully, sold the $1035 top priced heifers.
The 18 Pathfinder-bld Angus weighed 381kg and were knocked down to Thomas Foods International.
Elders Naracoorte branch manager Tom Dennis said with the good season locally many breeders had opted to grow their cattle out to heavier weights but those who had been put them in the sale had been rewarded.
“The kill rates have lifted a bit which has helped but it (the store market) is a grass driven market,” he said.
“The comments heard around the sale were the feed is getting away and we need to eat it down.”
