Breeding heifers hold strong at Naracoorte weaner sale's second day

By Quinton McCallum
January 13 2020 - 1:06pm
PLEASED: Vendors Carol and Alan Smith, Joanna, with their niece Bailey Villis. They received $1140 or $3.16/kg for 22 March/April-drop, Glatz Black Angus-bld heifers, av 361kg. They also sold 31 lighter weights of the same description, av 318kg, for $910 or $2.86/kg.
PLEASED: Vendors Carol and Alan Smith, Joanna, with their niece Bailey Villis. They received $1140 or $3.16/kg for 22 March/April-drop, Glatz Black Angus-bld heifers, av 361kg. They also sold 31 lighter weights of the same description, av 318kg, for $910 or $2.86/kg.

DESPITE some pre-sale uncertainty about how the heifer job would hold up, agents and vendors were reasonably pleased with the returns from the second day of the Naracoorte two-day weaner sale on Friday last week.

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