Rainfall for the past week amounted to 25 millimetres or more throughout the district, keeping pasture and Lucerne green for another week.
Meanwhile, heavy rain has caused floods once more over Queensland and the north of the state.
Last Thursday at Dubbo, 3080 prime cattle were penned in a mixed quality yarding with strong competition on most categories, yearling steers remained firm with the better bred cattle 5 to 6 cents higher.
Medium weight yearling heifers to lot feeders gained 4 to 5 cents, trade yearling steers and heifers rose 4 cents for the heavy end.
Medium weight grown steers to lot feeders struggled, bullocks and trade heavy steers gained 2 to 5 cents, heavy heifers were firm, cows were dearer with the lighter end up 12 cents and the remainder rose 4 to 8 cents. Calves 234.6 to 340, steer vealers 224 to 270, heifer vealers 175.2 to 310, steer yearlings 155 to 247, heifer yearlings 162.2 to 210, heavy steers 155 to 190.2, bullocks 180 to 191.2, heavy heifers 145 to 179.2, light cows 126.2 to 141.2, medium cows 110 to 157, heavy cows 143 to 163.2, bulls 137.2 to 216.
At Dubbo on Friday, 1675 store cattle were penned with substantial rainfall reducing numbers in a plainer quality yarding.
Weaner steers sold to very strong competition with the light end selling well over an estimated 300 cents per kg live, with 493 weaners making $285 to $725 to average $533 or 281 cents per kg. There were 246 weaner heifers traded from $320 to $620 to average $467 while limited numbers of yearling steers realised $480 to $660 yearling heifers ranged from $480 to $670 to average $551.
PTIC heifers sold for $570, PTIC cows made from $500 to $1060, cows and calves ranged from $710 to $1510 for a pen of Angus, unjoined cows traded from $350 to $740.
At Dubbo in Monday, 11650 lamb were penned in a mixed quality yarding with restocker lambs limited in numbers.
Trade weights were firm to $3 cheaper, heavy lambs fell $3 to $6 trade weight exotics ranged from $95 to $110.
Restocker young lamb $42 to $72, light lamb $65 to $90, medium lamb $80 to $116, heavy lamb $110 to $127, supermarket lamb $112 to $133, export lamb $126 to $152. 4850 mutton penned in a mixed quality yarding with the market up $4.
Light ewes $34 to $68, medium ewes $68 to $102, heavy ewes $85 to $110.50, light wethers $56, medium wethers $68 to $92, heavy wethers $96 to $106, rams $80 to $95.
Schute Bell reports that last week’s wool market was fairly uneventful with little change in process, 33681 bales were sold with a passed in rate of 9.9 per cent.
On recent testing, the woolclip will struggle to show an expected increase on last year’s production, the cold weather being experienced in Europe may help sales keep kicking over.
The Northern market indicators closed at 1220 cents per kg clean a fall of 7 cents.
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