At Dubbo Thursday numbers down, wet weather. 748 prime cattle penned, good quality yarding, firm to dearer market. Very light restocker steer lost 6 cents, feeder steers firm, feeder heifers firm to 3 cents dearer. Trade steers,heifers gained 10 cents, heavy steers,bullocks mainly firm although heavy end cheaper. Cows up 10 cents.
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Quotations: calves 330, steer vealers 314 to 366, heifer vealers 250 to 374.2, steer yearlings 296.6 to 371.2, heifer yearlings 246.2 to 364.2, heavy steers in limited numbers 320.2, bullocks also limited 295 to 328.2, heavy heifers 252.2 to 318.6, light cows 193 to 255.2, medium cows 239.2 to 270, heavy cows 255 to 284.2, bulls 270 to 318.2
Monday at Dubbo 23,000 lambs, good quality yarding, nearly 10,000 more lambs than last week. Trade weight lambs limited. Two score processing lambs rose $3, medium to heavy trade lambs improved $4 to $5, heavy lambs gained $6 to $11. Carcase prices were estimated at 630 to 670 cents per kg. Merino lambs sold from $98 for trade types to $168 for heavies. Hoggets topped at $132.
5500 mutton mixed quality yarding, heavy sheep numbers down. Merino’s good fleece sold dearer, crossbreds firm.
Quotations: light ewes $51 to $90, medium ewes $74 to $129.20, heavy ewes $92.20 to $160, medium wethers $84 to $114, heavy wethers $114 to $145, rams $55 to $120.
Schute Bell say wool market: small offering 22,108 bales. No sale in the west, least number of bales offered in four years. Finer merino types, broader crossbred types struggling to maintain last week’s levels. But impressive gains for medium micron merino types up to 25 cents. Surprisingly the rise coinsided a jump Aussie dollar against the US bucking the trend in place for months. 20,667 bales sold a passed in rate of 6.5%. This week last for the 2015/16 season.New season commencing immediately the following week. The annual 3 week recess starts 18 July. The Northern region indicator closed at 1303 cents per kg clean 3 cents up..