I’m sure that both town and country hope that these falls occur.

Last Thursday at Dubbo 3890 prime cattle penned in a mixed quality yarding of well finished young cattle and heavy steers and also cattle lacking finish.

Trade young cattle rose 7 cents, young feeder cattle gained 9 to 11 cents.

Young restockers were dearer with steers reaching 470 cents per kg.

Heavy steers were firm for the medium weights and the heavy end improving 8 cents.

Heavy heifers were up by 14 cents.

Plainer conditioned cows gained 13 cents while properly finished cows rose 5 cents.

Quotations:  calves 315 to 510, steer vealers 254 to 470.

Heifer vealers 284 to 370.

Steer yearlings 240 to 351.

Heifer yearlings 216 to 298.

Heavy steers 224 to 292, bullocks 240 to 288.

Heavy heifers 238 to 280, light cows 130 to 243.

Medium cows 175 to 232, heavy cows 207 to 240, bulls 204 to 270.

At CTLX Carcoar last Friday, 2016 store cattle penned in a mixed quality yarding.

Weaners were well supplied and there were good pennings of 12 to 14 month old yearlings.

The market was $60 to $80 dearer for young cattle.

Weaner steers sold from $530 to $1080 to make from 256 to 406 cents per kg.

Weaner heifers ranged from $400 to $990 or 211 to 355 cents per kg.

Steer yearlings traded from $850 to $1180 or 269 to 321 cents per kg.

Heifer yearlings realised $660 to $1210.

One pen of PTIC heifers made $930.

PTIC cows sold from $470 to $950.

Cows and calves ranged from $925 to $2125 for a pen of Angus heifers with young calves at foot.

One pen of unjoined cows made $1080.

Monday at Dubbo 16200 lambs penned in a fair quality yarding with a mainly good selection of trade and heavy lambs along with a large percentage of lighter weights.

It was a stronger market with processor light lambs gaining $5 to $8.

Trade lambs improved by $6 to $10, heavy weight lambs rose by $5 to $9.

Merino lambs were $6 dearer, with the trade weights ranging from $103 to $135 and the heavy end topping at $163.

Restocker lambs also improved reaching $120, feeders paid from $108 to $125, hoggets sold to $128.

Quotations:  light young lamb $45 to $118, medium young lambs $108 to $146.

Heavy young lamb $125 to $156, supermarket young lamb $140 to $176.

Light export lamb $182, light lamb $30 to $126, medium lamb $105 to $136.

Heavy lamb $125 to $154, supermarket lamb $132 to $175, export lamb $179 to $188.

10,100 mutton penned in a mixed quality yarding with most grades $7 to $13 cheaper.

Restockers were active on fattening age wethers paying from $46 to $67.

Quotations: light ewes $35 to $76, medium ewes $46 to $128, heavy ewes $95 to $130, light wethers $35 to $78.

Medium wethers $83 to $110, heavy wethers $115 to $169, rams $32 to $66, ram lambs $107 to $135.

Schute Bell report that last week’s wool sale produced another positive result.

Like the previous week it was the Merino types that were keenly sought after while the crossbred sector continued its slide.

The closing quote for the Northern Region Indicator of 1656 cents per kg clean is the second highest weekly close in over 20 years and was a rise of 27 cents.

36,358 bales were sold with a passed in rate of 3.1 per cent.

The Merino skirting and cardings markets followed the fleece market upwards and some renewed interest was evident on the lesser style types that have been struggling in recent times.

Consumer confidence in many parts of the world appears to be on the rise as does economic growth in some of the major wool consuming countries.