With the fine weather, winter has now appeared and frosts are coming to the lower areas of the district, no rain is forecast until possibly Friday when a possible shower is due.
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At Dubbo last Thursday 6940 prime cattle, penned with cows and young cattle lacking finish once again making up the bulk of the yarding.
Heifer weaners were also considerably cheaper ranging from $130 to $600 to Avg $263.
There were odd lots of well finished trade and heavy steers which had grain assistance.
Trade young cattle rose two cents, light feeder steers were firm, however the heavier end and feeder heifers gained eight cents, feeder steers sold from 240 to 305, feeder heifers traded from 210 to 271 cents.
Young re-stocker cattle were firm to four cents cheaper with the steers reaching 302 and the heifers topping at 250 cents per Kg.
Heavy steers improved 12 cents, heavy heifers were up by eight cents, cows were three to six cents dearer.
Quotations Calves 120 to 250, steer vealers 200 to 311, heifer vealers 160 to 313, steer yearlings 164 to 305, heifer yearlings 178 to 290 heavy steers 245 to 288.
Bullocks 235 to 293, heavy heifers 131 to 266, light cows 56 to 168, medium cows 71 to 206, heavy cows 140 to 224, bulls 170 to 229.
Last Friday at Dubbo 740 store cattle penned in a typical drought yarding with the bulk of the weaners presented in very plain condition.
The market was tough in all sections, steer weaners fell $80 selling from $160 to $740 to Avg $491 or 208 cents per Kg.
Heifer weaners were also considerably cheaper ranging from $130 to $600 to Avg $263. One pen of yearling steers made $530, two pens of yearling heifers traded from $350 to $380 to avg $365.
PTIC cows realised $210 to $560 to Avg $371, cows and calves sold from $385 to $760 for angus and Charolais, unjoined cows ranged from $300 to $710 to Avg $432.
On Monday at Dubbo 24, 600 lambs penned in a much plainer yarding with only a very limited selection of ideal trade lambs and a lesser standard of the heavy lamb quality.
A large percentage of Merino and crossbred lambs lacked finish. Processer light lambs lost $5, trade lambs fell $6 to $10, heavy lambs were down by $15.
Merino lambs were $2 to $3 cheaper with the trade weights selling from $103 to $129.
Re-stocker and feeder lambs finished $3 to $5 cheaper with re-stocker types ranging from $98 to $109 and feeder lambs trading from $82 to $124, hoggets topped at $150.
Quotations light lamb $30 to $112, medium lamb $100 to $124, heavy lamb $115 to $143, supermarket lamb $123 to $160, export lamb $166 to $200.
13,800 mutton penned in a mixed yarding with most grades finishing firm to $5 cheaper.
Quotations light ewes $10 to $92, medium ewes $90 to $153, heavy ewes $110 to $208, light wethers $69 to $88, medium weathers $89 to $138, rams $82 to $110, ram lambs $92 to $123.
Shute Bell report that last week’s wool market saw records tumble each day with gains seen over both selling days and the eastern market indicator closing above 1900 cents for the first time at 1943 cents per kg clean.
All merino micron indicators from 18 and broader have closed the week at record highs. 35,556 bales were sold with a passed in rate of just 2.3 per cent.
The current uptrend has surpassed all previous uptrends for both length of time and magnitude of the rise.
The eastern market indicator is now sitting at a staggering 500 cents higher than the last peak in June 2011.
The northern market indicator closed at 1995 cents per kg a rise of 55 cents.
