The cold miserable weather over the last two weeks has not helped graziers or farmers in their quest for green feed or stock water. The few showers that have occurred during this time have not been of enough quantity to give any confidence boosting for the spring.
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At Dubbo last Thursday 4280 prime cattle penned in a fairly good quality yarding with some good runs of well finished trade cattle along with a fair supply to suit the feeders.
Cows and weaners are still well supplied however finished heavy steers are very limited, trade young cattle rose 10 cents, feeder steers were firm to 3 cents dearer while feeder heifers finished firm for the light and medium weights and up by 8 cents for the heavier end. The steer portion sold from 243 to 345 cents while the heifer section ranged from 238 to 299 cents per kg. Restocker young steers traded from 217 to 297 cents and were dearer, the young heifers were firm realising 200 to 287 cents per kg. Heavy steers were too few to give a reliable quote, heavy heifers gained 10 cents. Plain conditioned cows improved 15 cents, with the better finished cows were up 8 to 9 cents.
Quotations: calves 242, steer vealers 217 to 297, heifer vealers 200 to 287, steers yearlings 240 to 345, heifer yearlings 186 to 338, heavy steers 234 to 317, bullocks 284 to 310, heavy heifers 223 to 301, light cows 90 to 185, medium cows 110 to 244, heavy cows 192 to 277, bulls 190 to 278.
Last Friday at CTLX Carcoar 2730 store cattle penned in a good quality yarding of well bred steer and heifer weaners along with a very good line of PTIC cows. The market was considerably dearer, steer weaners sold from $250 to $1210 to avg $714 or 287 cents per kg. 2 pens of steer yearling ranged from $1000 to $1105, heifer weaners traded from $200 to $885 to avg $570 or 240 cents. Heifer yearlings realised $785 to $915, one single pen of PTIC heifers made $810. PTIC cows sold from $550 to $1480, unjoined cows ranged from $610 to $705, cows and calves traded from $800 to $1320.
Dubbo on Monday 11750 lambs penned in a plainer quality yarding, although there were still some outstanding heavy lambs. Ideal trade lambs were limited however there were fair numbers of Merino lambs.
A full field of buyers competed solidly, processor light lambs were firm, trade lambs rose $4 to $11, a single pen of new seasons heavy trade lambs sold for $250, heavy lambs gained $13, a new Dubbo record of $349 was received for lambs over 30kg. Merino lambs increased to $7 to $9 with the trade types selling from $160 to $219 with a pen of heavies topping at $225. Restocker lambs rose making $162 and hoggets reached $226.
Quotations: supermarket young lamb $250, young lamb $22 to $166, medium lamb $95 to $189, heavy lamb $170 to $242, supermarket lamb $195 to $262, export lamb $270 to $349. 6175 mutton penned in a mixed quality yarding with most grades rising by $8 to $11, with carcass prices for the better sheep ranging from 595 to 645 cents per kg.
Quotations: light ewes $43 to $148, medium ewes $98 to $166, heavy ewes $136 to $240, light wethers $95 to $110, medium wethers $125 to $146. Heavy wethers $170 to $208, rams $130 to $198, ram lamb $158 to $186.
Schute Bell report that last week's sale was the end before the annual three week recess.
After consolidating the previous week some more substantial rises were recorded last week with gained being registered across all categories.
The national offering over the last two weeks being down 23% and the looming recess probably caused a lift in buyer sentiment. 31 923 bales were sold with a passed in rate of 6.3%.
The Northern Region Indicator closed at 1780 cents per kg clean a rise of 42 cents.
This report with recommence on the August 9.