Numbers down at Grafton's first store sale for the year as feed lot demand tightens

By Jamie Brown
Updated January 21 2019 - 10:56am, first published January 18 2019 - 5:00pm
Charles, Melinda and Corinne Mifsud, Southgate, with Senepol steers 513kg, which sold for 256c/kg or $1315. The family originally purchased the Nymboida-born steers at the Grafton saleyards 16 months ago when they weighed 280kg.
Charles, Melinda and Corinne Mifsud, Southgate, with Senepol steers 513kg, which sold for 256c/kg or $1315. The family originally purchased the Nymboida-born steers at the Grafton saleyards 16 months ago when they weighed 280kg.

Numbers were back at Grafton’s first store sale of the year, with 740 head yarded and averages down on the December sale, as demand from feedlotters curtailed sharply from the previous week. Local buyers from the lower river took most of the cattle home but there was interest also from the Tablelands, Dorrigo, Tamworth and Inverell.

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