Glen Innes steers top at 170c/kg

Colin Say and Company livestock agent Shad Bailey, Glen Innes, said prices were well down on previous sales, which was indicative of the state of the physical cattle market and dry conditions across the eastern States.

Both vealer calves and older steers heading to feedlots topped at 170 cents a kilogram, with the older steers weighing up to 430kg.

Restocker steers ranged from 110c/kg to 140c/kg, with a pen of good black steers selling for 160c/kg.

Heifers to feedlots or restockers ranged from 110c/kg to 130c/kg, while most pens of cows with calves at foot ranged from $380 to $440.

Queensland company Condamine Beef was buying cattle to send to the Rodgers Creek feedlot at Warwick, including the 43 Hereford and black baldy steers offered by Andrew and Elizabeth Walmsley, Walmsley Partnership, "Marelle", Lambs Valley via Glen Innes.

The Walmsleys' Hereford steers sold for 167c/kg and the black baldies for 165c/kg.

Condamine Beef also secured the two best presented pens of females at the sale, both of which were offered by Adam and Jo Anderson, "Caloola", Matheson via Glen Innes.

The Andersons sold one pen of 11 European Union-accredited unjoined Hereford heifers for 144c/kg and a second pen of 13 black baldies for 140c/kg to the Queensland feedlot.

A third pen of 10 Hereford heifers from "Caloola" sold for 125c/kg.

In the cows with calves yarding, five Charolais-crosses, aged five to seven years and depastured to Murray Grey bulls, topped at $670 for P. and M. Smith, "Erinsvale", Wellingrove.

The Kennedy family, "Killarney", was offering pregnancy-tested-in-calf (PTIC) females off country at Uralla and Deepwater, including a pen of 21 Angus cows, aged between eight and nine years and due to calve April-May, which sold for $250 to Kerry Lamph, "Nerida East", Glen Innes.

Most cattle were sold to locals, but some buyers came from Armidale, Moree, Casino and Warwick in Qld.

Colin Say and Company, Elders, Landmark and Newberry te Velde Carige Agencies conducted the sale.