Shorthorns set Forbes yards record at $4100

MG
Updated April 20 2021 - 5:19pm, first published April 17 2021 - 3:00pm
Scott Reid, VC Reid and Sons, Forbes, with Brendan ODwyer and Amie LEstrange of Belswick Merinos and Glen-Echo Pastoral Company, Condobolin, and their pen of 11 Shorthorn first-calver heifers and 12 calves five to eight months, which sold for a Forbes Central West Livestock Exchange record of $4100 a unit on Friday, April 16 to Sandy Moss and Sam Lawson, Forbes. The heifers are of Yamburgan blood and PTIC to a Nero sire.
Scott Reid, VC Reid and Sons, Forbes, with Brendan ODwyer and Amie LEstrange of Belswick Merinos and Glen-Echo Pastoral Company, Condobolin, and their pen of 11 Shorthorn first-calver heifers and 12 calves five to eight months, which sold for a Forbes Central West Livestock Exchange record of $4100 a unit on Friday, April 16 to Sandy Moss and Sam Lawson, Forbes. The heifers are of Yamburgan blood and PTIC to a Nero sire.

A SMALLER yarding of just 700 cattle didn't deter restockers, particularly from the local region, who paid big money for cow/calf units and the limited offering of steers and heifers in what agents and attendees voiced as the dearest store cattle sale at Forbes.

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Mark Griggs

Journalist 0- Central West NSW

Central West and Western editorial reporter living at Wellington and based out of The Land, Dubbo office.

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