A 500-strong yarding of locally bred female store cattle met with spirited bidding at the Upper Hunter Feature Breeder Sale in Scone last Friday. Around the rails of the Scone Regional Livestock Selling Centre, the general consensus was that if you wanted to buy, you had to be willing to pay.
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Buffier Livestock Marketing auctioneer Francis Buffier said the result was exceptional.
Cows with calves, numbering 232, set the pace for the sale, topping the market at $3900 a unit. They sold from $1850 for one Jersey-cross cow with calf, to $3900 for black baldy units.
The sale-topping pen consisted of two-year-old heifers from Hereford/Shorthorn cows and by Ultrablack bulls, with two- to eight-week-old calves by an Angus bull.
They were offered by Belltrees Pastoral, Belltrees.
The balance of cows with calves averaged $3382.
Pregnancy-tested-in-calf heifers were well supplied and highly sought. They sold from $2200 a head for Hereford types to $3350 for Angus, averaging $2636.
The top pen of PTIC heifers were three-years-old in calf to a Waverley Angus bull, and were sold by Waverley Station, Gundy.
Waverley Station also sold a line of 22- to 24-month-old PTIC heifers to $3300.
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Unjoined heifers fetched between $1000 and $2150, averaging $1965.
In the mix were Angus cows with calves sold in a herd dispersal by J and S Nader, Merriwa, to a top of $3800. Roberick Lodge Thoroughbreds, Scone, also sold three-year-old Shorthorn cows with calves to $3300.
Other good sales included a draft of 10-month-old Angus heifers by a Kilburnie Angus bull, sold by R and D Patterson, Merriwa, for $2150, and 12- to 15-month-old Angus heifers by Talooby and Wattletop Angus bulls, sold by JH Peisley, Gundy, to $2100.
MRH Enterprises, Brawboy, sold surplus Clunie Range- and Ben Nevis-blood Angus heifers, aged 11 to 12 months, to $2000.
The sale was conducted by McGrath Upper Hunter and Buffier Livestock Marketing, and interfaced by the online selling platform, AuctionsPlus.
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