Tamworth's February 11 store cattle sale reaches $3500 high for PTIC cows

Offered by the Warden partnership, Boorandi, Mullaley, the draft of 200 PTIC cows lead an impressive offering, which also included 200 weaner heifers, which sold for $1510, and 50 cows with calves which sold for $3400 a unit.

Manilla stock agent Sam Plevey, Purtle Plevey Agencies, said while the $3400 top was slightly down from the last sale, most offerings in the PTIC section sold from $2600 to $3325.

"The pregnancy-tested females sold very well lead by the Warden partnership," Mr Plevey said.

"When combined with the weaners they sold off the PTIC cows, it came in well over $5500 at the lead, which really highlighted a fantastic sale all around."

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Cows with calved once again topped the fortnightly sale reaching $4125 a unit for some Shorthorn cows with calves offered by Jennifer Burrell, Tamworth.

While the top was down from the Tamworth Regional Livestock Exchange (TRLX) record of $6050 set at the last sale, prices still remained strong with most pens selling from $3500 to $4000.

The steer section of last Friday's sale started with a bang with the several of the first pens sold on the day going for over $2200 a head.

One such pen was a run of Angus weaner steers offered by P and M Sevil, Burren Junction, which topped the weaner market at $2340/hd, which was just $10 a head off the high reached for yearling steers.

Prices remained firm across the category from the previous sale with most pens selling from about $1800 to $2200.

Fellow Manilla stock agent Patrick Purtle, Purtle Plevey Agencies, said the top selling steers were fantastic vendor-breed cattle.

"They were probably the pick of the steers but down to the good quality black calves, you weren't able to buy much for under $2200," Mr Purtle said.

"The better end of the crossbred cattle made about $2280 and most of the calves with some weight made from about $2000 to $2200.

"There was a lot of lighter weight, smaller steer calves on offer today [Friday] and they generally still sold from $1500 to $1800 across that range.

"It was a really strong start to what was a strong yarding of about 3000 head of really high quality cattle."

Heifer prices on the other hand were well up from the previous sale's peak of $2200, reaching $2245 for Angus weaner heifers also offered by P and M Sevil of Burren Junction.

Most heifer offerings sold from $1500 to $2000 and averaged about $1800.

Last Friday's live auction sale was held at the TRLX by the Tamworth Livestock Selling Agents Association.

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