Feedlot interests were very keen today at NVLX Wodonga today when 2066 head were yarded for the store sale under Wodonga-based agencies Elders and Paull and Scollard,
The sale featured Spry's-blood Shorthorn and Angus cows, mixed age and PTIC offered by H.G. and S.A. Bowden, Mountain Creek, due to their property being leased, along with a large draft of Simmental/Angus and composite mixed-sex weaners, seven to nine months and offered by Glencoe Pastoral Co, Holbrook.
The sale results of the Bowden's included 125 PTIC cows sold to $2980 and averaged $2571; 90 heifers sold to $1835 and averaged $ $1504 and 72 steers topped at $2155 to average $1878.
Sales of steers under 300kg included 22 Spry's Angus, weighing 283kg, also sold by the Bowdens, for $2155: 16 Angus weighing 277kg sold by L Park, Deniliquin, for $2040 and 14 Herefords weighing 204kg sold by KJ Jackson, Tallangatta South, Victoria, for $1330.
Sales of steers weighing 300-400kg included 21 Lawson-blood Angus weighing 391kg sold by DR Stevenson, Tallangatta, Vic., for $2510: 23 Rennylea- and Kennys Creek-blood Angus weighing 305kg sold by WF and PC Ryan, Jugiong, for $2200 and $2390 for nine Tulagi-blood Angus weighing 372kg offered by Burke Nominees, Jerilderie.
Grown steer sales included five black baldies weighing493kg sold by RK Edwards, Denilquin, for $2640: ten Angus weighing 496kg sold by S Doubleday, Jindera, for $2350 and 12 Herefords weighing 467kg sold by RL and AH Rollinson, Jerilderie, for $2550.
In the heifer pens, A Luckie, Bethanga, Vic., sold six Angus weighing 518kg for $2220: Nellshire Pty Ltd, Urana, received $2100 for their pen of 21 Angus weighing 386kg and RA and MR Cheesley, Indigo Valley, Vic., sold 16 Charolais weighing 374kg for $2200.
Interest in cows with calves saw C Adams and Co, Bungowannah, receive $3800 for five Angus and Malvern, Mayrung, sell nine Charolais mixed ages and PTIC to Speckle Park bulls for $2950.
The featured lines of Spry's-blood Shorthorn and Angus cows, three to nine years and joined to Spry's Angus bulls offered by HG and SA Bowden, Mountain Creek, sold to $2640 for 14 red Shorthorn cows weighing 641kg.
Other pens included 13 roan Shorthorn cows weighing 622kg sold for $2580 and nine Angus weighing 597kg sold for $2980.
Buyers attended from Deniliquin, Finley and Holbrook, while Victoria restockers from Corryong, Myrtleford, Shepparton and Wangaratta, competed with commission buyers and local restockers.
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