Despite being one of the smallest yardings of the year, the Tamworth Livestock Selling Agents Association's store sale posted some great prices for quality cattle.
A larger gallery of buyers also helped to keep prices upward against a cooling market trend that matched the frosty and wintery conditions around the New England and North West Slopes.
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Only 705 head were yarded, compared with 2000 penned at the sale earlier in the month, but there were a number of highlights along the catwalks.
Pregnancy-tested in-calf (PTIC) cows and heifers reversed the trend, topping at $2600 compared to $2425 two weeks previously.
Cows and calves, unlimited numbers, topped at $3240, just $100 down on the previous sale, and the yarding of 240 heifers also recorded a $150/head price drop.
Only 190 steers were offered to top at $1630, compared to the $2050 at the 15 July sale.
A highlight in the PTIC female yarding was 35 five to seven-year-old Angus/Hereford cross cows, joined to Rennylea bulls, that Ian Morgan Livestock's (IML) John Rodd described as: "very good quality cows in top order".
Sold on account North Ningle, the line of cows was bought by Phoenix Partnership, Woolbrook, for $2600.
Davidson Cameron & Co - Livestock kicked off the cows and calves section of the sale, with Angus cows, with a calf at foot sired by a Te Mania Angus bull and joined to Killain Angus bulls made $2900.
Sold by Chris Paterson Stock & Station Agent, account Belfields, heifers with a first calf at foot, sired by Booroomooka Angus bulls made $2720.
Purtle Plevey Agencies P/L, account Golden Plains Pastoral Co, Rocky Creek offered 60 Santa Gertrudis and Santa-cross second calvers, PTIC to Bowen Angus bulls with the first pen making $2150.
Davidson Cameron & Co - Livestock kicked off the sale with two pens of Santa/Hereford weaner steers offered by Towrie West, Attunga, with both making $1620.
Davidson Cameron and Co, account North Ningle also sold a pen of Santa Gertrudis steers, seven to nine months old, for $1440. A pen of Angus steers from the same vendor made $1630.
Ray White Livestock sold Limousin heifer weaners out of ex-stud cows, which made $1160.
IML account Marheine, Willow Tree, made $1590 for a pen of Angus steers and $1500 for a pen of black-baldy steers.
