Cows with calves sold to a top of $2320 a unit during the Forbes store cattle sale last Friday.
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While some advertised lines of cattle were withdrawn just before the sale, the quality yarding of 522 head attracted solid buyer competition.
Steers sold from $300 a head for light Bos Indicus calves to $1080 for a pen of heavier Angus.
The light heifers started at about the $330 mark, but heavier pens that had been running with a bull and several months in calf hit a high of $1260.
Young cows with their first calves topped at $1310, while older cows with calves ranged from about $1060 to $2320.
Most unjoined cows sold from about $700 to $1180.
New Haven Ag sold a lovely line of 474 kilogram Angus heifers for $1260. The Moogenilla-blood pen of 13 head was 15 to 18 months old and joined to Wrigley low birthweight bulls.
PH and HJ Williams, Rubyvale, Alectown, sold three- to four-year-old Angus cows with Kenny's Creek-blood two- to three-month-old calves for $2320. The cows were also rejoined to a Kenny's Creek bull.
Simplot Australia sold 12 Angus-cross cows with three- to four-month-old calves for $2240. The Moogenilla Angus and Weebollabolla Shorthorn blood cows were rejoined.
MF and DS Ward sold a pen of seven Angus-cross steers, nine to 12 months, for $1080. The Moogenilla Angus-blood steers weighed an average of 385.7kg.
MG and NM Leighton sold eight- to 10-month-old Angus steers for $1000. The weaned steers tipped the scales at 361kg.
