Crossbred cattle offering the promise of weight and yield sold to top bidding at the Grafton store sale on Monday with prices for heifers pregnancy tested in calf selling to $1700.
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Of the 1385 head on offer all steers sold to an average of 333.7 cents a kilogram or $892 to reach a top cents per kilogram bid of 400c/kg. Last month's top steer prices were 442c/kg for light calves and $1630 for grown steers.
Heifers on Monday averaged 244.6c/kg $614 across the yarding, reaching a top of 330c/kg and $1274. Last month's tops were 346c/kg and $1316. A lack of saleyard report detail prevents further analysis.
Charolais cross steers off Heifer Station sold to a top of $1069 for 290.5kg at 368c/kg going to Roma, Qld.
Vendor of the week McGrath Cattle Co at Ulmarra sold a line of Angus cross calves to a top of 390c/kg for 260.7kg across the lead 30 head to average $1022. Some of those steers went to country east of Guyra for backgrounding, others to Bucca to grow the same way.
Buyer Eliezer Robinson, Coramba, paid 392c/kg for McGrath steers happy to make the bid after offloading four decks of feeder steers from his Bucca client at a similar cents per kilogram rate.
Chapman family Charolais cross steers, off Fineflower country, EU accredited and 290.5kg, made 368c/kg or $1069.
Light Angus steers sold to the top figure of 400c/kg for 184.7kg or $739 going to Collarenebri for backgrounding.
Weaned Hereford steers 235kg made 378c/kg or $888.
A good line of Droughtmaster steers from Peter Lake and Kim McKenna, PK Rural at Grafton made $1287 for 404.6kg at 318c/kg, staying in the Clarence Valley.
Glossy coated full-mouth Devon also remained in the valley for further finishing, making $1186 for 517.5kg at 229c/kg.
The final dispersal of crossbred breeders from Andrew McIntyre, Pinkett, sold to a sale top of $1700 for Simmental over Hereford/Droughtmaster with ready demand for the cross from coastal breeders.
Of the 170 head on offer, poll Hereford cows with calves at foot reached $1560 a unit while the first cross Droughtmaster/Hereford cows with sappy Simmental calves at foot brought up to $1650.
The sale was hosted by Farrell and McCrohon.
