The first of two weaner store sales hosted by Colin Say and Company on Friday, this one in Inverell, yarded 369 head with steers to $1440 and heifers to $1058.
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The draft on offer was reduced by a third due to bogged livestock carriers as a result of storm rain the day before, but quality across a number of breeds was excellent on the back of good summer grass, following a tough spring.
Steers 200 to 280 kilograms averaged 394 cents a kilogram or $936 and reached a top of 426c/kg and $1054.
Steers 280kg to 330kg, averaged 374c/kg or $1136 to top at 386c/kg and $1166.
In the next weight bracket, 330kg to 400kg, average bids were 364c/kg or $1315 reaching 378c/kg and $1440 for the lead pen of Angus with Clunie Range blood from Shane and Jemma Pettiford, Gum Flat, 381kg for 378c/kg, going just over the Queensland border to Whyalla Beef.
The Pettiford Speckle Park steers 352kg made 338c/kg or $1189 going over the border to West Talgai Feedlot.
Weaner heifers were few in number but those 200kg to 280kg averaged 296c/kg or $818.
Heifers 280kg to 330kg averaged 283c/kg or $852 and those weighing 330-400kg averaged 297kg or $1035, reaching a sale top for that category of $1058 for the champion pen of Angus, also from the Pettiford family, 348kg at 304c/kg, going to the McMahon brothers at Cullendore via Killarney, Qld.
Kia-Ora, from Little Plain, sold Angus 373kg for 352c/kg or $1312 going to Whyalla beef.
Robert and Tracey Doak, Bundarra, sold champion steers, Santa Gertrudis, with Yulgilbar and Hardigreen Park blood 349kg for 360c/kg or $1256 going to Cullendore.
Lynn Durkin, Coolatai, sold Santa Gertrudis-cross steers with Watasanta blood, 290kg for 378c/kg or $1096.
Hayden and Maddi Sims, Goondiwindi, sold their first weaner Angus steers, with Clunie Range blood from their family partnership at Inverell, 257kg at 408c/kg or $1048.
The Green family, Inverell, sold Angus-cross steers 312kg for 336c/kg or $1048 staying local through Elders.
Lowther Pastoral Company, Ashford, sold Angus steers with Booroomooka blood, 250kg for 412c/kg or $1030, going to Roma, Qld. Another pen of lighter calves sold to 426c/kg, the highest cents-a-kilogram price of the sale, 202kg to make $860 going to the Bingara district.
Ben and Kylie Grabham, Coolatai, sold Angus steers with Clunie Range blood, 246kg for 422c/kg or $1038, also to Roma, while their lighter steers 205kg made 422c/kg.
The Grabham's black baldy heifers, 310kg made 284c/kg or $880.
"Our calves were fresher than last year which was a lot drier," said Mr Grabham, who tipped 20 millimetres of rain out of the gauge that morning. "We had a dry start before Christmas but the finish was good. We're rapt with the results."
The sale was conducted by Colin Say and Company with Inverell-based agent and auctioneer Ben McMahon calling the bids.
