BOLLON beef producer Peter North was hopeful his line of Brangus weaner steers would get close to the magic 300c/kg price point realised at store sales across Queensland over the past week.
Mr North offloaded 145 steers, heifers and cast-for-age cows at the Dalby sale yesterday but only one pen of steers and cows had sold when Queensland Country Life went to print.
Averaging 372kg, the steers made 257c/kg to return $961/head while the cows topped at 211c/kg and averaged 208c/kg to return $1046/head.
"It will be interesting to see how the lighter steers sell but I'm very happy with those prices so far," he said.
"May the good prices keep coming." A second generation
beef producer, Mr North said he had never seen cattle prices so
high.
"Not in my lifetime have I seen them so good," he said.
The first pen to crack the 300c/kg milestone was a line of Simbrah weaner steers straight off their mothers that sold to 300.2c/kg at Gracemere last Friday.
Rockhampton-based Elders auctioneer, Brain Wedemeyer, offered the steers on behalf of Geraldine Hobson, Tyneholme, Banana, and said he expected them to make about 250c/kg.
"Overall the four pens averaged 300c/kg, weighing an average of 288kg, to return $866/head.
"The market was really strong with a yarding of 3400 head, and some decent rainfall in parts of Central Queensland followed by warmer temperatures suitable for grass to grow helped push the restocker upward market," Mr Wedemeyer said.
Meanwhile, weaner steers hit an impressive 306c/kg at the Roma Store Sale on Tuesday.
Among those to claim the big money was the Brennan family, For Far, Mitchell, who sold 201kg Charolais cross steers to 306c/kg to return $616/head while the Hermann family, Vindex Station, Winton, sold Angus-cross steers to 304c at 194kg to return $591/head.
Local beef producer, Cam Colley, Brucedale, Roma, sold Charolais cross steers to 300c at 196kg to return $589.
