It was a reduced yarding at the Hayes & Co Silverdale cattle sale on July 5 with the market easier for export and younger cattle, with feeder steers selling to a firm market.
All buyers were in full operation but with a reduced rate.
SC&SJ Oppermann sold pens of Droughtmaster cows for 225.2c to return $1280. Lehmann Bros sold dairy culls for 215.2c to return $1463.
Farm & Vet Direct sold meatworks bulls for 265.2c to return $2347. Gavin Baker sold Brahman pasture ox for 288.2 to return $1772. AC&DJ Sawatzki sold heavy Charbray feeder steers for 320.2c to return $1635.
Warwick Bros sold lines of light Brangus feeder steers for 327.2c to return $1070. L.M Armstrong sold Charbray pasture heifers for 306.2c to return $1247. Gorge Pastoral sold Charolais feeder heifers for 317.2c to return $1221.
Barry Brown sold lines of heavy restocker steers for 314.2c to return $1107. Allenview Park sold lines of Limousin cross restocker steers for 338.2c to return $731. Gavin Baker sold Brahman vealer steers for 321.2c to return $626. Normanby Pastoral sold Brahman vealer heifers for 301.2c to return $674.
Prices firm at Silverdale store sale
Father and son John and Jason Wyatt, Beaudesert, trading as John & MM Wyatt, sold top quality lines of Charbray heifers straight off the cow for an impressive $960.
Agents Hayes & Co at Silverdale had a top-quality yarding of 365 cattle, selling to a very strong market especially with weaner steers and growing steers hitting very dear prices.
With handy local rainfall through the week a large portion of local buyers turned up in numbers and created extremely fierce competition with travelled buyers with many going home empty handed leaving all vendors overwhelmed with their prices.
Warwick Brothers sold 12 month old Brangus steers for $1110. The Gordon Family of Cannon Creek sold a top-quality draft of Angus weaner steers to average $960 and top at $1080. First time vendor Rodney Heit sold Droughtmaster steers 12 months for $1150 and weaner Droughtmaster steers for $850.
Lines of Droughtmaster steers 14 months from Esk sold for $1100 and lines of weaner Droughtmaster steers for $930 and $810. John and MM Wyatt sold Charbray weaner steers for $1020. RJ&F Pearce sold Santa weaner steers for $930 and $720. Lynn Walther sold a red Brahman bull 14 months for $1500.
Courtney Stevens sold Charbray cross heifers for $1270 and Brahman heifers for $1070. S&K Ramsay sold Brahman cows for $1075. Kemmis Creek Investments sold lines of crossbred heifers for $1150 and Brahman heifers for $1050.
Warwick Brothers sold 12 months old Brangus heifers for $1050. Courtney Stevens sold crossbred Charbray heifers for $1270 and Brahman heifers for $1070. S&K Ramsay sold Brahman cows for $1075. Rodney Heit sold Droughtmaster weaner heifers for $960. John & MM Wyatt sold top quality lines of Charbray heifers straight off the cow for an impressive $960
The next Silverdale store cattle sale on July 22 from noon.
