James Saunders, Landmark Rockhampton, reported that 2,366 cattle were penned at Gracemere last Friday. He quoted the market as continuing its improvement over the past few weeks. James quoted feeder cattle as the big improvers with restockers and kill cattle holding at strong rates.
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Sales of note from Gracemere include: Adrian Albrand from Theodore sold a run of Droughtmaster cows topping at 252c/kg weighing 495kg to return $1,234. The same vendor sold Droughtmaster weaner heifers topping at 328c/kg weighing 225kg to return $742.
Dunphy Brothers, Gogango, sold Droughtmaster weaner steers to top at 398c/kg weighing 260kg to return $1,035.
Lucas Cattle Co, Mornish, sold Droughtmaster weaner steers to top at 390c/kg weighing 260kg to return $879. The same vendor sold Droughtmaster weaner heifers for 328c/kg weighing 214kg for $701.
P J Stone, Baralaba, sold No 6 Euro cross steers for 292c/kg weighing 412kg returning $1,205
Landmark Emerald Manager, Matt Beard reported that the Emerald Combined Agents put together a much more consistent yarding in terms of quality with the majority of the categories receiving an increase across the board. Matt said that weaner heifers saw the most significant boost in price while cows and feeder steers still recorded a slight increase after last week’s gains.
Joe Lehman, GDL Dalby reported a very strong sale on November 1, with a total of 2,977 head. He said that older bullocks were up 15c/kg to 293.2c/kg, young bullocks up 20c/kg to 305.2c/kg, heavy steers up 10c/kg to 317.2c/kg, heavy heifers up 12c/kg to 281c/kg, heavy cows up 6c/kg to 240c/kg and medium cows up to 10c/kg to 228c/kg. There were very few store cows in the market. Light steers were up to 414c/kg and light heifers up to 380c/kg. There was a strong panel of buyers throughout the day.
Anthony Hyland, GDL St George told me that the season around St George and district has turned around very quickly on the back of strong early rain measuring anywhere from 65ml to 195ml for October. He said that you only had to travel 60km to the west and south west where falls were on the lighter end with only 35-45ml, however country that has had the good falls has responded quickly and producers will now be able to hold on to stock and obtain some weight gain. Anthony indicated that many producers were holding on to as many heifers as possible to try to build up numbers next year if the season hopefully permits. He said that the lamb and mutton prices are still very strong with lambs on hook trading well above $6.30, mutton at $4.20 dressed and lightweight lambs selling from $6.80 to $7.40/kg dressed.
