A LARGER number of stores on Wednesday’s Baw Baw Livestock Exchange sale lifted numbers by 150 head last week, with re-stockers paying up to 421.2 cents per kilo for pen lots of store steers and heifers.
Processors in the heavier vealer pens paid to 386.2 cents for well finished head, bullock numbers were back with only three yarded.
In the heifer section numbers were up by 150 per cent and saw the top price lift by 20 cents, although weights were lighter which attracted several restockers and feedlots.
A similar number of steers were yarded and demand and quality was improved on recent weeks pushing the average price per head up $220 to $1503, with feedlots prominent.
Also penned were 40 lightweight stores that sold at open auction making to a top of $550.
The yard average for the week was up 14 cents to 328.5 cents.
Three bullocks made to 355 cents and averaged 339.5 cents.
Forty one heifers topped at 365 cents, up 20 cents and averaged 325.2 cents, up 13 cents, 31 steers topped at 355 cents, up 10 cents and averaged 326.8 cents, up 52 cents, and 271 veal topped at 386.2 cents, up 12 cents, and averaged 333.3 cents, up six cents.
Strong demand and the return of buyers absent last week resulted in good gains on Thursday for the bull and cow sale.
There were less beef types and more dairy and several pens of bullocks on offer.
Bulls made to a top of 313.2 cents and although this was back slightly the average was up 10 cents to 270.4 cents.
The average cow weights were similar to the previous week and the best made to 304.6 cents with the average improving by 16 cents to 233.5 cents, and of the 12 bullocks on offer the top was 308.6 cents, with an average of 256.9 cents, and the yard average made to 235.3 cents, up 17 cents.
The draw for 27 and 28 July is 1, Landmark; 2, Gibbon; 3, SEJ; 4, Elders; 5, Scotts.
Vealers
One, Char X, B and H Arbuthnot, Glengarry West, 370 kilograms, 380 cents per kilogram, $1406; 5, Limo, I and A Hancock, Poowong, 368, 380, $1398; 2, Limo X, A Pisa, Cora Lynn, 320, 375.6, $1201; 2, Limo, Willow Creek, Nilma Nth, 420, 370, $1554; 1, Limo X, C and M Wareing, Warragul, 405, 370, $1498; 1, Limo X, N and D Renshaw, Lillico, 390, 370, $1443; 1, Limo X, A and T Johnston, Hill End, 370, 370, $1369; 7, Shorthorn, D Greenland, Jindivick, 280, 320.6, $897.
Steers
Eight, Angus, J Cochrane, Nar Nar Goon, 528, 355, $1872; 1, Hereford, Moonshine Breeding, Labertouche, 540, 354.2, $1912.
Heifers
One, Baza, B and H Arbuthnot, Glengarry West, 570, 365, $2080; 1, Limo, J Britt, Lillico, 535, 365, $1952; 4, Angus, B Brown, Darnum, 368, 342, $1258.
Bullocks
One, Angus, J Cochrane, Nar Nar Goon, 575, 355, $2041.
Export Heifers and Cows
One, Char, Tecmax, 420, 304.6, $1279; 1, Limo, J Britt, Lillico, 680, 295, $2006; 2, Angus, Brewin Pastoral, Rokeby, 620, 293.2, $1817; 1, Angus, Community College, Warragul, 615, 289.2, $1778; 1, Hereford X, A Pisa, Cora Lynn, 585, 286.6, $1676; 8, Angus, J and O Currie, Bona Vista, 466, 283.9, $1321.
Dairy
Three, Frie, T and K Mitchell, Jindivick, 600, 279.2, $1675; 1, Frie, W and A Stammers, Neerim, 540, 277.2, $1496; 2, Fleck, R and C Monk, Poowong, 453, 273.6, $1238; 2, Frie, M and G Moyes, Shady Creek, 518, 264.6, $1369; 1, Frie, S Savage, 665, 257.6, $1713; 1, Frie, J Ashby, Bales, 645, 257.2, $1658.
Bullocks
Two, Char, P Hasthorpe, Tanjil South, 500, 308.6, $1543; 2, Hereford X, M and G Moyes, Shady Creek, 655, 305.6, $2001; 2, Frie, J and N Webb, Gainsborough, 545, 286.6, $1561.
Bulls
One, Limo, J and K Fry, Bunyip, 565, 313.2, $1769; 1, Angus, Blackwood Grazing, Trafalgar, 890, 295, $2625; 1, Limo, R and P Spinazzola, Childers, 775, 283.2, $2194; 3, Angus, R and J Chatfield, Nar Nar Goon, 678, 268.2, $1818; 1, Frie, J and K Cremin, Garfield, 915, 243.2, $2225.
