Leongatha store cattle market | Stock & Land - video Dailymotion

David Setches, an auctioneer with Alex Scott & Staff, said there were nearly 6,500 cattle at the Leongatha fortnightly store sale.

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00:00A big yarding of cattle here today, close to six and a half thousand cattle.

00:05The feed of cattle was still very strong, although there was a couple of feed loaders

00:10not present here today, but certainly your TFI, your Charlton's, Camel Ross,

00:18those buyers there sort of kept that job ticking along very well. That's sort of those heavier

00:23cattle, $3.60 to $4, and when you jump down into those sort of mid 400 kilo calves,

00:30they've bounced around anywhere from $4.20 up to $4.70, so it's very strong.

00:36A few more weaner calves came forward today, those sort of sub 300 kilo calves to mid 300s,

00:43well they've made high 400s, close to $5 were a touch over for the best of them,

00:51and certainly a lot of those going back locally back to the paddock.

00:56Heifers today, you know, heifers with weight 400 plus kilo heifers made up to sort of $3.80,

01:04mid 300 sort of kilo heifers anywhere from $3.40 to $3.60, and once you dropped from sort of $3.20

01:12back under 300 kilos, well they bounced around a little bit from anywhere from $2.80 to $3.50 or

01:18$3.60.