Three vendors offer half the yarding at the first Wangaratta weaner sale.
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00:00Just on 4,000 cattle that are yarded here at Wangaratta, which followed MVLX this morning,
00:05we've had a pretty fair day. A bulk of the cattle have gone to New South Wales and into Queensland
00:09and I suppose those feature cattle that have attracted those buyers, I mean we've had probably
00:14half the yards supported by about three vendors, which has really forced a feature of our Wangaratta
00:20sale at this time of the year. But I mean those three vendors plus all the other good vendors
00:26have been able to put forward an outstanding lines of cattle and genetically outstanding
00:30run of cattle that anyone that does come and buy them I'm sure have great results because we do
00:35seem to get a lot of return. Given the season, New South Wales and into Queensland, we've probably
00:40had a little bit more pressure from those buyers to take those cattle back. I suppose if you said
00:44there's 20 or 30 percent retained in our region this year, that'd be about it, with the bulk of
00:49those cattle all going on the back of big B-doubles and heading north. If you talk about the double
00:53I think they've averaged about $4.45 across the whole lot of them, with an average weight I'd say
01:00without being factual about 340, 350 kilo across a lot of them. So it's been a pretty solid sale
01:08although I think that is backed up quite well by the quality of the livestock. So
01:13I think it's pretty rare that you'd find the lines of cattle that are available here at Wangaratta
01:17today. As a result, I'd attract pretty good pricing.