Livestock editor Rebecca Nadge and jounralist Elka Devney hear from the key agents at the January weaner sales.
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00:00Hi, and welcome back to The Land's Last Lot.
00:08I'm journalist Elke Devney.
00:10And I'm livestock editor Rebecca Nagy.
00:12Bec, it's been a mammoth week down in the south of Wiener sales.
00:15How did it all go?
00:16Yeah, it has been a big week.
00:17We attended a lot of these sales in person.
00:19Here's what agents had to say about the results.
00:22It's been an enormous result right through, I would sort of say.
00:26All the cattle sold over and above expectations that we had prior to Christmas, and was very,
00:32very solid with them.
00:33A lot of the northern buyers, very strong, wanting to skew numbers, to go into the feed
00:38they've got in the north.
00:40And the feedlotters were saying sort of went with them, and they were stronger as well.
00:45A yard at about 7,800 all-breed heifers, sales probably held up okay.
00:50Heifers back to bulls, good-weighted, black heifers, well-bred heifers in the 350s and
00:5460s.
00:55And then everything after that, if they were black, they were 320s and 30s plus, didn't
01:00matter how heavy they were.
01:01A few little tigers at the end, about 280s and 90s, but even, you know, coloured heifers,
01:06sort of 310s to 20s, we're quite pleased with how the day's gone.
01:10Well, I think everyone's left with a sombre feeling on what we heard last week.
01:13Like our better calves opened up at 350, 360, but, you know, they're only 320, 330 kilos.
01:19And once we got off these lead drafts and got into the 290 to 320 kilo calves.
01:25Feeding become a little bit erratic.
01:26Today we yarded just shy of 2,900 cattle, and that consisted of Euro steers, Euro heifers,
01:34very good run of Angus heifers, and some Heriper heifers in that also.
01:37Generally, as a whole, the market was, they held up very well.
01:40The better lines in cattle, they're probably selling above expectation.
01:44And that's all we've got time for this week.
01:46Stay tuned next month.
01:47We're going to be taking a look at the Nutrien Classic Wholesale up in Tamworth.
01:55See you then.