A CLASH between processors and restockers over grown heifers and steers resulted in a strong store market at Tumut today.
With buyer competition mainly coming from northern NSW, grown steers hit $670 and unjoined heifers to $660.
Selling agents Landmark, Coote Livestock, Agstock and G J Hulm & Co yarded 1100 cows and calves, steers, and joined and unjoined heifers for the sale.
Held as a one-off special store sale, the fixture coincided with a dispersal of 320 mixed sex weaners and 70 joined heifers from the Nicholls family, Coolac.
Cattle were sold to Albury, Yass, Wagga Wagga, Yarrawonga, West Wyalong, Gundagai, Yanco, Casino and Coonamble.
Active buyers included A J Bush & Co, Wahroonga Beef, Rockdale Beef at Yanco, Dowling Bros of Yarrawonga, and Northern Rivers of Casino.
Coonamble restockers, buying through Wodonga commission agent Duncan Brown, picked up a large proportion of the yarding.
Grown steers (12-18 months) topped at $670 and sold down to $490 while the autumn drop steers sold for $510-$588.
Weaner steers, aged seven to eight months, were in strong demand at $510-$578.
Heavy European cross steers, aged 15-16 months, sold for $465-$655.
Restockers were active on the heifers pregnancy tested for a May-June calving, selling for $640-$735.
Processors competed strongly on all unjoined heifers, with prices at $450-$660 while weaner heifers sold for $390-$495.
In the cows and calves, eight Angus heifers, two years and with Limousin cross calves, five to six months, and rejoined to a Limousin bull topped at $1030.
