Promoting motion at Wodonga in 2022.
SOUTHERN weaner gross sales have kicked off with a bang this 12 months, with costs and numbers rising from final 12 months.
About 18,000 head have been supplied by means of the Northern Victorian Livestock Alternate at Wodonga throughout 5 gross sales final week, with all classes averaging not less than 100c/kg greater than final 12 months. Gentle steers between 200-280kg averaged 440c/kg, 280-330kg steers averaged 436c/kg and 330-400kg steers averaged 414c/kg.
Patrons from Queensland and Northern New South Wales have been a robust presence on the southern yards this 12 months – with 19pc of the Wodonga cattle going to Qld, up from 14.2pc final 12 months, and 35.4pc going to Northern NSW, up from 28.7pc final 12 months.
Regional Livestock Alternate southern basic supervisor Tim Keys stated most of the huge businesses from additional north have been represented within the gross sales and have been shopping for cattle in huge numbers. Common quantity/PIC quantity elevated from 188 head final 12 months to 228 head this 12 months.
“There actually has been sturdy outcomes for distributors, with a broad unfold of consumers ranging predominantly from Qld and Northern NSW and backed up with native assist,” Mr Keys stated.
“A few of these guys from the north have been shopping for 300-400 head/day.”
Two gross sales have been held at Wangaratta, about half-an-hour from Wodonga, tapping into the identical shopping for pool and yielding related outcomes.
Many have been anticipating numbers to lower on final 12 months as producers in dry areas of Victoria put cattle in the marketplace when it began to rain additional north. A state of affairs that would nonetheless play out in southern Victorian weaner gross sales, which have had a drier Spring than areas round Wodonga.
Much like tendencies noticed on the finish of final 12 months, the value hole between Angus and basic flatback cattle remains to be nearly non-existent – with color not taking part in as huge an element within the north.
Heifers represented a bigger share of the early Wodonga gross sales than earlier years.
They have been buying and selling about 100c/kg cheaper than steers, with mild 200-280kg heifers averaging 332c/kg, 280-330c/kg heifers averaged 351.2c/kg and 330-400kg heifers averaged 349.8c/kg.
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