Anthony Mahony, Brian O'Halloran, discusses the market at Mortlake on January 11.
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00:20 Yeah, we're at the WBLX CRG today.
00:24 We had our annual female sale, joint female sale of a few cows and calves.
00:30 In the cow and calf line, not a lot there to quote on.
00:33 There wasn't any really sort of outstanding lines or anything like that,
00:36 but they got to sort of $2,100.
00:39 The, a lot of really, really good joint heifers, you know, probably all breeds,
00:44 but Angus, as you know, most notably represented.
00:48 The best of the Angus joint heifers made to $2,900.
00:51 But generally, Angus heifers were sort of, generally sold in that $1,800 to sort of $2,200, $2,300 range.
00:59 And then the Angus cows, there was some, a few dispersals here.
01:05 The best of those made to $2,450, plenty of young cows,
01:09 but again, generally around that sort of $1,800 to $2,000 mark for joint Angus cows.
01:14 With the Herefords, the best of the joint Hereford heifers were the lily ones.
01:19 They made to $1,575.
01:23 And the best of the cows, good young Hereford cows, made to $1,650.
01:28 So all in all, you know, once the cattle got sort of a bit lighter,
01:33 in weight more than anything, particularly with heifers and that,
01:37 they sort of come down back to that sort of below 500 kilos,
01:41 down to that sort of $1,400, $1,500 mark.
01:44 But yeah, the sale was sort of, the buyers were pretty picky and choosy.
01:49 They sort of, you know, auctions plus was reasonably active,
01:54 but you know, a lot of the cattle sort of stayed local.
01:57 A few went to South Australia, you know, Colac areas and things like that.
02:01 But yeah, no, just overall, I'd say that the best of the cattle,
02:06 people would be, you know, really happy with, but you know,
02:09 just the middle runs of cattle, I think,
02:11 just sort of probably didn't quite make as much as we thought, you know.
02:16 But I think all in all, you know, vendors sort of are reasonably pleased,
02:19 that's for sure.