Josh McDonald & Anthony Delaney | Stock & Land - video Dailymotion

Josh McDonald and Anthony Delaney give an update on the Yea store sale.

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00:00Today we've seen, it's been our monthly store sale here for July. We've yarded just a tick

00:05under 2000 cattle for this time of year, it's been a pretty good effort. Most of the cattle

00:09have been yarded from sort of local and northern Melbourne areas as they typically are with a few

00:13Yarra Valley and West Gippsland consignments. We're just starting to see continuous seek into

00:17these yards, hence probably the larger number. Today's sale, our heavy feeder cattle sold to

00:23very strong competition and we're probably on parity to what we've seen in the last couple of

00:27weeks in our heavy feeders touching on $4, so basically from $3.80 to $4 mark. I don't think

00:33I'd call them any dearer than what we've seen, but just probably good to see them make the same

00:37here as they have last week at Leangatha and the likes. Our top end of our weaned calves,

00:42everything was sort of from $3.80 to $4.10, been quite easy to to attain that money. Starting to

00:47see a lot more agents and farmers back into the market, however quality did drop off fairly

00:53quickly into smaller numbers and bits and pieces, so heavy heifers in my mind sell pretty well equal

00:59rates to what we've seen. Maybe just even a touch easier in some spots on the heavy feeder type

01:05heifers, yet we did see a big lift in younger spring drop heifer calves or sort of yearling

01:10type heifers, probably a good 100-150 dearer. I think what we see here with the monthly sale as

01:16opposed to fortnightly, we're just that month closer to spring, they're starting to see a lot

01:20more people just to pop a few cattle back into the bay for more, so $7.50 rather than $6.50 in

01:25that department. Cows and calves were a lot better quality than we've seen in recent times

01:31and sold to, once again, better rates basically just due to the quality of the animal. They did

01:36sell a lot better, up to $2,000 in some instances, but certainly well deserved to make that sort of

01:42money. So Josh, who was buying today? Who were the main buyers? Yeah, it was good to see we had a few

01:46Giftsland agents here today and then our regular sort of commission buyers buying for the north

01:51and then obviously our major feedlots as well. So about everyone in the gallery today,

01:56which was good to see. As Pup said, the feeder steers were probably the pick of the sale today

02:02and sold really well. You look at your sort of your princess royals, midfield was strong today

02:09and then your commission buyers buying cattle for feedlots and the head north.