Nutrien Livestock reports a strong turnout at the August sale, with competitive bidding on Friesian steers and heifers.
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00:00Austin Gujarati here reporting on behalf of Nutrien Livestock here at Boynup Salyards today
00:05where Nutrien Livestock reports 1,261 cattle for the first of the August store sale fixture
00:12which consisted predominantly of Friesian steers and first cross steers and heifers.
00:16First cross steers were met with good competition from the gallery selling to a 20 to 40 cent a kilo
00:21deer a trend on last month's market for steers under 300 kilos topping at 330 cents a kilo.
00:29Heavy Friesian steers above 600 kilos were plentiful and a very good quality this month
00:34selling to a high of 228 cents a kilo. Medium Friesian steers from 400 to 500 kilos sold
00:41cheaper by 20 to 30 cents a kilo on last month's market despite the high quality of this month's
00:46drafts. Under 300 kilo Friesian steers realized the top of 232 cents a kilo gaining 10 to 15
00:52cents a kilo and a small presentation of first cross heifers sold from 450 to 1000 dollars a head.
01:02Some prices now first cross steers 450 kilos and above 302 cents a kilo 400 to 450 kilos 200
01:10to top out at 296 cents a kilo would have averaged just shy 240. 350 to 400 kilos 296 cents a kilo
01:18300 to 350 kilos 198 to top at 290 cents a kilo would have averaged 260 today 250 to 300 kilos
01:26256 to top at 286 cents a kilo 200 to 250 kilos 220 to top at 330 cents a kilo as we said a little
01:36bit dearer there this month to average 270. 150 to 200 kilos 290 to top at 328 cents a kilo
01:44to average 314. Now very good offering of Montbelliard cross steers here today 500 to 550
01:51kilos 288 to top at 292 cents a kilo 350 to 400 kilos 320 cents a kilo 300 350 kilos 282 to top
02:01at 320 cents a kilo would have averaged just shy 310 here today and the 250 to 300 kilo Montbelliard
02:09cross 212 to 286 cents a kilo would have averaged 262. Friesen steers a good offering of heavy
02:17weight Friesen steers we haven't seen these come through the marketplace for a little while so it's
02:20good to see them 650 to 700 kilos 218 to top at 238 cents a kilo would have averaged 225.
02:29600 to 650 kilos 212 to top at 220 cents a kilo to average just shy 220. 550 to 600 kilos
02:38192 to 228 cents a kilo and those would have averaged just shy 210 today. 500 to 550 200 to
02:46top out at 230 cents a kilo would have averaged 212 today. 450 to 500 kilos 162 to 216 cents a
02:54kilo would have averaged 186 cents a kilo today. 400 to 450 kilos 190 to 216 would have averaged
03:02just shy 205. 350 to 400 kilos 190 to 230 to average 215 cents a kilo 300 to 350 kilos 176 to
03:14220 would have averaged 190 today and the lighter weight Friesen's a bit more competition there
03:19today from the grazies which was good to see. 250 to 300 kilos 170 to top out at 232 cents a kilo
03:26would have averaged just shy two dollars today. 200 to 250 kilos 188 to 212 cents a kilo to
03:33average 200. 150 to 200 kilos 160 to 218 cents a kilo to average 190 and the under 150 kilos 194.
03:44There were some dairy steers these are jersey cross car steers and some brown swiss steers
03:49which actually sold to pretty good competition from the feeders. 500 kilos and above these made
03:55250 cents a kilo for a pretty well covered jersey cross steer. 400 to 500 kilos 200 to top out at
04:02288 cents a kilo would have averaged 240. The higher 288 there being for a pen of brown swiss
04:08steers. 300 to 400 kilos 240 200 300 kilos 134 to top at 200 cents a kilo would have averaged 160
04:17and a small jersey steer under 200 kilos realized 170 cents a kilo and as i said first cross
04:24heifers today 300 to 400 kilo first cross heifers sold from 775 to top out at a thousand dollars
04:31and the 200 to 300 kilos 450 to top out at 550 dollars a head. So all in all a pretty positive
04:38day here today at Boynup where we yarded a fair portion of cattle here. A reminder we will have
04:44another sale next Wednesday with a full 1400 beef yarding for you with steers, heifers
04:52and a good offering of cows and calves also here at 9 a.m on the 14th of August.
04:57This has been Austin Guhardi for Nutrien Livestock.