Canterbury Park prime cattle and all sheep 23.02, store cattle 24.02

Cropping farmers pushed the store lamb market along at Canterbury Park last Tuesday. Forward store lambs earned $97-$111 with medium lambs generally $71-$96. Most prime lambs were good or medium-good types that earned $95-$141 with very few outside this range. The top ewe price was $248 with very-heavy and heavy pens $180-$240. Most of the trading occurred amongst the good pens at $118-$150. A few larger exotic steers managed $2.63-$2.67/kg but otherwise those over 500kg that were not dairy based earned $2.45-$2.55/kg. Heifers sold mostly within a tight range of $2.30-$2.38/kg regardless of breed. The store cattle sale on Wednesday was harder work. The highest priced R2 pen was 361kg Angus steers at $2.70/kg, but that was as good as it got with Angus and Angus-Hereford, 380-396kg, next best at $2.49-$2.54/kg. Outside of these lines a wide variety of prices were recorded with the better end of 300-400kg steers and heifers typically $2.00/kg to $2.27/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.