There was an increase in interest for store cattle at Rangiuru last Tuesday. R2 Hereford-Friesian heifers, 280-406kg, earned $2.76-$2.89/kg and other dairy-beef or Charolais, 280-341kg, $2.73-$2.80/kg. R1 steers were predominantly Hereford-Friesian and lines from 205-280kg earned $710-$820 with just one pen of Angus & Angus-Hereford, 278kg, higher at $870. R1 heifers were all dairy-beef over 200kg and earned $520-$745.
Prime Angus-Friesian and Friesian heifers, 394-430kg, managed $2.58-$2.61/kg, but most of the remaining pens were cows, either dairy-beef or Friesian and 418-501kg, that varied from $2.00/kg to $2.14/kg, although some crept up to $2.26/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.
Rangiuru cattle and sheep 25.08
R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 372-440kg, earned $2.90/kg to $3.06/kg
R2 Hereford-Friesian steers, 311kg, stretched to $3.25/kg
Prime Hereford-Friesian steers, 758kg, made $3.21/kg
Prime Angus-cross steers, 657kg, fetched $3.11/kg
Lambs traded at $86-$150 with a few pens of ewes $86-$139
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