It was another wet sale at Taranaki cattle fair last Wednesday. Schedule reductions put pressure on the heavy steer prices with prime steers above 700kg at $2.65-$2.69/kg. The top-end of 2-year steers held at around $2.77-$2.82/kg. The balance softened a little, though most achieved at least $2.70/kg. In the yearling steer pens, very nice Simmental and Charolais-cross, and better Hereford-Friesian, sold at $2.80-$2.89/kg. Read more in your LivestockEye.
Taranaki cattle 9.12
Yearling Speckle Park-cross steers, 262-340kg, sold well at $2.98-$3.00/kg
Two-year heifers mostly fetched $2.46-$2.53/kg
Better yearling heifers achieved $2.55-$2.65/kg
Autumn-born weaner Charolais-Friesian heifers, 222kg, traded at $600
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