Temuka beef in-calf cow and heifer sale 6.05

Temuka’s beef in-calf cow and heifer auction last Thursday mainly fell in-line with pre-sale expectations due to the shortage of feed in the wider Canterbury region. This affected both the condition of the stock yarded as well as enthusiasm to take them on and prices were underpinned by processors. One pen of capital stock Hereford, 466kg and in-calf to a Hereford bull, outperformed the rest of the cows at $900, $1.93/kg. The next step down were half-a-dozen better pens that included Angus, Hereford and Murray Grey-Friesian that managed $1.45-$1.57/kg. The rest of the tally were quite mixed in terms of price and a level of $1.34-$1.44/kg covered the best half. On a per head basis the top cows made $800-$940, and the balance $610-$750. Read more in your LivestockEye.