South Canterbury anniversary day postponed the Temuka sale until Tuesday. The heaviest steers were 675-690kg Charolais-cross that earned $3.00-$3.02/kg followed by traditional pens, 535-580kg, $2.76-$2.87/kg. Most steers were dairy-beef from 500-565kg and earned $2.76-$2.84/kg. Friesian and Kiwicross cows above 470kg consistently made $1.76/kg to $1.96/kg.
Big numbers of wool-breed store hoggets from local stations sold very well while the best of the meat-breeds would not have been out of place in the prime pens and earned $139-$171. Lighter pens returned $69-$122. Over 10% of the prime hoggets earned $205-$225 with most others $150-$199. Ewes mostly made $110-$220. Read more in your LivestockEye.