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Rangiuru sale October 18

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Paddocks are finally drying out and buyers looking to stock paddocks kept cattle prices steady at Rangiuru on Tuesday.
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Sheep numbers lifted slightly as a good-sized offering of prime hoggets and ewes with lambs-at-foot filled most pens.

Prime hogget prices were steady at $74-$121, with a small line of new season lambs making $91.

Ewes traded at $45-$81; ewes with lambs-at-foot $38-$85.

Throughput numbers lifted slightly in the rostrum but for the most part the market and the yarding were the same as the previous week.

A small offering of two-year steers made $1430-$1600 with the top line up to $2.90/kg, while Hereford-Friesian heifers, 360-497kg, made $2.76-$2.87/kg.

Friesian heifers, 395-431kg, earned $2.40-$2.42/kg.

Demand for one-year cattle was strong again and Hereford-Friesian steers, 262-300kg, sold for $895-$1035; heifers, 216-295kg, made $730-$920.

Friesian bulls, 279-314kg, traded at $780-$865 while five Hereford bulls, 268kg, sold for $990. 

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