Friday, March 29, 2024

Canterbury Park sale 13.02

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The prime cattle market continued its strong run at Canterbury Park on Tuesday, whereas store lamb numbers dropped with the exclusion of southern lambs as markets re-emerge in dry areas.
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Store lambs buyers were presented with a quality lineup of 2000 Romney-cross and black face lambs, and they were keen to secure some of these lines.

Through the better end of the mixed sex lines the market showed consistent improvement, with prices firm at $83-$99. Lighter mixed sex traded at $59-$73 though was only small lines. All male lambs sold for $72-$92, and ram lambs of similar weight, $70-$90. Two lines of medium ewe lambs returned $72-$77.

In both the prime lamb and ewe pens a large number of small consignments grew volume to respectable levels, with just over 1200 head apiece. Lamb schedules are on a downwards trend though do not look set to go far as numbers are slow to come out. That kept demand steady in the pens and most lambs traded at $110-$159

Some ewes travelled across the island from Fox Glacier and Greymouth though slotted right in with the local girls. A top line of very heavy black face ewes reached $265, whereas medium and medium-good fetched $117-$150 to make up the lions' share of the section. Light and light-medium ewes traded at $70-$114.

It is still very quiet on the prime cattle front and the market continued its consistent run as schedules remain largely unchanged, though prices for the Hereford-Friesian heifers were slightly down on the previous week as there was double the number.

Steer volume was exactly the same and the market was also similar. The mainly Beef-Friesian line-up sold to $2.90-$3.04/kg for the good yielding lines in a 530-588kg weight range, while heavy lines, 650-675kg and store types at 355-500kg traded at $2.85-$2.91/kg.

The stand out in the heifer pens was two lines of Angus, 485-534kg, which sold for $2.95-$3.00/kg, while a store line at 383kg returned $2.93/kg. Hereford-Friesian lines showed some easing as most 470-556kg sold for $2.79-$2.90/kg.

The balance of the sale was mainly very small lines of mixed quality. Two Ayrshire cows, 575-720kg, sold for $2.04-$2.06/kg, while ex-service beef and exotic bulls made $2.12/kg.

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