Rain didn’t deter a good bench of buyers at Rangiuru last Tuesday. Most prime steers exceeded 600kg and fetched $2.95-$3.02/kg with the only lighter pen 567kg Hereford-Friesian at $2.82/kg. A pen of 530kg Angus heifers earned $2.89/kg while similarly weighted beef-cross cows performed well at $2.79/kg. The R1 section was mostly a mixture of Hereford-cross types. A pen of Hereford-dairy steers, 252kg, surpassed all others at $755 with next best 232kg Hereford-Friesian bulls at $670. The top heifers were Speckle Park, 230kg, that made $510. In the sheep pens, lambs earned $80-$159 while ewes returned $152.50-$184. Read more in your LivestockEye.
Rangiuru cattle and sheep 15.06
R2 Hereford-Friesian and Hereford-Jersey steers, 357-403kg, returned $2.64-$2.70/kg
R2 Angus steers, 355-378kg, earned $2.34-$2.46/kg
R2 Friesian steers, 482kg, reached $2.74/kg
R2 Charolais-cross steers, 370kg, sold for $2.68/kg while their 418kg sisters made $2.54/kg
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