Wellsford store cattle sale

Interest was very localised and limited at best, and while steers made respectable values there was nobody home on heifers. A few lines of R1 heifers were passed in, but with most vendors in no position to take stock home they had to meet the market.
A price ceiling of $2.70/kg sat quite firmly over the R2 steer pens, though quality Hereford-Friesian, 462-466kg, did manage to push to $2.71-$2.80/kg. A blanket could have been thrown over the rest of the beef and beef-Friesian lines as the better lines made $2.56-$2.68/kg. A consignment of Friesian were good animals for their breeding but at 365-409kg made just $1.99-$2.09/kg.
R1 steer prices were acceptable, given the time of year and the fact there were 240 head to sell. Common ground across the beef and beef-Friesian pens was $660-$750, with a nice offering of 313-316kg Angus & Angus-Hereford reaching $800-$830. A few standout lines of R1 bulls were also penned. Five Simmental, 335kg, fetched $810, and a few other breeds, $735-$765.
Breeds and prices were a mis-match in the heifer pens as good quality beef and beef-Friesian were extremely buy-able. A line of Angus, 475kg, made $2.61/kg, with similar weighted Hereford-Friesian firm at $2.59/kg. These were by far the highlight, as most other lines of Hereford-Friesian and Hereford-cross, 373-424kg, traded at $2.31-$2.50/kg.
That improved little in the R1 pens as the rostrum emptied out. Hereford-cross, 142-185kg, made just $350-$470, while two lines of Angus-Friesian, 203-234kg, returned $565-$645.