Stock sales around the region
FEILDING STORE STOCK SALE FRIDAY JULY 7
In spite of sheep entries dropping away at most other regional sales, sheep are still literally flocking into this store sale in their droves with nearly 20,000 head entered.
Scanned ewe entries increased again and sale prices firmed again.
As has been stated previously, scanned ewes have been selling at prices that seemed cheap considering the outlook so any firming does not surprise.
A new high for this saleyards for this season was achieved today when 186 Romney 5 year old ewes from Taurimu Farming, scanning with twins, sold for $190.
Some pens were passed in but some of the ewes were rather ordinary in quality.
The initial summary in the store lamb sale was that sale prices were reasonably similar to last week but it became apparent that prices were in fact easing.
The large number of lambs weighed the market down with almost every pen occupied and a late finish guaranteed.
This sale is unintentionally becoming the best place to sell wool with lamb cents/kg sale prices over $3/kg and a kilogram of lambs wool struggling to make $2/kg before shearing costs.
Some heavy male lambs were offered – T Wells Partnership, Taihape, sold 48 blackface ram lambs for $137 and Kiifhuss Brothers, Patea, sold 222 cryptorchids for $135.50.
Three pens of ewe lambs sold for $121; A& S Goldsbury, Wanganui, with 170 blackface ewe lambs; Norbury Farm, Pakihikura, with 208 Romneys; and Nikau Farm, Wanganui, with 176.
All weight ranges eased as the sale progressed but the medium ewe lambs came under the most pressure and some sold up to $10/head less than last week.
Most regions are under just a little feed pressure for now.
The cattle sale went in a different direction with many sections firming and the demand for the better beef bred cattle strengthening.
More steers were entered this week, especially rising two year steers, and sale prices lifted with these lighter steers not causing so much pasture damage.
23 Charolais cross rising two year steers from ‘‘Kuratahi’’, Taihape, sold for $1725 ($3.37) with good traditional steers from Bullock Hills, Pahiatua, making a few cents/kg more.
Bull numbers were still low and bull sale prices lifted on the back of that.
A larger entry of autumnborn rising two year Friesian bulls from Keruru Farm, Levin, sold well at prices ranging from $3.56 to $3.78/kg.
The rising yearling bull prices also lifted on this market.
Heifers sold to firming demand with good traditional heifers particularly selling well.
Glenray Trust, Ohingaiti, sold their top cut of 20 Angus rising two year heifers for $1360 ($2.88) and nearly all the lighter straight Angus heifers sold for better than $3/kg.
A nice line of 16 rising yearling Charolais cross heifers from Killarney Estate, Hunterville, caught the eye and sold for $1045 ($3.53).
The cattle market was generally firm for the better cattle and definitely a warmer market without the cold breeze of the sheep pens cooling prices.
Sheep (19,803): ewes (3,166); SIL (2,934), $80-$190; lambs (16,638); 41-48kg, $128-$137, $2.87-$3.17, ease; 36-40kg, $102-$130, $2.73-$3.39, ease; 31-35kg, $95-$123.50, $2.86-$3.61, ease; 28-30kg, $90-$106, $3.19-$3.51, ease.
Cattle (842): steers; R3 (62), 487-560kg, $1550-$1740, $3.00-$3.24, steady; R2 (310), 271-512kg, $900-$1725, $2.94-$3.77, lift; R1 (84), 146-253kg, $640-$1040, $3.61-$4.32; bulls; R2 (34), 277-408kg, $1010-$1290, $3.02-$3.78, lift; R1 (104), 183-285kg, $600-$1000, $3.27-$4.12, lift; heifers; R2 & 3 (166), 285-487kg, $840-$1360, $2.48-$3.23, firm; R1 (77), 161-296kg, $590-$1045, $2.35-$3.98; cows VIC (5), 772kg, $1450, $1.87.
FEILDING PRIME STOCK SALE MONDAY JULY 10
A small decrease in the size of the lamb yarding and a reasonable fall in the ewe entries had little effect on sale prices with both sections remaining essentially steady and showing no real change in direction.
The start of the lamb sale featured one vendor with over 500 big male lambs in three lines and all selling for nearly the same money at $160-$167.50.
A couple of hundred of those lambs were very heavy and that dragged back on the cents/kg levels.
One big woolly ram lamb actually sold for $180 later in the sale but he was a whopper.
Heavy prime lambs, numbering a fraction more than last week, and medium prime lambs, also with a fraction more, all sold for very similar cents/kg to last week with a hint of weakening late in the sale as one main buyer packed up and left.
Store lamb numbers halved and the forward store lambs were steady but the lighter, long term lambs eased a little in line with Friday’s store sale trends.
We may have expected more ewes but the hill country breeders are not delaying and have been selling into the strong cull ewe market as soon as they can so there is no build up on farm.
Ewe sale prices were also very steady with most of the number decrease in the medium and lighter ewes.
Cattle numbers are still falling.
5 Angus steers that sold for $1713 ($3.06) today might have sold for more at the Friday store sale and perhaps also the 4 Angus heifers at $780 ($2.33).
Cow numbers are really falling and sale prices were stronger for what was here. The cows were all either Friesian or Hereford/Friesian cross.
One big Angus service bull made virtually the same money as 3 other bulls that were 420kg lighter but he has done his job, presumably.
Sheep (6,834): lambs (5,466); heavy prime (1,636), 50-70kg, $145-$180, $2.60-$2.85, steady; medium prime (3,177), 37-50kg, $115-$147, $2.80-$3.05, steady; store (653), 23-40kg, $59-$120, $2.60-$3.10, steady; ewes (1,344); good, heavy (320), 26-28kg, $117-$126.50, $4.50-$4.60, steady; medium (728), 21-25kg, $85-$115, $4.00-$4.60, steady; lighter (166), 16-20kg, $51-$75, $3.30-$3.80, steady; poor, $11-$43.50; 2ths (130), $50.50-$129; male sheep (24), $20-$131.
Cattle (56): steers (10), 390-460kg, $764-$1835, $1.96-$3.06; heifers (4), 335kg, $780, $2.33; cows (38); good, heavy, 483-600kg, $1120-$1212, $1.99-$2.32, lift; boners, 428-548kg, $774-$1080, $1.81-$1.93, lift; bulls (4), 510-930kg, $1302-$1331, $1.40-$2.61.