Coalgate stock sale
A pen of suffolk lambs made $198 a head at livestock sales at Coalgate last week.
Top lambs made $190-$198 in a strong market.
Prime steers made $2.62/kg$2.89.
Prime lambs
Values: Another extraordinary sale with prices peaking at $198 for a nice pen of suffolk lambs.
Tops made $190-$198, good $170-$190, medium $140-$170 and light $125-$140. Sales included: Castle Ridge Station (Ashburton Gorge) 184 lambs at $150-$177, Wendrum Farm (Southbridge) 103 lms at $166-$187, Omaha Farm (Darfield) 88 lms at
$152-$174, Fitzallan Park (Southbridge) 62 lms at $163-$165, BL & KL Hussey (Hororata) 53 lms at
$128-$147, Taraghur Farm (Glentunnel) 51 lms at $125-$147, B Doig (Chertsey) 45 lms at $180-$184, Lake Coleridge Station (Rakaia Gorge) 29 lms at $148-$185, BW & LD Nell (Rakaia Gorge) 29 lms at $168, NJ Moorhead (Southbridge) 25 lms at $196.
Prime ewes
Values: A mixed yarding with mainly medium conditioned ewes yarded. Good ewes made $160-$180, medium $130-$150 and light
$90-$110.
Sales included: AW & RE Preece (Motukarara) 200 ewes at $101-$120, Boundary Road (Darfield) 80 es at
$124-$156, HA Faulkner (Kowai Bush)
58 es at $90-$161, R & J Ewart (Leeston) 42 es at $106-$147, Brooklands Farm (Southbridge) 36 es at $100-$183, Altonbrook Farm (Southbridge) 21 es at $137-$171, MS & LA Harmer (Staveley) 20 es at $113-$163, NJ Moorhead (Southbridge) 13 es at $141.
Store sheep
Values: Some outstanding store lambs offered including a large line of corriedale lambs and buyers reciprocated with free flowing bids. Good shorn crossbred lambs also met with solid demand. Tops made
$120-$148, good $110-$120, medium
$90-$110 and light $85-$95. Sales included: BW & LD Nell (Rakaia Gorge) 968 lambs at
$109-$148, Florance Farms (Waiau)
100 lms at $97-$105, A McKenzie Contracting (Tauhiwi) 95 lms at $130, Maungatui Farm (Motunau) 93 lms at
$99-$125, T & S Symmers (Greymouth) 67 lms at $120-$127, D Holland (Oxford) 54 lms at $114-$129, Seaview P/ship (Omihi) 47 lms at $116.
Prime cattle
Values: Heavy steers made up to
$2.66/kg, angus steers at 450-500kg made up to $2.89/kg. Speckle park heifers made $2.62/kg, angus heifers
$2.60/kg, friesian cross heifers at
600kg made $2.56/kg and cull sire bulls made at $1.70-$1.80/kg. Steers made $2.62/kg-$2.89, heifers
$2.20-$2.62 and bulls $1.70-$2.55. Sales included: BR & L Petrie (Staveley) 11 steers at $1047-$1200, N Davis (Leeston) 4 strs at $1320, L & D Baxter (Amberley) 2 strs at $1529, Chastleton P/ship (Cust) 1 str at $1740.
Store cattle
Values: In a mixed quality yarding, rising two-year-old friesian bulls at
397kg made $950 per head at
$2.40/kg. Rising one-year-old angus Heifers at 270kg made $850 and rising one-year-old hereford/friesian cross heifers at 201kg made $590. Two-year-old bulls made $700-$950, angus yearling steers $800-$860, angus yearling heifers $600-$860.