Buyer confidence leads strong sales

Rose Harding rounds up cattle prices.

Plentiful feed and buyer confidence meant in-calf cows sold strongly at yesterday's annual cow fair at Stortford Lodge.

The wet weather did not deter either vendors or the full rostrum of buyers and the quality offering of 616 head sold to buyers from Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, Wairarapa, the Bay of Plenty and Christchurch.

A feature of the sale was the annual offering of 194 head of angus cows from Moeangiangi Station, Waihau.

Top price was $3.67/kg, $1730/head, for a line of 17 R3, 471kg, angus heifers sold by Tuapae Farm, Kereru. A similar line from the same vendor made $3.51/kg, $1750/head for 20, 499kg heifers. That compares with last year's top price of $3.34/kg, $1490/head, 445kg three-year-old hereford-friesian heifers sold by Manganoe Farm, Waihau.

The rain did result in a smaller lamb offering than expected at about 3000 but prices were up again on last week as the good news continues for sheep breeders. There was only one pen of lambs from Wairoa or Gisborne on offer this week. In the past few weeks they have comprised most of the weekly offering.

PRICES

Cows: (All VIC) Moeangiangi Station, Waihau, 45 5/7yr ang, av weight, 521kg, 299c/kg, $1560/head; 44 4/6yr ang, av weight, 447kg, 346c/kg, $1550/head; 45 7yr ang, av weight, 484kg, 325c/kg, $1575/head; 14 4/6yr ang, av weight, 404kg, 353c/kg, $130/head; 17 7yr, av weight, 424kg, 344c/kg, $1460/head; 28 7yr, av weight, 398kg, 349c/kg, $1390/head; F and M Goulding, Otamauri, 30 8/9yr ang, av weight, 597kg, 252c/kg, $1500/head; Mangatapriri Station, Elsthorpe, 21 m/a ang, av weight, 512kg, 293c/kg, $1500/head; 22 7/8yr ang, av weight, 464kg, 303c/kg, $1410/head; 40 the same, av weight, 515kg, 293c/kg, $1510/head; Waipoapoa Station, Maraetotara, m/a here, av weight, 607kg, 265c/kg, $1610/head; D and J Yule, Dartmoor, 31 m/a here, av weight, 556kg, 287c/kg, $1600/head; eight the same, av weight, 523kg, 294c/kg, $1546/head; Totara Hills, Tikokino, 24 m/a here-fries and ang, av weight, 528kg, 250c/kg, $1350/head; Maraetara Farming, Seafield Rd, 22 R3 ang, av weight, 446kg, 327c/kg, $1460/head; 15 m/a ang, av weight, 500kg, 280c/kg, $1405/head; Tuapae Farm, Kereru, 17 R3 ang, av weight, 471kg, 367c/kg, $1730/head; 20 the same, av weight, 499kg, 351c/kg, $1750/head; R and J Gannon, Tutira, 24 ang and ang-here, av weight, 428kg, 348c/kg, $1680/head; Mangakuri Station, Elsthorpe,21 m/a ang, av weight, 550kg, 244c/kg,. $1345/head; Ard Lussa, Waihau, 16 m/a here-fries, av weight, 503kg, 278c/kg, $1400/head; Ouepoto Station, Omakere, 584kg, 239c/kg, $1400/head; Rangatira E Trust, Taupo, 15 m/a ang and ang-here, av weight, 554kg, 247c/kg, $1370/head; 12 the same, av weight, 484kg, 267c/kg, $1295/head; Waipunga Ltd, Kaiwaka, eight 5/7yr ang, av weight, 562kg, 275c/kg, $1550/head; Taramoa Farm, Puketitiri, seven m/a sth dev and ang-here, av weight, 638kg, 229c/kg, $1465/head; J Thompson, Puketapu, 10 m/a ang, av weight, 473kg, 283c/kg $1340/head.
Bulls: S McCallum, Maraekakaho, 10 R2 fries, av weight, 290kg, 344c/kg, $1000/head.

SHEEP

Lambs: F and M Goulding, Otamauri, 131 c/o, $124.50; D Matches, Glengarry, 115 male, $118; 53 male, $110.50; Chipinga Farm, Waitara Rd, 28 male, $109.50; 118 male, $107; 85 male, $104.50; 84 ewe, $99; 51 ewe, $92.50; P and S Allport, Porangahau, 245 male, $109.50; 216 male, $110.50; 63 male, $105; Earnmore Farm, Te Awa Rd, Waipukurau, 162 male, $100; 76 ewe, $102.50; 55 b/f m/s, $99; Kahuranaki Station, Havelock North, 222 ewe, $105; 129 ewe, $101.50; 80 ewe, $106; 29 ewe, $92.50; H McMillan, Tutira, 114 male, $102.50; 134 ewe, $102; Tukemokihi Station, Wairoa, 164 ewe, $95; 106 male, $97; 102 ewe, $90.50; 100 ewe, $91; Wedd Farming, Puketitiri, 160 ewe, $97.50; C and E Haldane, Mohaka, 60 ram, $99.50; 95 ewe, $97; 56 ewe, $96; 37 ram, $93.

Prime sale

All classes of stock sold strongly at Monday's prime sale.

An average-quality yarding of about 350 ewes sold to good demand while lamb prices continued their rise of the last few weeks. In the cattle sale the cows sold particularly well in the yarding of 50 head.

PRICES

CATTLE

Cows: (Ang, here-fries, ang-cross) Av weight, 411kg to 560kg, 195.5c/kg to 217c/kg, $804/head to $1215/head. Heifers: (Here-fries, jersey-cross, ang) Av weight, 435kg to 585kg, 220c/kg to 297c/kg, $957/head to $1678/head.
Oxen: (Ang-here, here-fries, fries) Av weight, 320kg to 628kg, 250c/kg to 309c/kg, $825/head to $1942/head.

SHEEP

Ewes: Slipe, good, $95 to $97.50; med, $76 to $86.50; lighter, $69 to $75. Shorn, med, $79. Woolly, $100.

Lambs: Male, $100 to $124; ewe, $115 to $140; m/s, $83; b/f, $91 TO $118.