There was a smaller yarding of 834 head at the NRLX sales today, Wednesday, July 23 made up mainly of weaners with a few less cows yarded this week compared to last week.
The market was stronger throughout the sale with restocker weaner steers selling 10c dearer and more in places depending on breed and weight, ranging from 342c to 478c with the medium weight steers averaging 437c/kg.
Restocker weaner heifers mproved by 20c selling from 214c to 358c/kg.
There were only a few pens of yearling steers and they met a strong market to feed and background ranging from 336c to 408c/kg.
Cows dominated the grown cattle, while there was a small penning of grown steers that sold to a top of 374c/kg to restock.
Grown heifers to feed sold to 356c and heifers to process toped at 326c/kg.
The cow market was dearer for all classes of cows with 4 score cows selling 10c to 15c dearer selling from 296c to 322c, while plainer cows were 20c to 30c dearer, the 3 score medium weights averaged 279c and 2 score medium weights ranged from 248c to 288c/kg.
Heavy bulls reached a top price of 318c/kg.
Report by Doug Robson for Meat & Livestock Australia