A variety of quality cattle were penned giving buyers a virtual smorgasbord to choose from.

It will be a sea of black at the Mt Barker Regional Saleyards today.

This first-cross, unjoined heifer and store sale on Friday, January 11, will be a must for producers looking for replacements for this year’s mating program.

In the sale commencing at 11.30am will be 552 PTIC heifers and 183 unjoined heifers.

A total of 8714 ewes was offered at the sale and there was a 100 per cent clearance.

Right from the opening pen the 39 registered buyers, back from 64 last year, dictated the sale and made auctioneer Alec Williams work for every bid.

$19,050 was raised for the Albany Hospice.

Yarding numbers were slightly lower than advertised with a total of 941 head.

The heat didn’t detract buyers from coming along to the sale.

The average was more than $100 up on the previous two special weaner sales held at Boyanup.