STORE cattle were in red hot demand at the Independent Rural Agents Pemberton special February store cattle sale on AuctionsPlus recently.
It was a quality yarding with the majority of numbers being first draft steer and heifer weaners from later calving herds.
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Values across all descriptions were strong but unjoined Angus heifers heading for breeding duties stole the show selling to $2530.
Angus weaner steers ranging from 289 kilograms to 400kg sold from $1820 to $2285, while good numbers of yearling beef steers topped at $2610.
Grown Friesian steers realised $2270, while slaughter cow values reached $2844 and 699 cents a kilogram dressed weight.
The $2530 top-priced line of 40 Angus weaner heifers weighing 361kg (701c/kg liveweight) aged eight to nine months were offered by the Cumming family, Jarrahlea Pty Ltd, Mayanup.
James Mollett & Partners, Denmark, received $2425 and 683c/kg LWT for their line of 25 Angus weaner heifers aged 9-10 months weighing 355kg, while WF & TA Ebbett, Bowbridge, sold a line of 16 Angus weaned heifers for $2350 and 673c/kg LWT.
GL Brown, Denmark, topped the weaner steer portion with 13 Angus steers aged 8-10 months weighing 399kg LWT, which were knocked down for $2285 and 573c/kg, while the Mollett's draft of 27 weaned Angus steers aged 10-11 months weighing 399kg sold for $2250 and 564c/kg LWT.
Lightweight Angus steers aged 7-8 months weighing 289kg offered by ML & NJ Aldridge, Balingup, topped liveweight values at 631c/kg returning $1825.
Yearling steer prices reached $2610 at 487c/kg LWT for 41 yearling Angus steers averaging 536kg from the paddocks of NT & LJ Makin, Northcliffe, while a line of 21 first cross Angus-Friesian steers weighing 618kg offered by Gilmay Farm Enterprises, Northcliffe, sold for $2476 and 753.7c/kg DWT.
Scott Bendotti, Manjimup, presented a couple of lines of yearling and grown Friesian steers which topped at $2270 at 373c/kg LWT for eight older steers weighing 608kg.
Rounding out the sale was a big line of 60 slaughter Angus heifers and cows tipping the scales at 781kg offered by JS & EN Bagshaw, Boyup Brook, which sold for $2844 and 699.1c/kg DWT.
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