Numbers were steady and the quality was fair to good at the SELX cattle sale last week, and trade cattle with enough shape and cover were in short supply.
The Alexander Downs Beef Program at Merriwa in the Upper Hunter Valley is requiring the supply of Limousin Infused cattle for its Certified Limousin Beef Program.
Ron Beaton, Nareen, accepts the Herefords Australia champion pen trophy on behalf of his brother Stephen Beaton at the Hamilton Hereford feature weaner sale. He is pictured with judge Dion Brook, Cavendish.
Grass fed steer finishers fired the opening salvo in the southern Australia weaner calf sale circuit, paying up to 430c/kg for Hereford calves at Casterton on January 10.
On the 31st January 2017, Kate Brabin will be exiting the position of CEO of Certified Angus Group P/L, and the independent Directors Richard Rains, Tony Hale and Peter Trahar will be exiting the CAG P/L Board.
Registered suppliers to the JBS Australia Thousand Guineas program will also be required to fill in a separate vendors’ declaration to send with the NVD form with their consignment of cattle to JBS Australia feedlots.
At the close of Thursday’s markets the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) finished 2¢ dearer on where it had finished the previous day, at 634.50¢/kg cwt.