Bidding was hot at the first beef calf sale of the season in East Otago.<\/p>\n
There was a full clearance of about 1300 calves, a mix of steers and heifers, at Palmerston Saleyards on March 27.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Demand was strong across all classes,\u2019\u2019 PGG Wrightson auctioneer Mark Yeates said.<\/p>\n
Top steers sold for between $1800 and $2000 each, the second draft of steers fetched between $1600 and $1800 and younger, lighter steers sold for about $1400.<\/p>\n
The best heifers sold for between $1550 and $1700, the second cut fetched between $1300 and $1500 and the lighter and younger heifers sold for between $900 and $1200.<\/p>\n
Buyers were mostly from Otago and the rest were from Canterbury, Mr Yeates said.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Winter crops are looking good and there\u2019s plenty of supplement made.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Prices were up on last year due to the rise in the beef schedule, he said.<\/p>\n
The top steers at the same sale last year fetched between $1500 and $1600 and the top heifers fetched up to $1100, Mr Yeates said.<\/p>\n
Jackie Cameron, of Tiroiti near Hyde, said she and her husband Murdoch bought 29 \u2018\u2018wee\u2019\u2019 heifers at the sale.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Prices were hot, especially for the big steers, so we opted for the little guys and we are in no rush to get them through our system.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
She expected the heifers to be on their family\u2019s 1000ha sheep and beef farm Ivybridge for up to two years.<\/p>\n
The heifers were a range of beef breeds.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018We ended up with a bit of everything, Charolais, Angus, Hereford, a bit of a mix.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Autumn had been good for growing feed, she said.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018We are still mowing the lawn, which is crazy. We have plenty of grass around, which is great.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The Cameron family regularly attended the sale and had never seen calves fetch higher prices.<\/p>\n
Calf buyers and sellers come from far and wide to be part of the sale.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018There was plenty of people at the sale \u2014 she was pretty cosy in the shed.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Steers sold for between $920 and $2020 each at Gore Calf Sale at Charlton Saleyards on April 1.<\/p>\n
Heifers fetched between $740 and $1840 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bidding was hot at the first beef calf sale of the season in East Otago. There was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-369943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}