Two young leaders in the Australian beef industry have been announced as winners of the prestigious CM Hocking Memorial Scholarship from Herefords Australia. South Australians Georgie Beighton, of Penola, and Sarah Day, of Bordertown, will receive the scholarship bursary to undertake studies to benefit the Australian Hereford industry. The scholarship embodies the love of Herefords…
Whiteface seedstock heavyweights went head to head to snap up a large portion of the Hereford offering at the Hamilton All Breeds Heifer sale on Wednesday. Yarram Park’s Western District Pastoral Company and Injemira Beef Genetics, Wagga, were among the dominant players, paying the top prices in the Hereford run of $1306 or 406c/kg. Selling…
The run of heifer weaner sales in Victoria’s Western Districts wound up on Thursday with restockers and lot feeders paying to a top of $1394 for whiteface cattle. Vendors were lift smiling as their averages rose by more than 100c/kg on last year on their top and secondary pens. Selling agents Landmark and Elders yarded…
Lot feeders set the pace in the whiteface pens at the Elders and Landmark combined heifer weaner sale on Thursday, with Herefords hitting $1330. Selling agents yarded 1800 Hereford, Black Baldy and Angus heifer weaners for the January 19 fixture at Casterton in Victoria’s Western Districts. The Elders yarding of 853 head averaged $1072, with…
So how did the Hereford breed track this year across the week of the opening weaner sales in Victoria? The fact the western districts is among the few places in the nation where bigger drafts of well bred one-mark, weaned Hereford calves are on offer, had buyers elbowing for space on the rail. This year…
NSW steer finishers competed strongly on the top end Hereford calves at the 50th annual Elders and Landmark feature weaner calf sale, to result in prices hitting 416c/kg – 76c/kg up on last year. The addition of feedlot, backgrounder and processor competition from Victorian, South Australia meant prices did not dip below 342c/kg. Interfaced with…
Backgrounders and lot feeders led the charge for whiteface weaners at the Elders Casterton 62nd annual steer weaner sale on Friday, paying to a top of $1517. The selling agents yarded 1511 head, averaging 326kg liveweight to return an average of $1240 and result in an overall sale gross of $1.87 million. Elders Casterton livestock…
A solid week of weaner sales across southern Australia culminated in Hereford steers peaking at 464c/kg at the Wodonga Blue Ribbon Weaner Sale on Friday. Buyers remarked on the strength of the offering of autumn 2016 drop weaned calves and responded accordingly, paying to a top of $1480 or 393c/kg for the heavy end. Albury-Wodonga…
The Hereford juggernaut rolled on as the run of Wodonga weaner sales opened on Thursday with autumn drop steers peaking at 454c/kg and grown steers hitting $1650. Victorian grass fed steer finishers joined the strong northern buying contingent of lot feeders and backgrounders to push prices up almost 30c/kg on Wednesday’s whiteface sale at Hamilton…
Hereford producers celebrated the market boom today at the Hamilton Hereford feature weaner sale with prices hitting $1580. Hamilton Independent Agents yarded 1651 Hereford and Hereford cross steers, with the market kicking by up to 10c/kg or $185 a head for the heavier pens on yesterday’s Casterton weaner sale. With intense bidding pressure from lot…
