Northern buyers push prices north at first Naracoorte weaner sale for 2025

The first Naracoorte weaner sale for the year put a smile on the faces of vendors.

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00:00Probably 5,200, I would have thought. 3,200 of those steers and a couple thousand heifers.

00:05Absolute credit to all the vendors for presenting the stock that they have in the way that they have

00:10coming out of 2024. They are absolute class yarding and a lot of EU cattle here today.

00:17So no, credit goes to the vendors for the way they've lined them up there today.

00:21We probably knew we were in for a reasonable type of day, but at the end of the day you never know

00:26until the buyers line up on the rail, really, and they have today. On some of those little cattle,

00:31those 280 or below kilo calves, out to $4.70 thereabouts, and that's a big rise from even

00:38our Christmas one, really. Those sort of cattle before Christmas, not that there was a lot of them,

00:44sort of struggled to make their $4, so we saw a good price rise in those. A lot ahead of nought,

00:49which was where the buying strength was going to come from. There's some faces here that we

00:54wouldn't have seen occurrently for a long time, or maybe haven't seen them here on the rail, really,

00:59so just goes to show that strength in the north is definitely there and played a big part today.