Small yarding but hot prices as Yea cracks 600 cents a kilogram for young steers

Jack Ginnane, Nutrien Leongatha talks about the Yea fortnightly store sale with Andrew Miller.

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00:00Quite a wintry yarding today. Not a lot of heavier cattle, a lot of lighter cattle today

00:04in wintry condition, but sold accordingly. Sold very, very well. We saw some $6 sales in the steers.

00:11We saw probably, I reckon I haven't worked it quite out, but they'd be very close to $5 a kilo

00:14in the smaller heifers. So yeah, very well supported from all around the state looking

00:18to restock. Not a lot of commission buyers nor feedlotters active today, if at all,

00:23and very good local support as well. Small yarding, look, I'd say a lot of these cattle

00:27have probably gone out of the area already that are usually being sold. But a bit of the time of

00:31year, it sort of always quietens down a bit, sort of that July, August, and people getting ready for

00:36cattle to come in the spring, have their 12-month-old cattle for sort of September, October

00:40calving last year that will be ready to sell in the next few months as the grass and the conditions

00:45start to ramp up a bit.