{"id":187998,"date":"2017-08-27T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T04:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=187998"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:28:59","slug":"market-softer-in-murgon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/08\/27\/market-softer-in-murgon\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Softer In Murgon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178296\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170516murgon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-178296\" title=\"20170516 Murgon Cattle Sale\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170516murgon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170516murgon.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170516murgon-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170516murgon-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dry weather conditions and easing prices at beef processors saw the entire market soften at Murgon on Tuesday (Photo: Pratt Agencies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>August 27, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prattagencies.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Pratt Agencies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 850 head yarded in Murgon last Tuesday met a softer market throughout.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of easing processing prices and dry weather conditions saw most descriptions cheaper than the market two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were drawn from Mundubbera, Gayndah, Mt Perry, Yarraman, Nanango, Kingaroy and the Murgon district.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heavy Bulls<\/strong> topped at $2.65\/kg and $2800<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bullocks<\/strong> sold to $2.59\/kg and $1697<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Export Heifers<\/strong> sold to $2.49\/kg for $1450<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cows over 500kg<\/strong> sold to a top of $2.07\/kg or $1650<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cows 400\u2013500kg<\/strong> averaged $1.80\/kg to a top of $2.05\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lighter Cows under 400kg<\/strong> sold to $1.80\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Droughtmaster steers<\/strong> from Michelle Donahue of Tansey sold for $2.77 and $2.67 respectively to return $1254 and $1224<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>338kg Hereford cross steers<\/strong> from Karla Grimes sold for $976 at $2.88c\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Angus steers<\/strong> from W. Sampson of Yarraman sold for $898 at $2.87\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>300kg Square Meater cross steers<\/strong> from Geoff Savage of Murgon sold for $886 and $2.93\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Droughtmaster steers<\/strong> from Booubyjan sold for $2.94\/kg and $820<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charbray weaner steers<\/strong> from R &amp; F Nichol of Mt Perry sold for $3.07\/kg, returning $735<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charolais cross weaner steers<\/strong> from J &amp; B Smith of Brigooda sold for $3.06\/kg, returning $845<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charolais weaner steers<\/strong> from Russell Dower of Tingoora also sold for $797 at $3.11\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two pens of Santa weaner steers<\/strong> from G &amp; T Campbell, Paradise Dam sold for $3.03\/kg, returning $768 and $653<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Santa weaner steers<\/strong> from James and Matthew Zillman of Gayndah sold for $750 (3.06), $676 (3.09) and $707 (3.11)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>318kg Hereford heifers<\/strong> sold to $827 at $2.60\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brangus heifers<\/strong> from Koobooda Grazing of Gayndah sold for $694 at $2.73\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Santa weaner heifers<\/strong> from Gayndah sold to $2.78\/kg to return $676<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Droughtmaster weaner heifers<\/strong> from Tansey sold for $697 at $2.75\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>240kg Charolais weaner heifers<\/strong> sold to $660 at $2.74\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brahman weaner heifers<\/strong> from G. Pierce of Murgon sold for $2.80\/kg, returning $672<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fresher weaner heifers<\/strong> sold between $2.60 and $2.75, while plainer store types sold in the $2.40 to $2.60\/kg bracket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next fortnightly sale will be held at the Murgon Saleyards on Tuesday, September 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 850 head yarded in Murgon last Tuesday met a softer market throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,36],"tags":[1134],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Market Softer In Murgon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 850 head yarded in Murgon last Tuesday met a softer market throughout.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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