{"id":189150,"date":"2017-09-06T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=189150"},"modified":"2020-08-14T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T02:39:01","slug":"murgon-market-up-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/09\/06\/murgon-market-up-slightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Murgon Market Up Slightly"},"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 are leading to lighter cattle, and this is unlikely to improve until there&#8217;s rain (Photo: Pratt Agencies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>September 6, 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>Tuesday&#8217;s fortnightly cattle sale in Murgon saw 850 cattle yarded and the market improve slightly in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing dry weather is now taking a toll on the condition of cattle, and weight loss will continue until there is a break in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Feeder numbers were in short supply with most of the store cattle yarded being weaner age animals.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were consigned from Mt Perry, Biggenden, Mundubbera, Gayndah, Yarraman, Nanango, Kingaroy and Murgon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sale results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heavy Bulls<\/strong> sold to $2330 and $2.50\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cows over 520kg<\/strong> sold to $2.10\/kg, averaging $1.99\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cows 400\u2013500kg<\/strong> averaged $2.01\/kg for a top of $2.12\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cows under 400kg<\/strong> sold to $1.85\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Export type heifers<\/strong> topped at $2.57\/kg and $1380<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>400kg Hereford steers<\/strong> sold to $2.72\/kg for $1102<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Angus steers 465kg<\/strong> returned $1210<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>355kg Charbray steers<\/strong> from K. Cummings of Coringa sold for $1010 and $2.84\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>373kg Santa steers<\/strong> from L. Wilson sold to $1020 at $2.73\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>315kg Angus cross steers<\/strong> from Glenrock Farms sold for $1040 at $2.75\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A line of Charbray weaner steers<\/strong> from R &amp; F Nichol of Mt Perry sold for a top of $3.39\/kg and $810<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>257kg Charolais cross weaner steers<\/strong> from A &amp; E Grazing of Byrnestown sold to $818 at $3.18\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Droughtmaster cross heifers<\/strong> weighing 405kg sold for $1042 and $2.57\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>305kg Angus cross heifers<\/strong> sold to $2.70\/kg, returning $824<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>226kg Angus weaner heifers<\/strong> from Court &amp; Ellerton sold to $3.09\/kg for a $700 return<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charolais cross weaner heifers<\/strong> weighing 226kg sold to $689 at $3.02\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charbray weaner heifers<\/strong> from J &amp; M Kinsella of Manumbar sold to $3.00\/kg for $650<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Better quality weaner heifers<\/strong> sold mainly in the $2.70-$2.90\/kg bracket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next fortnightly catle sale will be held on Tuesday, September 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s fortnightly cattle sale in Murgon saw 850 cattle yarded and the market improve slightly in some areas. <\/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":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Murgon Market Up Slightly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tuesday&#039;s fortnightly cattle sale in Murgon saw 850 cattle yarded and the market improve slightly in some areas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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