{"id":199969,"date":"2018-01-29T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=199969"},"modified":"2020-08-08T13:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T03:50:37","slug":"cattle-prices-stay-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/01\/29\/cattle-prices-stay-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle Prices Stay Firm"},"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\">Prices stayed close to last December&#8217;s levels at Murgon&#8217;s first fortnightly cattle sale for 2018 (Photo: Pratt Agencies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>January 29, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prattagencies.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Pratt Agencies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>650 cattle were yarded in Murgon on Tuesday, January 16 for the first sale of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Values for all descriptions were slightly easier on the previous sale last December, though not by much.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were drawn from Mundubbera, Mt Perry, Gayndah, Kingaroy, Nanango and the Murgon district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sale results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heavy bulls<\/strong> sold to $2.55 c\/kg for a top of $2630<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brahman steers<\/strong> averaging 493 kg sold to $2.78\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Export heifers<\/strong> sold to $2.79\/kg and $1220<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heavy cows over 500kg<\/strong> averaged $2.15\/kg, topping at $2.28\/kg and $1410<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cows 400\u2013500kg<\/strong> sold to $2.12\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Very few <strong>cows under 400kg<\/strong> were yarded and topped at $1.95\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brahman steers<\/strong> from Murgon averaging 407kg sold for $1145.00 at $2.81\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A line of 64 <strong>Droughtmaster<\/strong> milk and 2 tooth steers from Myora Pastoral of Johnstown sold to $3.09\/kg, averaging $2.92\/kg and $994<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 pens of local <strong>Gelvieh steers<\/strong> sold for $3.02\/kg, returning $1186 and $1003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hereford steers<\/strong> averaging 325kg from Proston sold for $3.07\/kg, returning $998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two pens of <strong>Santa weaner steers<\/strong> from G &amp; T Campbell of Paradise Dam sold \u00a0for $861 ($3.19) and $760 ($3.49)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Droughtmaster cross weaner steers<\/strong> from D. Williams of Gayndah sold for $825 at $3.30\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>412 kg <strong>Charbray heifers<\/strong> from Merlwood sold for $2.71\/kg for $1119<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>330 kg <strong>Gelvieh heifers<\/strong> from Murgon sold to $2.91\/kg for $965<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Droughtmaster cross heifers<\/strong> weighing 320 kg from W &amp; M Hankinson sold for $898 at $2.80\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>230 kg <strong>Santa weaner heifers<\/strong> from the Campbell Family sold for $3.17\/kg to return $735<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Droughtmaster weaner heifers<\/strong> from G. Monaghan of Redgate sold for $603 at $2.99\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brangus cows and calves<\/strong> sold to $1400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>650 cattle were yarded in Murgon on Tuesday, January 16 for the first sale of 2018.<\/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>Cattle Prices Stay Firm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"650 cattle were yarded in Murgon on Tuesday, January 16 for the first sale of 2018.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/01\/29\/cattle-prices-stay-firm\/\" 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