{"id":245945,"date":"2019-10-15T19:45:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=245945"},"modified":"2020-07-16T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T02:06:28","slug":"drought-bites-into-cattle-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/10\/15\/drought-bites-into-cattle-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Bites Into Cattle Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244130\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-244130\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190912cattle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190912cattle.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190912cattle-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of cattle offered for sale at the most recent fortnightly Murgon sales was roughly half the usual roll-up, but prices stayed fully firm across most descriptions (Photo: Pratt Agencies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>October 15, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prattagencies.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Pratt Agencies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Numbers were reduced to 400 in Murgon at the last fortnightly cattle sale on Tuesday, October 1.<\/p>\n<p>All descriptions remained fully firm on the last sale with the exception of the weaner heifer market, which was tougher.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were drawn from Mundubbera, Mt Perry, Coringa, Gayndah, Nanango, Tansey, Kingaroy, Kilkivan and the Murgon area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sale results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy bulls sold to $2.65 and $2300<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bullocks topped at $2.93\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows over 500kg topped at $2.37\/kg, averaging $2.20\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows 400\u2013500kg sold to a top of $2.18\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lighter Cows under 400kg sold to $1.70\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Export heifers sold to $2.77\/kg and $1430<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>423kg Charolais steers from Mt Perry sold for $1185 at $2.80\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Droughtmaster steers from Tansey sold for $1125 at $2.76\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brahman steers weighing 435kg sold for $2.64\/kg, returning $1150<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>326kg Droughtmaster steers sold for $2.40\/kg and $782<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Three pens of Santa weaner steers from Gayndah sold for $2.59\/kg to average 270kg and $700, the lead pen selling for $773<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charbray weaner steers also from Gayndah sold for $2.53\/kg and $612<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>396kg Charbray heifers from Mt Perry sold for $2.48\/kg, returning $930<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two pens of Droughtmaster heifers from Tansey sold for $2.44\/kg and $2.33\/kg to average $808 at 335 kilograms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>305kg Santa heifers from Gayndah sold to $2.20\/kg for $671<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A fair percentage of the weaner heifers yarded sold from $1.65\/kg to $1.85\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The next Murgon sale will be held on Tuesday, October 15 at 8:00am.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers were reduced to 400 in Murgon at the last fortnightly cattle sale on Tuesday, October 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244130,"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 - 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