{"id":251195,"date":"2020-01-22T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=251195"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T02:35:09","slug":"tougher-market-for-heifers-weaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/01\/22\/tougher-market-for-heifers-weaners\/","title":{"rendered":"Tougher Market For Heifers, Weaners"},"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\">Prices for export cattle and feeders stayed roughly the same at last week&#8217;s Murgon cattle sale, but heifers and weaners proved harder to shift (Photo: Pratt Agencies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>January 22, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prattagencies.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Pratt Agencies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Murgon agents yarded just short of 800 head on January 14 in the first fortnightly cattle sale for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The market for export cattle as well as feeders was similar to the last sale, and weaner steers and heifers were harder to shift.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were drawn from Mundubbera, Gayndah, Mt Perry, Biggenden, Nanango, Durong, Kingaroy, Kilkivan and the Murgon area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sale results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bulls sold to $2.29\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy Cows over 500kg topped at $2.40\/kg and $1530<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows 400-500kg sold to $2.27\/kg, averaging $1.82\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lighter Cows under 400kg topped at $2.17\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Export heifers sold to $2.69\/kg and $1320<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 pens of Charbray steers from Mt Perry sold for $2.80\/kg to return $1123 and $98<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>370kg Santa steers from Mt Larcom sold for $1075 at $2.90\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>311kg Droughtmaster steers from Tansey sold for $856 at $2.75\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charbray steers weighing 320kg sold to $2.60\/kg, returning $832<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Limousin weaner steers from Mt McEuen sold for $695 at $2.60\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brangus weaner steers from Mondure sold for $506 at $2.22\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Euro cross heifers from Wondai sold for $2.52\/kg and $844<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charolais cross heifers from Wheatlands sold for $880 at $2.50\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>311kg Brahman cross heifers from Tansey sold to $753 at $2.42\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hereford heifers from Johnstown sold for $2.37\/kg, returning $672<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 pens of Droughtmaster heifers from Tansey sold for $2.26\/kg to return $649 and $593<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brangus weaner heifers sold for $2.01\/kg and $327<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The next Murgon sale is on Tuesday, January 28 at 8:00am.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murgon agents yarded just short of 800 head on January 14 in the first fortnightly cattle sale for 2020.  <\/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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