{"id":253619,"date":"2020-02-26T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=253619"},"modified":"2020-07-12T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T07:00:45","slug":"prices-stay-firm-and-numbers-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/26\/prices-stay-firm-and-numbers-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices Stay Firm And Numbers Rise"},"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\">Cattle prices remained dear and the number of beasts up for auction increased at the most recent Murgon cattle sale (Photo: Pratt Agencies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>February 26, 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>Prices stayed high and cattle numbers rose almost 20 per cent at the latest fortnightly cattle sale in Murgon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 950 head were yarded with all descriptions selling to dear rates.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were drawn from Mundubbera, Gayndah, Nanango, Yarraman, Proston, Kingaroy, Kilkivan and the Murgon district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sale results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bulls sold to $3.20\/kg and $2560<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bullocks sold to $3.78\/kg and $2257<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows over 500kg topped at $3.06\/kg and $1960, averaging $2.86\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows 400-500kg sold to $2.96\/kg for a $2.63 average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows under 400kg topped at $3.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Export heifers sold to $3.49\/kg and $1777<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>436kg Braford steers sold for $3.77\/kg and $1647<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>390kg Droughtmaster cross steers sold to $3.97\/kg to return $1548<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>305kg Murray Grey steers sold for $1187 at $3.89\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>307kg Red Angus steers from Hivesville sold for $1187 at $3.86\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charbray steers from Johnstown sold for $3.85\/kg and $1473<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>371kg Charbray steers sold for $1370 at $3.69\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Local Simmental cross weaner steers sold for $3.99\/kg, returning $1155<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>258kg Charbray weaner steers sold for $4.00\/kg to return $1035<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brangus steers weighing 289kg sold for $3.99\/kg and $1155<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Droughtmaster weaner steers from Gayndah sold for $1038 at $3.80\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charolais cross weaner steers from Johnstown sold for $4.00\/kg and $840<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Light Droughtmaster weaner steers from Gayndah sold for $4.12\/kg to return $702<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Simmental cross weaner steers from Gayndah sold for $777 at $4.02\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>391kg Droughtmaster cross heifers from Windera sold for $1344 at $3.43\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charbray heifers from Mundubbera sold to $1119 at $3.39\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Local Santa heifers weighing 330kg sold for $3.35\/kg and $1136<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>308kg Santa heifers from Nanango sold for $1021 and $3.31\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A line of 70 local Droughtmaster weaner heifers sold for an average of $670 and $3.16\/kg, the tops selling to $3.33\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Santa weaner heifers from Nanango sold to $3.55\/kg to return $609<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speckle Park weaner heifers from Wondai sold for $3.25\/kg and $588<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The next Murgon sale is on Tuesday, March 10 at 8:00am.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices stayed high and cattle numbers rose almost 20 per cent at the latest fortnightly cattle sale in Murgon on Tuesday. <\/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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