{"id":254615,"date":"2020-03-13T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T09:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=254615"},"modified":"2020-07-12T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T05:44:13","slug":"numbers-dip-but-prices-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/03\/13\/numbers-dip-but-prices-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers Dip But Prices Steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_165591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165591\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-165591\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161207-murgon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161207-murgon.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161207-murgon-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle numbers at the most recent fortnightly Murgon cattle sale halved after good rainfall across the region, but prices remained steady (Photo: Pratt Agencies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>March 13, 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>Good local rainfall reduced numbers to just over 500 at the latest Murgon fortnightly cattle sale on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Export values eased slightly, but the rest of the market was very strong.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were drawn from Mundubbera, Gayndah, Biggenden, Yarraman, Kingaroy, Kilkivan and the Murgon area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sale results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bulls sold to $3.10\/kg and $2526<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bullocks sold to $3.50\/kg and $1910<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy Cows over 500kg topped at $2.85\/kg and $1660, averaging $2.72\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows 400-500kg also sold to $2.85\/kg for a $2.60 average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lighter Cows under 400kg topped at $2.50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Export heifers sold to $3.26\/kg and $1418<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 pens of Droughtmaster steers from Tansey sold for $3.95\/kg to return $1685 and $1570 at 426 and 397 kg, respectively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Local Droughtmaster steers weighing 423kg sold for $3.91\/kg and $1656<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>366kg Brahman steers from Windera sold for $4.00\/kg and $1466<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>328kg Brangus steers from Merlwood sold to $3.69\/kg to return $1213<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charbray steers from Tansey weighing 290kg sold for $4.11 and $1192<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 pens of Charbray weaner steers from Gin Gin sold for $4.13\/kg to return $1059 and $921<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Droughtmaster weaner steers from Tansey sold for $822 at $3.84\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>320kg Charbray heifers sold for $1152 at $3.60\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>330kg Brangus heifers sold for $3.40 to return $1122<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>219kg Charbray weaner heifers sold to $3.62\/kg for $795<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charolais cross weaner heifers from Memerambi sold to $1074 at $3.60\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Aged Charbray cows and calves sold to $1000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The next Murgon sale is on Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00am.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good local rainfall reduced numbers to just over 500 at the latest Murgon fortnightly cattle sale on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165591,"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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