{"id":257133,"date":"2020-04-23T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=257133"},"modified":"2020-07-11T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:58:30","slug":"cattle-demand-remains-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/04\/23\/cattle-demand-remains-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle Demand Remains Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_210040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210040\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-210040\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cattle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cattle.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cattle-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cattle-263x163.jpg 263w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cattle-285x177.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demand for cattle remainied strong across most descriptions at Murgon&#8217;s most recent fortnightly cattle sale, while numbers eased back slightly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>April 23, 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&#8217;s fortnightly cattle sale on Tuesday saw 650 head yarded, slightly down on the numbers at the last sale.<\/p>\n<p>Prices for export cattle eased slightly again, but demand remained strong for all store descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Cattle were drawn from Mundubbera, Gayndah, Coringa, Kumbia, Durong, Nanango, Yarraman, Kingaroy and the Murgon district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sale results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bulls topped at to $2.75\/kg and $2460<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bullocks sold to $3.09\/kg and $1550<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy Cows over 500kg topped at $2.42\/kg and $1625, averaging $2.32\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cows 400-500kg sold to $2.45\/kg for a $2.21 average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lighter Cows under 400kg topped at $2.06<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Export heifers sold to $2.80\/kg and $1440<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 pens of local Santa steers averaging 397kg sold for an average of $1340 at $3.37\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 tooth Charbray steers from Kumbia weighing 448kg sold for $2.82\/kg and $1264<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>330 Charbray steers from Coringa sold to $1159 at $3.50\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Soft Euro cross steers from Windera sold for $3.36\/kg and $1217 with a weight of 362kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>358kg Simmental steers from Proston sold for $3.28\/kg to return $1177<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 tooth Droughtmaster steers from Gayndah sold to $1276 at $3.25\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charolais cross weaner steers from Windera sold for $4.10\/kg and $838<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Simmental cross weaner steers ex Gayndah sold for $4.04\/kg to return $817<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charbray weaner steers from Coringa sold for $1004 at $3.93\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Local Angus cross weaner steers sold to $900 at $3.78\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>360kg Simmental cross heifers sold to $1066 and $2.96\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>331kg Euro cross heifers sold for $3.01\/kg, returning $998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Red Brangus heifers from Wondai sold for $1010 at $2.90\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>240kg Santa weaner heifers &#8211; also from Wondai &#8211; sold to $3.36\/kg for $810<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Droughtmaster cross weaner heifers sold to $784 at $3.20\/kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Simmental cross weaner heifers from Gayndah sold for $3.46\/kg and $682<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Droughtmaster cows and calves sold to $1455<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The next Murgon sale will be held on Tuesday, May 5, at 8:00am.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murgon&#8217;s fortnightly cattle sale on Tuesday saw 650 head yarded, slightly down on the numbers at the last sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210040,"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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