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AS the book closes on stud and commercial bull sales for the year, 2023 will be remembered as a tough time for many bull breeders, delivering significantly lower average prices and catalogue clearance rates compared with the previous two years.
With final sales for the year held last week, Beef Central’s annual summary of the performance of ten major beef breeds’ sales performance published today shows average prices for breeds down anywhere from 15 to 37 percent this year. Sale numbers (with a couple of significant exceptions) were back by anywhere…
