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Young cattle surge continues on AuctionsPlus

Part of a line of 102 Santa cross steers 8-12 months averaging 327kg from Thargomindah, QLD that returned $1350/head or 413c/kg on Thursday.

Most young cattle categories on AuctionsPlus continued to rise in value in an Australia Day holiday-shortened trading week this week.

Numbers listed were down 39pc on the week before with an offering of around 7000 head. Weekly sales this week were held on Thursday instead of Friday.

Despite the smaller yarding and stronger price trends, clearance fell by nine percentage points to 76pc.

Processors were active this week, with 19pc of the sold offering…

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