Normanton steers and mickey bulls offloaded into Emerald sale
After a two week spell due to widespread rainfall, Emerald agents penned just under 1400 at Thursday’s sale.
As anticipated, the recent moisture had every description of cattle fully firm on the last sale’s values, despite the mixed quality offering, most cattle are presenting in a forward to prime condition.
In the prime section bullocks over 550kgs sold to 452c/kg to average 437c/kg, heavy steers 500-550kgs topped at 468c/kg to average 445, heavy heifers over 400kgs coming under feeder & prime competition reached 476c/kg to…