A run of 76 8-14-month-old Droughtmaster backgrounder steers averaging 268kg from Condamine, Queensland returned 598c/kg or $1600. A further 57 similarly-aged backgrounders from the same vendor – Charbray types averaging 288kg and Hereford types averaging 238kg – bought as weaners – made 551c and 613c/kg respectively.
MOST young cattle categories trended lower in price in an offering of 12,289 head offering on Nutrien and Elders’ AuctionsPlus online marketing platform last week.
Listing numbers were up marginally on the previous week, but were 32pc lower than the same week in…
