CQLX Gracemere Cattle Report

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Report Date: 15th January 2025

Total Yarding: 2,750

Commentary

CQLX Vendors penned 2750 head for their first sale of the 2025 selling year at Gracemere. Cattle came from local areas plus from the coastal strip from Mackay to Bororen and also areas west to Taroom and Clermont to comprise a mixed offering.
The usual feeder and processor buyer panel was short a few. However this did not stop prices improving on the closing sales in 2024 through the entire yarding.

A few vealer steers made to 431c/kg to average 415c/kg, whilst the vealer heifers sold to a top of 349c/kg to return a 344c/kg average.

Light weight yearling steers reached 455c/kg to restockers to average 400c to 415c/kg for well-bred pens. Medium weight lines topped at 445c/kg, averaging 400c to 407c/kg.
Light weight yearling heifers made to 359c/kg, to average 331c to 344c/kg for best-bred pens to backgrounders and restockers. Well-bred, medium weight lines averaged 332c to 353c/kg.

Bullocks to processors averaged 344c to 365c/kg, whilst the feeder lines sold to 411c/kg, recording an average 363c to 389c/kg. Trade heifers made from 325c to 351c/kg average for the best finished pens.

Heavy, four score cows, selling to processors topped at 318c/kg to average 311c/kg. Heavy bulls to processors averaged 282c/kg, with those to livex averaging 281c/kg. A better quality lineup of cows and calves sold to keen competition which saw most sell from $1,400 to $1,820 per unit. Reporter: Richard Thomson.