Forbes Cattle Report

Report Date: 1st December 2025

Total Yarding: 3,414

Commentary

Numbers jumped this sale with agents yarding 3414 head. Quality was fair with a large portion being good runs of well bred cattle though there was still a small percentage of secondary cattle offered. All the usual buyers were present and competing in a market that sold firm to easier with quality contributing.

Yearlings steers were firm to 8c easier with those to feed selling from 440 to 534c/kg. Finished lines to processors received from 442c to 478c/kg. The heifer portion corrected after last week’s gains with feeder heifers receiving from 415 to 468c/kg. Processors paid 420 to 457c/kg.

Heavy steers and bullocks were limited and reached 478c/kg. Grown heifers ranged in price from 393c to 450c/kg. Cows held firm to 5c easier. Heavy finished cows sold from 383 to 420c/kg and plainer types from 370c to 390c/kg. The best heavy bull reached 417c/kg.