Warwick Cattle Report

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Report Date: 18th February 2025

Total Yarding: 1,443

Commentary

The supply of stock lifted by 443 head to 1,443 at Warwick. All the regular export processors attended along with wholesalers and feeder buyers plus restockers. Export lines lifted in price from 4c/kg for cows and 25c/kg for bullocks with heavy feeder yearlings firm to dearer depending on the quality offered with restocker lines following a similar trend.

Light weight yearling steers to restockers sold to 416c with those over 280kg at 414c to average 365c/kg.Yearling steers to feed for the domestic market made 390c to average 365c with restockers paying to 394c/kg. Heavy yearling steers to the wholesale meat trade made 372c to average 350c with those to feed at 382c to average from 338c to 357c/kg. Yearling heifers in the 200-280kg range to background sold to 348c/kg. Yearling heifers over 280kg to feed sold to 350c and averaged 316c/kg.Medium weight heifers to feed made 346c to average 310c with butchers paying to 388c/kg.Heavy yearling heifers to feed made 340c with those to the wholesale meat trade at 366c to average 357c/kg.

Bullocks to processors sold to 360c and averaged from 347c to 350c/kg. Grown heifers to processors made 330c to average 314c/kg. Light weight plain cows to processors made 263c to average 235c/kg. Heavy score 3 cows to processors made 279c to average 274c with the best heavy cows selling to a top of 295c and averaging 287c/kg. Heavy bulls to processors sold to 318c and averaged 293c/kg.

Market Reporter Errol Luck.