Calf Prices Lower At Methven

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31047, 30 April 1966, Page 7

Calf Prices Lower At Methven

Compared with the recent Ashburton County breeders’ cattle sale at Tinwald, values for most classes of calves were lower at Methven on Thursday. Bidding tended to be a little restricted. Top steer calves, although in reasonably good demand, were about 40s to 60s cheaper than at Tinwald, and medium class steer calves declined by about 20s a head. The best heifer calves were about firm on Tinwald but medium heifer calves were cheaper by about 60s a head.

The yarding totalled 1043 head, compared with 905 last year, and calves were in generally good condition. The following is a range of values:—

Steer Calves—Aberdeen Angus cross: extra good to £35, good £27 to £3l, medium to good £23 10s to £2B. Aberdeen Angus: good £24 10s to £27 15s, medium to good £2O to £23 ss, and small £l7 to £l9. Herefords: good £26 5s to £2B, and small to medium £l6 15s to £2O. Shorthorns: good £24 to £2B 10s. Shorthorn cross: medium £22 to £23 10s. Heifer Calves. Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross: good £2l 10s to £26, medium £l5 5s to £l9 10s. Aberdeen Angus: good £lB to £22, medium £l5 10s to £l7, small £8 15s to £l2 ss. Shorthorn-Aberdeen Angus cross: medium £l6 10s to £lB 10s. Herefords: good to medium £lB 10s to £25.

T. L. Lucas (Mount Hutt) topped the steer calf section of the sale wtih an excellent pen of Aberdeen Angus cross selling at £35. He had other pens which realised from £26 to £3l. The estate L. L. Richards (Mount Hutt) yarded 93 steer calves and 44 heifer calves—Aberdeen Angus, Shorthorn and Hereford —and for the whole line they averaged £25 16s.

D W. Knight, also of Mount Hutt, had Abredeen Angus steer calves which sold from £26 10s to £3l, and W. A. Hart (Glen View) had a top line of Aberdeen Angus steer calves selling at £29, while other pens of his calves sold at £27 5s to £27 15s. For a good line of Hereford steer calves A. C Begg (Lincoln Hills) received £2B.

Leading sales included:— Estate L. L. Bichards, steer calves at £23 Iss to £2B 10s, and better calves at £lO 10s to £2l ss; Bayfield Estate, a pen of Shorthorn cross steer calves at £26, and a pen of Shorthorn cross heifer calves at £lB 10s: A. C. Begg, 10 Hereford heifer calves at £lB 10s; Blackford Station (Rakaia Gorge), 11 Hereford steer calves at £26 ss; C. McLaughlin, Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £25 to £26 15s; D. J. O'Connell, two pens of Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £27 10s to £2B 15s; C. Gray

(Springburn), one pen of Hereford steer calves at £26, and one pen of Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £2B ss; D. Muckle (Springburn), one pen of Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £29, and D. Ludemann (Anama), one pen of Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £26 15s.