Burnside market
(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, September 29. Values for cows, heifers and light-weight steers rose by $5 to $6 a head at Burnside market this week, with heavy-weights selling on a par with last week. The yarding of 291 prime beef cattle contained a greater percentage of light and mediumweights than at last week’s sale. The over-all quality of the 49 runners and vealers offered was good, values improving by $3 a head on recent rates. Among the 68 store cattle were two or three pens of forward-condition two-year-old steers, which sold from $l2O to $127. A pen of yearling steers and some small two-year-old heifers with calves at foot realised $lOO. Only 72 pigs were offered. Bidding was keen and values improved by $2 a head. Values for the 500 lambs yarded remained firm at last week’s level. The quality of the 1620 adult sheep penned was very mixed and a number were showing the effects of the recent bad weather. Hoggets sold at reI cent rates, while ewes receded by 20c to 30c a head. RANGE OF VALUES Prime beef cattle.—Top oxen, $224; heavy, $2OO to $223; medium, $lB5 to $198; light, $165 to $180; small, $146 to $154. Top heifer, $182; heavy, $146 to $156; medium, $135 to $140: light, $125 to $l3l. Top cow, $166; heavy, $l4O to $143; medium, $l3O to $137;. light, $9O to $llO. Runners and vealers.—Runners, $139. Best vealers, $l2O to $124; medium, $96 to $105: small, $BB to $92, Suckers, $39. Pigs. — Top baconer, $39; medium, $34 to $36. Top porker, $32; medium, $2B to $3O; small, $22 to $26. Lambs.—Shorn, to $15.30. Top woolly, $16.10; medium, $11.50 to $11.80; light, $10.60 to $10.90; unfinished, $6 to $7.50. Sheep.—Top hoggets, $13.20 to $14.20; medium, $l2 to $12.40; light, $11.50 to $ll.BO. Young ewes, $7 to $8.50. Old ewes, to $6.80; medium, $6 to $6.30; light, $5 to $5.80; unfinished, $4.20 to $4.60.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33035, 30 September 1972, Page 21
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322Burnside market Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33035, 30 September 1972, Page 21
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