Steers sell to $289

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33370, 31 October 1973, Page 7

Steers sell to $289

> “The Press’ 1 Special Service TIMARU. October 30. About 90 head of prime cattle , sold at unchanged rates at the Temuka sale. However, with a . greater choice, butchers were selective in their buying. The best of the heavier quality steers made to $289, medium i range from $169 to $212, lightweights from $l5O. best heavy - cows to $lB4. light and medium cows from $125 to $147. best . medium-weight heifers to $230, i . and light heifers from $l2O. In the store-cattle section, dairv-bred calves sold well .at I. from $2O for heifers to $42 for top bull calves. Fifteen-month i. Friesian steers sold to $95. 18months Friesian steers to $126, s and 15-month Hereford-cross steers to $126 The store sheep market was . sound, with medium shorn Rom-: . ney ewe hoggets to $13.70. Aged; ewes. shorn and with good lambs. - realised from $8.30 to $9.30. There was a large yarding of - prime sheep. The market for prime ewes was easier by about . SI to $1.50 per head, best ewes . making to $lO.BO, best woolly] ewes to $13.90, best wether hog-: . gets to $18.20. aged wethers to - $14.70 and spring lambs from] ! $l2 to $14.10. ;