Addington Market Prices for older store cattle up

Press, 26 April 1979, Page 24

Addington Market Prices for older store cattle up

Adult store cattle continued to •ell well at Addington market on Tuesday, values appreciating further for some classes, while store-sheep values remained steady. The yardings of store lambs ana ewes were about half the size of last week, and markets generally held to last week’s rates. The store-calf sale will be held today. Next week, sales on Tuesday and Wednesday will be rsnnied prime stock, pigs, and daln cattle being sold on Tuesday and store sheep and fore cattle, including calves, on Wednesday. Store cattle There was another small yarding of adult store cattle, the offering totalling 592 head. The sale continued on a good note for all classes, but the young heifers and medium-class cattle sold particularly well with values estimated to be up about f oer head A large offering ot attractive, mixed-aced mated Hereford and Hereford Shorthorn-cross cows fom North Canterbury sold well, mainly from $255 to $292, a handful at the end of the sale topoing S3CO. ?went v-mnnths-old mated heifers from the same vendor a'«o brought 5261 and heifers of thr* same age from another; vendor sold for $246. Otherwise’ F-’>rs made from mainlv $lBO to others trailing down to! <l2O. ws aho sold from 5159 to, li Two-and-a-half-\ear-old steers brought to $359 for the tops of a Fne of 58 Angus and Angus Shorthorn cross from R. F. Webb <Te Oka l , which averaged $3OB. compared with $162 last year. Eighteen to 20-month-old steers reached $276 and ranged down to |!25. Among sales of store cattle were:— J. Kerr (Mayfield), 24 empty 18-yno-iths Angus heifers at $202 to $219: M. W. Bur bun (West Vp’ton). 60 empty 18-months Hereford heifers at $l5B to $191: <4’•ay Brothers (Staveley). eight months Ancvs ««oss steers at i 5276, nine 20-months Angus cross I heifers at $246; D. M. How, < Westport i, 100 Hereford and; Angus steers at $125 to s’97. 23 Hereford and Angus! r-nss h«jfers at <;23 tn $138; R and T Grof«ki (Ohnka). 12 ? - ’•ors at *lB2 tn S’Rfi; I. C.. Holden /Little River). seven) j ' “ford steers at $2?9: R. F. V'ehb <Te Oka’, 58 24 vear old) Zngus ~nd Anmis Shorthorn’ cross sfeers at $965 to $359.

Ureedlne Cows: A. K. ['•Laughlin <Hanmer Springs). 84 mi v «»d-aged Hereford a~d Hereford Shorthorn cross at $255 tn 5?92. and 16 mated 20-months; L-ifers at $261: P. A. Carr (Waikarl), 16 at $159 to $l3O. ; Store sheep The store-sheep yarding at 5143 head was about half the size of last week’s at 10.680. It included 3797 lamb>. 308 two-tooth ewes, and 1038 older ewes and wethers.

The lamb offering, at 3797. was less than half the size of last week’s.

In the main, the sale was much on a par with last week. There ; was good competition for woolly) lambs, and freezing company) Interests kent the market up for earthing “killable.”

Some shorn Border Romney ewe lambs brought to $2O. a f-'ond ent of these

f ’8.30. Otherwise, fine wool ewe l-»mbs brought to $17.80 and fome shorn Romneys Sl6.

Forward Down cross lambs L’Oi’Cht mainly from about S’s to $17.60 The best of the finevool wether limbs brought from

;> M>ut $14.20 to $17.40. some of 1 r shorn fine wools making f om $10.60 to $12.40. T^ e x oolly Romneys brought from eoout $14.40 to $16.80, and useful

if shorn Romneys sold from $13.50 t to $14.70. A line of woolly ’Pereudaies also made $16.40. Wether lambs. — D. B. .McKay Hurunui-, 44 Half-breds at 514.8 U to $17.40; Kaihope Farm <Port Levy*. 69 Romneys at 514.40 to $15.60; O. E. Bothwell < Ladbrooksi, 19 Down cross at 515.70 to $17.60; E. E. Spencer . i Parnassus i, 374 shorn Romney at 513.5 U to $14.70; W. H. Cederman (Oxford/, 242 at $ll.BO Ito $16.80; I. L. Dalzeil iCulverden?, 39 at $11.40; I. J. Pettigrew tWaiauj, 120 at $13.70 to $16.10; J. 1. Worner -Oxford), 170 Down cross at SI 1.40 to $16.40; D. C. Honeybone Burnham), 94 Pereadale at SJ6.4U; D. W. Hassell -Hawarden) 40 Corrldale at $16.60; N. A. i Riddle (Omihi), 124 Corriedales at >l7, 61 Down cross at $l6; J. R. Recd iCuherden- 163 Corridales, al $14.80 to $16.60; I. G. de la Roche Parnassus), 330 at 514.20 *o $16.60; Kintail Downs (Weka Pass), 220 shorn Corriedales at $10.60 to $12.40. Ewe lambs. — H. C. Vanstone !Little River), 97 shorn Romneys at $l6; P. J. and S. M. Mclnnes Kaikoura), 105 Coopworths at $ll to $12.80; J. C. McGrouther Racecourse Hill), 178 shorn Border-Romney cross at $18.30 to $2O; J. R. Reed (Culverden), 213 Corriedales at SI6 to $17.80. Mixed-sex lambs. — R, G. and D. H. Dailey (Oxford), 34 at $17.20.

0| The two-tooth ewe offering y [consisted of only five pens and 'totalled only a few more than yI3UV. The sheep were all in the u i wool and brought from $15.40 to t $17.40, the top price being paid oifor some mated Corriedales. A ii| further offering of mated tiCorriedales also sold at $17.20. rj In the older-ewe section the y)yarding at 1038 was about half !. [the size of last week’s and was o'an end-of-the-season offering. 1 i For anything in the attractive ’.-category there was a good sale, 3 | but there were not many in this i,(class, and while values in general 3’followed late rates there was e rather less buoyancy about the t market with the winter getting )> nearer. The best ot the Romney ewes t brought from $18.70 to $20.40, . others ranging from about $lO.BO s to $14.60. The top money was a paid for woolly Romney ewes 0 mated with the Hampshire ram. a Another line of mated woolly t Romney ewes also brought $18.70. Mated Corriedales sold to e $15.60 and $15.40, and some shorn 5 Romneys mated with a Romney s ram sold for $15.20. t: A few two-tooth wethers were r also included in the sale and i these brought up to $lB.lO for ) I woolly sheep. J• Sales of ewes included.— Chater Holdings ; Brookside) 108 i Corridales at $15.60: L. R. Rhodes l (Tikao Bay), 96 Romney ewes and ‘one ram at $18.70.