Addington market Decline in store cattle prices

Press, 6 February 1986, Page 19

Addington market Decline in store cattle prices

Store cattle prices dropped as much as $4O a head at the ■Addington market yesterday. The fall was the first big change in store cattle values for several months and it came after a general easing in prime beef prices during the last few weeks. A small gallery of buyers, mostly fanners, followed yesterday’s market and bidding was hesitant. Cattle in a forward condition suffered least from the price adjustment. However, the over-all quality of the yarding was mixed and it included a big proportion of Friesian types. Amongst a small yarding of adult cattle was a pen of Angus-cross steers shipped from the Chatham Islands by Tuanui Brothers. The cattle were in good order and fetched $526. Good 15-month Angus and Hereford-cross steers sold to $452 for J. E. and S. P. Upston, Brookside, and Herefords reached $446 for S. J. Blakely, Culverden. Top 15-month steers generally sold between $420 to $450, mediums were $370 to $4OO, and lighter sorts were $3OO to $350. Good 15-month heifers reached $348 and most were between $290 and $330. Prices of store lambs declined by 50c a head for small lambs, but the value of medium to good lambs remained steady. The bulk of the yarding sold between $ll and $l5. Small lambs were $6 to $9. Only lambs of exceptional quality exceeded $l5 and a line of top Border-Corriedale ewe lambs sold at $17.80. The breeding ewe section contained a bigger selection of sheep than last week and prices for the better condition ewes were satisfactory. One-year ewes in reasonable order fetched $9 to $l2 and lighter sheep’ were slightly cheaper. A well known line of Corriedale four-year ewes from A. S. and B. R. Black, Culverden, sold to $18.30, and their five-year-Olds made $12.50. A special sale of two-tooth ewes will be held at Addington on Friday, February 14. The yardings were 120 adult cattle, 517 15-month cattle, 8250 lambs (9100 last week), and 3400 adult sheep. Sales included: Fifteen-month cattle: R. M. Thomson (Culverden), 11 steers at $426; J. M. Woodfield (Horrelville), 21 steers at $374 to $376; Woodstock

station (Oxford), 12 steers at * $340; J. E. and S. P. Upston ' (Brookside), 38 Angus and • Hereford-crass steers at $442 * to $452; P. J. McKay (Le , !3 Bons Bay), 27 Angus-cross steers at $372 to $420, and 20 at $305 to $335; J. I. Morton . (Kaikoura), 32 Hereford and Hereford-cross heifers at $290 to $312; S. J. Blakely ‘ (Culverden), 34 Hereford,.; steers at $420 to $446, and 10 bulls at $424.

Adult cattle: Hororata Farm (Aylesbury), 37 Frie- , sian steers at $412 to $470; W. D. and E. P. Croft (Ohoka), * 20 Friesian steers at $4OO to $410; J. E. and S. P. Upston--(Brookside), 5 Friesian twoyear steers at $428; Tuanui Bros (Chatham Islands), 5,„ Angus-cross steers at $526; A. -- M. and G. B. Morton (Kaikoura), 6 heifers at $362. Lambs: P. I- Winter ; (Oxford), 155 mixed-sex Suffolks at $15.40 to $l6; G. A. Petrie (Swannanoa), 92 ' Border-Corriedale ewes at < $17.80; Estate H. P. Ginders - and Son (Hawarden), 261 mixed-sex Corriedales at $9 to $15.80; W. S. Gardner (Waiau), 208 mixed-sex Cor- * riedales at $ll.BO to $l5; W. G. and S. E. Henderson (Waiau), 125 Romney-cross at $8.20 to $11.20; S. C. Turpin _ (Prices Valley), 78 Poll Dor- .. set-cross at $ll.BO to $15.60; G. W. and M. A. Parsons ' (Kaikoura), 118 Romney wethers at $ll.BO to $l5, and 59 ewes at $10.80; S. G. - Rutherford (Hamner"' Springs), 405 Halfbred wethers at $9.40 to $15.40; M.--J. Dalmer (Waiau), 304 Corriedale wethers at $ll.BO *' to $13.30; T. D. McGrath ~ (Oxford), 141 Romney wethers at $11.40 to $14.10; L. ’ C. Gardiner (Waiau), 570 ’ mixed-sex Corriedales at - $7.20 to $15.80; Whakamoa Farm (Wainui), 220 mixed- ~ sex Romneys at $5.20 to $16.10; J. I. Morton - (Kaikoura), 270 mixed-sex • Romneys at $8.60 to $14.20; Estate A. S. Scott (Boon Hay), 350 shorn at $8.20 to $10.70. - Adult sheep: W. Jones (Springston), 120 annual draft , Halfbreds at $10.30; P. H. Stapleton-Smith (Amberley), *' 100 annual draft Halfbreds at $7.40; T. P. Brocherie (Femside), 256 capital stock Half- - breds at $11.60 to $11.80; R. W. Watson (Prices Valley), 119 annual draft Halfbreds at $7; A. S. and B. R. Black (Culverden), 591 four-year Corriedales at $12.60 to , $18.30, 84 five-year at $12.50; D. G. Edge (Oxford), 367 - five-year Corriedales at $l2.