00:00Agents yarded about 3,000 head of steers, heifers, cows and calves
00:04at the Eastern Victoria Livestock Exchange, Lee and Gatha.
00:09Quality was mixed and the gallery was smaller than usual.
00:13Agents said that was down to the grand final holiday,
00:16the number of cattle sold in recent weeks at other Victorian sale yards
00:20and a shorter kill week at abattoirs.
00:23Prices eased by 20 to 30 cents a kilogram
00:26in some places up to $200 a head on the lack of buying competition.
00:31There were several large lines of cattle yarded
00:34and restockers stepped into the market as well as the usual feedlot orders.
00:39The short week and just a little bit sort of dry conditions,
00:42just marginally easier on the better end cattle.
00:4410 to 20 cents cheaper on your feeder type steers.
00:47Probably not a heap of those cattle here today
00:49to get all your feedlot blokes operating.
00:52Your better end calves, your 330, 360 kilo calves,
00:56they wouldn't be much off the top.
00:58They were heading towards $6 on those for the cattle.
01:01And then once you got back on your lighter calves,
01:02they eased back to that sort of 10, 15, 20 cents easier again.
01:06The heifers, yeah, same thing, 10 to 20 cents easier
01:09on most of those cattle as well.
