SINCE the recent rainfall in parts of NSW, cattle sales are looking up again, according to Landmark Goulburn auctioneer Daniel Croker.
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The Special Cattle Sale was held at the Goulburn Saleyards last Thursday comprising cattle from Campbell and Co of Taralga and a few dispersals of commercial Red Angus from the Marulan area.
Auctioneers and stock and station agents from Landmark, Elders Goulburn, Duncombe and Co of Crookwell, Michael Hall Livestock & Property Goulburn and MD & JJ Anderson from Crookwell all attended the sale.
“This is a cattle sale that we hold annually around November each year,” he said.
Campbell and Co Taralga have about 150 head of cattle up for sale and there would be roughly 200 or so head of the Red Angus in the dispersals.
The recent rain we’ve had in the last one or two weeks has certainly boosted cattle sales again.
In the last six weeks or so before that I would say the market had dropped 15 or 20 percent from the dizzy heights that they reached around July and August this year.
But the market is certainly gaining momentum again since this recent rain, which is good.
It’s giving graziers and sellers confidence again, given that there were worries about a dry summer and the El Nino in the weather news in recent weeks, which was scaring them a little bit, so they were holding back.”
The top price reached at the sale was $2,600 for a herd of Angus cattle from Campbell and Co of Taralga, which were sold to the Cotta Walla Pastoral Company of Crookwell.
“This is probably the best sale I’ve ever presided over,” Mr Croker said.
“There were a lot of interested buyers there despite the wet conditions.”