Fat Cattle Report
Good afternoon, this is Sam Knaggs taking a look at this week’s livestock markets out of Dubbo for the 1st week of November 2025.
Tallied numbers this week included -
6970 fat cattle
17700 lambs and
6300 mutton
Into the cattle pens firstly, where numbers remained strong even with harvest in full swing and it was another good quality yarding overall. The cattle present covered all sections with good numbers of young cattle to suit the background and feeder job. All buyers were present and operating creating a strong market throughout the day.
Young Cattle
Young cattle to the trade were 20 cents dearer with prime vealers and yearlings selling from 422 to 490c/kg.
Feeder cattle saw increases of up to 22 cents, with steers selling from 445 to 510c/kg and heifers from 422 to 479c/kg.
Young cattle to the restocker finished stronger, with steers selling to 620 cents and young heifers reached 470c/kg.
Grown Cattle
Grown steers and heifers were 12 to 20 cents dearer, with prime grown steers selling from 445 -498c/kg, while prime grown heifers sold from 430 - 482c/kg.
Cows
Cows were 10 to 15 cents dearer, with restocker cows selling from 334 to 378 cents and the 2 and 3 score cows selling from 280 to 390c/kg. Prime high yielding cows sold between 396 and 430c/kg to average 420c/kg.
Bulls
The best heavy bull reached a top of 420c/kg
Carter Lindsay & McHugh sold the following cattle for some of their clients.
The Davis family of ‘Myandetta’ at Bourke, sold a quality line of Santa Hereford steers and heifers with the steers selling for 498 cents, weighing 420kg to return $2070 and the heifers sold for 470 cents, weighing 330kg to return $1550.
The McWhirter Family of ‘Springfield’ at Tooraweenah, sold heavy Angus cross bullocks for 484 cents, weighing 695kg to return $3370.
Sally Ellis from Nyngan sold Senepol cows for 425 cents, weighing 825kg to return $3500.
Lastly for David and Terese Carter of “Wilgaree” at Nyngan, who sold Angus feeder steers for 500 cents, weighing 500kg to return $2500.
Fat Sheep & Lamb Report
Into the lamb pens now, where the numbers remained similar to last week. The yarding quality was very mixed with a good number of secondary lambs and hoggets. There was a good supply of Merino lambs, while the trade weight and heavy weight lambs were in strong demand due to the limited numbers available.
Lightweight lambs sold to processors for $120 to $180 - mostly firm to $5 dearer
Trade weight new season lambs finished $20 dearer and sold from $210 to $308.
Trade weight old lambs $15 to $20 dearer, selling from $230 to $320.
Heavy weight lambs were strongly sort after finishing the day $25 to $30 dearer selling from $280 to $400 to average between 1235 and 1285c/kg cwt.
Merino lambs finished the day $20 dearer with a good supply available. Trade weights for the day sold from $190 - $270 while the heavy weights sold to a top of $310.
The best heavy hoggets sold to a top of $284.
In the sheep pens now, were heavy mutton for the day sold to a dearer trend, while the medium weights eased slightly, the light weight ewes still held firm.
Light weight ewes sold from $70 - $140
Medium weight ewes sold from $140 - $210
Heavy weight ewes sold from $220 - $302
Heavy wethers reached $270
Carter Lindsay & McHugh sold the following lambs and sheep for some of their clients -
Gary White from Geurie, sold heavy weight crossbred ewes for $302. Gary also sold heavy Merino wethers for $270.
The Lawson and Quirk family of ‘Monte Carlo’ at Stuart Town, sold shorn re-stocker crossbred suckers for $192.
A western client sold trade weight crossbred lambs for $280.
Lastly Scott & Stacey Barton from Dubbo, who sold new season Dorper lambs for $235.
Well that about wraps it up for another week, but don’t forget our next store cattle sale is scheduled for Friday 5th December, 2025.
Also some dates to remember - the last fat cattle sale for the year is Thursday the 11th of December and the last sheep and lamb sale is Monday the 15th of December 2025.
So, until next week ……………………… Bye.
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