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The Muster: Lorneville Stock Sale Report · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Hey, well, all right, sir, here we go there, and
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  Speaker 1: what are they going to give for? Stock selling action
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  Speaker 1: occurs courtesy of PDG rights, and Andrew Martin was on
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  Speaker 1: the ground today at the Longville sale yards to give
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  Speaker 1: a rundown on prices. Good afternoon. How do we fare?
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  Speaker 1: You're not too bad, Andy. Certainly on the cattle front,
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  Speaker 1: we're very, very small numbers, so reasonable numbers of prime
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  Speaker 1: lambs and prime using, and a handful of using lambs
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  Speaker 1: all counted as well, but The best of the old
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  Speaker 1: season's lambs were 300 to 350, second cuts at 260
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  Speaker 1: to 290, with lighter prime lambs at 200 through to 250.
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  Speaker 1: Best of the ewes today, heavy butcher's ewes, 300 to 350,
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  Speaker 1: second draftings at 240 to 280, third cut ewes at
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  Speaker 1: 200 to 220, with the lightest of the ewes ranging
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  Speaker 1: from 170 through to 190. Local trade rams were $ 150
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  Speaker 1: through to $ 200 and the second draftings of those were
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  Speaker 1: at $ 100 through to $ 140. Yews and lambs all counted,
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  Speaker 1: a few of those starting to come out. The best
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  Speaker 1: of those were $ 180 through to $ 190 today, $ 160 to
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  Speaker 1: $ 170 for the seconds and $ 150 for the third cut
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  Speaker 1: of yews and lambs all counted. A handful of store
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  Speaker 1: hoggets in today and they ranged from $ 150 through to $ 190.
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  Speaker 1: As mentioned, there are very few store cattle in, just
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  Speaker 1: a few yearlings. Charolais heifers at 200 k's made $ 1, 060,
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  Speaker 1: and Samangas heifers at 185 k's made $ 1, 160. A big
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  Speaker 1: reason for the light numbers coming through the yards that
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  Speaker 1: there is a special cattle sale due for Lawnville this Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: that's the 15th of October at 10.30. There's approximately 800
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  Speaker 1: head predominantly yearling cattle, and they will all be yarded
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  Speaker 1: overnight and also on the bidder platform. We're also in
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  Speaker 1: the bull season selling period, and this Wednesday we have Mrs. C.H.
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  Speaker 1: Miller at Pyramid Downs, approximately 32-year-old Hereford bulls, and that
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  Speaker 1: commences at 11.30. And on Friday the 16th at 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: we have Mount Linton, on farm at the station there
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  Speaker 1: where there's 55 yearling angus bulls on offer. Reporting at
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  Speaker 1: the normal sale yards of PGG Wrightson, I'm Andrew Martin.