Heat’s on the cattle market

WARM weather prevailed at the VLE saleyards on Thursday morning, October 1.
The store sale attracted buyers and sellers from across Gippsland with 1500 cattle on the market.
A near record dry September and El Nino in full swing has farmers looking to the skies for much needed rain. The prices however for those selling cattle still held up.
One of those at the sale was Ash Walpole from Woodside who had 220 cattle for sale and said, “I am happy to be getting rid of them.”
Mr Walpole said it had been one of the driest Septembers on record down Woodside way which did not augur well for the season ahead.
“There has only been 12 and a quarter millimetres of rainfall for September, the most important month of the year.
“I’m happy to be getting rid of them.”
Mr Walpole supposed it was a sellers’ market but the proceeds, all the same, are never enough.

Family affair: from left, Dalzeil, Danny and Karen Scott of Wild Dog Valley. It was Dalzeil’s first visit to the cattle yards with her parents who had five steers to sell. It was a little early in the day to have an idea about the price their cattle may fetch but Karen said, “It doesn’t sound too bad.”

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