
Nearly 900 head of cattle was offered, mostly from farmers in Central Otago and South Otago, who were off-loading trading stock, he said.
Straight beef steers, such as Angus and Hereford, weighing between 350kg to 420kg, were in demand, fetching between $5.50 per kg and $5.80/kg.
The steer prices were "above expectation".
Straight beef heifers sold for between $5.30/kg and $5.60/kg.
"That was good going."
Yearling dairy beef cross breeds, such as Friesian cross Hereford, sold for between $5/kg and $5.30/kg for steers and $4.70/kg to $5/kg for heifers.
The top store lambs sold for between $160 and $185 each.
"It was a good sale day."

"It was a very good sale."
The two-tooth ewes fetched $300 each, two shear ewes $272, three shear ewes $245, four shear ewes $192 and annual draft ewes sold for $188.
Buyers were from across the South Island, he said.
PGG Wrightson Otago regional livestock manager Paul Edwards said there was a full clearance of about 10,000 lambs at the three back-to-back on-farm sales in Upper Clutha last week.
The sheep buyers were from farms between Southland and Mid Canterbury.
More than 6000 lambs sold for an average of about $200 each at West Wānaka Station.
The average price for lambs at Alpha Burn Station and A J Farming was one or two dollars less.
"To have the averages across three sales to be within $2 of each other, proves how good the stock were."












