Yea reflects store sale prices around the state, on a 'wintry' yarding

Mason Tofts, 4, is held aloft by grandad, Anthony, while Connor Tofts, 10, looks on. The trio, from Terip, were at Yea to check prices and keep the children entertained, during school holidays, Mr Tofts said.

by Andrew Miller

5 July 2024

Sales at the monthly Yea store sale mark time with other centres, one what one agent described as a "typical winter yarding".

Agents yarded 1848 head of steers, heifers, cows and cows and calves at the Yea selling centre, with buyers from three states operating.

A western Victorian processor and feedlot, backed by South Australia's Princess Royal feedlot, Burra, again dominated purchases of the heavier steers, while many pens of lighter heifers went to NSW.

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