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Fri 23 February 2018
The best bred and well fed cattle would be as dear as we have ever seen with the return of the Yorkshire buyers and two new men from the West Country. The result was an impressive overall average of 232p/kg for the steers, topping at £1470 and 314.5p/kg while heifers averaged 218p/kg including several plain types at 160/170p/kg to average £972 per head topping at £1420. The competition was fierce for the smart best types and also the strong cattle and many more could have been sold to advantage but some of the smaller younger cattle would have benefited from another month of hard feed as the grazing men haven’t really started to fire up yet although March will see an increase for demand for those types.