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By Peter Kerr, MLA
Cattle: LWB 31 – LWY 722 – LWC 196 – OAY 17
Numbers fell by almost half as agents yarded 966 head of liveweight and open auction cattle. These sold to another large field of trade and processor buyers with some of these not active over the offering as both feeders and restocked orders operated throughout the pens.
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By Peter Kerr, MLA
Cattle: LWB 37 – LWY 1242 – LWV 453 – OAY 17
Numbers rose sharply as agents yarded 1,749 head of liveweight and open auction cattle. These sold to the usual field of trade and processor buyers along with active feeder and restocker orders.
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By Jenny Kelly, MLA
Cattle: LWB 10 – LWY 881 – LWC 444 – OAY 29
Market lost some of its momentum in a similar sized yarding of 1353 head. On the supply front export grade cattle dominated led by grown steers and heifers plus a reasonable line-up of cows.
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By Megan Hendry, AgriFutures Australia
Farmers interested in adding industrial hemp to their crop rotations are invited to attend a series of field days in Victoria and South Australia this summer. The Industrial Hemp Variety Trial (IHVT) field days, to be held in Hamilton VIC on 30 January, Maaoupe SA on 31 January and in Loxton SA on 2 February, are the culmination of a three-year research project to determine best performing varieties and sowing times for each growing region.
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By Nasik Swami
High electricity prices are killing the district’s livestock sector, making life difficult for businesses and households, claims an elected counsellor. Naracoorte-Lucindale Council Cr Cameron Grundy says farmers who used irrigation to produce more, adding to our gross domestic product, “have simply turned off their pumps”, thereby producing less.
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By Graham Pymer, MLA
Cattle: LWB 21 – LWY 912 – LWC 452 – OAY 30
Naracoorte agents yarded 1,353 cattle in a mostly good quality offering, made up of 903 young cattle, 404 cows, 16 bulls and approx. 30 open auction young cattle. The regular buying group were active in a mostly dearer market.
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By Jenny Kelly, MLA
Cattle: LWB 7 – LWY 728 – LWC 166 – OAY 7
Agents yarded 903 cattle for the first sale of 2024 at Naracoorte as the higher prices since the rain encouraged more numbers compared to pre-Christmas markets.
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By Sheona Lamb, MLA
Cattle: LWB 21 – LWY 1312 – LWC 343 – OAY 39
Numbers Jumped to 1,715 yarded for the second last market for the year, quality was mostly very good. The usual buying gallery were present and operated in a market with mixed results.
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By MLA 
Cattle: LWB 19 – LWY 758 – LWC 315 – OAY 1
Numbers eased a little as agents yarded 1,093 head of liveweight and open auction cattle. These sold to the usual field of trade and processor buyers along with feeder and restocker support.
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By Tim Delany, MLA
Cattle: LWB 22 – LWY 812 – LWC 341 – OAY 10
There was a jump in cattle numbers to 1,173 at Naracoorte which was an increase of 378 head on last week. Quality was mostly good with another outstanding offering of cows, grown cattle showing condition and well presented mixed sex yearlings and vealers.
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