Store cattle prices finish strongly
The improvement of 10-20/head in store cattle prices earlier in the week was fully maintained at the sales. There was a big increase in bullocks on offer at Bandon, where the second-last cattle sale of 2003 was held. In firm trading, heavy punched out bullocks sold for up to 205 over /kg and the forward single punched made up to 315 over with lighter single punched topping at 300 over.
A lot of two single punched 495 kg Herefords sold for 805, five single punched Herefords weighing 457 kg also made 805 and nine Charolais scaling 396 kg sold for 700.
