Buyers wary of wintering cost for long-keep stock

Clear divisions have opened up in the cattle trade this week.

Forward heavy cattle or stock close to the knife are more or less solid across the country; while the store trade is divided into the “better animals” making the better money with the “lesser animals” making lesser money, as one mart manager so eloquently put it.

Also noticeable however was the inclination of the trade to cut the lighter type Friesian-Holstein of 350 kilos or less adrift of everything else.