Market reports – Dalby, Roma (12 March)

0:00Welcome back to Rural Queen's Land Today on the Resonate Broadcast Network, Ben Doblin with you this morning and it is the 12th of March, a Thursday morning and our market reports we didn't get to Roma and I've obviously got the Dolby Mark report are all thanks to TopX Roma, Cyril Close and obviously Cody Close and Carl Warren and Sue Close TopX Roma just do a wonderful job in TopX Australia. Cyril Close is a regular on this show, he has built an empire along with many other good organisations but the principles and the way that they operate are second and none. So what we are going to do today is give you a snapshot of the market this week and obviously things will get dearer. 2,490 head yarded in Dolby yesterday and beneficial rain across the much needed supply chains resulted in a sharper decline in numbers for Dolby, it is by about 4,000 head but that

1:02will change. Cow numbers fell 600, bull supply was limited, 86 head off it. All expert buyers were in attendance however Southern op-riders from previous weeks were absent. It didn't matter. Light weight yielding steers returning to the paddock average 8 bet of yielding steers to feed improved by 5 up 20 cents in places. Having kept us to re-stockers and feed experienced very little change in price cows generally sold very well on previous weeks. Light weight yielding steers to re-stockers made up to 588 and average 532 yielding steers to feed for domestic markets sold to a higher 568 cents a kilo to average 527 to 540. Heavy weight yielding steers to feed average 496 to sell to 516 with some very heavy classes also make them 516. Light weight yielding hefers returning to the paddock made 414 cents to average 394 and medium weight yielding hefers to feed average 415 to sell to 446.

2:02Bullocks made 470 cents a kilo to average 461 medium weight score to cows average 338 and made 352 heavy weight score to 3 cows average 370 and the best of the cows made 396 to average 386 with 2 cows returning 3,678 dollars ahead heavy weight bulls made 410 cents a kilo. Trevor Hess was the market report leader there and obviously that was a very, very dear sale. Roma on Tuesday was very much the same as well and the Roma sale obviously, you know, obviously a lot going on in Roma on Tuesday but it gave us a fair indication with the Roma store sale and you've got to look at it and go, well, gee whiz, it's a very, very,

3:02very dear sale. There was 2,100 head in Roma on Tuesday and it steers up to 330 kilo top to 608 cents to restockers, yielding steers 330 to 400 made from 348 to 556 to restockers, yielding steers 400 to 480 sold to 500 cents to restockers, yielding hefers 200 to 280 sold to 464 to restockers, yielding hefers 280 to 330 top that 454 to lot feeders and yielding hefers 330 to 400 kilos to 446. A small number of grown steers penned which made 466 to processes, heavy hefers over 540 to 430 processes, also a small number of cows penned with a 3 score cow over 520 selling to 405. The 2 score cows, 400 to 520 sold from 240 to 366.

4:08So a very, very dear market there as well and look, it dries out, there will be numbers coming in the next week or so and a lot of people will cash in on that market as it starts to cram up a bit. I am going to quickly just talk and when we have a look at it in the next, there is a lot to like about what is going on in rural and regional Queensland but the biggest problems at the moment are trying to make sure that we can get some fuel, we can make sure that we can get access to abattoirs and we can get some roads fixed. This fuel price crisis is hitting grades like we have never seen before and producers are becoming rapidly concerned. The Middle East price petrol hit is obviously playing a huge role but I just want to make it very clear that fuel over $2 is almost impossible for people to actually make money work.

5:09The markets are very dear in the beef job, yes sure but we need to make sure that things look a lot better than what they do at this present moment. We are going to take a break and come back and wrap it all up.