A steady jump in cattle prices has injected a shot of confidence into the buying gallery at Hamilton's second weaner cattle sale for 2025 after one of the driest years on record for western Victoria.
Casterton cattle prices have failed to match the premium prices of other western district weaner sales, with light-weight calves falling short of making 400 cents a kilogram.
“That was the golden-age of the cattle industry,” he remembers. “A cattleman could buy cattle cheap, put them out on grass relatively cheap and hedge them against the October Feeder futures contract.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds producers, including dairy producers impacted by H5N1, that the deadline to apply for financial assistance through the ...