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Brusse/s Stockyards
Choice steer from Allan Dunbar tops $99
The market at Brussels
Stockyards on Saturday traded
actively at higher prices on all
classes of cattle. Pigs traded
steady. There were 943 cattle and
268 pigs on offer.
Choice steers sold for $87 to
$92 with a sale at $99.50. Good
stefcrs were $83 to $87.
lbs. sold for an
A good crowd of bidders and spectators turned out on Saturday to the dispersal auction held
near Blyth for George Nesbitt Farm Drainage. Auctioneer Richard Lobb of Clinton, left, sold
the massive bulldozer and drainage plow behind him to a contractor from Moncton, New
Brunswick (in right foreground, with T-shirt) for $21,500.
Help sought for beef weigh-in
Once again, the Queen’s
Guineas competition at the 1987
Royal Winter Fair in Toronto is
within the grasp of any 4-H Beef
Ciub member in Ontario, says
Richard Hamilton, rural organiza
tion specialist at the Clinton OMAF
office.
The weigh-in for potential
champion steers will be held at
A steer consigned by /Allan
Dunbar weighing 1170 lbs. sold for
$99.50 with his load of 13 steers
averaging 1143 lbs. selling for an
overall price of $92.03. Fourteen
steers consigned by Gordon Daer
of RR 1, Auburn, averaging 1217
lbs. sold for an overall price of
$91.91, a sale at $98.25. Twelve
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Brussels Stockyards on Saturday,
May 2, starting at 1 p.m. The
weigh-in for steers in the southern
part of the county is scheduled for 9
a.m. the same day at Hensall
Livestock Sales Ltd.
Any 4-H Beef Club member in
the county may nominate an
animal as long as it meets the
necessary criteria of the most
prestigious 4-H class in Canada,
of
steers consigned by Lome Forster
ofRR 1, Lucknow, averaging 1332'
lbs. sold for an overall price
$91.36 with a sale to $96.
Six steers consigned by
Francis ZettlerofRR2, Walkerton
averaging 1177 lbs. sold for an
overall price of $90.30, a sale at
$94. Twenty-eight steers con
signed by Glen Johnston of RR 2,
Bluevale, averaging 1227 lbs. sold
for an overall price of $90.51, a
sale at $98. Four steers consigned
by Ken Eagleson, RR 3, Parkhill,
averaging 1163
and is registered at the proper
time.
All Beef Club leaders in Huron
now have the necessary entry
forms, but Mr. Hamilton says extra
ones can be picked up at hjs office
at any time, or they can be filled out
at the weigh-in. He also asks that
any leader who can spare the time
that day be on hand to assist with
the weigh-in and registration.
overall price of $89.81, a sale at
$93.50.
Ten steers consigned by Jim
Hayden of RR 3, Goderich,
averaging 1202 lbs. sold for
$91.35 with his offering of 19
steers averaging 1277 lbs. selling
for $89.60. Two steers consigned
by Hammond Bros, of RR 1
Monkton averaging 1030 lbs. sold
for $89.45. Seven fancy black
steers consigned by Howard
Martin, RR 3, Brussels, averaging
1063 lbs. sold for $89.40. Four
heavy steers consigned by Earl
Fitch of RR 1, Wroxeter, averaging
1327 lbs. sold for $92.90, with his
offering of 42 steers averaging
1296 lbs. selling for an overall
price of $89.35 a sale at $95.75.
Ten steers consigned by
Howard Ryan of RR 1, Bluevale
averaging 1271 lbs. selling for an
overall price of $89.23. Eight
steers consigned by Hodgins Bros.,
of RR 8, Parkhill, averaging 1202
lbs. sold for an overall price of
$88.71, a sale at $93. Forty-two
steers mainly hereford. consigned
by Geo. Underwood Farms of RR
1, Wingham, averaging 1236 lbs.
sold for an overall price of $88.40
with a sale at $98.75.
Two steers consigned by Vic
Van Alstine of RR I, Dundalk,
averaging 1295 lbs. sold for an
overall price of $89.39. Twelve
steers consigned by Murray Shiell
of RR 3, Wingham, averaging
1208 lbs. sold for an overall price
of $88.69, sales to $89.50.
Forty-five steers consigned by
Karel Michiels of RR 1, Sebring-
ville, averaging 1123 lbs. sold for
an overall price of $88.58, sales to
$92.75. Ten steers consigned by
Lome Kieswetter of RR 1, Mild-
may, averaging 1236 lbs. sold for
$88.05, a sale at $92.50.
Choice exotic heifers sold for
$87 to $91 with sales to $102.50.
Choice white-faced heifers were
$82 to $87.
A heifer consigned by Gordon
Daer of RR 1, Auburn weighing
1080 lbs. topped the market at
$102.50, with his offering of nine
heifers averaging 1127 lbs. selling
for an overall price of $94.18.
Eleven heifers consigned by Tim
Prior of RR 3, Brussels averaging
1043 lbs. sold for an overall price
of $89.50 with sales to $92.50.
Eighteen mixed heifers consigned
by J. & M. Ranch of Brussels
averaging 1019 lbs. sold for an
overall price of $87.55 with a sale
at $97.75. Five black heifers
consigned by Glen Johnston of RR
2, Bluevaie, averaging 888 lbs. sold
for $90.50 with his lot of eight
heifers averaging 882 lbs. selling
for $87. Twenty-seven mixed
heifers consigned by Wayne King
of RR 1, Gorrie, averaging 1047
lbs. sold for an overall price of
$85.34 with a sale at $93. Four
mixed heifers consigned by Gor
don Dougherty of RR 3. Goderich,
averaging 1140 lbs. sold for an
overall price of $86.62, a sale at
$90.50. Choice cows were $61 to
$65, a sale at $68.50. Good cows
were $56 to $61. Canners and
Cutters were $51 to $56.
Thirty to 40 lb. pigs traded to a
high of $1.40 per lb.; 40 to 50 lb.
pigs to a high of $1.29 per lb ; 50 to
60 lb. pigs to a high of $ 1.26 per lb.;
60 to 70 lb. pigs to a high of $ 1.10
per lb.; 70 to 80 lb. pigs to a high of
$1.03 per lb.
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