BUYERS forked out prices $100- $150 a head over expectation at Ballarat's annual female sale Friday when numbers received fell 1000 head short of the advertised 4500 head.
Offering 3471 and with a huge crowd in attendance prices gained for the opening 40 pens of the joined heifer section traded solidly between $1200 to $1400 a head while a small handful made more, topping at $1700.
Second-draft pens of average-framed heifers then sold exceptionally well by comparison making $1000- $1200 while a small proportion of small framed and younger joined heifers made $750- $1000.
The market's top was again secured by Langi Kal Kal Angus - a perennial winner of this accolade.
These were a pen of APR-registered rising 2.5 year-olds, PTIC to Lawson Angus' Nadal and paddock-mated to Innesdale E47 while a second pen of their sisters made $1375.
The market's second-highest priced, sold at $1625, was a yard of two year-old Witherswood-blood Angus heifers bred by the Franc family of Stoneleigh.
These were AI'd to Baldridge Navigator N5 and depastured with Franc's Son of Stern.
The market's best priced unjoined grown heifers made $890 while weaner heifers topped at $860.
Cows with calves at foot made to $1640 while joined cows made to $930.
Full details in next issue Stock & Land, February16 
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