Market Highlights - Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Published on 12 November 2025
Hot prices and packed laneways, it was a sellers’ market here at the Roma Saleyards with a little over 6,100 head of cattle yarded.
With rain out and about, all the regular processors, feedlotters and backgrounders present and actively competing on a quality penning.
The steer market exploded with several quality lines of bullocks on offer.
The yarding was drawn predominantly from the local Maranoa supply district including Roma, Yuleba and Injune as well as Charleville and Morven in the west.
Multiple runs of cattle were consigned from as far afield as Julia Creek, McKinlay, and Boulia in north Queensland.
The selection and quality of cattle on offer once again solidified Roma Saleyards as the marketplace of choice.
Glen and Therese Nielson offloaded a run of heavy bullocks for an average of 473c/kg weighing in at 546kg for a return of $2,583/hd.
Operating out of ‘Mt Weribone’ at Surat, the couple fetched a top price of 512c/kg on a pen of Santa Gertrudis cross and a pen of Simmental cross steers, weighing an average of 469kg to make $2,404/hd.
A pen of Santa Gertrudis cross steers fetched 448c/kg to weigh 646kg to make $2,896kg.
The line was consigned through GDL, pictured below with vendors Glen and Therese Nielson.
Reynella Grazing offloaded a mammoth line of Droughtmaster cross steers for a straight 508c/kg over fourteen pens.
From Charleville way, the heaviest pen of Droughtmaster cross steers made 508c/kg weighed in at 521kg for an average of $2,649/hd.
The line was consigned through GDL, pictured below with Mitchell based livestock agent Jason Belz.
MK Henry Co offloaded two pens of Droughtmaster cross steers, fetching 542/kg to weigh 262kg for a return of $1,420/hd.
Operating out of ‘Blue Hills’, Wandoan, the heavier pen weighed in at 276kg to make an average of $1,496/hd.
The line was consigned through Elders, pictured below with Wandoan livestock agent Billy Hall.
Usher Pastoral Co offloaded a run of Droughtmaster cross steers for an average 466c/kg weighing 559kg for a return of $2,606/hd.
Hailing from ‘Norley Station’, Thargomindah, two pens of Droughtmaster cross steers sold for a straight 470c/kg to weigh 535kg fetching $2,514/hd.
A further pen of the Droughtmaster cross steers fetched 469c/kg weighing 612kg for a return of $2,873/hd.
The line was consigned through Watkins & Co, pictured below which Watkins agents Braith Neven, Andrew Busiko and Charles Gleeson.
Colin and Deb Walsh offloaded a line of Santa Gertrudis cross steers and Braham cross steers to average 491c/kg weighing in at 419kg for a return of $2,062/hd.
Based near Roma, two pens of steers made 498c/kg to weigh 406kg for a return of $2,023/hd.
A pen of the Santa Gertrudis cross steers fetched 515c/kg weighing 425kg for a return of $2,189/hd.
The line was consigned through PJH pictured below with vendor Colin Walsh and his son Ben Walsh.