PALMYRA, Mo. – The fourth and final spring Show-Me-Select heifer sale topped
the average price of all at $1,928.
“Buyers were light, but bidders came to buy heifers,” said Daniel Mallory, University
of Missouri Extension livestock specialist, New London.
He noted that many new buyers came from northern Missouri and Iowa.
Consignors were mostly longtime members of the MU Show-Me-Select Replacement
Heifer Program.
“That shows the quality of the program,” Mallory said. “Farmers see the
added value built for the past 21 years.”
The Palmyra sale sold 120 heifers from 12 consignors. They went to 16
buyers.
The top price was $2,550 at F&T Livestock Market, June 3. That was for a
single black-baldy heifer from Richards Farm, Keytesville. She was a Tier Two,
AI-bred.
Price averages for the other sales: Farmington, $1,813; Fruitland, $1,764;
Joplin, $1,714. Tops at the first two sales were $2,500 per head. The top at
Joplin was $3,200. Those were for a new class of SMS heifers called
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