Methodology

What is included

AG Online: saleyard result tables with sale dates, yards, classes, head counts, prices, and weight ranges where reported. These rows drive most volume and clearance context.

MyLivestock: PDF market reports that add useful breed, class, and price lines where available. These are best for price colour, not complete sold/offered volume.

BIDR: auction-result style data used as extra market evidence where it can be cleaned into the same liveweight view. It may not carry the same fields as saleyard reports.

Processor schedules: works schedule rows are stored separately as carcass-weight data. They are not mixed into saleyard liveweight averages.

How to read the numbers

Coverage: 3 Jun 2025 to 18 Jun 2026 for the current public saleyard archive.

Price basis: saleyard prices are shown as indicative $/kg liveweight or $/head where reported. Processor schedule data is carcass-weight and kept separate.

Averages: weekly and class averages are weighted by head sold where head counts are available. Obvious cents-versus-dollars unit issues are normalised before display.

Clearance: clearance is shown only as “where reported” because offered and sold numbers vary by source and can sometimes be identical in public tables.

Limitations: mixed store/prime lines without class detail are disclosed separately. Actual sale prices still depend on quality, timing, freight, buyer demand, breeding, and yard.

Not advice: Saleyard is market information only. It is not financial advice and it is not an offer to buy or sell cattle.