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Subscriber only A significant breeders sale was held at the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange this week, cementing the facility s stellar reputation. The Casino saleyards operations manager, Brad Willis, said one of Australia s oldest Santa Gertrudis studs, Yulgilbar Pastoral Company, had put its faith into the local facility by holding its first-ever off-property female calf sale there. Hosted by agents George & Fuhrmann, the sale saw 700 mainly pregnancy-tested, in-calf females on offer, as well as 400 Santa Hereford cross females, 250 Yulgilbar Sangus females, and 50 commercial Santa Gertrudis females. Mr Willis said he was chuffed Yulgilbar station manager Rob Sinnamon made the call to hold the company s first off-property sale at Casino.
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Yearling cattle was popular at the Central Queensland Livestock Exchange (CQLX) Prime and
Store Cattle Sale on Wednesday, with a southern operator snapping up a line of Droughtmaster heifers for 490c/kg to use as breeders.
G Perry from Nine Mile supplied the Droughtmaster cattle, with the heifers weighing in at 234kg to return $1150/head, while a local backgrounder secured the steers from the same run for 550c/kg, which weighed 265kg to equal $1460/head.
TopX Gracemere Morgan Harris said all young cattle sold to a firm market, and the heifer price had climbed compared to last week, with the average price for yearling heifers between 434c/kg to 489c/kg.
Operator
Good morning, my name is Denise, and I ll be your conference operator today. At this time, I d like to welcome everyone to the Agnico Eagle s Fourth Quarter Results 2020 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. Mr. Sean Boyd, you may begin your conference.
Sean Boyd
Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, operator and good morning everyone and welcome to our fourth quarter and 2020 full-year results conference call. Before we get started with the slides, just want to remind everybody that this presentation does include forward-looking statements and we have that material in the slide deck.
Just to start off, in terms of how we closed the year and how we re positioned for moving forward over the next several years, we had a record quarter in terms of production which drove record cash flow. But more importantly, we posted our best ever safety performance. So although we re pushing more volumes than ever and we have more employees than ever, we
COLD BLOG: Several Coastal Bend cities ending water boil notices
By: Dale Nelson, Juan Acuña, Bill Alexander, Stefanie Lauber, Tim Griffin, Ryan Garza, Ana Tamez, Eddie Cruz, Alyssa Flores
Posted at 10:50 AM, Feb 11, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-23 13:33:52-05
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2/23 updates:
12:24 p.m.- Rockport has canceled its water boil notice. Rockport along with Fulton, Copano Cove, Copano Heights, and Copano Ridge no longer have to boil their water to consume it.