Keen interest from both local and Hawke's Bay buyers thanks to benign late spring/early summer weather meant prices soared at the Dannevirke Dairy Beef sale December 11.
A strong yarding of over 800 stock sold well, with prices for the predominantly Friesian Bulls $20-30 higher at the tops than at the last sale.
![Friesian bulls dominated the sale at Dannevirke December 11.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/VGWHLNZS2WR4ZXHZTZJPAXYWDQ.jpg?auth=234d3e2397108d251bb4fca902d05ba66ae98faeb4434c7eda8e7a31cfd9a716&width=16&height=25&quality=70&smart=true)
Two thirds of the stock were Friesian bulls and only six pens of 40 sold for less than $500/head. Top price of $582/head went to a line of nine bulls from Joyce Henson and a further 17 bulls from Glenbervie Farms were next at $572/head, the average being $540/head.
![PGG Wrightson's auctioneer Bjorn Andersen sold these Fourways Farms Friesian Bulls for $565/head.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/K346GRTPFTYJPV3BYY67GAPPPE.jpg?auth=7d52735dce89d53ba0fa87b2ed7ef534cee09d745b45a611bb601f0fa6141746&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)