SOUTH-West livestock selling yards are celebrating big achievements to kick-off 2021, with records smashed at Hamilton, Casterton and Mortlake and the three facilities setting the bar in a competitive Victorian market.  

Hamilton agents topped the yardings in state markets for weaner sales in the first week in January, with 10,438 calves sold over four days of sales under the new roof – around a quarter of the cattle auctioned state-wide, that week.