GOLDEN numbers have been gracing the Gracemere sale yard over the last four months and graziers couldn't be happier.

With a helping hand from the consistent rain this year prices have reached 400c/kg.

Richard Thomson from the Meat and Livestock Association (MLA) was amongst the action at CQLX yesterday for the Gracemere sale.

Mr Thomson said the sale went really well with "good seasons and a shortage of numbers around about, the good cattle sold really well.”

"Prices have been getting steadily dearer and dearer for the last three or four months in particular and hopefully it will keep on going that way,” he said.

"This year the rain keeps on coming and we don't see it very often it'll keep the prices up where they are at the moment.

"I think the meatworks have hit the ceiling of what they're prepared to pay and they'll have days off instead of spending more money to get cattle there to kill but it will keep the graziers on top of the world.

"There's not to many bad stories in the beef business at the present time.”

Grazier and producer Geoff Densler also made the trip down to Gracemere from his Midge Point property, just north of Mackay.

"I'm selling 68 steers and 34 heifers today, I come down once every year to this particular sale,” Mr Densler said.

"We're on about 2,000 acres up there with 500 head all up and this years been pretty good with the rain and that.”

According to a News Limited interview with Boss of Brisbane auction house Hassalls, Steve Walls there has been an increasing number of cattle farmers scouting for used bulldozers, tractors and trucks to help expand their operations as beef prices take off.

"Beef is the new coal,” Wall said in the interview.

"Guys in akubras with utes are turning up in their droves looking for things like dozers to build damns on their properties.

"They want value for money and they can get equipment here at half price.”