A livestock saleyards on Maraekakaho Road in Stortford Lodge, west of central Hastings, on a 4.3-hectare site. The saleyards opened in 1903, when the Hawke's Bay Auctioneers Association moved its sales from smaller yards in central Hastings. Regular weekly sales are held on Mondays for prime stock and on Wednesdays for store stock.
The website says the yards were upgraded in the 1980s with ten loading banks, a turnaround and parking area for trucks and trailers, larger pens and concrete areas for better presentation on sale days. A weighing system added in 1998 shows buyers each animal's live weight and what it would fetch per kilogram. An electronic ear-tag scanner was added in 2012. The website says about 330,000 sheep and 28,000 cattle pass through the saleyards each year.