A farm block running 85 young cattle has sold for $1.7 million as the run of stellar land sales in Victoria's South Gippsland continues.

The smallest milk-producing state Queensland led the revival in July.

A quick look over the boundary fence at what some of the movers and shakers in agribusiness are doing and talking about.

Winton had five consecutive days of the cattle comfort index on par with severe for southern Australian sheep in the middle of winter.