100% clearance in Leek over all sections, seeing pigs on a flying trade with a top price of 235p for baconers.
More calves about this week with 179 head on offer, British Blue bull up to £455 and heifers up to £315, also a British Blue.
Excellent trade in the dairies, seeing a heifer top the day at £2900.
Fast trade in the Lambs, selling up to 361p/kg for the best sorts.
BARREN COWS (21)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Some well meated cows were on offer which met with good competition, seeing a top price of 194p/kg for a 520kg Friesian from P N Holdcroft of Brown Edge.
184p/kg was paid for a 790kg Holstein from W E Turnock & Sons, to gross £1453.60 and 179p/kg was paid for a 960kg Friesian from RG & AS Williamson to gross £1718.40.
Other top prices: –
178p 595kg Simm to £1059.10 EB&BMSutton
178p 560kg S/Horn to £996.80 SJ Hooley
177p 755kg D/S/horn to £1336.35 SJ Hooley
176p 525kg Friesian to £924.00 PN Holdcroft
CLEAN CATTLE
Two clean Dexter heifers achieved up to 147p/kg for a 255kg beast to gross £374.85/head for D Littleton of Norton Green.
PIGS (119)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
More pigs about this week, trade an absolute flyer for all types, top price 235p or £248.24/head for fat pigs and 150p for sows.
Porkers sold to 227p for J&B Fentem and 180p for MR Banham.
Cutters from J&B Fentem sold to 229p, 225p x2. A Shinton sold for 225p. B Minshull sold to 222p, S Bailey 207p and 204p for boars.
Ben Vernon topped the bacon pigs selling to 235p. JG Belfield to 234p, 228p, 226p, 225p. Massie Farms to 234p, 232p, 229p, 228p. PF+PD Parsons to 231p. C Hine to 234p. B Minshull to 224p x2. A Shinton to 218p and Rosie Watson to 218p.
Heavies had more spark with Christmas fast approaching, top price 232p for 107kg pigs from B Minshull. MR Banham to 209p. C Hine to 184p.
Sows were an absolute flyer; two sows from F Sharpley, Holmes Chapel sold to 150p or £441 for a 294kg sow who had another to 144p or £476 for a 331kg sow.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (3) av. 194.21p/kg or £139.18head
Cutting Pigs (15) av 213.59p/kg or £178.28/head
Bacon Pigs (88) av 213.87p/kg or £200.58/head
Heavy Pigs (10) av 188.62p/kg or £224.09/head
Sow (2) av; 146.82p/kg or £458.82/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Well, what a trade for all classes and quality!
Topping the day was a Rubi Taz heifer from Michael Wainwright of Buxton giving 26kg, after spirited bidding, she was eventually clinched by Angela Bailey of Brown Edge at £2900.
A 28kg heifer, from Peter Witham of Marston Montgomery reached £1980.
In-calf heifers topped at £1910 from Trevor and Pat Swinson.
Entries are now being taken for the pedigree sale on the 19th November. Get in touch if you have entries. Contact Anna on 07532 237232.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (590)
A seasonal entry sold on a fast trade with prices noticeably up on previous weeks.
Best lambs up to 361p/kg and plenty of well fleshed lambs at 320p-340p/kg.
More best lambs could be sold to vendors advantage.
Heavy lambs gross up to £175.63 and plenty at £150/head and better.
Overall average at 293p/kg or £132.50/head.
Sample Prices: –
332p 39.1kg M & M Heath, Rushton Spencer
334p 40.5kg J & W Knight, Horton
326p 41.4kg JB Rowlinson & Son, Gawsworth
330p 42.5kg JE Swindells, Leek
330p 42.7kg M Jones, Rudyard
325p 46kg SR&G Marsden, High Peak
361p 46kg Shirley&Boam, Longnor
338p 49kg M Jones, Rudyard
312p 55.5kg IE,M&A Wilson, Hollington
300p 56.5kg Shirley&Boam, Longnor
CULL EWES (284)
Ewes a flyer today with a very good show of ewes forward in terms of meat and quality. Best ewes a pleasure to sell, top price £244 for a pen of Texels from JWA Jefferey, Sudbury who had others to £240. P Kirkham and IC Bourne had Texels to £242. S Crawforth, Meerbrook sold to £210 and DE Hodgson, Tunstead to £200. Brad Hunter to £180.
Better continentals £150-180.
Plain Continentals £110-£140
Mules to £132 and better sorts £105-£125
Plain ewes and feeding sorts £70-£90
Very small and lean ewes £25-£40
Tups sold to £152 for Jack Belfield.
Overall average £114.37
CALVES (179)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Excellent numbers this week from vendors who enjoyed the trade at Leek.
40 CONTINENTAL BULLS
All sizes, shapes and ages represented but generally not the overall quality that we saw last week, hence the averages are a little less. Four best British Blues from four vendors sold at £405, £410, £430 and a superb £455 from Brian Goodwin. Ten more better sorts £330-£385. Mediums £250-£310 with smalls under £220.
29 Blues av £278 to £455 NE Goodwin & Son
2 Sims av £197 to £245 JC & D Hudson
5 Lims av £198 to £310 PF Gilman
3 Char av £368 to £380 D & G Tudor
44 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Plenty of heifers this week with the best excellent to sellbut less trade for the medium and smalls. Heifers topped at £315 for DW & P Hulme, mediums £200-£250 with smalls under £200.
29 Blues av £188 to £315 PWJ & S Wilson
3 Sims av £280 to £310 H&E Bailey&Partners
10 Lim av £198 to £290 RG&AS Williamson
1 Cha av to £295 FJ Gould & Son
57 NATIVES
More on offer and a lot smaller calves.
8 Here Bulls to £300 BE Wain
16 AA Bulls to £332 PE Holmes & Son
7 Here Heif to £2130 DI Ball & Son
20 AA Heif to £158 R Wain & Sons
16 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Generally dearer with a young, 7 day old Friesian at £86 and the vast majority £35-£70.
22 REARED CALVES
Five different lots today.
£505 Char Bull (2mths) SJ Hooley
£465 AA Bull (5mths) PE Holmes & Son
£485 AA Steer (5mths) SC,FE&JA Harvey
£440 AA Steer (6mths) A Howe
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SATURDAY 9th NOVEMBER
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 1st November
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SATURDAY 9th NOVEMBER
Sale of Store & Breeding Pigs – 10.30am
Sale of Store & Breeding Goats – 11am
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SATURDAY 16th NOVEMBER
Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep
Entries Close Friday 8th November
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SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 15th November
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TUESDAY 26th NOVEMBER
On behalf of D R K Agriculture (The Kennerley Family)
Smiths Green Farm, Lower Withington, Macclesfield, Cheshire
200 NZ Friesians
(Following the Usual Commercial Entry)
Nearly All Newly Calved
Cubicles & Herringbone
Bulk Sample: – 4.45%F 3.76%P cc194
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