Barrens to 279p/kg seeing a top headage price of £1968
Lambs to 420p/kg topping at £216.24/head, Ewes to £250
British Blue bull calves to £700 and Simmental heifers to £615
Dairies to £2260 twice
Pigs to 216p/kg
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Trade was sharp in the Barrens with a good company of buyers to which more could be sold weekly.
Top price of the day was a Holstein cow weighing 530kg, selling to 279p/kg to a gross of £1478.70 for P & M Critchlow of Cubley.
Top headage price of the day was £1968.40 for a 760kg Friesian, selling to 259p/kg from RG & AS Williamson of Wetley Rocks.
Other top prices: –
Hols 735kg 253p/kg to £1859 G&B Thompson
Hols 540kg 248p/kg to £1339. DI Ball & Son
Frie 575kg 247p/kg to £1420 JW Brandrick&Son
A Hereford bull weighing 940kg sold to 258p/kg to gross £2425.20 from C Heath & Sons of Longsdon.
Overall average for barrens was 234.61p/kg with an average headage price of £1542.13.
CLEAN CATTLE
A 510kg Hereford heifer sold to 330p/kg to gross £1683/head for AM & JE Kirby of Rutland.
PIGS (131)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A good show of fat pigs today with new vendors coming to Leek. Fat pigs topped at 216p for B Vernon with better gilts 200-210p, boars 165-175p.
Porkers sold to 203p for J&B Fentem who had others at 202p x2, 201p.
Cutters sold to 216p for Ben Vernon who had others at 168p. A shinton to 206p, PF+PD Parsons to 203p.
Bacon pigs met a solid trade topping at 214p for Massie Farms who had others to 213p, 207p, 205p, 202p, 201p. PF+PD Parsons to 204p, 202p, 201p. Chris Hine to 201p.
Ben Barlow had heavy boars to 152p, AJ&RA Wainwright to 135p, PJ Saunders saw 132p.
One Stock boar sold to 50p for D W Brown.
Not quite the show of quality sows as last week, top price 80p for DW Brown for a 366kg sow.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (25); av 182.82p/kg or £133.02/head
Cutting Pigs (15); av 179.77p/kg or £143.45/head
Bacon Pigs (73), av 190.08p/kg or £177.64/head
Heavies (13), av 122.40p/kg or £146.59/head
Sows (4), av 53.65p/kg or £133.85/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
A smaller entry but customers for all categories yet again. Several purchasers leaving empty handed, and more could definitely have been sold.
Top call £2260 for two heifers from separate vendors. First up was Andrew Hadfield at Peak Forest with his best heifer giving 30kg and second was Diane & Edward Bennett with a homebred heifer, calved only seven days.
The best five averaged £2235.
Pedigree Sale in two weeks with entries already forward.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (744)
A good entry of lambs selling on a very good trade with plenty of demand for all types. Best lambs regularly at 400p/kg and better to a top of 420p/kg. Six different vendors breaking the 400p/kg barrier.
Best to sell are the heavy weights which flew away to £216.24 for 53kg lambs (408p/kg) for Roy Critchlow. Multiple pens at £200/head and better.
Small and lean types hard to sell but still finding customers at 300p/kg – 320p/kg generally.
45kg and over AVERAGE 365p/kg or £178/head.
Overall average at 353p/kg or £149.50/head.
More could be sold to vendor’s advantage.
Sample Prices: –
405p 39kg C Wood, Cauldon Lowe
399p 39kg JB Rowlinson & Son, Gawsworth
406p 42kg CE Smith, Longford
402p 42.7kg Beechwood House, Crewe
400p 45.5kg C Wood, Cauldon Lowe
400p 42.4kg WJ Sessions & Son, Hilton
420p 45.7kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
408p 47kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
398p 48kg KS & JR Burgess, Macclesfield
398p 49kg R Hall, Uttoxeter
408p 53kg RJ Critchlow, Grindon
370p 54kg K Sessions, Alkmonton
CULL EWES (208)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
More ewes on offer this week with a large yarding of grazing types and half meat ewes. Grazing types met with strong demand with buyers for all types, meated ewes a serious premium but once again lacking in numbers.
Top price £250 for RJ Critchlow, Grindon
Sample prices: –
RJ Critchlow £250, £200
R&S Bailey £220
J Tavenor £194
D Williams £180×2
J Ball £170
Metaed Continentals £180+
Plain continentals £130-£160
Mules £110-£140
Hill types and feeders £70-£120
Overall average £124/head
CALVES (91)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Trade as strong as ever with a good run of calves today and a large company of buyers bidding well for the quality on offer.
31 CONTINENTAL BULLS
The best are good but the second and third quality look the best sold. Seven better sorts easily over £600 to a high of £700 for a British Blue special from Andrew Hulme. Mediums £450 – £580 with just a handful under £400.
15 Blues av £519 to £700 DW & P Hulme
3 Sims av £486 to £550 H&E Bailey&Ptns
13 Lims av £482 to £648 I & GE Gregson
38 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Possibly even dearer than the bulls with buyers galore. Twelve best easily passed the £500 marker and up to £615 for a Simmental from Phillip Holdcroft, Brown Edge. Mediums £400 – £500 with just a handful under £350.
18 Blues av £458 to £610 DW & P Hulme
8 Sims av £417 to £615 PN Holdcroft
6 Lims av £400 to £515 RG&AS Williamson
5 Char av £419 to £540 D & G Tudor
13 NATIVES
Less on offer but a magical price.
1 Here Bulls to £505 FJ Gould & Son
5 Here Heifs av £380 to £450 FJ Gould & Son
4 AA Bulls av £316 to £330 Foker Grange Farm
3 AA Heifs av £241 to £270 LTL Parts
9 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Holstein to £255; Friesians to £240 and a Montbeliarde at £250.
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SATURDAY 16th AUGUST
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 8th August
Next Sale Saturday 30th August
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SATURDAY 16th AUGUST
Catalogued Sale of Breeding Sheep 11am
MV & Non MV Sections
Entries Close Friday 8th August
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