100% clearance again this week with Lambs up to 400p/kg and ewes to £220/head
The Pedigree Dairy sale topped at £4150 for a fantastic heifer from Bakewell
Calves continue to fly with British Blue Bulls to £690 and British Blue Heifers to £570
Barrens topped at 261p/kg or £2015/head with Friesian bulls in the clean cattle reaching 339/kg or £2169/head
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A Hereford cow topped the barrens this week at 261p/kg, weighing 660kg, she grossed £1722.60 for J Gilman & Partners of Bosley.
Holstein was the top headage price of the day at £2015 weighing 775kg and selling to 260p/kg for HS & A Callwood of Knutsford,
NE Goodwin & Son of Upper Hulme had a Holstein weighing 625kg, selling to 253p/kg to achieve £1581.25.
Other top prices included: –
Hols 252p to £1688 H S & A Callwood
Here 251p to £1393 JH & IEA Bennett & Sons
Hols 250p to £1925 WE Turnock & Sons
Blon 248p to £1587 J Gilman & Partners
AA 247p to £1358 NG & P Sidebottom
Frie 246p to £1672 P N Holdcroft
The overall average was 226.72p/kg.
CLEAN
A bunch of Friesian bulls sold well today in the clean cattle, topping at 339p/kg to £2169.60/head for J E Archer & Sons of Hilton.
Overall average for clean cattle was 332.64/kg.
PIGS (134)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A good show of pigs again today with trade back slightly, best gilts 200p+ topping at 207p, boars 160p-170p.
Porkers sold to 175p for J&B Fentem.
Cutters sold to 200p for PJ Saunders, 197p, 196px2 for J&B Fentem. 195p for R Scragg.
Baconers sold to 207p for Massie Farms who had others to 204p x3, 202p x3, 201p x2. PF+PD Parsons sold to 202p, 200p. B Minshull to 200p and C Hine to 200p. R Scragg to 199p.
Heavies to 196p or £209.72 for PF+PD Parsons.
Gilts to 120p for Massie Farms, CJ & CA Tunnicliffe to 60p.
Pig Averages: –
Pork Pigs (3) av 161.85p/kg or £118.15/head
Cutting Pigs (21) av 176.86p/kg or £143.59/head
Bacon Pigs (97) av 185.65p/kg or £177.37/head
Heavies (3) av 169.33p/kg or £181.19head
Clean Gilts (6) av 69.10p/kg or £167.90/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
PEDIGREES TO £4150
Trade for milkers continues to strengthen with a fantastic Kingmaster heifer from the Meldamar Herd of Messrs Shepherd of Bakewell topping the November Pedigree Sale at £4150. Sold giving 32kg she was eventually clinched by Andrew Hulme of Basford. He also went on to take a second heifer from the Havendale Herd of Messrs Flower at £4000.
Close behind at £3800 was a Wet Faneca Martin daughter from the Shieldhouse Herd of Messrs Weston with another heifer from the Topbrass herd of Messrs Brassington at £3500.
Cows topped at £2940 for a third calver from the Braemarhouse herd of Messrs Mellor.
If you have stock to sell, please get in touch. Contact Meg Elliott on 07967 007049.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (542)
A smaller entry but a good demand for all types and best shaped lambs in very strong demand.
Best lambs to 400p/kg and best big lambs to £211.70/head.
A lot of store type lambs in the entry, selling well but impacting the average, which levels at 317p/kg.
More could be sold to vendor’s advantage!!
Sample Prices: –
400p 35kg M & M Heath, Rushton Spencer
350p 33kg J W Fentem, Biggin
371p 36.5kg KP & LJ Cooper, Bradnop
370p 41kg S Rushton, Cheadle
358p 41.3kg M & M Heath, Rushton Spencer
344p 42.3kg D R Flower & Son, Alstonefield
374p 43kg J & W Knight, Horton
350p 46kg M Wood, Longnor
346p 47kg S Rushton, Cheadle
351p 47kg D Williams, Basford
360p 50kg J & W Knight, Horton
347p 57kg J & W Knight, Horton
310p 62kg T Gregory, Peak Forest
310p 68kg D Williams, Basford
CULL EWES (217)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A good number of ewes forward, a yarding mainly of grazing ewes and hill types, which look very well sold on the day, particularly those mules, no real fed ewes in the offering but those that were commanded a premium.
Sample prices: –
R&S Bailey £220
WE Turnock £200 and mules to £165
D Williams £185
J Murphy £180
C Wood £178
Tups to £200 for Ian Walker
Continentals £160 plus
Mules to £165 generally £120-£140
Hill types £60-£90
Feeders £95-£115
Overall average £116.23
CALVES (103)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Trade has gone up again with prices simply out of this world
26 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Boom, Boom, Boom. All buyers in attendance and firing hand and prices for all grades stronger than ever. Top six bulls over £600 and up to £690 twice for well presented bulls from Peter Gilman and Norman Mellor. Medium bulls £450 – £550 with just six smaller bulls under £450.
17 Blues av £535 to £690 P F Gilman
3 Sims av £366 to £460 R J Clowes & Sons
3 Lims av £503 to £690 NG, JMH & H Mellor
3 Char av £546 to £580 J Hughes
33 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Not quite as dear as the bulls but still very good to sell. Six best over £500 and up to £570 and £540 for a couple of British Blues from Andrew Hulme. Mediums £350 – £450 with just five under £300.
23 Blues av £413 to £570 DW & P Hulme
6 Sims av £310 to £345 CJC Stone
3 Lims av £376 to £530 JP & SR Slack
1 Char to £370 JW Campbell
24 NATIVES
More money than ever.
7 AA Bulls av £372 to £570 S McLeavy
12 AA Heif av £232 to £330 Foker Grange Farm
3 Here Bulls av £413 to £475 H W Heath & Son
1 Here Heif to £250 Rowland Partners
15 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
More money to average just over £100.
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SATURDAY 22nd NOVEMBER
Catalogued Sale of 694 Store & Breeding Cattle
Catalogue Now Available Online
Next Sale Saturday 6th December
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SATURDAY 29th NOVEMBER
Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep
Entries Close Friday 21st November
Next Sale Saturday 13th December