A very wet Tuesday market and a few less numbers about in all sections. A good demand for barren cattle with top prices of 288p/kg and £2025.10/head.
Just short of 1,000 sheep on offer with hoggs to 378p/kg or £211.20/head and ewes to £280
Calves topping at £735 for Blue bulls and £590 for Blue heifers
Dairies to £2650 x2
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Despite the wet weather, barrens were in strong demand, topping at 288p/kg for a Holstein cow weighing 615kg to gross at £1771.20 for P & M Critchlow of Ashbourne.
A Blonde cow weighing 675kg closely followed at 286p/kg to gross at £1930.50 for J Gilman & Partners of Bosley.
A Shorthorn cow weighing 770kg sold to 263p/kg to gross £2025.10 being the top headage price of the day for D & J Moseley Ltd of Caverswall.
Other top prices: –
Here 250p £1625.00 J Gilman & Partners
Frie 237p £680.00 W, A & PW Carbutt
Hols 233p £1759.15 WE Turnock & Sons
Hols 229p £1740.40 J & R Maydew
Hols 227p £1623.05 P & M Critchlow
S/Horn 226p £1570.70 S J Day
The overall average was a down a touch at 213.50p/kg or £1373.50/head.
PIGS (161)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
161 pigs seen and sold today, despite falling deadweight prices the live market system continues to provide. a good show of pigs with those quality fat pigs in demand, rougher sorts harder to sell. fats sold to 227p or £225.75
Porkers sold to 178p for RA Hughes who had others at 164p. B Barlow to 160p.
Cutters sold to 202p for G Weston, W Gregson had boars to 179p. DB Goldstraw to 178p, B Barlow to 175p. B Minshull to 175p.
Bacon pigs met a strong demand selling to 227p for Massie Farms who had others to 226px3, 225p, 220p, 215p, 214px2. B Minshull to 222p. PF+PD Parsons to 220p, 210p, 206p. GR Weston to 218p. B Barlow to 212p. J&B Fentem to 208p. C Hine 204p.
Heavies sold to a strong trade topping at 215p for 105kg gilts from PF+PD Parsons, S Bailey to 196p, J&B Fentem to 185p, 167p, 165p. P Hine to 140p.
Sows a struggle selling to 30p for R Rowlinson
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (5); av 168.72p/kg or £116.08/head
Cutting Pigs (26); av 140.56p/kg or £110.72/head
Bacon Pigs (114), av 200.46p/kg or £189.92head
Heavies (15), av 161.70p/kg or £177.65/head
Sows (1), av.30.00p/kg or £76.56/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Milkers to £2650 x2
A lovely run of five milkers from the Broomhouse Herd of Messrs Easom met a strong trade with others from the same home to £2280 and £2200 with all five averaging £2368.
Some lovely Red & White youngstock from Messrs Foster of Belper sold to £710 to give an overall average of £599.17.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
HOGGS (752)
A typical January day, both in terms of weather and demand, with both local and national wholesalers reporting slow demand. This resulted in a bit of a come down from last weeks trade but still a full clearance can be reported.
Best butchers’ lambs selling to 378p/kg and a few other specials at 350p/kg and better., but generally best lambs 340p – 350p/kg for handy weights at 320p – 340p/kg for 45kg and over.
Heavy lambs making up over 60% of the entry and these are proving harder to place nationally, but our result for these would be on par or better to average 310p/kg for heavies and 289p/kg for overweights.
Best big lambs still grossing £211.20 for an outstanding pen from David and Joe Lovatt of Rushton.
Overall average of 323p/kg or £145/head.
Sample Prices: –
346p 34.8kg J Fernyhough, Swythamley
342p 35kg S Leslie, Ashbourne
346p 38kg C Wood, Cauldon Lowe
378p 38.5kg R & S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
355p 38.7kg KW&AM Minshull, Bosley
350p 43.5kg R & S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
376p 44kg BM Robinson, Marston Montgomery
354p 45kg A Shaw, Ashbourne
341p 46.9kg P Smith, Rushton Spencer
344p 50kg J Gilman & Partners, Bosley
348p 50kg J Belfield & R Deakin-Gallimore
370p 53kg DH & J Lovatt, Rushton Spencer
332p 61kg DH & J Lovatt, Rushton Spencer
320p 66kg DH & J Lovatt, Rushton Spencer
CULL EWES (152)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A few less ewes sold to a solid trade, similar to last week. Best continental in strong demand, half bred and mules still a strong trade but not as dear as we have seen them in previous weeks. Overall, a good show of ewes forward with plenty of fed strong ewes in the entry. Top price twice at £280 for R&S Bailey and R Darlington.
Sample Prices:
R&S Bailey £280, £240, £212
R Darlington £280, £230, £225
F Potter £218, £195
B Robinson £180
PJ Bowers £180
WS Wright £178
Best continentals £180 – £240
Plainer continental sorts £150 – £180
Mules to £162 Generally £120 – £140
Hill types £80 – £110
Very lean small types £40 – £90
Overall average a respectable £156.47/head.
CALVES (76)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
A weather affected entry this Tuesday but what we lacked in quantity we made up for with trade with some marvellous prices throughout.
19 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Look at the averages and it will tell the story. Five over £700 for five different vendors and just four under £500. Mark Hodgkinson led the way with British Blues at £735.
14 Blues av £604 to £735 H Hodgkinson&Sons
2 Sims av £435 to £440 PN Holdcroft
1 Lim to £500 J Kirkham
2 Char av £632 to £700 D&G Tudor
20 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Trade equally as good as the bulls with plenty of farmer buyers looking. Five best British Blues over £500 and up to £590 for Messrs Eardley of Prestbury. Mediums £400 -£500 with just five under £400.
11 Blues av £476 to £590 JBS Eardley & Sons
1 Sim to £435 PN Holdcroft
5 Lims av £341 to £430 J Kirkham
1 INRA to £470 S Bailey
2 Pied av £427 to £440 FA & TM Cotton
31 NATIVES
Even dearer than last week.
13 AA Bulls av £427 to £575 Woodward Partners
5 Here Bulls av £429 to £490 Rowland Partners
12 AA Heifs av £323 to £440 FA & TM Cotton
6 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
1 posh Friesian made £300 and a Holstein topped at £180.
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SATURDAY 31st JANUARY
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Catalogue Available Online
Next Sale Saturday 14th February
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SATURDAY 7th FEBRUARY
Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep
Entries Close Friday 30th January
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