Calves to £840
Hoggs to 502p/kg or £243/head
Ewes to £245
Pigs to 214p/kg or £273.92/head
Dairies to £2780
Barrens to 270p/kg or £2197.60/head
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Another firm trade in the barren shed with a top price of 270p/kg for a 645kg Limousin to gross £1741.50 for D & J Bradbury of Ipstones.
An 820kg Holstein sold to 268p/kg to gross £2197.60, being the top headage price of the day, for GP Broadsmith & Son of Lymm.
Other top prices: –
Hol 263p £2012 R & T Clowes & Son
Frie 257p £1953 SJ Hooley
Fleck 256p £1792 HR Johnson & Sons
Hols 249p £1818 SJ Hooley
Hols 244p £1757 PN Holdcroft
The overall average was 222.8p/kg or £1459/head.
CLEAN
Clean cattle topped at 290p/kg to gross £1232.50 for a Holstein heifer from J & R Maydew of Consall with two others from the same vendor selling to 280p/kg and 278p/kg to gross £1512 and £2001/head.
The overall average was 270p/kg or £1398.22/head.
PIGS (159)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A few less pigs about today and trade a touch stickier with more plain sorts on offer. Top price on the day 214p or £273.92 for Massie Farms.
Porkers sold to 204p for JA&B Minshull.
Cutters sold to 195p for JA&B Minshull, S Seabridge sold to 192p, J&B Fentem to 180p, 175p.
Bacon pigs sold to 212p for Massie Farms who had others to 210p, 207p, 205p. B Minshull to 207p, 206p, S Bailey to 207p, OT Davies to 201p, PF+PD Parsons to 194p.
Heavies sold to 214p for Massie Farms who had others to 214p.
Clean gilts to 130p for Massie farms to gross £257.40.
Sows sold to 44p for R Rowlinson, 37p for J&B Fentem and 26p for Robinson Partners.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (3); av 161.33p/kg or £115.08/head
Cutting Pigs (22); av 158.35p/kg or £129.06/head
Bacon Pigs (103), av 177.59p/kg or £166.00/head
Heavies (25), av 167.15p/kg or £185.13/head
Sows (3), av. 36.39p/kg or £81.27/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
A real trade in the Dairy ring with vendors well rewarded and more could have been well sold.
Top price of the day £2780 for an October ‘23 born Pedigree Benty Grange heifer from the Phillips family at Winkhill. Sold giving 34kg she was eventually clinched by Nigel Moss at Wetwood.
All the best end £2000 and above with the best four averaging over £2400 per head.
Pedigree Friesian bred 3rd calvers to £2200 again for Josh Phillips.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
HOGGS (801)
A good entry sold on a very good trade and dearer on the week.
Overall average, the notable change, up £10 on the week to £184/head including plenty of light weight and under finished sorts.
Best shaped sorts at a premium, up to 502p/kg and plenty at 450p – 500p/kg for the right goods.
Heavy lambs to 476p/kg and over weights to 450p/kg to top at £243/head.
SQQ average at 408p/kg and overall average at 392.5p/kg.
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Sample Prices: –
502p 39kg D Williams, Basford
502p 39kg D Williams, Basford
470p 41kg S Dean, Wincle
470p 41kg BG Clarkson, North Rode
499p 41.5kg R & S Bailey, Cloudside
492p 43kg M Jones, Rudyard
490p 43.8kg AS Agriculture, Moddershall
465p 45kg EA Sessions & Sons, Dalbury Lees
501p 45.3kg R & S Bailey, Cloudside
470p 46kg A Williams, Basford
476p 46.5kg SJ Pace & Co, Congleton
448p 49.5kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
450p 54kg M Jones, Rudyard
410p 53kg D Williams, Basford
CULL EWES (110)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Less ewes about post festival and trade a bit harder work as expected. Ewes topped at £245 twice for N Shirt and D Williams.
Fed Continentals £180 – £220
Plainer Sorts £135 – £165
Mules to £171, Generally £125 – £150
Fed Hill Ewes £70 – £100
Feeding Ewes £70 – £110.
Sample Prices:
N Shirt £245
D Williams £245
H Heath £215, £210
Furness Partnership £213
WE Turnock £210
R&S Bailey £205
DB Goldstraw £194, £192
Tups to £180 for WE Turnock
Overall average a respectable £158/head.
CALVES & WEANLINGS (162)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Holly Swift (07973 982453)
A superb show of numbers in the calf shed today with the quality perhaps not just as good as last week and a large entry of dairy and black & white calves but still topping at £840 for a strong Blonde bull from the Gilmans and weanlings to £1100 from Joe Radford.
31 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Very well bid for again today, twelve over £600, twenty-one over £500 and topping at £840 for a Blonde from EJ & VC Gilman with others to £820, £810 and £790 from F Yates, Norman Mellor and family and the Myatts respectively.
15 Blues av £557 to £790 GW Myatt & Partners
2 Char av £615 to £760 MA & WJ Joliffe
4 Sims av £383 to £670 PN Holdcroft
9 Lims av £593 to £820 F Yates & Son
1 Blon to £840 EJ & VC Gilman
31 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Topping at £630 for a British Blue heifer from Woodward Partners, other British Blues close behind at £625 and £605 from the Shirt family and PF Gilman. Three over £600, thirteen over £500 and twenty-four over £400.
18 Blues av £494 to £630 Woodward Partners
4 Char av £444 to £575 MA & WJ Joliffe
4 Sims av £490 to £590 PN Holdcroft
5 Lims av £430 to £590 F Yates
42 NATIVES
A good show today which met good demand ring side, topping at £685 for a very strong Hereford bull from the Goulds, Aberdeen Angus bulls close behind at £645 from Birch Brothers and half over £400. Average4s a touch back but the bottom end were smaller sorts generally.
15 AA Bulls av £423 to £645 Birch Bros
6 Here Bulls av £469 to £685 FJ Gould & Sons
13 AA Heif av £379 to £505 PF Gilman
8 Here Heif av £368 to £470 SJ Hooley
56 BLACK & WHITE & DAIRY BULLS
A huge show of black & white bulls from some Spring calving homes and plenty of smaller sorts forming the largest part of the entry. Strong calves well bid for and plenty of buyers at Leek here for them. Top call of £255 for a Stabiliser X calf from Dalton Farms and a Holstein bull close behind at £250 from WJ & P Wilson.
2 WEANLINGS
To top at £1100 from Joe Radford for a 7-month-old Charolais.
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SATURDAY 28th MARCH
Catalogued Sale of 656 Store & Breeding Cattle
Catalogue Now Available Online
Next Sale Saturday 11th April
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SATURDAY 28th MARCH
First Fortnightly Sale of Ewes & Hoggs with Lambs at Foot – Please advise of entries! Sale at 11am.
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TUESDAY 31st MARCH
Easter Show & Sale of Spring Lambs – 11am
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