BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A Holstein cow weighing 655kg topped the barrens today at £1768.50, selling to 270p/kg for Robinson Partners of Rudyard.
Other Holsteins sold to £1679.80, weighing 740kg, for P & M Critchlow of Cubley.
Overall average was 188.54p/kg or £1216.09/head.
PIGS (115)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
More pigs about but a much poorer show with more plain boars about. Best gilts easy to place selling to 179p for Massie Farms. Sows to 50p for F&IE Todd.
Porkers sold to 90p for K Lloyd-Hughes with others to 80p for feeding.
Cutters for K Lloyd-Hughes to 100p.
Bacon pigs for Massie Farms sold to 179p, 171p, 169p, 168p, 166p, 165p. GR Weston to 164p. J&B Fentem 158p, 155p, 153p, 150p. B Minshull 155p.
Heavies to 167p. C Hine to 158p, 140p, 114p. MR Banham 134p. M Sweetmore 120p, 117p.
Gilts 50p for F&IE Todd. R Rowlinson 49p.
Sows to 41p for F&IE Todd.
Pig Averages: –
Pork Pigs (7), av 70.48p/kg or £48.13/head
Cutting Pigs (15) av 88.89p/kg or £68.92/head
Bacon Pigs (63) av 141.70p/kg or £134.75/head
Heavies (19) av 133.96p/kg or £155.11/head
Sows (7) av 30.41p/kg or £69.72/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:00am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Milkers to £3400
Montbeliarde Herd Dispersal to £2700
143 Sold
There was plenty on offer in the Dairy Shed at Leek on Tuesday which included the herd dispersal of the Pedigree Marchside Herd of Montbeliardes on behalf of Chris and Janette Prince of Marchington.
Trade was swift from beginning to end, starting in the commercial section with a sweet heifer from Michael and Caroline Wainwright making £3400, with a second from the same home at £3100.
A lovely group of cows from Messrs Morten topped at £2940, with others to £2900, £2800 and £2700.
A big crowd gathered for the Montbeliarde dispersal which topped at £2700 x4 with 35 passing the £2000 mark. All milkers including those with faults averaged £1983.
In-calf heifers peaked at £1950 with yearling heifers up to £1360. Young calves were also keenly sought after to £940.
Another busy day next week with a nice entry for the monthly pedigree sale. Catalogues will be on-line shortly.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (803)
A similar entry selling on a very good trade with the best types dearer again and many more could have been sold.
Best types flying away to 399p/kg from Ian & Andrew Wilson and plenty of others at 370p/kg and better. Best ten pens average 391.6p/kg. More best shaped lambs could be sold every week!!
Best big lambs selling to a top of £226.80. Plenty of other pens at £200 plus, showing the depth of demand.
Store lambs in the entry had plenty of bidders but would arguably be worth more in the store sales.
Overall average 335p/kg.
Sample Prices: –
397p 37kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
399p 41kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
390p 41kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
390p 41kg M Jones, Rudyard
397p 44kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
393p 45kg M Jones, Rudyard
390p 45kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
381p 45.4kg DJ & P Smith, Rushton Spencer
388p 46kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
376p 48.5kg M Jones, Rudyard
391p 51.5kg SR & G Marsden, High Peak
366p 49.3kg C Elkin, Blythe Bridge
360p 50.8kg Mosley & Son, Wormhill
368p 52kg SR & G Marsden, High Peak
360p 54kg Pilkington Farms, Hartington
359p 56.7kg C Elkin, Blythe Bridge
356p 57.5kg Mosley & Son, Wormhill
360p 63kg Curtis & Mountford, Bradnop
CULL EWES (245)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
More ewes about selling to a solid trade topping at £285 for R Bailey. A good show of ewes with plenty of fed ewes in the offering. All types dearer on the week with better Continentals at £200+ and better Mules at £180-£210. More ewes required each week.
Fed Continentals £190 – £250
Plain sorts £150 – £190
Mules to £193 generally £140 – £180
Better Hill Types £100 – £130
Feeding types: £70 – £110 depending on frame.
Sample Price: –
R&S Bailey £285
J Trueman £285, £268, £240
W&N Sherratt £246, £197
Breach Manor Farm £240
R&M Philips £240, £219, £208, £193
J&M Riley £230, £210
M&M Heath £220
GW Shenton £210
S&J Reeves £204, £195
Blaze Farm £200
A Shaw £195
Tups sold to £340 for J Trueman, R&S Bailey £322
Overall average £147.01/head
CALVES (174)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899) & Holly Swift (07973 982453)
A great day in the calf shed today, with numbers well up to satisfy buyer demand and a strong trade to match, albeit slightly less than the highs of the previous week! Top 20 bulls in the £730-£860 bracket and the top 20 heifers in the £500-£675 bracket.
53 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Amazing to sell and plenty of demand ring side for the bulls, half over the £700 mark and 4 over the £800 mark to top at £860 for a shapely blue from the Cottons at Tean. Plenty of style and shape on offer, with only 2 under £450 and the averages once again speak for themselves…
31 Blues av £643 to £860 FA & TM Cotton
18 Lim av £629 to £790 W & N Sherratt&Son
3 Sims av £597 to £755 H & E Bailey
1 Blond to £615 EJ & VC Gilman
43 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Still spirited bidding for this category despite seasonal customers not returning, having filled their quota last week. Top call today £675 for a strong blue heifer from the Shone’s, 6 over £600 to include both Limmys and Blues and 19 over £500.
20 Blues av £481 to £675 A & S Shone
18 Lims av £504 to £645 MG JMH & H Mellor
2 Sims av £398 to £475 J Clowes & Son
2 Blond av £470 to £490 EJ & VC Gilman
1 Char to £545 J Clowes & Son
43 NATIVES
WOW. Trade really going up another gear for the natives to top at £740 for an angus bull from the Woodward partners with another angus bull close behind at £735 for PR & JJ Holdgate and angus heifers to £655 from the same home. 6 angus bulls over £700 and Hereford bulls nearly reaching the £700 mark to top at £695 for T Johnson.
18 AA Bulls av £586 to £740 Woodward Partners
8 Here Bulls av £583 to £685 T Johnson
12 AA Heif av £380 to £655 PR & JJ Holdgate
5 Here Heifs av £408 to £450 S & S Brain
28 BLACK & WHITE DAIRY BULLS
Amazing to sell. Plenty of buyers forward for the dairy bulls again this week.
Four calves £350 – £435 for some amazing British Friesians from J & W Knight which were met with competitive bidding. Without those in the averages, the dairy bulls still come to £145 and only 3 under £100.
7 WEANLINGS
7 weanlings on offer in the 3mth to 7mth bracket to top at £815 for some nice Hereford steers from A Howe (7mth). A 3mth blue bull close behind at £785 for the Robinson Partners
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SATURDAY 12th SEPTEMBER
Catalogued Sale of 583 Store & Breeding Cattle
Catalogue Now Available Online
Next Sale Saturday 26th September
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SATURDAY 19th SEPTEMBER
Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep
Entries Close Friday 11th September
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