Seeing a good trade in the Sheep today with some excellent prices being achieved, a top price of 562p/kg for Spring Lambs and Hoggs topping at 450p/kg.
Once again, plenty of Calves on offer with a top price Bull at £440 and a top in the Heifers of £350.
Trade still good in the Barrens with a top price of 201p/kg and a top headage price of £1871.50 and a top price in the clean cattle of 258p/kg.
The monthly pedigree sale in the Dairies saw a top price of £2740 with nine past the £200 mark but rather an unsettled trade with the wet weather we are experiencing.
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A good firm trade throughout with a good company of buyers, seeing a top price of 201p/kg for a 760kg Limousin X Cow from HG Nutter of Grindon with a 950kg Charolais Cow from Chris Wardle of Elworth achieving 197p/kg to gross £1871.50.
A 655kg British Blue Cow and a 690kg British Blue Cow, both from HG Nutter, sold to 194p/kg and 193p/kg and a 680kg Simmental Cow was well sold at 188p/kg.
Others included:
665kg Mont – 186p/kg EB&BM Sutton
585kg Norw – 183p/kg EB&BM Sutton
695kg Hols – 175p/kg A&JE Goldstraw
Top headage price was £1871.50 for the Charolais Cow from Chris Wardle and £1527.60 for a Limousin from HG Nutter.
CLEAN CATTLE
A small entry but good competition seeing a 760kg Stabiliser Steer, for DA Whitehurst of Nobut, achieving 258p/kg to gross £1960.80, a 660kg Longhorn Steer from the same vendor at 243p/kg and a 555kg Longhorn Steer, also from MR Whitehurst of Nobut, at 240p/kg.
A 745kg Stabiliser Steer achieved 236p/kg.
Top headage price was £1960.80 and £1758.20.
PIGS (82);
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Similar numbers to last week forward. Trade patchy and 100kg plus harder to place.
Top price 195p/kg for Pietrain boars, sows to 60p
Cutters sold to 195p from Ben Vernon for boars. J&B Fentem sold to 189p, 188p, 186p. RA Hughes, 175p.
Bacon pigs sold to 195p from B Vernon, 194p for PF+PD Parsons, 193p for JA&B Minshull. 192p from J&B Fentem.
Heavy pigs hard work selling to 100p from M Banham.
Sows sold to 60p from C Hine, 55p from S Proctor, 50p from A Worth.
Pig Averages.
Cutting Pigs (22); av 169.40p/kg or £136.60/head
Bacon Pigs (47); av 169.20p/kg or £152.96/head
Heavy Pigs (8); av 83.72p/kg or £100.68/head
Sow(5) av 53.41pp/kg or £113.76.77/head
DAIRIES (57)
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
57 DAIRIES
TOP OF £2740
Despite having a top price of £2740 and 9 past £2000 it was a very unsettled days trading with the continuing poor weather having a definite impact with fewer purchasers in attendance and those there being very choosy.
Top call at £2740 went to the Needham family of Rushton for an Applejax daughter. Sold giving 34kg, she went to Andrew Hulme of Basford. They had another to £2680 giving 34kg to Angela Bailey of Brown Edge.
Andrew Stone of Onecote had a heifer to £2500 to Ed Clowes of Kingsley with Messrs Shepherd of Bakewell seeing their Alcove daughter reach £2360, also to Andrew Hulme.
Cows peaked at £2200 for a second calver from the Braemarhouse Herd of Messrs Mellor.
A lovely group of calves including 3 Ayrshires met a great deal of interest topping at £310.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
SPRING LAMBS (43)
An excellent trade for all types, topping at 562p/kg form Rob and Andy Williamson and top headage at £226.80.
Overall average at 514p/kg. More now required weekly.
Sample Prices:
562p 35.8kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
530p 36kg GG Burton, Repton
520p 37kg A Trigg, Longsdon
552p 37.5kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
550p 38.8kg IE,M&A Wilson, Hollington
HOGGETS (686)
A seasonal entry but some excellent runs of well finished hoggs which were well rewarded with a sharp demand throughout.
Best sorts at 420p and better to top 450p/kgfrom David Edgecox. Top headage at £260/head for heavy sorts.
Overall average of 390p or 409p SQQ. A lot of lean and under fed hoggs forward which sell at much lower levels but are included in the averages.
Sample Prices: –
432p 37.5kg D Edgecox, Onecote
442p 39kg M&C Hall, Sheen
431p 39kg PG Read, Uttoxeter
450p 40kg D Edgecox, Onecote
440p 40.1kg R Challinor, Dilhorne
438p 40.7kg JB Wright, Hartington
450p 41kg AW Wilshaw, Meerbrook
448p 42.3kg SJ Pace & Co, Congleton
448p 43kg L Wright, Hartington
433p 43.5kg M&C Hall, Sheen
438p 43.6kg D Edgecox, Onecote
430p 46.5kg J Bonsall, Atlow
428p 47.5kg CW Shenton, Wilmslow
CULL EWES (145)
A similar entry to last week in terms of numbers, trade up a notch on the week with better ewes on offer. Top price for texel ewes from A Trigg, Longsdon at £184. Top 16 pens £150+.
Continental types £135+
Mules topped at £130
Plain mules £85-95
Hill types £60-70
Overall average £111.66/head
Tups topped at £180 from Andy Williamson.
Overall average £134.67.14
CALVES (139)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Good numbers again with some very good calves on offer and a solid trade but three lots of Spring Calves today (80 Calves) had their effect on the averages.
36 CONTINENTAL BULLS
All sizes, breeds and ages represented with the best excellent to sell with five best over £400 and a high of £440 for a posh British Blue from Graham Turnock of Onecote who also had another at £400. Less medium today with £280-£345 with a lot of smaller (Spring Calves) today under £100.
28 Blues av £185 to £440 WE Turnock & Sons
3 Sims av £345 to £410 RJ Clowes & Sons
5 Lims av £231 to £350 RG&AS Williamson
21 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Same story as the Bulls and not enough good Calves to fill the orders. A big British Blue from Andrew Hulme made £350 with the better sorts generally £230-£290 and
the Spring Calving sorts under £100.
14 Blues av £139 to £350 DW&P Hulme
3 Sims av £250 to £280 H&E Bailey & Ptns
4 Lims av £109 to £288 RG&AS Williamson
70 NATIVES
Big numbers but quality somewhat less.
9 Here Bulls av £90 to £160 Adaptive Farming
26 Angus Bulls av £78 to £155 R Wain & Sons
10 Here Hfs av £63 to £76 R Wain & Sons
24 Angus Hfs av £34 to £62 R Wain & Sons
12 B&W BULLS
A smart Friesian type made £210 with a couple more better types over £100. Smaller bulls £32-£60 today.
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SATURDAY 27TH APRIL
Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 19th April
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SATURDAY 27TH APRIL
Fortnightly Sale of Ewes & Hoggs
with Lambs at Foot – Please Advise of Entries! Sale at 11am
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