Pigs on an absolute flying trade this week seeing a top price of 237p/kg or £237.77/head
Just short of 1,000 sheep on offer with a competitive trade throughout, seeing hoggs to 450p/kg with a top headage price of £210.10 and ewes to £340/head
Barrens to 300p/kg, topping at £2146/head with clean cattle topping at 358/kg or £2344.90/head
More calves could easily have been sold with a top price of £860 for a Blue bull and Blue heifers to £600
A strong trade seen for the Pedigree dairies, topping at £3180 for a second calver
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Barren cows seeing an increase in trade once again with more needed each week to meet demand.
Top price this week was a very respectable 300p/kg for a Hereford cow weighing 630kg to gross £1890 from J & W Knight of Horton.
A 600kg Shorthorn cow sold to 290p/kg to gross £1740 for Mick Reeves & Family of Ipstones.
A Stabiliser X Cow weighing 740kg sold to 290p/kg to gross £2146, the top headage price of the day, for DA & ME Whitehurst of Nobut.
Other top prices: –
Lim 284p £2144.20 AJ Bayley
S/Horn 277p £1745.10 MJ, C & PM Reeves
Lim 262p £1742.30 RG & AS Williamson
S/Horn 260p £1534 MJ, C & PM Reeves
Mont 258p £1715.70 SC, FE & JA Harvey
The overall average was 227.94p/kg or £1455.49/head.
CLEAN
Stabiliser X steers weighing 655kg topped at 358p/kg to gross £2344.90 for DA & N+ME Whitehurst of Nobut with others from the same vendor also reaching 358p and 328p.
The overall average was 349.10p/kg or £2001.53/head.
PIGS (169)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Nothing short of an absolute flyer. 169 pigs seen and sold to a fast trade. Gilts regularly 210p – 230p, boars 170p – 190p. Top price 237p for Massie Farms to a top price of £237.77/head.
Only two porkers sold to 235p and 176p for J Davies, Holyhead.
Cutters sold to 233p twice for Graham Weston, Longsdon. B Minshull to 202p. S Bailey 200p. K Lloyd-Hughes, Anglesey to 198p. Boars to 188p for J&B Fentem and GL & S Lloyd, Llandinam.
Massie Farms to 237p, 236p, 235p x3, 233p, 232p, 231p, 229p, 226p. J Davies to 236p, 230p, B Minshull to 230p, J&B Fentem to 221p, 220p, 214p. N Brown to 220p. G Weston to 214p, GL & SE Lloyd to 209p. K Lloyd-Hughes 209p.
Heavies sold to 218p for J&B Fentem who had boars to 168p. N brown to 201p, K Lloyd-Hughes to 178p for Boars. 120kg Boars to 128p for JR Mosedale.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (2), av 204.45p/kg or £144.14/head
Cutting Pigs (17), av 201.89p/kg or £166.97/head
Bacon Pigs (130), av 205.57p/kg or £192.63/head
Heavies (20), av 136.74p/kg or £154.79/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Leek Pedigrees to £3180
The best continue to be a strong trade within the dairy ring with milkers topping at £3180 for a very sweet second calver from the Broomhouse Herd of Messrs Easom giving 46kg. They also had another second calver giving 47kg to £3050.
Two second calvers from the Havendale Herd of Messrs Flower both reached £2500.
The Easom family also topped the trade for heifers at £2650 for a 33kg Pine-Tree Denovo Avon daughter.
Close behind at £2580 was a Prosecco daughter from the Shieldhouse Herd of the Weston family from Roston.
Good cows and heifers still remain in that £2 – £3000 price bracket despite the current hit on the milk price however there is definitely a two tier trade developing between the best and lower qualities.
Young heifer calves topped at £460 from Messrs Swindell.
If you have stock to sell don’t hesitate to get in touch.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
HOGGS (669)
A similar entry, sold on a very fast trade with competitive bidding from the first pen to the last.
Best lambs in extreme demand, to a top of 450p/kg and nineteen pens at 400p/kg or more.
Handy weights best to sell as usual of late and the SQQ average of 367p/kg tells the story.
Big lambs easier to sell than the last few weeks, to a top of 415p/kg for heavies and 382p/kg for over weights. Top headage of £210.10 from Rob and Andy Williamson.
Numbers required every week please.
Sample Prices: –
428p 37kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
400p 38kg L Fentem, Biggin
414p 38.5kg S Proctor, Longnor
435p 39kg M & M Heath, Rushton Spencer
426p 40kg J Belfield & R Deakin Gallimore
432p 43kg J Belfield & R Deakin Gallimore
450p 43.7kg R & S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
412p 44kg P Smith, Macclesfield
405p 45kg A Lovatt, Macclesfield
415p 47kg A Williams, Basford
405p 49kg H Hodgkinson & Son, Earl Sterndale
354p 53kg J Belfield & R Deakin Gallimore
382p 55kg RG & AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
352p 56kg A Lovatt, Macclesfield
342p 59kg R J Lowe & Partners, Rudyard
CULL EWES (265)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Festival week brings a serious spark to the ewe trade. A good show of ewes with runs of good fed ewes in the mix, all types £10 up on the week. Top price on the day £340.
Sample Prices:
RP Hall £340, £299, £282
IE,A & M Wilson £320, £255
PG Read £310, £240, £200
B Jones £265
R&S Bailey £252
B Vernon £250, £200
A Williams £240
J Belfield & R Deakin-Gallimore £240
K Sessions £210
RA Harrison £210
H Lyons £208
Tups to £188 for for P Nadin
Best continentals £200 – £260
Plainer continental sorts £160 – £200
Mules to £205 Generally £140 – £180
Hill types £80 – £130
Very lean small types £40 – £90
Overall average a respectable £172.15/head.
CALVES (98)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Just under 100 today but could have sold 200 with the number of buyers at ringside and the trade that prevailed.
28 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Outstanding to sell again with all shapes and grades selling above expectations. A lovely British Blue topped the day at £860 from Sheila McLeavy with Andrew Hulme at £740 and the top eleven Blues all north of £600.
21 Blues av £515 to £860 SM McLeavy
5 Lims av £446 to £590 I Gregson
1 Char to £560 R & R Moss
28 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Strong money again with the British Blues averaging over £500 and peaking at £600 for a Graham Turnock special. Seven best over £570; medium £450 – £520 with a handful of smaller sorts under £400.
17 Blues av £507 to £600 WE Turnock & Sons
2 Sims av £490 to £510 RJ Clowes & Sons
9 Lims av £396 to £590 SH & CJ Woodward
21 NATIVES
Very good to sell as always at Leek.
6 Here Bulls av £340 to £515 G & E Critchlow
4 AA Bulls av £338 to £540 DR&A Shuker&Sons
4 Here Heif av £260 to £310 R & R Moss
7 AA Heif av £327 to £420 RJ Neville & Sons
8 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
A British Friesian made £340 for Messrs McLeavy with Holsteins to £200 and nothing under £120 today.
13 REARED
£765 Simm Bulls (6wks) SJ Hooley
£495 Here Heifers (6wks) SJ Hooley
NEXT WEEK
30 British Blue and Aberdeen Angus calves already promised from one Staffordshire Farm.
PRODUCE
Plenty of bidders for all the produce on offer.
2025 Conventional Hay to £5.31 per bale
2024 6 string barn stored hay to £52 per bale.
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SATURDAY 28th FEBRUARY
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 20th February
Next Sale Saturday 14th March
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