New record for Leek in the calf shed with British Blue bulls to £980, £960 and £950!! Heifers to £650
Over 1,000 head of sheep on offer seeing hoggs to 491p/kg to top at £229.85/head and ewes to £310
Barrens to 287p/kg to a top headage price of £1931.10
Excellent trade for the Dairy Pedigree Sale seeing a top price of £3680 and the top ten over £3000!
Pigs to 238p/kg, selling to a top of £260.25/head
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Strong trade in the barrens today seeing plenty of buyers around the ring with more cows needed each week to meet demand.
Top price of the day was 287p/kg for a 520kg Limousin cow to gross £1492.40 for F Potter & Son of Yeaveley.
A 555kg Flekvieh reached 276p/kg to gross £1531.80 for EB & BM Sutton of Congelton who also had Montbeliarde weighing 655kg to 266p/kg to gross £1742.30.
Top headage price of the day was £1931.10 for a 785kg Shorthorn which sold to 246p/kg for GG Hall & Son of Croxden.
Other top prices: –
L/horn 266p £1676 F Potter & Son
Mont 260p £1664 R A Lomas & Partners
Sim 257p £1850 P N Holdcroft
Frie 248p £1376 R A Lomas & Partners
The overall average was a very pleasing 231.39p/kg or £1382.87/head.
CLEAN
A small entry of clean cattle this week, seeing a 445kg Dairy Shorthorn heifer sell to 332p/kg to gross £1477.40 for R A Lomas & Partners of Matlock.
Holstein heifers sold to 293p/kg to gross £2021.70 for RG & AS Williamson of Wetley Rocks.
The overall average was 294.93/kg or £1526.29/head.
PIGS (183)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Similar numbers to last week with a more mixed show of pigs on offer, best pigs a pleasure to sell, under finished pigs harder work. Shop pigs sold well to 238p or £260.25. Gilts generally 200p – 220p, boars 140p – 160p. Under finished or out of spec pigs around 100p.
Porkers sold to 202p for SL Seabridge.
Cutters sold to 220p for DH & J Poulson, Llangadog, B Minshull to 215p, S Seabridge to 206p, J&B Fentem to 206p, G Weston to 194p for Hoggs.
Bacon pigs sold to 238p for M Fradley who had others to 224p, Massie farms sold to 223p, 219p x3, 213p, 209p, 207p, 206p, JG Belfield to 209p, 203p, J & B Fentem to 209p, 208p, A Shinton to 209p, B Minshull to 206p, C Hine to 205p, 203p.
A mixed show of heavies sold to 225p or £260.25 for Massie Farms who had others to 225p, 216p, 210p, C Hine to 157p for boars.
A 161kg clean gilt sold to 119p for S Bailey with more needed each week.
Sows a mixed trade selling to 50p for Rosie Watson, D H & J Poulson to 30p.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (9); av 87.42p/kg or £61.49/head
Cutting Pigs (24); av 183.09p/kg or £1149.37/head
Bacon Pigs (123), av 179.63p/kg or £167.11/head
Heavies (21), av 1149.05p/kg or £173.18/head
Sows (4), av. 34.73p/kg or £73.39/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
ELECTRIC TRADE AT LEEK PEDIGREE SALE
TOP OF £3680
10 OVER £3000
Quality drew out the crowd on Tuesday for the March Pedigree Sale at Leek with trade setting of at a pace from the start.
Leading the day was Shieldhouse Prosecco Joyful from the Weston family of Roston. By Prosecco, she was sold giving a massive 41.6kg and was eventually clinched for £3680.
Cows were hot in pursuit with a second calver from the Braemarhouse Herd of Messrs Mellor reaching £3400. By Claynook Zolton, she had given 8655kg as a heifer and was sold giving 34kg.
A heifer from the Broomhouse Herd of Messrs Easom by Denovo 17885 Aster made £3350. They also saw their run of second calvers all pass the £3000 mark topping at £3150.
A smashing run of heifers from the Cubley Herd of Messrs Critchlow topped at £3350 with others to £3320 and £3100.
Trade surpassed all expectations with 10 passing £3000, more certainly needed to satisfy demand!
Young calves were also keenly sought after with a lovely heifer calf from Red Earth Farms reaching £520.
If you have stock to sell don’t hesitate to get in touch. Contact Meg Elliott on 07967 00749.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
HOGGS (815)
Perhaps a few less than we might have expected but an exceptional trade throughout for the good, the bad and the ugly.
Not as many of the very best forward with a couple of orders not getting filled, more of the best shaped lambs required each week.
Best flying away to 491p/kg from the Challinor family of Dilhorne and plenty more at 450p/kg and better.
Big hoggs top at £229.85/head.
SQQ average at 407p/kg for a poorer quality show in general with overall averages at 390p/kg or £178/head.
Thank you for your continued support.
Sample Prices: –
480p 38kg MR & AS Challinor, Dilhorne
466p 38.7kg MR & AS Challinor, Dilhorne
491p 39.5kg MR & AS Challinor, Dilhorne
490p 40.9kg D Williams, Basford
474p 42.7kg R & S Bailey, Cloudside
478p 43.4kg R & S Bailey, Cloudside
455p 44kg JB Rowlinson & Son, Gawsworth
446p 44kg P Yates, Rugeley
470p 44.2kg R & S Bailey, Cloudside
462p 45.8kg R & S Bailey, Cloudside
430p 47.2kg SJ Pace & Co, Congleton
430p 47.3kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
400p 52kg AW Hulme, Basford
380p 55kg J Belfield & R Deakin-Gallimore
378p 55kg M Jones, Rudyard
378p 56kg N Brown, Marston Montgomery
CULL EWES (267)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A few more ewes as expected with a stand on trade during festival week. A good show of ewes with plenty of fed types available. Best continentals to £310 for Furness & Taylor Wormhill. Best 64 ewes over £200 showing the quality on offer.
Fed Continentals £200 – £270
Plainer Sorts £150 – £180
Mules to £183, Generally £135 – £180
Fed Hill Ewes £90 – £130
Feeding Ewes £70 – £110.
Sample Prices:
Furness & Taylor £310, £300, £288, £285, £250
RP Hall £290, £289, £273 x2
BG & SV Buxton £285, £240
JWA Jeffrey £270, £240, £210
JG Belfield £270, £250
R Tomkinson £249, £242
CP Brocklehurst £244, £237, £217
DB Goldstraw £242
AD Williams £240
MR & AS Challinor £220
Tups to £200 ID&TJ Gregory
Overall average a respectable £177.59/head.
CALVES (137)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899) & Holly Swift (07973 982453)
Trade simply off the clock here today at Leek! Market record of £980 set for a fantastic British Blue bull (1 month) and three others over £900!! Plenty more could have been sold to a packed ring of buyers.
48 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Unreal trade, all but one above £540, fifteen best over £660, topping at £980 and others at £960, £950 and £940 from Messrs Higginson, H Hodgkinson & Sons and Furness & Taylor respectively for British Blues. More could have easily been sold.
32 Blues av £642 to £980 TD & DA Higginson
2 Sims av £680 to £780 TD & DA Higginson
14 Lims av £616 to £740 DA & A Shuker
28 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Fantastic trade for the heifers
With the top fifteen over £510 and a top price of £650 for a shapy British Blue (1 month) from KW & AM Minshull with another from the same home close behind at £620.
19 Blues av £526 to £650 KW & AM Minshull
8 Lims av £474 to £540 I & G Gregson
1 INRA to £395 Newtons Dairy
25 NATIVES
Met with very good demand the native trade was very fast today – topping at £655 for an Aberdeen Angus bull from the Hawkins family – just take a look at the averages!
9 AA Bulls av £516 to £655 GR & D Hawkins
3 Here Bulls av £480 to £575 E Davies & Partners
11 AA Heif av £388 to £510 Red Earth Farms
2 Here Heif av £280 to £400 WD & BP Norbury
38 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Very good demand at Leek for the Black & Whites with plenty of buyers operating for them to top at £320 for a Flekvieh bull from the Critchlow’s and others close behind at £300 for smart Friesians from Misson Dairies – Twelve over £200.
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SATURDAY 28th MARCH
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 20th March
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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