With October upon us, trade remains strong with plenty of stock on offer.
Dairies up to £3000, Lambs to 340p/kg, Pigs to 208p/kg, Barrens to 187p/kg and calves up to £455.
BARREN COWS (37)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A pleasing entry, seeing a very similar strong trade up to 187p/kg for an 825kg Charolais cow for Messrs Sykes of Rainow to gross £1542.75.
A 725kg Shorthorn cow from SJ Hooley of Macclesfield sold for 178p/kg with a 575kg Holstein, for W E Turnock & Sons, at 177p/kg.
Another Black & White cow, weighing 790kg, for W, A & DW Carbutt of Siddington, achieved 175p/kg with a 685kg cow from the same vendor at 172p/kg.
A 650kg Limousin stock bull was bid for keenly and realised 181p/kg to gross £1176.50.
An 800kg, 45-month-old Hereford bull, from N F Hill, realised 189p/kg to gross £1512.00.
CLEAN CATTLE
An entry of 5 Friesian bulls from J E Archer & Sons of Hilton met a good demand, seeing a top price of 246p/kg for a 500kg bull with 239p/kg being paid for another 500kg bull.
A 640kg Aberdeen Angus steer, from B J Bailey of Biddulph Park, achieved 230p/kg to gross £1472.
Top headage price for young bulls was £1230.
PIGS (119)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Another strong entry of pigs today with a good show of quality pigs forward. Top price for fat pigs 208p, better gilts generally 195-205p and boars 10p less. sows topped at 102p.
Cutters sold to 202p for J&B Fentem who had others at 201p and 200px2.
A good show of bacon pigs sold to 208p for Bernard Minshull who had boars to 193p. PF+PD Parsons had a run to 205p, 204p, 202p, 201p for gilts and boars to 191p. Massie Farms sold to 204p, 202p, 201p and 200p.
Heavies sold to 165p for 120kg gilts from Wythenshawe Community Farm, Stockport. who had another 142kg pig to 120p. R Brough had a 118kg gilt to 144p.
Sows sold to 102p or £252.96 for Wythenshawe Community Farm, R Brough had a 164kg sow to 96p.
Store pigs sold to £80/head
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (10) av.140.00p/kg or £93.80/head
Cutting Pigs (15) av200.81p/kg or £163.46/head
Bacon Pigs (64) av194.71p/kg or £181.72/head
Heavy Pigs (4) av147.26p/kg or £184.08/head
Sow (2) av; 99.61p/kg or £205.20/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Dairies to £3000
17 Over £2000
A really good entry of milkers on Tuesday met a fantastic trade peaking at £3000 for a very powerful heifer from David Brailsford of Chesterfield.
Close behind at £2950 was a sweet heifer from the Broadley family of Brucdcliffe, who saw their second heifer reach £2600.
The Easom’s of Oakerthorpe saw thei third calver reach £2480 with a lovely run of four heifers making £2460, £2400 x 2 and £2220.
In all, 17 passed the £2000 mark with all milkers including some with detriments, averaging £1962.
Calves peaked at £290 from Red Earth Farms.
Plenty going on in the dairy shed over the forthcoming weeks, including the herd dispersal on behalf of the Shuker Family, see below.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (583)
A reduced entry after an awful day and nights weather saw a sharper trade for all types.
Best lambs selling to 340p/kg and plenty at 300p and better.
Best big lambs grossing £169.13.
Overall average at 276p/kg for a sample including a lot of ‘weathered’ types
Sample Prices: –
298p 36.7kg DM Foster, Cheadle
320p 44kg AG Tomkinson, Thorpe
340p 44.7kg GT Rowlinson, Denstone
334p 44kg D Williams, Basford
327p 47.5kg M Payne, Burton on Trent
306p 48.4kg AG Tomkinson, Thorpe
333p 49kg D Williams, Basford
307p 53kg J&W Knight, Horton
290p 56kg H Phillips, Leek
CULL EWES (303)
A few less ewes about with a lot of grazing ewes on offer. Top price £177 for ewes from the Greasley Family, Keddleston. A lack of well meated continental types forward today with planer ewes forward.
Best continental types £150+
Plain continental types £110-£130
Mules topped at £130, generally £80 – £110
Feeding ewes and hill types £40-£70
Tups topped at £205.
Overall average £92.20
CALVES (128)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
A slightly smaller than usual but still good entry of 128 calves on Tuesday with plenty of buyers for all types again. seeing a trade top at £455 for a Limousin bull and weanlings to £540 for a Shorthorn steer.
49 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Plenty of strong sorts on offer today with 13 over £350 amd mediums £250 to £340.
30 Blues av £273 to £410 NE Goodwin & Son
13 Lims av £265 to £455 NE Goodwin & Son
3 Sims av £223 to £340 SJ Hooley
2 Char av £359 to £400 D&G Tudor
1 Inra 95 to £252 G Hatton
36 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Three over £300 to top at £310 with 15 best over £250, mediums £160 to £240.
24 Blues av £194 to £310 NE Goodwin & Son
11 Lims av £174 to £268 RG&AS Williamson
5 Sims av £218 to £290 PN Holdcroft
6 Char av £260 to £308 D&G Tudor
11 NATIVES
A smaller entry of Native calves than previous weeks but still a good trade.
3 AA Bulls av £153 to £215 WG&J Clark
1 AA Heif to £92 DR&BA Cotton
4 Here Bulls av £240 to £295 WE Turnock & Sons
2 Here Heif av £164 to £170 Rowland Partners
1 Linc Red to £245 Birch Bros
16 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
A Holstein topping trade today at £85 with generally smaller sorts on offer being £38-£80.
6 REARED
Five Shorthorns and one Hereford (4-5mths) top at £540 with others generally at the £400 mark.
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SATURDAY 5th OCTOBER
Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs and
Breeding Sheep
Catalogue Now Available Online
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SATURDAY 12th OCTOBER
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Closing Date for Entries Friday 4th October
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SATURDAY 12th OCTOBER
Sale of Store & Breeding Pigs – 10.30am
Sale of Store & Breeding Goats 11am
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