A very successful day today in Leek with 100% clearance over every section
The Pedigree Dairy Sale was off to a flyer with a top price of £3280 for a superb heifer from Eric Weston with four over the £3000 mark
Calves sold well with 148 on offer and plenty of buyers around the ring to take them home, seeing a top price of £438 for a British Blue bull
Similar entry of Lambs as last week with over 1000 head on offer, seeing a top price of 333p/kg but with a lot of smaller sorts in the entry bringing down the average
Pigs were on a solid trade, topping at 231p and the averages for heavy pigs at £201.81/head
BARREN COWS (14) Selling time – 10:00am Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A good company of buyers around the ring with once again not enough cattle to fulfil their requirements.
Selling on a firm trade with a top price of 197p/kg for a Shorthorn cow weighing 750kg for G G Hall & Son of Croxden, closely followed by a Limousin weighing 705kg for DA & LM Moss of Rushton Spencer at 180p/kg.
Other top prices: –
177p 765kg Shorthorn G G Hall & Son
169p 675kg Holstein WE Turnock & Sons
168p 775kg Montbeliarde SC, FE, JA Harvey
164p 715kg Montbeliarde SC, FE, JA Harvey
Top headage price of the day was £1477.50 for the Shorthorn from G G Hall & Son.
PIGS (80) Selling time – 9:15am Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Pigs a solid trade once again topping at 231p. Nothing in spec below 194p today which is very pleasing, the averages do speak for themselves.
Porkers topped at 231p from C Hine. J&B Fentem to 226p, 217p, 210p.
Cutters sold to 225p from J&B Fentem, who had others to 220p, 219p x3. JG Belfield sold to 224p. S Bailey to 210p.
Bacon pigs sold to 222p from Massie Farms who had others to 221p, 220p 219p. JA&B Minshull to 219p. J&B Fentem to 218p. Ben Vernon had boars to 215p.
Heavies sold to 200p for JG Belfield. Who had a 116kg boar to 187p. S J Hitchcock had 120kg gilts to 171p, and 170p.
Pig Averages. Pork Pigs (7) av 220.75p/kg or £158.94/head
Cutting Pigs (18) av 213.59p/kg or £173.24/head
Bacon Pigs (50) av 215.00p/kg or £199.18/head
Heavy Pigs (5) av 159.91p/kg or £201.81/head
DAIRIES (46) Selling time – 11:30am Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Four Over £3000
35 Milkers (all in) averaged £2410
The monthly pedigree sale attracted a substantial entry of 46 head of quality cattle to the Leek sale. The quality this month was very high with some lovely cows on offer.
Nine cows in milk averaged a superb £2470 and topped at £3180 for a second calf cow by Peter Smudge from Messrs Easom & Sons. Giving 43lts she was knocked down to a regular Cheshire purchaser who took the stablemate also at £2700.
The very first cow in the ring made £2780 for Messrs Mellor, Earl Sterndale. This third calver was giving 50lts and sold into Derbyshire.
26 Heifers averaged a remarkable £2390 (all in) with only 3 failing to make £2000 including the best 3 over £3000.
Top of the shop was a superb 2-year-old heifer from the Shieldhouse herd of Eric Weston at Roster. This Heifer, giving 36kg sold for £3280 to Andrew Hulme, Basford.
The biggest vendor of the day was Michael Wainwright, Sterndale who sold 9 fresh heifers. He had two in the £3000 club at £3120 and £3020 for strong posh heifers, both giving over 30lts and selling to two Staffordshire purchasers.
One close calving heifer from Richard Lomas changed hands at £2880, due in September to Aberdeen Angus.
The day concluded with a young pedigree Limousin bull, from Malcolm Bennett at Stockport, just rising 18 months he sold for £2950 to a Derbyshire suckled calf producer.
Leek has again showed it is the place to sell quality replacement heifers.
For all information, give the day team a call.
SHEEP SECTION Selling time 11:00am Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (1076)
A similar entry forward and a two-tier trade, with the best good to sell but the lean and light lambs continue to be harder to place and being sold for further feeding.
Best to 333p/kg and plenty of better end at 320p and better.
Best big lambs to £168.97 and plenty at £150 and better.
Overall average at 298p/kg for a very mixed sample.
Sample Prices
315p 37kg JM Robinson, Swythamley
324p 40.9kg CE Bingham & Sons, Bakewell
329p 41kg JM Robinson, Swythamley
333p 42kg DJ&P Smith, Rushton Spencer
326p 42kg FW&JF Brookes, Uttoxeter
322p 42kg ML Frith, Buxton
329p 42.6kg DJ&P Smith, Rushton Spencer
328p 42.9kg S Frith Limited, Thorpe
326p 44kg S&J Reeves, Stafford
326p 45.6kg GT Rowlinson, Denstone
324p 46kg R&K Woods, Cubley
324p 46kg JM Robinson, Swythamley
322p 46.6kg R&K Woods, Cubley 320p 50.6kg D Williams, Basford
308p 54kg NG&P Sidebottom, Marple Bridge
CULL EWES (172)
Similar numbers to last week with trade very much the same.
More hill types and plain ewes forward today lacking well fed continental types.
Top price £181 for Texels from Eamon Vaughan, Newcastle, who had others to £174. Ian Archer sold to £155, Ian Gregorey to £153 and JM Robinson to £150.
Best continental types £130+
Mules topped at £128 plain mules £95-£105.
Feeding ewes £70-£80.
Overall Average £103.50
CALVES (148) Selling time – 10:00am Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
An array of buyers for all types again. Top price £438 for a British Blue calf.
52 CONTINENTAL BULLS
A couple at over £400 with the nine best topping at £372. Mediums easy to sell at £240-£345 with just nine under £220.
34 Blues av. £267 to £438 H Hodgkinson & Sons
9 Lims av. £310 to £372 NE Goodwin & Son
6 Sims av. £294 to £330 DG & JA Ball
1 Char to £435 D & G Tudor
33 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Less heifers than last week but still good to sell. Three over £300 (to top at £352) and the ten best over £270. Mediums £188-£250 with just nine under £170.
22 Blues av.£225 to £352 WG & J Clark
5 Sims av.£232 to £285 PN Holdcroft
4 Lims av. £215 to £292 RG&AS Williamson
42 NATIVES
As dear as ever.
AA Bulls av £184 to £350 KW Twemlow
AA Heif av £167 to £300 KW Twemlow
Her Bulls av £184 to £318 PN Holdcroft
Her Heif av. £127 to £212 J&R Maydew
19 BLACK & WHITE
A Monty topping black & white trade this week at up to £145 with smaller bulls generally £40-£75 today.
2 REARED
Blue bull (4mths) £405.
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SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 23rd August
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SATURDAY 7th SEPTEMBER
Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep
Including Special Show & Sale of Shearlings Entries Close Friday 30th August
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