The sun was shining in Leek this week with the Pedigree Dairy Sale in full swing, seeing a top price of £3980 for a red & white heifer.
Calves saw a wonderful trade throughout with Limousin and British Blue bulls both topping at £970 and Limousin heifers to £710.
Spring Lambs topped at 560p/kg or £224/head
Hoggs to 482p/kg or £213.28/head
Ewes to £310/head.
Solid trade in the pig shed with 194 on offer, topping at 223p/kg for bacon pigs.
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A high proportion of Black & White cows in the barren shed today, seeing a top headage price of £2053.20 for a Holstein cow weighing 870kg which sold to 236p/kg for R & T Clowes & Son of Dilhorne.
Top price was 241p/kg for a Holstein weighing 815kg to gross £1964.15 for BP & JR Needham of Heaton.
Other top prices: –
Hol 238p £1832 P & M Critchlow, Cubley
Hol 238p £1452 SE Greenall, Matlock
Hol 234p £1334 W Mills, Ratcliffe on Wreak
Fri 234p £1755 Pearson & Son, Macclesfield
Hol 232p £1566 Pearson & Son, Macclesfield
Hol 232p £1600 WE Turnock & Sons, Onecote
The overall average was 218.18p/kg or £1439.04/head.
An Aberdeen Angus bull sold to 278p/kg to gross £1932.10 for C & EJ Whilock of Werrington.
CLEAN
A small entry today with Friesian bulls selling to 228p/kg, weighing 460kg, to gross £1048.80 for DJ H & T Walker of Ashbourne.
The overall average for clean cattle was 222.31p/kg or £861.45/head.
PIGS (194)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A mammoth show of pigs forward today and a solid trade throughout. Best shop gilts 200 – 220p. Boars 140 – 170p. Overweight and coloureds 100 – 140p, big boars harder work at 50p-100p.
Porkers sold to 130p for GL&SE Lloyd.
Cutters sold to 200p & 190p for D Jackson, Essington. B Minsull to 203p. J&B Fentem to 196p, 187p, 184p.
Bacon pigs sold to 223p for W Berry, Doncaster. W&L Fane, Lincoln 220p. Massie Farms 213p, 210p, 209p, 208p, 205p. GR Weston 209p. D Jackson 208p. HA Hollins 207p. J&B Fentem 202p. GR Weston 200p. B Minshull 200p. DB Goldstraw 200p.
Heavies sold to 202p for Massie Farms who had others at 201p. GL&SE Lloyd sold to 196p. W Berry to 191p, 189p, 185p. C Hine 180p.
Clean gilts to 90p for S Bailey and 50p for R Rowlinson.
Sows to 35p for Massie Farms.
Pigs Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (1); av 130.00p/kg or £96.20/head
Cutting Pigs (33); av 179.84p/kg or £146.87/head
Bacon Pigs (108), av 179.92p/kg or £171.69/head
Heavies (37), av 143.24p/kg or £173.12/head
Sows (2), av. 35.00p/kg or £72.28/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:00am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Dairies to £1780
Electric Trade at Leek Pedigree Sale to Top of £3980
Trade was alight at the April Pedigree Sale at Leek, topping at £3980 with all milkers averaging a superb £2638.
Leading the day was a beautiful red and white heifer from the Critchlow family of Cubley. By Batenburg G Stellando, she was sold giving 33kg and went to N J Dairy at Rugeley.
Next in line was a very sweet heifer from the Ellis family of Ashover at £3550 who went to a regular purchaser.
A tremendous run of four heifers from the Flower family of Friden topped at £3500 to average an excellent £3268.
The Weston family of Roston also had a tremendous trade for their run of four heifers topping at £3480 and averaging £3320.
In-calf heifers topped at £3250 for a very well-bred heifer from Ron Tomkinson at Leek. Boasting 8 gens VG/EX she went to the Ellis family of Chesterfield.
Young calves were keenly sought after topping at £500 for registered Holsteins from Messrs Bradbury and the run of Norwegian X from Messrs Parkes of Melton Mowbray reaching £480.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
SPRING LAMBS (56)
A few more numbers coming slowly with trade solid but not spectacular.
Best lambs to 560p/kg from Rob and Andy Williamson and best big lambs up to £224/head from the same vendor.
Best lambs generally 500p and better and commercial sorts around 430p – 460p/kg.
Overall average at 471p/kg or £186/head.
More wanted weekly as buyers look to switch over.
Sample Prices: –
520p 36.5kg GG Burton, Repton
560p 39.3kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
520p 39.5kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
505p 39.8kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
560p 41.5kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
520p 47kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
HOGGS (540)
A smaller entry sold on a good trade for a mixed entry. Best types at 482p/kg and generally 440p and better for the best.
Big lambs meeting more resistance generally but the very best at £213.28/head.
Over 60% of the entry fell outside the SQQ range!!!
Averages looking good given the entry at 410p SQQ and 370p overall, including 150 hoggs at 52kg plus.
More handy weight hoggs could be sold to vendor’s advantage.
Sample Prices: –
482p 37.2kg TB Dalton, Brailsford
462p 37.5kg GH & M Torr, Bradnop
472p 39.3kg R Challinor, Dilhorne
470p 40.5kg JG Jackson, Wardlow
438p 43.3kg S Rushton, Cheadle
430p 44kg RG Hall, Congleton
460p 44.4kg D Williams, Basford
451p 44.8kg JG Jackson, Wardlow
458p 45kg AP Leason, Ilam
430p 45.5kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
450p 46.2kg D Williams, Basford
456p 46.7kg D Williams, Basford
430p 47kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
430p 48kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
420p 49kg S Allen, Butterton
392p 52.5kg RA & KD Day, Cheddleton
378p 55.5kg RA & KD Day, Cheddleton
CULL EWES (202)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A few more ewes coming forward now. Best fed ewes an absolute flyer for all types. A mixed yarding with some post lambing difficulties forward, selling to a strong trade. Top Price £310 for the Wilson Family, Hollington.
Fed Continentals £210 – £270
Plainer Sorts £160 – £190
Mules to £193, Generally £15 0- £170
Fed Hill Ewes £90 – £130
Very Lean Ewes £40 – £80.
Sample Prices:
IE M & A Wilson £310, £265, £240, £225
L Renshaw & IS Brassington £280, £240
S Frith £277
RG&AS Williamson £270
D Williams £265
AP Leason £252
TB Dalton £240, £210, £190
R Challinor £225
GH&M Torr £220
AR&SL Bebbington £215
RA&KD Day £210
N Brown £203
ME Cawser £202
SF Harper £201
Tups to £252 for ME Cawser
Overall average £160/head.
CALVES (155)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Holly Swift (07973 982453)
A wonderful trade right through in the calf shed today and more could have easily been sold. Trade topping at £970 twice for a Limousin and Blue bull and Limousin heifers to £710.
44 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Generally, a very nice show and fantastic to sell with plenty of buyers forward to top at £970 twice for a Limousin from K W Cresswell and a Blue bull from Andy Williamson. Top ten over £705, half over £600 and nothing below £300. Again, many more could have been sold to vendor’s advantage.
27 Blues av £654 to £970 RG&AS Williamson
11 Lims av £546 to £970 KW Cresswell
3 Char av £587 to £730 FJ Gould & Son
3 Sims av £530 to £590 H&E Bailey
28 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
A good show with trade not just at the same level as the bulls but still punchy with plenty of buyers about, the averages speak for themselves. Trade topping at £710 for a lovely Limousin heifer from Andy Williamson again, over half over £500.
16 Blues av £516 to £700 DW&P Hulme
7 Lims av £451 to £710 RG & AS Williamson
3 Sims av £583 to £630 H&E Bailey
1 Blon to £460 EJ&VC Gilman
1 Char to £450 Waller Farms
45 NATIVES
A good trade and all types well bid for, trade topped by a strong Angus bull at £695
12 AA Bulls av £440 to £695 CR Upton
7 Here Bulls av £500 to £530 Garnett Farms
2 S/H Bulls av £413 to £570 CR Upton
17 AA Heif av £400 to £600 CR Upton
7 Here Heif av £386 to £450 Garnett Farms
24 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Good demand ring side today to produce some incredible results for the black and white calves, only 3 £50 – £75 everything else above £100 and topping at £360 for a strong Holstein from R J Neville and Sons. Averaging £191 right through.
14 REARED
A good show from 4 vendors again this week to top at £980 for a very smart 6-month-old Blue steer from EJ&VC Gilman other sample prices below:
• 4 month Hereford heifers to £630 M A Hallworth
• 3 month Blue heifers to £715 from G&B Thompson
• 4 month shorthorn bulls to £640 from M A Hallworth
• 12 month angus heifers to £890 from A Howe
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SATURDAY 25th APRIL
Catalogued Sale of 692 Store & Breeding Cattle
Catalogue Now Available
Next Sale Saturday 9th May
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SATURDAY 25th APRIL
Fortnightly Sale of Ewes & Hoggs with Lambs at Foot – Please advise of entries! Sale at 11am.
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