BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Barrens topped at £1982.40/head this week for a 840kg Holstein from WE Turnock & Sons of Onecote which sold to 236p/kg.
Another Holstein weighing 805kg grossed at £1972.25, selling to 245p/kg for KI & EL Matkin Ltd of Alderwasley.
A 540kg Dairy Shorthorn sold to 287p/kg to gross £1549.80 for W & S Waters & Son of Upper Hulme.
Other Top Prices: –
Here 720kg £1843 Bostocks, Gillow Heath
D S/H 610kg £1506 W&S Waters, Upper Hulme
Lim 665kg £1616 JH & KA Thornhill, Disley
Overall average was 220.10/kg or £1394.50/head.
CLEAN
An Aberdeen Angus steer sold to 330p/kg to gross £1716/ for TJ Partington and a Hereford steer weighing 630kg sold to 330p/kg to gross £1808.10 for the same vendor.
Overall average was 306.44/kg or £1762.05/head.
PIGS (73)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
73 pigs seen and sold today with a stand on trade. Top price 190p for JO Davies, Anglesey. Gilts 150p – 170p. Boars 110p – 140p, a bit more spark in the sows, topping at 36p for R Rowlinson.
Porkers sold to 185p and 175p for JO Davies.
Bacon pigs sold to 190p for JO Davies who had others to 170p. Massie Farms 164p, 161p, 160p. J&B Fentem 152p, 150p, 139p. GR Weston 147p. C Hine 140p.
Heavies sold to 160p for Massie Farms. C Hine to 140p. S Harper 125p.
Sows to 36p for R Rowlinson, G&A Pawson to 35p, R Watson 33p, 31p.
Pig Averages: –
Pork Pigs (4), av 180.00p/kg or £135.00/head
Bacon Pigs (47), av 144.36p/kg or £138.77/head
Heavies (16), av 130.47p/kg or £143.5/head
Sows (5), av 33.80p/kg or £91.74/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:00am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Leek Pedigrees to £3650
All Milkers £2000+
Another scorching trade for milkers on Tuesday saw every last one pass £2000 topping at £3650 for cows and £3600 for heifers.
Heading the day was a second calver from the Flowers family of Friden. By OCD Chronicle, she had given 11349kg as a heifer. Sold giving 50kg she went to a local purchaser at £3650.
Heifers peaked at £3600 for a Drouncer K & L Chase daughter from the Shepherd family of Bakewell. Giving 33kg she went to Messrs Hulme of Basford.
The Mellor family had a lovely run of five second calvers and one heifer to top at £3500 and average £3150.
In-calf heifers topped at £2850 from David Tomlinson of Ford.
In all, eleven passed the £3000 mark, with everything averaging £2690.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (811)
An increased entry and trade very pleasing compared to other reports, with competitive bidding throughout.
Best lambs still very well bid for to a top of 430p/kg and plenty still at 390p – 420p/kg. Best heavy lambs to £243.57/head and leaner grass-fed sorts generally 340p – 350p/kg.
Overall averages looking good at 369p/kg or £158.50/head to include plenty of light weight under done types.
Sample Prices: –
410p 38kg JD & KR Jones, Butterton
430p 41kg A Williams, Basford
428p 42kg A Williams, Basford
415p 42kg TJ Nicholls, Dayhills
417p 42.8kg RI & AML Sidebottom, Macclefield
415p 44kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
413p 44.3kg CE Smith, Longford
415p 45.8kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
410p 46.3kg FS & MJ Heath, Pipe Gate
408p 48kg E & D Kemps, Etwall
400p 48kg PA & CM Stirk, Biddulph
399p 51kg A Williams, Basford
398p 52kg R Eaton, Holmes Chapel
390p 52.7kg DAJ Burton, Ipstones Edge
380p 56kg Rowland Partners, Kirk Ireton
353p 69kg G Whitehouse, Ashbourne
CULL EWES (127)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Less ewes again with many farmers looking to get lambs in over ewes. Trade slightly less on the week, once again meat pays and overfat ewes hard work, grazing sorts well bid for. Keep the ewes coming.
Top price on the week from Jackie Trueman, Adlington with a Texel ewe to £348.
Fed Continentals £190 – £250
Plain sorts £140 – £180
Mules to £189 generally £140 – £170
Better Hill Types £90 – £120
Feeding types: £70 – £110 depending on frame.
Sample Prices: –
J Trueman £348, £275
G Whitehouse £283, £242, £230, £221
R Harrison £240, £215, £210
CE Smith £240, £235
CJ&MJ Davies £200
EG Slack £198
Overall average £164.50/head
CALVES (88)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Short of numbers with the buyers wanting and needing calves to rear.
23 CONTINENTAL BULLS
A tremendous price once again with the calves looking as dear as anything at present. Well presented and fresh calves look the best sold with a top call of £790 for another Martin Furness special. Five best bulls over £700, good mediums £600 – £700.
14 Blues av £647 to £790 Furness & Taylor
1 Sims to £570 RJ Clowes & Sons
2 Lims av £432 to £490 PG Beswick & Sons
3 Blon av £555 to £570 WH Townsend & Son
16 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Not enough for the buyers at ringside with many more able to be sold, Martin Furness did the bull/heifer double today with his stunning British Blue at £705 with the better Blues £580 plus.
9 Blues av £554 to £705 Furness & Taylor
2 Sims av £510 to £520 J Kirkham
4 Char av £407 to £500 J Hughes
42 NATIVES
More and more natives at Leek and there is little wonder with calves this dear.
13 Here Bulls av £477 to £600 JW & P Latchford
13 AA Bulls av £460 to £685 PR & JJ Holgate
9 Here Heif av £437 to £550 JW & P Latchford
7 AA Heif av £419 to £500 PR & JJ Holgate
7 HOLSTEIN BULLS av £209
Top call of £305 for Messrs Ellis, Chesterfield
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SATURDAY 1st AUGUST
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 24th July
Next Sale Saturday 15th August
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SATURDAY 15th AUGUST
Catalogued Sale of Breeding Sheep
MV and Non MV Sections
Entries Close Friday 7th August
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