Another bumper day in the dairy section with 147 head on offer, the dispersal topped at £2220, and the commercial entry topped at £2860
146 Pigs on offer, seeing trade down a touch on last week due to the size of the entry, topping at 208p
1,282 sheep on offer with Lambs topping at 323p and Ewes at £206/head.
Another strong entry in the Calves with a British Blue bull topping at £430 and a British Blue heifer to £325
BARREN COWS (23)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Another firm trade with vendors well pleased with the prices achieved.
Top price was 214p/kg for an 835kg Limousin cow from AP Wain of Forsbrook to gross £1786.90.
A 540kg Friesian heifer for AM & JE Kirby achieved 229p/kg.
A Shorthorn, from Rushton Spencer, at 670kg sold for 175p/kg and a 710kg Holstein for WE Turnock & Sons of Onecote sold to 172p/kg. A 765kg Brown Swiss from J, C & D Hudson of Wetton sold to 166p/kg.
A 31-month-old Holstein steer, from Roy Shore of Biddulph, weighing 715kg was weel sold at 196p/kg to gross at £1401.40 and a 660kg Holstein steer from the same vendor sold for 190p/kg.
CLEAN CATTLE
A commercial heifer at 435kg sold for 177p/kg to gross £769.95.
PIGS (146)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A bumper entry of pigs today with 146 pigs sold, best pigs still just above 200p. Top price 208p for fats and 110p for sows. On the whole, trade down 10-20p due to the number forward.
Porkers topped 185p for PJ Saunders, Lichfield, The Harper family to 180, 178,175 and 170p.
Cutters sold to 195p for PJ Saunders who had others to 193p, 188p, 185p, 183p. N Burgin to 170p.
Bacon Pigs sold for 209p for PF+PD Parsons, who had others for 204p. Massie Farms to 200p x4. S Bailey to 200p.
Heavies sold to 149p for a 170kg clean gilt from C wardle.
Sows saw a solid trade, selling to 110p for J&B Fentem, R Watson, Chester sold to 98p, and 82p. S Bailey to 90p and C Hine to 66p.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (24) av 172.47p/kg or £121.23/head
Cutting Pigs (34) av 165.66/kg or £132.53/head
Bacon Pigs (70) av 184.68p/kg or £170.83/head
Heavy Pigs (8) av 116.12p/kg or £159.47/head
Sow (6) av; 89.57p/kg or £189.71/head
DAIRIES (147)
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
147 DAIRIES
COMMERCIALS TOP AT £2860
HERD TO £2220
Trade for the commercial entry was strong on Tuesday topping at £2860 for a very stylish white heifer from Michael and Caroline Wainwright of Buxton.
Cross bred cows from Mick and Kay Hulse were keenly sought after with a second calver reaching £2440, a fourth calver at £2420 and a heifer to £2340. The entire commercial entry averaged an excellent £2006.
The herd dispersal on behalf of the Bates family topped at £2220 for a fresh heifer with a milking heifer due in April close behind at £2120
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (979)
A good entry considering the number of breeding sales last week, saw a solid trade throughout, but a big portion of store lambs all sold at competitive prices but at lower levels.
Best lambs to 323p/kg from the Rowlinson Family of Gawsworth and best meated, good shaped lambs at 290p-300p/kg generally.
Big lambs in high demand, topping at £160.14/head.
Overall average at 272p/kg for a mixed sample.
Sample Prices: –
310p 37.5kg JM Robinson, Swythamley
306p 41kg JM Robinson, Swythamley
302p 42kg AJ Suppan, Stockport
308p 43kg CE Smith, Longford
295p 43.4kg JE Swindells, Leek
323p 44kg JB Rowlinson, Gawsworth
299p 49kg B & B Farming, Stafford
314p 51kg D Williams, Basford
296p 54kg D Williams, Basford
CULL EWES (303)
More ewes forward today. A mixed entry with some good consignments of well meated ewes forward selling to £206 from J&JA Venables, Holmes Chapel who a run to £186 x2, £184, £180. DE Hodgson to £190. A good number of hill ewes and plain feeding ewes also forward which are reflected in the average.
Best continental types £160+
Other meated continental types £120-£140
Plain ewes £80-£110
Hill and feeding types £40-£70
Tups sold to £164.
Overall Average £98.00
CALVES (142)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
145 calves forward this week, British Blues topped the day in both the bull and heifer sections achieving £430 and £325 respectively.
47 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Very few real best calves on offer today but these sold well with plenty over £300 and 3 over £400 and to top at £430 for R Wilkinson and Son, Mediums £300-£230, smalls under £200
26 Blues av £260 to £430 R Wilkinson and Son
5 Sims av £249 to £355 J C & D Hudson
16 Lims av £265 to £335 G R Spink
34 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
7 best over £295 to top at £325 for P F Gilman
17 Blues av £203 to £325 P F Gilman
4 Sims av £112 to £195 H G & C A Bloxham
11 Lims av £142 to £282 N E Goodwin and Son
2 Char av £272 to £295 S Bailey
45 NATIVES
Generally smaller sorts on offer today to top at £280 for a strong Hereford Bull from B E Wain.
8 Here Bulls av £98 to £280 B E Wain
9 AA Bulls av £133 to £240 DR&A Shuker&Sons
17 Here Heif av £57 to £235 K W Powell
9 AA Heif av £95 to £158 DR&A Shuker&Sons
2 W/Bla Bulls av £104 to £118 DR&A Shuker&Sons
19 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Similar numbers forward but generally smaller sorts to tops of £108 for a dairy shorthorn. Small end £30-£60.
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SATURDAY 28th SEPTEMBER
Catalogued Sale of 667 Store & Breding Cattle
Catalogues Now Available Online
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SATURDAY 28th SEPTEMBER
Catalogued Sale of 380 Breeding Rams
MV and Non MV Sections
Sale to Commence at 10am
Catalogues Now Available Online
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SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER
Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs and
Breeding Sheep
Entries Close Friday 27th September
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