A bumper entry of sheep on offer with 1690 head on offer. Ewes were the highlight of the day with a pure Texel achieving £395 with averages an impressive £195.52!! Hoggs topped at 420p/kg with a top headage price of £205.10.
Barrens topped at 276p/kg with a top gross at £2092.50, seeing the overall average to 233.37p/kg or £1488.88/head.
More pigs on offer this week, seeing a top price of 201p/kg for fat pigs.
Still plenty on offer in the calf shed seeing a British Blue bull to £635 and an Aberdeen Angus heifer to £415.
Less on offer in the Dairies this week and more required to meet demand. Two heifers topped the market at £2780 and £2720.
BARREN COWS & BULLS (22) Selling time – 10:00am Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Another very firm trade with excellent prices achieved. Top price of the day was 276p/kg for a 690kg Simmental cow from D Tomlinson of Buxton to gross £1904.40.
A 775kg Flekvieh cow from WG & J Clerk of Bradnop achieved 270p/kg to gross £2092.50. WK Hurley of Macclesfield realised 268p/kg for a 645kg cow and a 730kg Black & White from RG & AS Williamson changed hands for 257p/kg.
Other Prices: –
725kg B/Swiss 256p/kg DR&A Shuker
660kg B & W 252p/kg DR&A Shuker
830kg S/Red 249p/kg WG&J Clark
510kf Char 247p/kg S Kidd Farmers
Two lean Black & White Bulls from Messrs Sutton sold up to 1967p/kg for a 655kg Bull. Overall average £1488.88 or 233.37p/kg.
CLEAN CATTLE A 595kg Saler heifer from S Kidd Farmers was well sold to 290p/kg to gross £1725.50.
PIGS (137) Selling time – 9:15am Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
More pigs about this week with nearly double the entry, top price 201p for fats and sows to 99p and 117p for a clean gilt.
Fat pigs generally 190p+ fat gilts and boars 160p+.
Cutting pigs sold to 201p for PF+PD Parsons. S Bailey to 195p & 165p. J&B Fentem to 190p & 161p. SL Seabridge to 160p.
Bacon pig sold to 201p for PF+PD Parsons, who had others 198p, 194p, 193p, Massie Farms to 199p, 197p, 196p, 196p. A Shinton to 198p. J&B Fentem to 192p, 190p x2. C Hine to 190p. JA&B Minshull 186p.
Clean gilts to 117p for JW Radford, Longnor 52p for SJ Thompson. SJ Thompson to 99p, 84p, 83p, 79p or £249.83/head.
Pig Averages.
Cutting Pigs (19); av 155.31p/kg or £126.99/head
Bacon Pigs (55); av 178.68p/kg or £167.32/head
Sows (5); av 76.67p/kg or £201.55/head
DAIRIES Selling time – 11:30am Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092) Dairies to £2780
Less forward bur a cracking trade with more needed to satisfy demand.
Topping the day was new vendors Messrs Wood of Cuthorpe, their two heifers reached £2780 and £2720 with two more promised for next week.
Frank Cookson of Lymm saw his three heifers reach £2620, £2300 and £2270 respectively.
If fresh milk is what you need, then save Tuesday 1st April in your diary – 120 to sell from David Wrench of Marton which includes 54 fresh heifers and 50 very strong heifers, all due in the Autumn.
SHEEP SECTION Selling time 11:00am Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652) HOGGS (1399)
A bumper entry sold on a good trade with heavy weight lambs very well bid for and heavies all finding a home but at lower prices.
Best to 420p/kg and best big lambs to £205.10. Plenty of best shaped hoggs at 370p – 410p/kg.
SQQ average at 348p and overall at 327p/kg.
Average per head at £155. Sample Prices: – 390p 35kg G&M Torr, Bradnop
400p 37.8kg EG Long, Birchover
384p 38kg JA Nicholls, Wetley Rocks
392p 38.4kg G&A Peach, Ashbourne
397p 39.3kg WJ Sessions & Son, Hilton
420p 40kg J Belfield & R Deakin-Gallimore
392p 40.5kg JA Nicholls, Wetley Rocks
404p 41.1kg J Ball, Cheddleton
396p 41.5kg J Belfield & R Deakin-Gallimore
390p 41.3kg J Gilman & Prtns, Bosley
395p 44.7kg FS&MJ Heath, Pipe Gate
409p 45.8kg R&S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
409p 47kg R&S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
410p 48.3kg R&S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
389p 49.3kg R&S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
369p 43.5kg R&S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
350p 58.6kg R&S Bailey, Rushton Spencer
CULL EWES (291)
Records Smashed!!!
Record average and top price at Leek.
Ewes just simply off the clock again and many more could have been sold today the average speaks for itself.
Top price on the day was a pure texel from Jack Plant, Onecote, selling to £395.
G Biddulph to £364 for a pure Charollais, AJ Gilman to £360. IE & A Willson to £332, £295.
FG&JR Critchlow to £322, £282.
J Belfield and R Deakin Galimore to £300 x2, £282 x5.
RG&AS Williamson to £300.
D Machin to £272 and mules to £198.
RA Harrison to £270×2.
D Twemlow to £270.
WJ Sessions to £260
Continentals £250+
Plainer sorts £180-£220
Mules topped at £222, generally £160-£190 Scotties to £150
Meated swales to £110
Tups to £212 for Rachel Simcock, D Willaims to £202, RA Harrison to £198.
Overall average a staggering £195.52
CALVES (178) Selling time – 10:00am Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Bigger numbers with 3 or 4 lots of spring block calvers but still a remarkable trade, although not quite as fierce as last week.
48 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Solid money with all calves looking well sold but more smaller calves just reduced our averages. Ten best topped £500 with trade similar from start to finish. Two British Blues from Messrs Myatt made £635 and £580 (both under 3 weeks old). Medium bulls £350 – £450 with just a handful of bulls under £300.
27 Blues av £389 to £635 GW Myatt & Ptnrs
8 Sims av £456 to £525 H&E Bailey & Ptnrs
11 Lims av £402 to £595 J Kirkham
2 Blo av £375 to £390 WH Townsend & Son
52 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
More heifers than bulls and trade for all although more Spring calves about. Twelve better sorts topped £400 and up to £560 from an Andrew Hulme special. Mediums £280 – £350 with younger sorts under £250.
31 Blues av £308 to £560 DW& P Hulme
13 Sims av £315 to £430 DG&JA Ball 8 Lims av £332 to £470 CV Whilock & Sons
46 NATIVES
Bigger numbers and trade for all shapes. Aberdeen Angus strong today!
6 Here Bulls av £191 to £290 R Hall Farms
22 AA Bulls av £285 to £390 CV Whilock & Sons
14 AA Heifs av £260 to £415 CV Whilock & Sons
25 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
A posh Friesian made £190 with smaller sorts generally £25 – £70.
8 REARED
A RUN OF 3 – 4-month-old British Blue X steers and heifers sold to £635 for a pair of steers and £555 for two heifers. ********************************************
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