The Bank Holiday weekend didn’t seem to have any effect on the entries today with a bumper entry in the pigs of 169, 137 calves and 1,000 head of sheep on offer.
British Blue bull calf to £820
Dairies to £3450
Barrens to 249p/kg or £1892/head
Lambs to 350p/kg or £183.96/head
Ewes to £220/head
Pigs to 208p/kg or 201.14/head
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A few less about today in the barrens with buyers left empty handed.
Top price of the day was 249p/kg for a Holstein cow weighing 735kg to gross at £1830.15 for LTL Partners Ltd of Leigh they also had the top headage price of the day for a 830kg Holstein which achieved 228p/kg to gross £1892.40.
WE Turnock & Sons of Onecote had a 695kg Holstein sell to 247p/kg to gross £1716.65.
A 605kg Friesian sold to 246p/kg for DR & A Shuker & Sons of Bosley to gross £1488.30.
C Heath & Sons of Longsdon had a run of Friesians as follows: –
385kg 185p/kg £712.25
415kg 176p/kg £730.40
505kg 163p/kg £823.15
540kg 156p/kg £842.40
425kg 153p/kg £650.25
TC Sykes of Congleton sold Jersey cows weighing 365kg and 330kg to 180p/kg and 154p/kg to gross £657.00 and £508.20 respectively.
PIGS (169)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A bumper entry of pigs today with 169 head seen and sold.
Best gilts over 200p/kg and boars 165-175p/kg. Top price 208p/kg or £201.14. Sows to 65p.
Porkers sold to 204p for J&B Fentem, 180p for A Worth.
Cutters sold to 208p for J Ball for gilts and 182p for boars. J&B Fentem to 206p, 200p.JG Belfield to 202p. R Wilson 200p x2. R Scragg to 194p.
Bacon pigs sold to 204p for Massie Farms who had others to 203px2, 202px3, 200px2. PF+PD Parsons to 201px2, 200p, 199p. C Hine to 194p. J&B Fentem 193p, 192p. W Gregson to 187p.
Heavies to 72p for boars from JR Mosedale.
Sows to 65p or £189.80 for JG Belfield.
Store Pigs sold to £92 for G Galbraith who had 25kg pigs to £58. C Walley to £68.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (6); av 178.69p/kg or £103.34/head
Cutting Pigs (38); av 187.06p/kg or £152.36/head
Bacon Pigs (106), av 184.08p/kg or £172.95/head
Heavies (3) av 57.37p/kg or £96.19/head
Sows (1) av 65.00p/kg or £189.80/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
DAIRIES TO £3450
Another strong trade for milkers on Tuesday saw a lovely heifer from Martin Riley of Longnor reach £3450 to Messrs Bailey of Brown Edge.
Others reached £2200 from Edward and Dianne Bennett of Whiston to C Hutchinson of Weston Underwood.
More needed to satisfy demand.
Get in touch if you have stock to sell.
Meg Elliott on 07967 007049
Anna Wildgoose on 07532 237232
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (880)
A similar entry sold on a slower trade but well in line with other outlets, with an overall average at 302p/kg.
Best types at 330p – 350p/kg, provided they had good meat cover. Best heavies to £183.96.
A lot of under finished lambs forward which are now trading at 270p – 300p/kg depending on shape and weight. To obtain premium prices, corn fed lambs are required.
Sample Prices: –
340p 39.6kg KR Spencer & JD Jones, Butterton
320p 40kg AS Johnston, Biddulph
334p 43kg KR Spencer & JD Jones, Butterton
324p 43.5kg JE Swindells, Leek
340p 44kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
320p 44.6kg FJ Gould & Son, Longnor
322p 45.4kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
340p 46.5kg D Williams, Basford
336p 47kg E & D Kemps, Etwall
350p 47.2kg J Fernyhough, Swythamley
332p 51.4kg J Fernyhough, Swythamley
326p 51.8kg J Fernyhough, Swythamley
340p 52kg F Potter & Son, Yeaveley
335p 53kg D Williams, Basford
340p 54kg D Williams, Basford
CULL EWES (106)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Less ewes on offer today, all types good to sell. Best meated ewes few and far between. Top price £220 for David Williams.
Sample Prices:-
D Williams £220, £160
JM Robinson £201
V&G Farming £193
S&J Reeves £180.
Continentals £170+
Plain continentals £120-£150
Mules £110-£140
Hill types and feeders £60-£100
Overall average £130.42/head.
CALVES (137)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Holly Swift (07973 982453)
A good but mixed Bank Holiday week with 137 calves forward today at Leek, with plenty of Buyers in action.
32 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Top call today £820 for a very smart British Blue bull calf at 1 month old from Messrs Williamson. Plenty of better bulls above £400 – £660.
20 Blues av £430 to £820 RG & AS Williamson
5 Sims av £450 to £600 Johnson & Son
6 Lims av £326 to £400 CV Whilock & Sons
1 Char to £400 J Hughes
39 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Heifers selling up to £565 today for D & G Tudor with the top ten over £470adn only three under £300. The averages speak for themselves…….
28 Blues av £374 to £555 RG & AS Williamson
3 Sims av £304 to £455 HE Bailey & Partners
5 Lims av £440 to £550 RG & AS Williamson
3 Char av £518 to £565 D & G Tudor
49 NATIVES
A big entry of natives today and generally less money with the best good to sell but the lower end harder to move.
13 Here Bulls av £284 to £572 CJ & RA Hutchinson
12 AA Bulls av £230 to £482 PF Gilman
10 Here Heifs av £230 to £420 CJ & RA Hutchinson
15 AA Heifs av £234 to £412 PE Holmes & Son
17 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Topping at £232 for the Furness Partnership but the rest under £100.
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SATURDAY 30th AUGUST
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Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Including Price Show & Sale of Shearlings
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