BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Top price achieved in the barrens today was £2086 for a 745kg Holstein which sold to 280p/kg for WE Turnock & Sons, Onecote.
Plenty more barren cows could be sold each week.
Other Top Prices: –
Hol 825 £1691 F Yates & Son
B/W 645kg £1580 JW Bennison
Hols 720kg £1634 JW&P Latchford
Overall average was 210.92/kg or £1362.88/head.
A 965kg Hereford bull grossed at £2412.50, selling to 250p/kg for TEH Bold & Sons of Cotton.
CLEAN
An Aberdeen Angus steer weighing 690kg grossed at £2318.40, selling to 336p/kg, for TJ Partington of Burton on Trent. The same vendor also had a 545kg Hereford steer grossing £1831.20, also selling to 336p/kg.
Overall average was 336p/kg or £2074.80/head.
PIGS (97)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
97 pigs today met a solid trade, gilts actively wanted and bid for, boars harder to place. Top price 190p for Graham Weston. Sows to 40p.
Cutters to 189p for SL Seabridge, Sandon. 170p for R Thompson, Market Drayton. K Lloyd-Hughes, Anglesey 155p.
Bacon pigs to 190p for G Weston. SL Seabridge 189p. Massie Farms 176p, 162p, 154p. J&B Fentem 159p, 152p. C Hine 158p. MN Bailey 138p.
Heavies to 173p, 169p, 159p for C Hine. 169p Massie Farms. 168p J&B Fentem.
Sows to 40p for G Weston. R Rowlinson 38p. K Lloyd-Hughes 29p, 20p.
Pig Averages: –
PorkPigs (4), av 153.72p/kg or £128.27/head
Bacon Pigs (47), av 137.44p/kg or £135.35/head
Heavies (16), av 139.25p/kg or £150.78/head
Sows (5), av 25p/kg or £58.61/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:00am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Vendors well rewarded and some buyers going home empty handed.
Top call £2320 for a strong pedigree heifer, sold giving 33kg from regular exhibitor David Brailsford at Ashover.
Plenty of cattle £2000 and above with the Kennerley family netting £2220 for a 32kg fresh heifer born February ’24.
Fresh cows to £1900 and heifers to £2320.
Herd sale scheduled for 25th August, keep the date free for genuine dispersal stock.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (845)
A good entry sold on another solid trade with best lambs still attracting a premium and grass-fed lambs harder to place but still adding up well.
Best sold to 432p and plenty at 400p and better. Best shaped lambs very well bid for and more could be sold.
Commercial lambs generally trading 345p – 380p depending on finish but heavier types easier to sell well.
Overall average at 370p/kg or £162/head but generally a better show of quality.
Sample Prices: –
432p 40.7kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
428p 40.7kg JB Rowlinson & Son, Gawsworth
418p 41kg RA Harrison, Norbury
426p 42.3kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
419p 43kg JB Rowlinson & Son, Gawsworth
412p 43.3kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
396p 45.8kg B Ford, Stockport
400p 46.8kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
392p 49kg RI&AML Sidebottom, Macclesfield
392p 50kg J Swindells, Leek
390p 51kg J Swindells, Leek
383p 53.7kg AD Williams, Basford
385p 54kg BG & SV Buxton, Sudbury
380p 66kg B Vernon, Rocester
CULL EWES (188)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
More ewes forward and trade well up on the week, ewes to £300 for AP Williams, Eccleshall. With all types looking well sold. Overall, a very mixed entry of ewes with buyers for all types.
Fed Continentals £200 – £280
Plain sorts £160 – £190
Mules to £215 generally £160 – £190
Better Hill Types £100 – £135
Feeding types: £90 – £120 depending on frame.
Sample Prices: –
AP Williams £300, £248
AP Leason £280, £250, £242, £205
J Tavernor £266
DR Flower £261, £212
B Vernon £258
C Needham £248, £200
BG&SV Buxton £245, £220
EJ Williams £240
A Twemlow £240, £215
J Ball £235, £224
P Whieldon £225
IE Buxton £205
S Frith £203
Tups look well sold with meat key, topping at £298 for AP Williams, M Kilroe £281, B Vernon £235, S&A White £228.
Overall average £164.50/head
CALVES (127)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Holly Swift (07973 982453)
A superb show of quality today with bidding and top prices to match, more could easily have been sold. Top call £910 for a strong British Blue bull. 76 bulls average £506 right through, including 14 Black & Whites.
38 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Certainly no less and a very pacy trade throughout. Top call wasn’t in the four figures today but at £910 from the Hulme family, twenty-four over £600 and thirteen best over £700! A real delight to sell and amazing averages below…
22 Blues av £640 to £910 DW & P Hulme
9 Lims av £607 to £785 D & PW Kirkman
3 Blon av £448 to £540 WH Townsend & Son
2 Sims av £625 to £800 H&E Bailey & Prts
2 Char av £675 to £730 KW & AM Minshull
32 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
A superb show of heifers today with trade looking about the same on the week, topping at £690 for a strong British Blue from Mr Turnock and only four heifers under £380.
16 Blues av £526 to £690 WE Turnock & Sons
12 Lims av £501 to £645 J Kirkham
1 Char to £590 PRF & EA Stone
2 Sims av £405 to £480 J C & D Hudson
1 Blon to £390 WH Townsend & Son
38 NATIVES
Amazing! Aberdeen Angus bulls as dear as ever without one under £400.
11 AA Bulls av £585 to £665 NG, JMH & H Mellor
13 Here Bulls av £473 to £710 GR Spink
7 AA Heif av £408 to £550 Alcock Bros.
7 Here Heif av £266 to £405 P RF & EA Stone
To reflect some smaller end calves in the entry.
14 BLACK & WHITE DAIRY BULLS
Unreal once again with new buyers forward for them, averaging £172 right through with only four under £100 and topping at £320 for a thick Friesian from DR & A Shuker.
2 WEANLINGS
Both being strong British Blue steers at 2 – 3 months old from the Shone family and achieving £900 and £800.
Do give us a call with any entries, we have a packed ring of buyers weekly.
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SATURDAY 1st AUGUST
Catalogued Sale of 393 Store & Breeding Cattle
Catalogue Now Available Online
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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