Busy day in the dairies with the dispersal sale, seeing a top price of £3850
Lambs sold to 400p/kg with a top headage price of £235.60 and Ewes to £240
Barrens to 285p/kg with a top headage price of £2420 and clean cattle to 282p/kg with a top headage price of £1860.55
Pigs sold to 239p/kg with sows to 130p/kg.
Calves sold to £650 for Charolais bull with the heifers not far behind at £640 for a British Blue
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
More barrens on offer this week with plenty of buyers around the ring to which more could have been sold.
A top gross price of the day was £2420 for an 880kg Holstein cow from TC Sykes of Macclesfield which sold to 275p/kg.
A Friesian topped the price per kg of the day at 285p/kg, weighing 635kg to gross £1809.75 for R A Lomas & Partners of Matlock.
W S W Mills of Ratcliffe on Wreake sold a 620kg Holstein to 282p/kg to a headage price of £1748.40.
The overall average was 221.13p/kg or £1407.88/head.
Other top prices: –
D/S/h 505kg 259p/kg R A Lomas & Partners
Hols 620kg 256P/KG W S W Mills
Simm 540kg 251p/kg S Cooper
Hol 810kg 249p/kg PF Gilman
Frie 760kg 249p/kg R A Lomas & Partners
Frie 795kg 249p/kg RJ Clowes & Sons
Hols 780kg 237p/kg WE Turnock & Sons
CLEAN CATTLE
Top price of the day was 282p/kg for a 450kg Holstein heifer from R, E & DR Bennett of Whiston which grossed at £1269.
Top headage price was £1860.55 for a 635kg Holstein from JT & J Forrester of Dilhorne.
P & M Critchlow of Cubley had two Holstein heifers weighing 620kg and 525kg to 290p/kg and 270p/kg.
Overall average was 284.53p/kg and £1586.26/head.
PIGS (99)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A few less pigs today and an increase in demand. Fats sold to 239p with gilts 205p+ and boars 165-180p. Sows sold to 130p.
Porkers sold to 218p for J&B Fentem.
Cutters sold to 220p for J&B Fentem who had others to 219p, 197p, 174p. Chris Hine to 213p.
Bacon pigs sold to 239p for A Twemlow for a cracking pietrain gilt, boars from the same home to 221p. J Ball to 222p, Massie Farms to 217p, 216p, 205p,
204p, 203p, 202p. C Hine to 212p. J&B Fentem to 208p. B Minshull to 204p.
Heavies sold to 215p for B Minshull. J&B Fentem to 164p and 162p. W Stamper to 150p, 138p, 110p, 108p.
Sows very much in short supply selling to 130p for W Stamper, Alan Worth to 118p or £323.32 S Bailey to 80p.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (1); av 218.00p/kg or £152.60/head
Cutting Pigs (17); av 181.50p/kg or £145.74/head
Bacon Pigs (66), av 198.71p/kg or £181.10/head
Heavies (12), av 140.49p/kg or £152.67/head
Sows (3), av 107.17p/kg or £265.77/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
HERD TO £3850 AV £2275
A really fast trade for all dairy stock on Tuesday saw 125 sold with a large crowd gathering for the herd sale on behalf of the Campbell family.
Trade within the commercial section peaked at £2140 for a fresh heifer from Edward and Diane Bennett of Whiston.
Black and white bulling heifers topped at £1390 with Dairy Shorthorns to £1560.
Black and white heifer calves from Red Earth Farms topped at £400.
A great crowd gathered for the herd sale which saw a top of £3850 for a Nortonhill heifer giving 37.2kg. A second heifer by the same bull reached £3750, both heading to Andrew Hulme of Basford.
In total 8 passed the £3000 mark with 46 passing the £2000 mark to average an excellent £2275.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (645)
An increased entry, selling on a good trade with plenty of demand, particularly for the best shaped lambs.
Best sorts topping at 400p/kg and plenty of other better sorts at 370p and better. Big lambs very good to sell, up to £235.60/head.
Lightweight, under finished lambs still coming forward and are harder to place.
Overall average at 343p/kg including plenty of the small, lean type.
Overall headage at £144/head. 45kg and over average 350p/kg or £171/head.
Sample Prices: –
400p 36kg IE, M&A Wilson, Hollington
382p 41.5kg IE, M&A Wilson, Hollington
377p 43.3kg EW Lane, Upper Hulme
380p 44kg J Tavernor &Co, Gt Heywood
383p 45.1kg FJ Gould & Son, Longnor
380p 45.2kg R Rowlinson & Son, Ramshorn
370p 48kg D Williams, Basford
366p 48.8kg Alcock Bros, Ford
360p 52.5kg D Williams, Basford
358p 55kg AW Wilshaw, Meerbrook
330p 65kg G&B Thompson, Buxton
CULL EWES (136)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A smaller entry of ewes met a brisk trade, once again a large entry of lean grazing ewes on offer which look very well sold on the day, meat very much in short supply and high demand.
Top price £240 from IE M & A Wilson for a smart Texel ewe.
Sample prices :-
IE M & A Wilson £240, £195.
R&S Bailey £230
D Williams £200
JP Maycock £197
H Salt £193
P Nadin £190
Continentals £170+
Plain continentals £135-£165
Mules £110-£140
Hill types and feeders £70-£110
Overall average £124.11/head
CALVES (124)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Good numbers and an amazing trade throughout, even dearer than we have seen them with a packed ring of buyers looking for numbers.
29 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Average and trade way up with big numbers of buyers after calves. A lovely Charolais topped the day at £650 for Messrs Clowes, Cubley. Eleven best topped over £560 look very well sold. Mediums £450 – £530, definitely dearer on the week with only three just under £400.
10 Blues av £514 to £590 DR&A Shuker&Sons
6 Sims av £480 to £582 H&E Bailey&Ptns
12 Lims av £524 to £648 NG,JMH&H Mellor
1 Char to £650 JA Clowes & Sons
32 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Excellent to sell again and trade very strong throughout. Not as many best presented calves with the good ones over £500. Top of £640 for a strong British Blue for
J Bailey & Sons, Biddulph. Mediums £390 – £460 with just a handful under £370.
11 Blues av £440 to £640 J Bailey & Sons
5 Sims av £386 to £435 JC & D Hudson
15 Lims av £404 to £500 RG&AS Williamson
36 NATIVES
As good to sell as ever.
10 Here Bulls av £307 to £415 WE Turnock & Sons
13 AA Bulls av £264 to £508 PE Holmes & Son
3 Here Heifs av £215 to £265 C Heath & Sons
10 AA Heifs av £219 to £400 PE Holmes & Son
16 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Unbelievably dear. All in average of £156 and sold to £208 with just four under £130.
11 REARED CALVES
£770 BB Steer (5mths) JP&SR Slack
£710 Lim Heif (4mths) JP&SR Slack
£760 BB Heif (3mths) Woodward Partners
£645 FR Bull (2½mths) D Smith
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SATURDAY 2nd AUGUST
Catalogued Sale of 492 Store & Breeding Cattle
Catalogues Now Available Online
Next Sale Saturday 16th August
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SATURDAY 16th AUGUST
Catalogued Sale of Breeding Sheep 11am
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Entries Close Friday 8th August
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