The Spring Lamb Show & Sale was well attended and kindly judged by Rob Mollatt of Mollatts Farm Butchery, Ipstones, seeing the Champion reach £10/kg. Hoggs sold to 503p/kg with a top headage price of £247 with ewes to £320.
A first for Leek, Calves reached £1,000 for a Blue Bull, with Blue heifers to £695.
Barrens topped at 264p/kg or £1808.40/head and clean topped at 335p/kg or £2168.05 for a Friesian bull.
Pigs sold to 240p/kg, topping at £245/head.
Dairies topped at £2920 for a lovely heifer.
BARREN COWS
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A pair of Limousin cows weighing 685kg and 695kg sold to 264p/kg and 258p/kg to gross £1808.40 and £1793.10 respectively for KL Potts of Mottram St Andrew.
WE Turnock & Sons had a 665kg Holstein on offer which sold to 256p/kg to gross £1702.40.
Other top prices: –
Frie 248p £1686 DR & A Shuker& Sons
Hol 239p £1792 JG Curtis & Son
S/Red 239p £1601 J C & D Hudson
Hol 239p £1649 PR Lawley, Bagnall
Frie 238p £1594 PN Holdcroft
Hol 226p £1615 RE Poyser
The overall average was 226.2p/kg or £1450.91/head.
CLEAN
An entry of Friesian bulls sold to a top of 335p/kg with a top headage price of £2168.05 for JE Archer & Sons of Hilton.
A 320kg Dexter sold to 220p/kg to gross £704 for D Littleton of Norton Green.
The overall average was a very respectful 318.29p/kg or £1718.74/head.
PIGS (161)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
Similar numbers to last week and a good trade seen for those best sorts, plain heavy pigs very hard to place today. Top price to new vendor M&L Fane Livestock, Lincoln selling to 240p. Top grossing £245 for Massie Farms. Gilts 205p – 225p, boars 150p – 170p, plain, unfinished or native bred pigs around 100p.
Porkers sold to 219p & 215p for H Hollins.
Cutters sold to 240p for 85kg gilts from M&L Fane, Lincoln. H Hollins to 232p, 219p. B Minshull to 217p, 213p. PF+PD Parsons to 213p. RA Hughes 180p.
Bacon pigs sold to 228p for Massie Farms who had others to 227p, 226p, 223p, 221p. GR Weston sold to 228p, 225p. D Goldstraw to 222p. J&B Fentem to 210p, 221p, 209p. PF+PD Parsons to 206p.
Heavies to 226p for Massie Farms who had others to 223p, 201p, 200p, 195p, 190p. C Hine to 140p.
Clean gilts to 100p for Massei Farms to gross £209.
Sows to 48p for R Rowlinson. S Bailey to 35p.
Pig Averages.
Pork Pigs (5); av 195.64p/kg or £124.82/head
Cutting Pigs (25); av 206.77p/kg or £166.33/head
Bacon Pigs (98), av 173.24p/kg or £165.13/head
Heavies (29), av 140.11p/kg or £154.44/head
Sows (2), av. 41.91p/kg or £93.87/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
DAIRIES TO £2920
A very strong trade for milkers on Tuesday saw a lovely heifer from the Kennerley family reach £2920 with another from the Wayne family of Ible to £2780. The Bennett family saw their heifer reach £2460.
Cows topped at £2400 also from Messrs Wayne.
More milkers are needed to satisfy demand with trade getting stronger week by week. If you have stock to sell, get on touch. Call Meg on 07967 007049.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
SPRING LAMBS (56)
A nice entry of Spring Lambs forward for the annual Easter Show & Sale which saw excellent quality and excellent demand.
The judging was expertly undertaken by Rob Mollatt of Mollatt’s Farm Butchery, and we are very grateful to him for his time.
Champion of the day went to regular supporters Rob and Andy Williamson of Wetley Rocks who achieved £10/kg for their champion to gross £420/head.
Plenty of other prize winners in the 600p – 800p/kg bracket and away from the rosettes, best lambs generally 550p – 600p/kg and nothing less than 510p/kg.
Overall average at 569p/kg or £234/head.
Sample Prices: –
600p 36kg J Belfield & R Deakin-Gallimore
650p 36.5kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
600p 37kg J & GJ Fryer, Horton
800p 37kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
610p 38kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
590p 40kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
700p 42kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
1000p 42kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
600p 46kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
630p 46kg IE, M & A Wilson, Hollington
550p 49kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
HOGGS (641)
A seasonal entry on a very solid trade with plenty of spark in demand.
Overall averages very punchy with SQQ at 446p/kg, overall average at 408p/kg and average of £193/head.
Best lambs at 503p/kg and plenty at 450p – 500p/kg.
Big lambs adding up very well to a top of £247/head.
Please keep numbers coming.
Sample Prices: –
503p 38.3kg R&S Bailey, Cloudside
492p 39.3kg RE Challinor, Dilhorne
501p 39.8kg RE Challinor, Dilhorne
502p 40kg D Williams, Basford
480p 41kg TR Lomas, North Rode
482p 42.9kg SJ Pace & Co, Congleton
499p 43kg D Williams, Basford
470p 43.4kg Hazelhurst Bros, Hyde
459p 45kg J Tavernor & Co, Great Haywood
462p 46kg GA Titterton, Milwich
464p 46.4kg SJ Pace & Co, Congleton
465p 46.8kg D Williams, Basford
460p 47kg GH & M Torr, Bradnop
420p 52.2kg GA Titterton, Milwich
408p 53.5kg D Williams, Basford
418p 55.5kg TJ Bloor & Son, Endon
392p 63kg TJ Bloor & Son, Endon
CULL EWES (110)
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
A few more ewes about but not enough to satisfy demand top price £320 for R & S Bailey. Trade definitely picked up a gear today and more ewes required each week, fed ewes are a premium!!
Fed Continentals £200 – £250
Plainer Sorts £150 – £190
Mules to £189, Generally £130 – £150
Fed Hill Ewes £90 – £120
Feeding Ewes £60 – £100.
Sample Prices:
R&S Bailey £320
IE M & A Wilson £270, £220
J Belfield £265
SWP & JA Talbot £255, £250
J Tavernor £250, £200
G Whitehouse £249, £238, £199
D Tomlinson £242
B Vernon £224
H Lyons £222, £194
BM Robinson £220
A&S Shone £210
Well-fed Tups to £250 and £248 for B Vernon. Messrs Greasley to £235, £210.
Overall average a respectable £183/head.
CALVES (110)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
Calves Hit £1,000
A red-letter day in the Leek calf ring with new heights hit and the first calf to make £1000.
39 CONTINENTAL BULLS
They started dear and stayed good all day. Highlight of the day was undoubtably when lot 41 came into the ring, a 36-day old British Blue from Andy Williamson, that sold for £1000 to a regular Yorkshire buyer. Fifteen sold over £700 with the mediums £500 – £650.
22 Blues av £647 to £1000 RG&AS Williamson
6 Sims av £655 to £800 PN Holdcroft
8 Lims av £442 to £700 WD & BP Norbury
1 Char to £800 FJ Gould & Son
2 Blon av £610 to £630 EJ & VC Gilman
25 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Just as dear as the bulls and some stunning prices throughout the sale. Andy Williamson only had two calves today but topped both bulls and heifers with his British Blue at 35 days making £695 with another three over £600. Mediums £500 – £600 today.
11 Blues av £545 to £695 RG&AS Williamson
8 Sims av £425 to £560 PN Holdcroft
5 Lims av £496 to £560 DR&A Shuker&Sons
19 NATIVES
Very dear once again.
1 Here Bull to £620 J Kirkham
10 AA Bulls av £386 to £575 WR & FM Ford
4 Here Heif av £388 to £435 J&W Knight
3 AA Heif av £290 to £420 A & JE Goldstraw
14 DAIRY BULLS
Only a trio under £100 with the majority £110 – £250 and a posh Friesian sort at £225 for P & H Botham.
11 REARED BLUES
All 3 ½ months and sold to £770 for a bunch of four bulls and £745 for a pair of heifers from G & B Thompson, Sparrow Pit.
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SATURDAY 11th APRIL
Catalogued Sale of Store & Breeding Cattle
Entries Close Friday 3rd April
Next Sale Saturday 25th April
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SATURDAY 11th APRIL
Fortnightly Sale of Ewes & Hoggs with Lambs at Foot – Please advise of entries! Sale at 11am.
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