Leek Market seems like the place to be!!
Trade is booming with Dairies topping at £3300, a British Blue bull Calf achieving £595, followed closely by a British Blue heifer at £540, Barrens up to 234p/kg or £2164.50/head and Lambs up to 383p/kg to top at £203/head.
BARREN COWS (24)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A tremendous trade throughout with an overall average of 199.75p/kg for all the cows, including the plainer and small cows and £1355.38 per head.
Top price of the day was a Dutch bred Holstein from David Moseley which weighed 925kg and realised 234p/kg to gross £2164.50, which was a new record for the market for a Holstein foreign bred cow.
A Charolais cow, from R & M Hunter of Quarnford achieved 229p/kg weighing 745kg with another 740kg Charolais, from the same vendor, at 225p/kg.
A British Blue X cow from DA & LM Moss, weighing 680kg, achieved 215p/kg.
Other top prices included: –
785kg Holstein to 217p/kg NE Goodwin & Son
765kg Holstein to 220p/kg D & J Moseley
770kg Friesian to 207p/kg W Carbutt
670kg Friesian to 213p/kg W Carbutt
845kg S/ Red to 200p/kg WG & J Clark
Top headage price was £2164.50 with others at £1706.05 for Charolais and £1703.45 for other Holsteins.
CLEAN CATTLE
A neat 570kg Limousin heifer from James Gilman of Bosley exchanged hands for 324p/kg with a 545kg Holstein heifer at 217p/kg.
PIGS (95)
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Ed Groves (07964 510145)
More pigs on offer this week, prices very much similar to last week gilts – 190p+ boars 170p+. top price on the day 196p for fats and 78p for sows.
Cutters sold to 187p for J&B Fentem and 155p for PF+PD Parsons
Bacon pigs sold to 196p for PF+PD Parsons who had others to 193p. Massie Farms to 195p x4. C Hine to 193p x2. J&B Fentem to 190p, B Minshull to 190p
Heavies a little trickier to place selling to 168p for PF+PD Parsons. J&B Fentem to 160p, 150p 140p. PF+PD Parsons to 150p.
Sows to 78p & 42p for G+M Pawson, Richard Wilson to 65p.
Pig Averages.
Cutting Pigs (2); av 171.48p/kg or £141.48/head
Bacon Pigs (67); av 182.91p/kg or £171.85/head
Heavy Pigs (23); av 128.91p/kg or £148.42/head
Sow (3); av; 59.00p/kg or £136.29/head
DAIRIES
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Milkers on Fire!!
Top of £3300 average £2226
70% Over £2000
Trade for milkers shifted up another gear entirely on Tuesday with many more needed to satisfy the demand.
A packed ring of buyers set about the entry like they really meant it with the first through the ring tipping past the £2500 mark.
Topping the day with a Mingus Daughter was the Stubbs family of Tissington, giving 32kg she topped at £3300 to the Torr family of Tissington.
A cracking Fitz Daughter from the Wayne family of Ible reached £2920 to Messrs Heath of Leek. They also saw their second calver reach £2380 to Lovatt & Jackson.
The Phillips family of Winkhill had a lovely run of three heifers in to reach £2800, £2550 and £2340, all to different purchasers. Similarly, the Brassingtons of Wolverhampton had three heifers to £2600, £2550 and £2300.
The whole entry averaged a superb £2226.
If you have stock to sell, don’t hesitate to contact Meg on 07967 007049 or Anna on 07532 237232.
SHEEP SECTION
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
LAMBS (883)
A good entry, selling on a fast trade with best shaped lambs very well bid for and commercial lambs also good to sell provided they were meat.
Best fly away to 383p/kg from Robert and Andy Williamson and other best lambs generally 350p/kg and better.
Best big lambs over £180/head to top at £203.
More best lambs required weekly.
Sample Prices: –
353p 38.4kg CE Smith, Longford
360p 38.6kg D Goldstraw, Meerbrook
358p 40.4kg SJ Pace, Congleton
382p 40.5kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
380p 42kg M Jones, Rudyard
361p 42.5kg GH&M Torr, Bradnop
360p 42.7kg DJ&P Smith, Rushton Spencer
360p 42.7kg DJ&P Smith, Rushton Spencer
364p 42.9kg JE Swindells, Leek
383p 45.5kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
358p 52.5kg RG&AS Williamson, Wetley Rocks
CULL EWES (197)
A smaller entry today with a real mix of ewes on offer, meated ewes very much in demand with not as many powerful pure ewes forward, small ewes and hill types a good trade on the day but all at a price.
Top price on the day £239 for a pen of texels from Roger Bailey. David Williams to £210, £195, £186, & £180. Dave Goldtsraw to £197 & £190 x3. F J Gould to £196. A Williams to £195 x2. R J Lowe to £192. WE Turnock to £190 x2
Better continentals £170+
Plainer sorts £130-£160
Mules to £172 generally better sorts £140-£160
Plain Mules £100-£130
Hilly types and small lean ewes £50-90.
Overall average a pleasing £130
CALVES (80)
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
The old laws of supply and demand come to the fore with calves simply on fire!!
22 CONTINENTAL BULLS
Look at the averages and top prices. Quite unreal the level of trade with even the last calf in the ring at £452. Two stronger British Blues (10 wks), for Rob Lawley, made £595 and £565 with fresh calves from Mark Hodgkinson at £490 and £465. Only one Continental bull under £300.
18 Blues av £390 to £595 PR Lawley
2 Sims av £435 to £440 TD & DA Higginson
2 Lims av £365 to £490 H Hodgkinson&Sons
22 CONTINENTAL HEIFERS
Possibly even dearer than the bulls which is amazing. Averages and prices miles up, but many more needed to fulfil the buyers appetities. Rob Lawley had £540 for his stronger sorts with Messrs Higginson up to £470. Just four smaller sorts under £280.
14 Blues av £366 to £540 PR Lawley
5 Sims av £434 to £470 TD & DA Higginson
1 Blond to £300 EJ & VC Gilman
20 NATIVES
Prices beyond all expectations.
5 Here Bulls av £262 to £300 B E Wain
3 AA Bulls av £212 to £315 R Wilkinson & Son
6 Her Heif av £185 to £225 B E Wain
3 AA Heif av £185 to £295 Ellis Farming
1 W/B Heif to £395 PR Lawley
1 Wagyu Bull av to £310 DW & P Hulme
16 BLACK & WHITE BULLS
Generally, £50 – £130 today with nearly all going for rearing.
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