Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

At last, a few drier days and milder temperatures.

Decent entries of stock with 723 cattle and 1,199 sheep on offer consigned by 227 vendors.

Trade good in most departments with the OTM average well up on the week and trade for hoggs very healthy at 372p.

A useful entry of 375 store & breeding cattle maintained recent price levels for a very mixed selection.  Buyers were present from considerable distances and all types of cattle found a ready market.

Steers reached £2,500 to average £1,547 for an entry which included a high proportion of small/young cattle.

Heifers topped at £2,110 to average £1,382 and feeding bulls sold to £1,780 ave £1,250.

If Spring really is on its way many vendors will be relieved as signs of a shortage of bedding are evident in some consignments.

A large entry of 170 finished cattle saw prices a shade easier.  Top figures at 430p and £3,063 per head looked good, but the average for the 98 heifers was down a bit at 361.3 pence.

OTM’s were out in force with 131 forward.  Trade was strong with top figures 350p/kg and £3,511 per head.  The average was particularly good at 263.0 pence and £1,739 per head.

Calf numbers steady at 47 with trade at a very high level, bulls sold to £645 and heifers £650.

In the sheep section numbers were down, but trade more than satisfactory.

The 1,068 finished hoggs looked well sold with top figures 456p/kg and £214 per head.

The SQQ average was 372.0 pence making a typical lamb in the 39-45kg bracket worth £160.36.

Only a small selection of cull sheep with ewes to £266 to average £126.63.

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Thursday 5^th March  – Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

131 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 263.1p/kg or £1739

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

UP 7 PENCE AGAIN

Up 7 pence last week and another 7 today with the cow meat very much sought after by all purchasers at ringside.  Trade Is remarkable at present even with the excessive numbers that are about at present.  If you have cows to sell, now is the time.  Prices today peaked at 350p for a young 4 ½ year old Limousin from Neil Pearson, Peak Forest with a big 13yo Lim from John & Mary Else at 337p (£3066).  Feeding cows even better to sell today with the regulars all competing hard to improve the cows value.

Results:

Gross Prices:

54 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 239.1p

Dearer with 7 over £2000.

2 OTM clean 270 & 292p

Best Cows 260-284p

Holsteins with meat 250-260p

Parlour Cows 220-240p

Plainest end under 210p

The best today:

6 OTM Bulls

4 OTM Steers 

170 FINISHED CATTLE ave 357.6p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Big numbers, the bulls good to sell but the clean less money, in line with other outlets.

34 Young Bulls ave 355.5p/kg

Good to sell and some excellent top prices.  Ben Langton had 427p (twice) for fancy bred Limmys with John Ottewell at 427p (twice) both over £3000 for his heavyweight Lims.

Results:

Gross Prices:

38 Steers ave 350.2p/kg

Clean certainly less this week although the top prices well up to scratch.  Peter Gaunt had just one steer today at 412p with Matt Langton (DG Allen) at 397 and 390p.  19 Natives (1/2 entry) saw Angus to 383p and Herefords to 364p.

Results:

Gross Prices

98 Heifers ave 361.4p/kg (Up 19 pence)

A massive show of heifers and the best comfortably over £4/kg but some dairy bred sorts less money overall.  Steven, Steff & Owen Wells topped at 430p with a handy weight Limmy and all the top 20 all over £4.  27 Natives today saw Angus to 371p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneers Alastair Sneddon & Meg Elliott)

Another useful entry of 375 store cattle with plenty of buyers present and a strong trade from start to finish.

Fewer strong short finish cattle in the entry and a good many smaller types some showing the results of last year’s drought and a shortage of fodder and bedding.

Nevertheless, there were bidders present to cater for all sizes, ages and qualities as the following results will demonstrate.

There were no breeding cattle a deficiency that will be made up next week when there is a substantial special entry of in calf cows, see poster at the beginning of the report.

Feeding Bulls

Sample Prices:

194 Steers ave £1547

All types well sold with some notable highlights and fierce competition for well matched bunches.

Sample Results:

169 Heifers ave £1382

A mixed bag this week, but all well sold with fierce competition at all price levels.

Well matched bunches of Angus crosses were particularly popular.

Sample Results:

47 CALVES (Auctioneers Natasha Hall & Ivor Lowe)

A slightly smaller entry this week but no let up on trade with the best bull topping at £645 for a British Blue from E Morten & Sons, this was closely followed by an AA from SG Potter at £640.  In the heifers TN Palfreyman and Son topped with a Blue at £650.

B/W’s slightly dearer than last week to a top of £270.

Bulls

B Blue                 £645     E Morten & Sons

AA                        £640     SG Potter

Lim                      £630     SG Potter

AA                        £620     JW Brandrick & Son

B Blue                 £580     J & L MacPherson

Hfrs

B Blue                 £650     TN Palfreyman & Son

B Blue                 £630     E Morten & Sons

AA                        £535     JW Brandrick & Son

B Blue                 £470     TN Palfreyman & Son

Lim                      £430     J Shirt & Sons

1068 LAMBS, 126 EWES & RAMS & GOATS & 10 STORE SHEEP

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A smaller entry of 1204 sheep included a good entry of 1068 lambs.  Despite trade being easier at the end of last week, trade at Bakewell set the week off on fire.  Best little Beltex lambs peaked at 456p/kg with 16 pens over 400p.  Several good runs of sheep on offer included 53 from Philip Langton to 428p/kg ave 409.34p/kg.  13 Beltex from Hunter to 456p/kg ave 426.2p/kg.

54 big Texels to 440p/kg ave £187.41/head.

Overall market average 372.07p/kg.

Leading Prices

Averages

126 Ewes, Rams & Goats

Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

Limited numbers this week with several vendors bringing full loads of lambs and waiting for next week with their ewes.

The best end sheep to a top of £266 for pure Texels from Mark Hambleton and family at Alstonefield. The first pen of tups sold straight over £200 to realise £219 for the Williams family for their Texel tups.

Four best runs to average £210 and these all Texels.

Smaller and well fleshed Mules over £130 per head.

Very few meated horned ewes forward this week with some grazing types up to around £78 and looking very well sold.

Overall average up on the week at £130.10

Tups averaged £174

Goats averaged £141