Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

664 cattle and 2,146 sheep on offer for the ‘catch up’ market following the Bank Holiday week with numbers tempered slightly with some vendors grounded after buying breeding sheep last Friday.

Attempts by the major processors to reduce deadweight prices seem to have come to nought with finished cattle on the rise and this has fuelled confidence in the store ring.

A decent entry of 337 store and breeding cattle failed to satisfy demand and prices were extremely strong.

Steers sold to £1,680, heifers £1,560 and feeding bulls £1,260.

The breeding cattle also looked dear with cows and calves to £2,080 and mature bulls £2,000.

There was an excellent entry of 168 finished cattle with top figures 332p and £2,213.

The average for the 71 heifers was 265.5 pence which shows the strength of demand.

Prices were up in the OTM section with 94 head on offer.  Top figures 250p and £2,133.

The average was considerably up on recent weeks at 175.1 pence and the per head average a healthy £1,153 to include all comers.

Another larger entry of calves for Bakewell with 65 examples on sale with bulls to £470 and heifers £302.

In the sheep department lamb numbers were good with 1,753 forward.  Top figures 300p/kg and £154.56 per head.

The SQQ average looked good at 254.7 pence.

In the cull sheep section 362 animals saw ewes to £170 to average £101.78.

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES

Thursday 7^th September: Regular Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Friday 8^th September: Store Lamb Sale at Bakewell

Friday 8^th September: Farm Sale, Park House Farm, Haughton, ST18 9JH

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New TB Rules starting 1^st August

Please do not worry yourselves about the changes.  Most people will not have to do anything different except to supply us with a little extra information.

The new rules will be in place next Monday and we need everyone selling cattle & calves to tell us their Parish TB Testing Interval by ticking the box on the entry form. Just to confuse things, this might be different from the actual TB testing interval on your particular holding.

It is easy to check this on-line using the TB Hub – Parish testing interval checker.

In simpler terms:

All Staffordshire is 6 months

All Cheshire is 6 months

All Nottinghamshire is 12 months

All Leicestershire is 12 months

Where there is most confusion is in Derbyshire which is split between 6 months and 12 months.

The Ministry have not been able to provide us with a map showing the border.

When you enter your store cattle in future, please supply your county and parish holding number and we can check for you and provide the information to buyers on the Early Warning List.

Whilst the new rules look complicated, they will only affect a few buyers from the 12-month edge areas.  For everyone else there will be no change other than the need for us to display the information at the time of sale.

If you have any questions about all this just ring us at Bakewell and we will explain the changes and check your parish interval for you.

Bakewell Market Office on 01629 812777

Alastair Sneddon on 07973 982441

94 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows overall average 175.1p/kg or £1190

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)                    

Similar numbers to a fortnight ago but trade has changed altogether with cows up about 20 pence on 2 weeks ago or £155/cow.  Demand has never slackened but today we are going in the right direction once again with cow meat back in vogue.  14 best cattle today topped 200p with a Shorthorn x heifer (31 mnths) from Andrew Mycock selling at 250p with best cow from Messrs Ponsonby at 227p (£1607).  Plenty of good x bred cows 180-200p with the bigger and better fed sorts north of £1400.

Results:

Gross Prices:

24 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 162.6p/kg

Altogether better with the leaner cows taking the biggest lift.

Best cows 170-197p

Holsteins 160-170p

Leaner sorts 150-160p

Only a few under 140p

The best today:

 3 OTM Bulls

5 OTM Steers

168 FINISHED CATTLE ave 264.5p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A very big turnout of cattle this week after the Bank Holiday and the buyers were certainly ready for them with the deadweight firms putting up their bid price to match the liveweight returns, but we at Bakewell have moved on again with cattle 10 pence dearer on the last sale.

46 Young Bulls ave 239.1p/kg

All buyers fit and firing hard with all bulls better, although more plainer sorts about.  Best blues from John Ottewell rose to 300p/kg (£1878) with Keith Harrop at 295p and Neil Pearson at 294p or an amazing £2516.  Dairy bulls sold to 255p for a Fleckv from The Furness Partnership.

Results:

Gross Prices:

51 Steers ave 263.2p/kg

Some lovely cattle this week including some big well bred and fed sorts that were certainly appreciated by the buyers at ringside.  6 best topped 300p with a John Grummett special at the top at 316p/kg (£2110) who also had another at 308p.  7 biggest sold over £2000 with the best at £2213 for Jack Blackshaw.  12 Natives had Angus to 260p and Herefords to 248p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

71 Heifers ave 265.5p/kg

A bumper crop but plenty of trade from start to finish with some excellent cattle right through the sale.  Micheal Wynne won the race a topped the day at 332p (£1892) for a super northern Limmy with his others at 312 and 305p.  Keith Harrop had 324p for his best with heavies from Clive Bacon at 302p (£2059) and 296p (£2160).  26 Natives today with Herefords to 293p, Angus to 273p, Longhorns to 252p and 2 Monty’s look well sold at 228 and 234p/kg.

Results:

Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

There was a useful entry of 337 store & breeding cattle, but rather less than we might have expected indicating a possible shortage, but if the entry lacked quantity, it did not lack quality with some superb cattle on offer with prices to match.  The fact that the 176 steers average £1,108 is testament to that.

The started with a small selection of Breeding Cattle which included:

3 Feeding Cows sold from £895 to £1090

There were 15 Feeding Bulls, to include:

 176 Steers ave £1,108

A wonderful trade for a good cross section of cattle which included some very fine specimens.

Herefords and particularly Angus were well sold as were the few pure dairy steers.

Sample Results:

132 Heifers ave £952

Plenty of trade for all sorts and sizes with buyers unable to complete their orders.

One or two bunches clearly being fought over as suckler replacements but everything finding a ready market with prices that speak for themselves.

Sample Results:

65 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

Another respectable offering of calves continued to sell at recent strong rates with a large gathering of prospective purchasers present.

Top price today went to a B Blue bull at £470 and followed by a Limousin at £400, with the top call in the heifers a B Blue at £302.

Black and whites a similar trade to of late to a top of £108.

The entry of weanlings attracted strong interest with Charolais steers (4 mnths) to £565, B Blue steers £485 and Friesians to £260.

Bulls

B Blue                 £470     J & J Walton, Tideswell

B Blue                 £390     RE Poyser & Son, Onecote

Lim                      £400     J Bradshaw & Co, Stockport

Hfd                       £295     JW Brandrick, Beamhurst

Hfrs

B Blue                 £302     D Fotherby, Wormhill

B Blue                 £300     G Matkin, Idridgehay

Hfd                       £175     AP Critchlow, Wheston

1784 Lambs & 362 Ewes & Rams (Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A very good entry of 2146 sheep included 1747 lambs.  Best butchers lambs sold to 320p/kg for Blue Texels and Texels to 298p/kg (twice).  Heavyweight butchers lambs to 292p/kg and overweights to 276p/kg and a top gross of £154.56/head.  Overall average 255.86p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

362 Cull Sheep

A fast trade from start to finish with strong meated ewes well sold and plenty of potential homes for any grazers.

Jackie Trueman topped the day at £170 for strong Texels with 2 other vendors at £166 and £159.

Better Mules £96 plus with strong crossbred Suffolks £118 plus.

The top 6 pens averaged £157.33.

Strong trade for the rams available to a top of £176 for a long Texel with others at £174.  Beltex tups to £140 and Leicester tups to £126.

Ewes to £170                Ave £101.78

Rams to £176               Ave £120.00