Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Dry conditions and the temperature well below zero made a change after so many wet days.

675 cattle and 1,614 sheep on offer for a busy market day with good reports from all departments.

322 head of store & breeding cattle with trade exceeding all expectations and every animal changing hands.

Steers sold to £1,680, heifers £1,400 and feeding bulls to £1,160.

What is significant is that despite a very mixed sample the 156 steers averaged £1,114 giving a good indication of the strength of demand.

Another excellent turnout of 147 finished cattle with top figures 335p and £2,183 the heifer average, a healthy 286.6p.

A sizeable entry of 149 OTM & Feeding Cows saw top figures of 280p and £2,150 per head, with the average at a cracking 169.7p.

57 calves on offer with trade better than ever, bulls to £440 and heifers £248.

Over in the sheep section there were 1168 hoggs with trade looking good.

Top figures 326p/kg and £178.84 per head.  The SQQ average was a healthy 275.1p.

Busy in the cull sheep department with an entry of 446.  Ewes sold to £228 to average £113.50.

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES

Thursday 18^th January: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Friday 19^th January: HPLS Store Cattle

I am pleased to let you all know that we raised an incredible £5,880 for the Air Ambulance from the charity event on Saturday.

We would like to especially thank Laurie Ibbotson from Dovecote Park for the lovely meat, Coates Butchers for cooking and serving and Clive & Rachael Bacon for the bread cobs.

We also want to thank everyone who helped out on the night, those who donated raffle prizes and bought tickets and finally a special thanks to Chatsworth Estate for letting us have the venue for free.

149 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows overall average 169.7p/kg or £1153

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)     

Cows dearer again, up another 5 pence this week and that makes cows better every week, so for this year meat is certainly in demand with big cows adding up nicely.  21 better selling cattle topped the £2 kilo mark with the last one in to the ring selling for the day’s top price of 280p for a lovely Blue x Heifer (32 mnths) from Messrs Leason, Sudbury with other clean OTM cattle at 235-242p.  Best cow today was a Limmy at 224p (£1590) from John Grummett, Smisby.  A lot of keeping cattle today with numerous bidders for the right cattle that have potential to feed.

Results:

Gross Prices:

86 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 159.6p/kg

Dearer across the board with the biggest cows over £1500.

OTM clean heifers 176-202p

Best big cows 170-185p

Big Holsteins 155-165p

Leaner parlour cows 130-150p

Plainest cows 114-130p

Nothing under 114p

The best today:

 2 OTM Bulls

8 OTM Steers

146 FINISHED CATTLE ave 274.3p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

The biggest entry of the year to date and exactly the same number as this week last year.  Buyers fit for cattle but not quite at the sky-high prices of the last couple of weeks with values more in line.

27 Young Bulls ave 262.4p/kg

Some lovely bulls on offer with the top 5 over 318p/kg (all over £2150).  Top call 329p (£2289) and 326p (£2151) for Keith Harrop with David Goddard next in line at 324p (£2274).  B/W’s to 219p twice.

Results:

Gross Prices:

44 Steers ave 263.2p/kg

All shapes and sizes but not the overall quality of last week, but still strong money for the best.  Suckler bred Limousin won the day at 326p for John Grummett with 3 at 316p.  Top 10 all over £2000.  16 Natives saw Hereford to 208p, Angus to 240p and S Horns to 244p with a trio of B/W’s up to 235p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

75 Heifers ave 285.8p/kg 

Trade still on fire with the Christmas catch up still a way short on numbers.  A joint top price today of 335p/kg for 2 super sorts from Roger & Lee White and Peter Gaunt selling to butchers at Stoke on Trent and Manchester.  14 Natives had Angus to 281p and Hereford to 254p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

Another good entry with a total of 322 on offer.

Some excellent level bunches certainly commanded a premium and added to more general highlights.

We had a full line up of buyers some from considerable distances and we could certainly have sold more cattle had they been available,

If you have cattle in test, do not hesitate to book them in, there is plenty of trade at present.

The sale started with a few Breeding Cattle followed by some 26 Feeding Bulls which achieved:

156 Steers ave £1,014

A remarkable average bearing in mind the spread of quality and price in the entry.  Angus and Hereford crosses attracting plenty of interest as did the various bunches of Black & Whites.

Sample Results:

129 Heifers ave £957

Plenty of trade for all sorts especially in well matched bunches.

Sample Results:

57 CALVES (Auctioneer Meg Elliott)

A very buoyant trade for calves on Monday with some quality goods on offer saw the best to £440 twice over.

Hitting it first was a strong Limousin bull calf from William Madin of Holymoorside, with a lovely square Blue from the Hayes family also realising £440, they also had two further Blue bulls reach £435 and £405.

Plenty of buyers for Black & Whites saw the best from the Hadfield family at Tideswell at £138.

All breeds were a good trade with more numbers needed to satisfy demand.

British Blue bulls to £440

British Blue heifers to £248

Limousin bulls to £440

Saler bull to £340

Aberdeen Angus bulls to £130

Aberdeen Angus heifers to £110

B/W bull calves to £138

1182 Lambs & 446 Ewes & Rams (Auctioneer Peter Oven)

Another excellent entry of 1628 sheep included 1182 lambs.  Demand very brisk throughout especially for the fed lambs.  Best butchers sorts to 326p/kg with heavy weights to 316p/kg and overweights to 308p/kg.  Best big lambs grossed £178.84/head.  A run of 31 strong from one farm averaged £162/head.  Overall average 275.14p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

437 Cull Sheep

A very varied entry but the trade very good and the very best 10% probably dearer than last week.

The sale started with a superb run of pens from Jason Craddock of Bolton by Bowland who topped the day at £228 for his best long pure Texels.

If anything, the very best Mules looked just a few pounds cheaper than the last 3 weeks, but there were not many top-class sorts forward, there were in fact plenty of second and third class Mules.

The best of the Mules to around £102 and smaller leaner types a fast trade.

Plenty of strong Texel types £137-£150 with all the best end £162 and above.

The top 6 pens averaged £203.33 which shows the quality and size presented for today’s sale.

Overall average for ewes £113.85

Better end rams good to sell but virtually no best with a top call of £170 for a Texel from the Hallam’s at Birchcroft.

Rams ave £131.56.

🐑Bakewell Market Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale – SPECIAL ENTRY

📅Thursday 18th January

⭐62 NC Mule Draft Ewes, scanned in lamb at over 200% – due mid March to Texel

💉Enzo, Toxo, Footvax, Hept P & Dectomax, Showered with Golden Fleece

🕛Sale to commence 12 Noon

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