Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

An excellent gathering of stock with a strong trade reported in all departments with a total of 809 cattle and 1608 Sheep.

487 Store Cattle on offer with no let up in trade  sold to a large gathering of prospective purchasers and credible top prices of £1880 for Steers, £1550 for Heifers and £1305 for Bulls.

Finished Cattle numbers out in force with an increased entry of 153 with trade equally as dear as last week seeing tops of 351p/kg or £2345per head.

OTM numbers also up at 126 with trade reported as being up on the week peaking at 272p/kg and £2173 per head.

Increased sheep numbers with no let up in the hogg trade at unprecedented levels with 12 pens upwards of 400p/kg to return an overall average of 377.44p/kg and top prices of 414p/kg and £230 per head. Overall average £165.40 per head.

Cull ewes a strong trade for a lesser sample than seen in recent weeks to a top of £190 whilst a increased entry of calves at 47 on offer, to a top of £390.

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES

Thursday 14^th March: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

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Friday 15^th March: HPLS Store Cattle Sale

113 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall average 182.8p/kg or £1211.18

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)     

More on offer again as the word gets out that Bakewell is the place to market your older cows and overage cattle. The overall average up by 6 pence on the week or about £60 / head tells the whole story with cow meat very much in vogue at present, please come and see for yourself and compare our prices to your regular way of selling, I don’t think that you would be disappointed, 36 cattle today topped £2/kilo (as many as we have had for a long while) with a tremendous Blue x feeding cow from Steven jones at 272p/kg (£1610) with a run of overage next in line at 232p/kg – 257p/kg from Ollie Black and Jonathon Salisbury with best older cows in the 220’s

Results:

Gross Prices:

 37 Black & White and Ex Dairy Cows average 159.8p

Similar to last week with big cows looking best sold

1 30mth (1 calf) Cow 214p

Best Fed Cows 173p – 182p

Big Holsteins 160p – 170p

Parlour Cows 140p – 155p

Plainest Cows Under 130p

The best today:

4 OTM Bulls

3 OTM Steers

153 FINISHED CATTLE ave 277.3p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

More Cattle on offer as vendors travel further to see what all the fuss is about in the prime ring at Bakewell.

Just look at the returns, 60 cattle at £3/kilo and 32 over £2000. Bring some cattle and come and reap the benefits yourself.

27 Young Bulls ave 244.7p/kg

Only a few suckler bulls on offer with a couple over £3 and up to 316p (£2565) for a posh heavyweight from John Ottewell, 8 B & W’s to 230p and 9 natives on offer to 239p

Results:

Gross Prices:

47 Steers ave 283.2p/kg

18 over 300p and 16 over £2000. Unbelieveable prices from start to finish with all the wholesalers fireing hard and no signs of any deadweight drops in Bakewell.  Steven Wells won the race and sold to 343p and 338p for his 2 Blues.  Mark Sweetmore had 341p and Peter gaunt 340p. 8 natives saw Herefords to 271p and Angus to 282p with 10 B & W Steers up to 236p for a fed Holstein.

Results:

Gross Prices:

78 Heifers ave 285.4p/kg

34 over 300p with all the better fed and bred cattle over £2000.  A joint top price of 351 twice for fancy, posh and well fed suckler bred from Nigel Birch and Andrew Bowler with weight from Peter Gaunt up to 349, 348,346 and 341p. 16 natives today with Herefords  to 280p and Angus to 289p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

Superb numbers forward on Monday with 496 passing through the ring with trade yet again strong for all qualities.

A handful of breeders and bulls with the latter toping at £1305 for a 22 month Blue from Messrs Wartig.

Feeding Bulls sample prices as follows:

The special entry of weanlings from the Millington family of Sandon met a swift trade with 12 month old steers to £600 and longhorn Steers to £445, Longhorn heifers reached £315

240 Steers ave £1073

Steers topped at £1880 for a pair of 17 month old Charolais from FA & PJ Pilkington with a 20 month old Lim from AB Bowler reaching £1810

Sample Results:

236 Heifers ave £942

Heifers topped at £1550 for regular vendors MJ Burnett & Son for a 22 month old Limousin with another at 18 months from Josh Hall at £1490.

17 Month Old Hereford Heifers reached £1435 from NR & RA Hutchinson.

Sample Results:

47 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

A few more calves about today with plenty of interest but trade possibly a little easier in places

Top call today for a smart Limousin bull from GS & L Wheeldoon, Atlow at £390 with heifers of the same breed at £295 from John Hayes at Shottle.

Bulls

Lim        £390     GS & L Wheeldon, Atlow

Lim        £285     PF Gilman, Thorncliffe

B Blue  £298     E Morton & Sons, Barmoor Clough

B Blue  £270     Pidcock & Matkin, Teversal

Here      £262     E Morton & Sons, Barmoor Clough

Fries      £80        T & CJ Hadfield, Wheston

Hfrs

Lim        £295     JF Hayes, Shottle

B Blue  £245     Pidcock & Matkin, Teversal

Saler     £190     JF Hayes, Shottle

Here      £158     Holtwood Farm, Doveridge

1192 HOGGS & 416 EWES & RAMS (Auctioneers Peter Oven & Mark Elliott)

A very good show of 1608 sheep included 1192 hoggs. Demand was very strong right from the start with the first pen selling at 410p/kg with 14 pens breaking the 400p barrier. Best butchers lambs peaked at 414p/kg with heavy weight butchers lambs to 409p/kg and overweights to 390p/kg. Top gross of £230 per head with overall hogg average over £165 per head.

The overall market average 377.44p/kg

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

416 Cull Sheep

More Customers out and trade faster than last week with the best meated types and mules very good to sell.

Better mules regularly over £109 with heavy types well over £120 per head. Yet again meated hill ewes, Gritstones etc good to sell with the better end over £100.

In the continentals a top of £190 for the Hawksworth family at Shardlow with others at £173 for John Spillane & family. To be fair there were no pure, strong, long best forward and over £200 would have been easily achievable.

All the tups good to sell with the best 3 averaging over £180 and Gritstones to £117.

Ewes to £190                 Ave £106.65

Rams to £189                 Ave £149.54