Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

A busier Monday following last weeks good harvesting weather with a total of 571 cattle and 1059 sheep on offer and generally busy in all departments.

Finished cattle back up to normal numbers with a total of 140 on offer together with 94 OTM’s and Oliver reporting that finished cattle were dearer than last week and the OTM’s very similar.

Steers peaked at 320p/kg and £2124 per head with heifers to 325p/kg and £2091. Bulls to £309p/kg and a total of £2392 in the lump, whilst OTM’s sold to tops of 241p/kg and grossing a top of £2263.

Store cattle trade continued at recent strong rates and were preceded by a good entry of 45 breeding cattle, which created substantial interest with cows and bull calves to £2080 and those with heifer calves to £1980, both comprising a special entry from DR Rowland & NJ Woodward, Castleton.

The store cattle trade was possibly up on recent weeks with steers to £1865 and heifers to £1820.

A substantially increased entry of sheep this week with a total of 733 finished lambs with trade back in line with the National trend to average 327.99p/kg, but still a respectable average per head of £139.95.

The 251cull sheep saw trade up on the week to a top of £218 (ave £134/head) whilst a slightly increased entry of calves saw a flying trade with bulls to £400 and heifers to £390.

Ashbourne Young Farmers were also in the market raising money for the Brain Tumour Charity where they raised £300, we have agreed to match the amount.

They are also taking part in a charity bike ride on 27^th July, where they will be visiting every young farmers club in Derbyshire. We wish them good luck with this on behalf of everyone at Bagshaws

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94 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 181.4p/kg or £1197

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)     

A few more about and trade very much ‘stand on’ from last week with the average very similar on the week.  A good line up of buyers today with all the better cattle north of £2/kilo with the best and younger sorts 220p plus.  Best price today was a young Charolais (33 mnths) at 241p or £1421 with a young cow from Andrew & Helen Carr at 238p (£1461).  Cows remain good to sell and I don’t see them dropping as they have done in other years at this time.  The advice I would give is if you have them to sell, then do so.  For any advice or a free, no obligation farm visit, give me a call on 07801 530899.

Results

Gross Prices:

22 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 167.4p

A similar trade overall.

2 OTM Heifers 201-224p

Best Cows 178-189p

Holsteins 170-175p

Parlour Cows 150-160p

Plainest end under 150p

The best today:

7 OTM Bulls

140 FINISHED CATTLE ave 271.2p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Bigger numbers after the ‘Hay Maker’ last week and a lot more bite to trade with all accounts present and firing hard.

37 Young Bulls ave 252.7p/kg

A lot more and trade better with a couple of best heavyweights over 300p and 8 big boys over £2000.  David Goddard representing S & D Fearn won the day with a B Blue x at 309p (£2119) and another at 300p (£2238).  6 Dairy bulls had Friesians to 235p (£1500) for Mark Sweetmore.

Results:

Gross Prices:

38 Steers ave 270.6p/kg

The same average as last week but they look better sold overall.  The best 5 topped over 300p and up to 320p (twice) for a shapey Limmy from Messrs Mann and also for a lovely shapey Blue from Ben Langton.

Results:

Gross Prices:

66 Heifers ave 283.5p/kg

A good run of heifers and some excellent quality for the butchers to get their teeth and knives in to.  Ben Langton had a quality run at the back end of the sale and sold up to 325p for a tremendous Limousin.  The best 12 all over 310p and the biggest girls over £2000.

Results:

Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Meg Elliott)

A special entry this week with extra customers present and trade fast.  Top call £2080 for Messrs Rowland & Woodward with a young Angus cow with Angus bull calf at only 27 days old.  Best outfits £1590 and above with the premium sorts £1700 plus.

4 Feeding Cows with Blue crosses up to £1020 and strong Friesians to £1080

19 Feeding Bulls

Something for everyone today in the feeding bulls with the trade topping at £1500 for a very strong Limousin at 14 ½ mnths from the Madin Family at Holymoorside, 10 mnth old Simmentals to £800 with Charolais topping at £980 (12 ½ mnths)

Sample prices as follows:

225 Steers & Heifers

A good strong trade throughout and the quality certainly shone through.

139 Steers ave £1,053.67

Some excellent runs of quality beef bred steers with the power and stretch commanding a premium.  In fairness, some plain but framey Friesian and Holstein Bullocks would look some of the best animals sold all day with the top continentals to £1865 and the dearest Holsteins to £1265.

Plenty of trade for the 10-18 mnth category with the regular contingent of buyers bidding well for all breeds and creeds.

Sample Results:

86 Heifers ave £969.36

Again, demand strong and all categories needed but the plums do really ring the bell in gross terms.  Top price in the section was £1820 for a really well shaped beef bred blue heifer from Ed Carney at Bishton.

Sample Results:

50 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

A slightly larger entry with trade equally as dear as seen in recent weeks for all types.

Best bulls saw B Blues to £400 and £330 and some very smart heifers to £390 and £385.

Second quality possibly even dearer than seen of late whilst a small entry of B/W’s very well bid for to a top of £280.

A nice entry of stronger, slightly older sorts an excellent trade with B Blues seeing bulls to £540 and heifers to £555.

Bulls

B Blue                 £540     R Cottrill, Bamford

B Blue                 £400     E Morten & Sons, Barmoor Clough

Fries                    £280     D Fotherby & Sons, Wormhill

Angus                 £248     J & J Walton & Sons, Tideswell

Hfrs

B Blue                 £555     R Cottrill, Bamford

B Blue                 £390     TN Palfreyman & Son, Flagg

B Blue                 £385     J & J Walton & Sons, Tideswell

Hfd                       £170     T Farrington & Sons, Abbotts Bromley

Angus                 £140     JJ Furness Ltd, Elton

808 LAMBS & 251 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A very good entry of 1059 sheep included 733 new season lambs.  Best butchers types still well bid for with the Brough Family having several lots of tremendous lambs with a top of 380p/kg and a big 57kg pure Texel grossing £176.70/head.  Overall average 327.99p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

75 Old Season Lambs of very mixed quality sold to 288p/kg to average 226p/kg with top gross of £158.70

251 Cull Sheep

A total of 251 cull ewes and rams still remained a very brisk trade with pure Texels to £218 and Texel x to £186.  Heavy Mules sold between £125 and £140.

Ewes to £218                Ave £134.96

Rams to £194                Ave £175.67