Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Another very warm day with excellent entries of stock comprising 784 cattle and 1,512 sheep from a total of 211 vendors.

A decent trade in all sections with some superb prices achieved.

Store & breeding cattle were out in force with a total of 413 on offer.  Rather more young cattle than last week, but top figures looking good with steers to £1,950, heifers to £1,660 and feeding bulls £1,480.

In the breeding section pedigree & pure-bred Hereford cows with young calves sold to £1,620.

Look out for the special entries of cows & calves coming to Bakewell next Monday.

Bakewell is maintaining solid numbers of finished cattle with 161 forward this week.

Trade exceeded all expectations with top figures 343p/kg and £2,327 per head.  The average for the 66 heifers was 280.0p indicating a fantastic trade for a rather mixed sample of cattle.

A larger than expected entry of 127 OTM cattle sold to 244p and £1,861 per head.  The average looking good at 177.2p.

83 calves at Bakewell, the most we have seen for a good while, prices were very strong with bulls to £655 and heifers £415.

Over in the sheep department there were 1,165 lambs on parade with trade a shade easier than last week.  Top figures 336p/kg and £168.20.

The overall average emerged at 290.7p it remains to be seen how this will compare with results over the rest of the week.  A good show of 329 cull sheep saw ewes to £194 to average £104.0p.

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES

Thursday 15th August: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale & First Store Lamb Sale

A FEW PICTURES TO MAKE YOU SMILE

How times have changed!

Got change for a tenner???

127 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 177.3p/kg or £1183

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)     

A very big mid-summer show of cows including 3 vendors with over 7 cows to bulk the numbers and 55 vendors in today.  Today we have had double the number of cows that we had this week last year and trade is about 10 pence dearer on the year.  Best cow today was a pure Limmy from Darren Smithem that sold at 249p (£1610) to a further feeding buyer.  Meated cows generally 210p plus with the biggest cows over £1500.  Generally, a good day.

We at Bakewell can handle the numbers with a good line up of end users and further feeding buyers all wanting your cows.  If you would like any information on how we market cows in Bakewell, give me a call on 07801 530899.

Results:

Gross Prices:

48 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 167.6p

2 OTM Heifers made 216p each

Best cows 180-190p (many £1400-£1600)

Parlour Holsteins 165-175p

Leaner Cows 150-160p

Plainer sorts under 150p (more about today)

The best today:

2 OTM Bulls

4 OTM Steers

161 FINISHED CATTLE ave 2725.9p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A large Summer entry of 161 cattle from 49 vendors and selling to a big audience of potential buyers.  Trade is on fire and some of the results have to be seen to be believed.  Not as many suckler bred sorts on offer today.

33 Young Bulls ave 254.8p

Good numbers and a cracking showy bull at the top of the list from Sue & Charles Jeffery that made 318p/kg or £2327 with 3 more suckler bulls over 290p.  Dairy bred Blues to 289p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

62 Steers ave 275.2p/kg

Big numbers today, but only about 15 suckler bred cattle on offer.  The remainder being well fed continental x dairy cattle and 14 native Angus.  All of which sold on a very fast trade.  Messrs Belper Skip Hire had the pen to pick from today with his top 3 Blond x at 329, 327 and 323p (all over £2000) with other good beasts over 300p.  10 B/W steers to 250p for Peter Cantrell

Results:

Gross Prices:

66 Heifers ave 280.1p/kg

Trade is certainly dearer but a lesser show in terms of overall quality.  The dairy bred continentals look as dear as anything, however, with some astonishing returns.  John Kunica T/A Belper Skip Hire had a red letter day topping both steers & heifers with his gold medal girl at 343p just pipping the Wells family at 342p for their big Limmy.  In the bronze medal position was Stan & Geoff Evans with a powerhouse at 327p (£2302).  Angus to 298p and Herefords to 304p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

A total of 413 head were forward a very large entry for this time of year.

The entry included 2 consignments of Hereford cows and calves which attracted plenty of interest.

Notable prices included:

Other Results included:

19 Feeding Bulls

Only 19 feeding bulls this week but some strong ones in the sample.

Sample prices as follows:

170 Steers ave £1125

A different sample this week with more young and small cattle, hence the lower, but still remarkable average.

Angus & Hereford crosses as popular as ever.

Finishers and their agents fighting hard to keep their yards full with fierce competition for the strong cattle.

Sample Results:

165 Heifers ave £890

Plenty of small and young cattle this week, but trade strong for all types and some marvellous prices achieved for individual and bunches alike.

Sample Results:

83 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

Another decent entry with trade yet again strong for all types on offer.

Best calves again looking exceptionally well sold with bulls to £655, heifers to £415 and a total of 9 calves over the £400 mark.

Native bred calves again in strong demand with Hereford Bulls to £310 & £300, whilst Angus’ topped at £358.  Of the heifers Herefords to £295 and Angus to £242.

Bulls

Lim                      £655     MR Kidd, North Rode

Lim                      £360     Pidcock & Matkin, Teversal

B Blue                 £535     RE Poyser & Son, Onecote

B Blue                 £500     JE Seals & Son, Shirland

B Blue                 £390     G Matkin, Idridgehay

Angus                 £358     WB & DE Gyte, Barmoor Clough

Hfd                       £310     AP Critchlow, Wheston

Fries                    £192     JW Brandrick, Beamhurst

Hfrs

B Blue                 £415     JE Seals & Son, Shirland

B Blue                 £340     NJ Kirk, Brinsley

Angus                 £242     WB & DE Gyte, Barmoor Clough

1512 SHEEP INCLUDING 1183 LAMBS & 329 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneers Peter Oven & Mark Elliott)

A very good entry of 1512 head of sheep saw demand good throughout with prices back slightly on last week in line with other markets at the end of last week.  The big lambs easiest to sell with a top of £168.20/head and heavy 8p/kg above the SQQ.  The overall market average 290.77p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

Cull Sheep

In the cull sheep grazing buyers operating today with several pens that had lambs just weaned for further feeding.  Best Texel ewes peaked at £180 with Suffolks to £140, Mules £128, South Downs £118, Dorsets to £116 and horned ewes to £105.  Cull rams still very dear with heavy Texels to £194 and BFL to £160.

Ewes to £180                Ave £103.27

Rams to £194               Ave £140.71