Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

A bumper market following the Bank Holiday week with large entries in all departments.

A total of 841 cattle and 1,845 sheep on offer consigned by a total of 239 vendors.

The store & breeding cattle section was particularly busy.  Trade remains at an all time high level with new buyers operating and some remarkable prices achieved.

Steers sold to £2,070 with heifers to £1,790 and feeding bulls £1,580.

In the breeding section cows and calves sold to £2,100 and a 6 year old Angus bull made £2,200.

In the finished cattle department there was a decent entry of 145 head.  Top figures 342p/kg and £2,566 per head.

The average for the 66 heifers was a solid 287.9 pence.

Cull cow numbers were good at 102 with a storming trade reported.

Top figures 266p and £2,061 per head.

The average was a very respectable 184.8 pence.

Bakewell calf department seems to be attracting some better numbers with 62 this week.  Hardly surprising with both bull and heifer calves hitting £500.

In the sheep shed there was useful show of 1,390 lambs with vendors eager to sell in advance of the theave sale on Friday.

Top figures 342p and £179.40 with the SQQ at a healthy 290.0p.

Cull sheep out in force with 443 on offer, ewes to £204 with the average £113.81.

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES

Thursday 5^th September: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Friday 6^th September: Theaves & Ewes- Show & Sale

102 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 184.9p/kg or £1240

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)     

Trade again dearer with the average up 7 pence on 2 weeks ago before the Bank Holiday as 48 vendors take advantage of the buying power in Bakewell.  Demand is hot and if you have cows to market, please get in touch and see what we can achieve In Bakewell.  Best today sold to 266p (£1686) for a 4 year old Limmy cow from G & G Green, Wessington with all of the better bred or fed cows easily over 200p.

Big cross bred blue cows topped at £2061 for Messrs Stevenson, Quarndon.  Do not miss out on this trade, please talk to me on 07801 530899.

Results:

Gross Prices:

55 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 164.4p

Above half the entry today as the word gets around that Bakewell is the best spot to make the best of your ex milk cows.

2 OTM clean 188 & 202p

Best cows 186-197p

Big Holsteins 160-175p

Leaner and parlour cows 150-160p

Only the plainest under 150p, but these look very dear by comparison

The best today:

1 OTM Bull

5 OTM Steers

145 FINISHED CATTLE ave 276.5p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Bigger numbers after the Bank Holiday and trade still strong with a good line up of buyers including 2 new bidders for the cattle to 19 different buying accounts representing butchers, wholesalers and further feeders across the counties.  Competition at its best and the perfect scenario if you have finished cattle to sell.

34 Young Bulls ave 263p

Trade continues at pace with some super returns today and some marvellous top prices.

Best 5 over 306 pence and up to 315p (£2312) for a Sue & Charles Jeffery special.  13 B/W’s today saw Friesians to 241p for Chris Beever and Dairy Shorthorns to 231p for James Hole.

Results:

Gross Prices:

45 Steers ave 270.6p/kg

Trade is hot and the buyers want meat, with size no issue here at Bakewell.  Ben Langton had a super run today at 337p (£2190) and 320p (£2112) with 2 from Peter Gaunt at 336 and 319p, both £2000+.  16 Natives today with Herefords to 271p, Angus to 303p and Beef Shorthorns to 273p and 4 B/W Steers to 245p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

66 Heifers ave 287.9p/kg

A corking good trade again and dearer on the fortnight with the fridges in the shops empty, the buyers had to work hard for the sample.  27 heifers (41% of the entry) sold over 300p with a couple of corkers from the Wells family at 342p and a run of heavys from Peter Gaunt 322-333p/kg.  7 Herefords to 290p, 6 Angus to 286p, Belted Galloways to 286p as well as 2 Holstein non breeders in the entry.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

A massive entry of 532 store & breeding cattle attracted a packed ring of buyers and prices appear to have lifted another notch.

Steers sold to £2070 with a remarkable average of £1286 with heifers to £1790 and feeding bulls £1580.

Trade stayed strong from first to last and there were buyers present for all categories.

The sale started with a few breeding stock which included:

22 Feeding Bulls

Prices as follows:

312 Steers ave £1286

A very large entry for the time of year, but trade soaked up the numbers with prices beyond all expectations.

Angus and Hereford crosses were keenly sought as were the B/W’s – rapidly becoming a rare breed in the steer department.

There were all sorts and sizes on offer with a good many small cattle within the early part of the sale, which made the overall average even more remarkable.

Sample Results:

178 Heifers ave £956

A good selection with examples at all price and quality levels, quite a number of small cattle, not all young, which pulled the average back.

Sample Results:

62 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

Another excellent trade for all with a packed ring of buyers and B Blue bulls and heifers to tops of £500.

Second quality types equally as well sold whilst the B/W keenly sought after to a top of £98.

Bulls

B Blue                 £500     D Fotherby & Sons, Wormhill

B Blue                 £495     J & J Walton & Sons, Tideswell

Lim                      £400     PF Gilman, Thorncliffe

Sim                      £310     PF Gilman, Thorncliffe

Fries                    £98        D Fotherby & Sons, Wormhill

Holst                   £98        K Trickett, Rowsley

Wagyu                £55        D & JK Mellor, Onecote

Hfrs

B Blue                 £500     H Andrew & Co, Sheffield

B Blue                 £400     J & J Walton & Sons, Tideswell

Lim                      £365     GS & L Wheeldon, Atlow

1402 LAMBS & 443 EWES & RAMS & 21 STORE RAMS

(Auctioneers Peter Oven & Mark Elliott)

An increased entry of sheep included 1402 lambs.  Demand still very good throughout with best heavy lambs to 342p/kg and top gross of £179.40 /head.  Best shaped smaller types sold in the 315-325p/kg bracket.  Overall average 290.05p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

443 Cull Sheep

A very good entry of 443 cull ewes and rams saw plenty of grazing buyers forward and resulting trade very brisk throughout.  Best pure Texel ewes to £204 with Texel x Mules to £175, Suffolks to £170, Mules to £130 and horned ewes to £107.

Rams peaked at £184.

Ewes to £204                Ave £113.81

Rams to £184               Ave £131.00