Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Good numbers in all sections with 726 cattle and 1,455 sheep on offer.

Trade, little changed with fantastic prices achieved in all departments.

The store & breeding cattle section was well supported with 418 head on offer, more smaller and younger cattle in the sample and plenty of demand for all.  Steers sold to £2,440 to average £1,356, heifers to £2,000 ave £1,246 and feeding bulls to £1,720 ave £1,094.

A 2 year old pedigree Limousin bull made £4,350.

Finished cattle were out in force with 145 head forward.

Top figures 437p/kg and £3,493 per head.

We usually tell you about the heifers of which we had 93 with an average of 376p/kg and £2,297 per head.

Strong numbers again in the OTM department with top figures 296p/kg and £2,935 per head.  The average was an amazing 249p/kg and an even more remarkable £1,638 per head.

Business was very brisk in the calves with 53 on offer, bulls sold to £580 and heifers £410.

Over in the sheep shed the 1,054 hoggs looked very well sold with top figures 396p/kg and £210 per head.

The SQQ was a respectable 343.9 pence making an average lamb in the 39-45kg weight range £147.

There were 401 cull sheep on offer and these were exceptionally dear with ewes to £295 to average £154.61 per head.

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Thursday 27th February: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

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110 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 249.65p/kg or £1667

(Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)        

Trade up again on last week with the average up some 3p/kg.  Top prices of 368p/kg and £2656 per head, with bulls to 229p/kg and £2935 per head.

Both well finished types and plainer feeding types in strong demand to a full line up of buyers with results as follows.

Results:

Gross Prices:

38 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 224p/kg

The best today:

5 OTM Bulls

FINISHED CATTLE

(Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

17 Young Bulls ave 361.47p/kg

A sharp trade on all for a reduced entry with tops of 425p/kg and £3,493 per head.

Results:

Gross Prices:

35 Steers ave 367p

A similar story as the bulls with trade up on the week with prices as follows.

Results:

Gross Prices:

93 Heifers ave 376p/kg

Excellent to sell once again for a decent entry with highs of 437p/kg and £3070 per head.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

A decent entry of 418 store & breeding cattle maintained if not exceeded recent levels of trade with all categories very dear indeed.

The breeding department comprised a single pedigree Limousin bull from DE & GM Storer of Macclesfield, the animal was 24 months old and attracted a great deal of interest with the hammer eventually falling at £4350 rather more than the vendor was expecting.

If you have breeding stock to sell, give us a call.  There are clearly people wanting to buy.

17 Feeding Bulls

To include:

213 Steers ave £1356

Rather small and young cattle in the entry, but regardless of that the overall average was still substantial.

Plenty topping the £2000 mark with strong Angus crosses in particular demand.

Yet again a remarkable list of results.

Sample Results:

184 Heifers ave £1246          

Some lovely cattle in the entry, but what a price!

Plenty of interest at all levels of age and quality.

Sample Results:

53 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A similar entry to last week comprising 53 calves.

Tops saw bulls peaking at £580 for a B Blue & Lim, closely followed by at Lim at £570.

Heifers topping at £410 very closely followed by an Angus at £405, Herefords to £350.

Black & Whites to a very good £360 (2 mnths)

Bulls

B Blue                 £410     TN Palfreyman

Lim                      £580     C Shirt

Lim                      £570     G & GW Green

Angus                 £370     JW Brandrick

Hfrs

B Blue                 £410     TN Palfreyman & Son

Lim                      £395     C Shirt

Hfd                       £350     Holtwood Farm

1054 LAMBS & 401 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A similar entry of 1455 sheep included 1054 lambs.  Demand very brisk throughout with trade lifting as the sale went on.  The very best butchers lambs peaked at 385p/kg with heavyweights to 388p/kg and a tremendous overweight pen to 396p/kg.  The top gross of over £210/head.

Overall average 343.92p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

401 Cull Sheep

(Auctioneer Holly Swift)

A slightly smaller entry than last week but still a good number of cull sheep forward with all breeds present.

Trade up on previous weeks with plenty of big ewes forward and Mules still good to sell.

Top call an impressive £295 for a pen of pure Texel ewes from Mr E Long, followed closely by J & J Spillane for a pen at £285.  Top 10 pens to average £250.

Cull rams to £248 for Messrs Pearson followed closely by Messrs Stone at £232.

Ewes to £295                Ave £153.68

Rams to £248                Ave £195.22