Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

A big day with substantial entries in all departments and some 742 Cattle and 1,814 Sheep on offer.

Demand was outstanding for all classes of stock and a wealth of highlights in both sheep and cattle sections.

In normal times we would have had the Easter Lamb Show and there were 64 Spring Lambs forward with an astonishing trade and prices that could not have been contemplated.

Top figures 725p/kg and £300.88 per head.

The SQQ average for spring lambs was 635.8p/kg.

Hoggs (Old Season Lambs) were also in great demand, with the best of the 1,405 to 386p/kg and £172.80 per head.  The SQQ levelled at 309.5 pence.

Dealing with the 342 Cull sheep, again plenty of trade with ewes to £155 to average £93.95.

Turning to the cattle department there was a bumper crop of 571 Store & Breeding cattle with prices if anything even dearer than last week.

Steers sold to £1,410, Heifers £1,320 and Feeding Bulls £1,100 and In calf cows reached £1,330.

Suffice it to say that anyone with Store Cattle to sell would be well advised to let the buyers at Bakewell bid for them.

A useful entry of 98 Finished Cattle sold exceptionally well with top figures 270p/kg and £,681 per head.  The average for the 40 heifers at 221.4p/kg gives an indication on the strength of demand.

Rather more OTM Cattle on offer with 105 meeting a solid trade, top figures 187p and £1,664 with the average 142.6p.

Calves still thin on the ground, bulls sold to £385 and heifers £398.

Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 1^st April: Lunchtime Sheep Sale, See our Facebook page for special entries.

PLEASE NOTE: Bakewell Market will be operating on

Easter Monday 5^th April, please let us have your Store Cattle entries by 12 noon on Thursday 1^st April

Friday 16^th April: Orange Market, Sale of TB restricted cattle, further Entries invited, please speak to Oliver Hiles on the number below

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We have been asked to inform you that Peter Morten of

Barmoor Farm, Barmoor Clough, Buxton

Has passed away.

105 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows Overall Average 142.69p or £989.50

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles).

More on offer as expected and trade generally very similar with the overall average just £12 back on the week.  Now is certainly the time to be selling.  We can handle all sorts, big cattle, fat or thin.  Please don’t feel obliged or threatened to send them all direct when we can handle them.

Top cow today was a lovely Simmental cow from Paul Jolliffe, Cotton at 187p or £1496.  Top 10 over 175p with the top 21 over 166p.  Hereford to 160p, Angus to 180p and Lincoln Red to 137p.

40 Black & White and ex-dairy cows Ave 125.1p/kg

Perhaps a little less but a good lot of hard worked cows about today reducing the average.  Best cows still nicely over 145p and selling to 162p for Friesian, with an odd clean heifer at 168p.  Big Holstein 130-140p with leaner cows 110-130p and only a few plain cows around £1.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

3 OTM Bulls

4 OTM Steers

98 FINISHED CATTLE – overall average 214.1p (Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

UNBELIEVABLE TRADE!

A few extras on offer and a quite remarkable trade throughout.

16 Finished Bulls ave 198.7p/kg

Very, very dear like all cattle today with a couple of best handy weight bulls at 218p for Nigel Birch, Monyash.  Friesians to 192p for SG Potter.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

42 Steers – overall average 213.1p/kg

Including 5 OTM’s and 5 B&W.  Trade remarkable with buyers for all shapes, sizes, breeds and finishes.  Best quality Limousins sold to 254p for Don Lownds and 251p for Messrs Keeling, Hollington.

7 Hereford to 218p, Angus to 213p and OTM to 194p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

40 Finished Heifers – overall average 221.4p/kg

The highest average achieved at Bakewell for a regular Monday.  270p was the top call for the second week in a row.  Don Lownds had a superb Limousin at that money to gross £1679.  Keith Harrop’s run today sold to 269p and 258p (twice) with the top 20 over 220p and even OTM heifers at 200p, Hereford to 214p and Angus to 210p

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

A wonderful entry of 511 cattle encompassing a broad spectrum of breeds, sizes, ages and qualities, but buyers were out in force for all types and a tremendous trade prevailed from start to finish with several commentators saying they were the dearest yet.

41 Feeding Bulls

The sale commenced with 37 Feeding Bulls with sample prices as follows:

Feeding Cows included:

Breeding Cattle

228 Steers ave £904

Some fine specimens hitting the highlights, but all well sold with grazing cattle exceptionally dear.

Sample results:

235 Heifers ave £846

A good selection with plenty of well-matched bunches which helped speed the progress of the sale as well as commanding a premium.

Rough coated cattle for immediate turnout very keenly sought.

Sample Results:

CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

A few less forward with a shortage of Black & Whites.

All again an excellent trade with bulls seeing B Blue to £398 and Hereford to £355.

Heifers just as dear with B Blue to £385 and Limousin to £380 and many more could have been sold to vendors advantage.

Could all ARLA producers please indicate this on the entry form.

1,814 Sheep including 1469 Finished Lambs, 341 Ewes & Rams & 4 Store Sheep

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A very good show of 1814 sheep included 64 spring lambs and 1405 old season lambs, The pre-Easter sale of spring lambs saw demand exceeding supply with resulting prices off the clock.  Best sorts peaked at 725p/kg and £300.88/head with 5 pens over £275/head.  Overall average £635.85p/kg

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

In the old season lambs a total of 1405 saw best export sorts peak at 386p/kg with best butchers lambs to 380p/kg.  Heavy weight butchers lambs to 348p/kg and overweight lambs to 295p/kg.  Best sorts peaked at £172.80 with 9 pens over £160/head.  The overall average 309.56p/kg

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

342 Cull Sheep (Auctioneer Mark Elliott)

The entry was good and the best 20% were quality with trade just as fiery as last week.

Best Mules to £107 with several pens over £100.  The horned ewes a varied trade, but the highlights included medium Swales to £59 and best end to close on £70.

Top Continentals peaked at £155 for Toby Hall with others at £148, £145 and £140.

Big Suffolks topped at £136 with some half bred Texels at £134.

The Rams a good trade to a top of £140 for Jackie Trueman with other bigger Texels at £137.

Cast Ewes        To: £155          Ave: £93.95

Cast Rams       To: £140          Ave: £108.35

Goats               To: 134