Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

First week in June and still a full yard of stock with a total of 896 cattle and 1329 sheep on offer from a total of 276 vendors.

Store cattle numbers still exceptional for the time of year with 420 on offer and trade reported as still very strong for all.

Breeding outfits topped at £3350 for cows with heifer calves and £2850 for cows with bull calves, both from DF & A Wainwright, Cold Eaton.

Bulls peaked at £2720, steers to £2640 and heifers to £2640.

Oliver reported a possibly slightly easier finished cattle trade, but still looking very respectable for a very strong entry totalling 189 head which saw top price of 428p/kg and tops of £3510 for bulls, £3118 for steers and £2889 for heifers.

OTM numbers still respectable with trade just as dear as recent weeks to 344p/kg and £2972 per head.

Sheep numbers similar to recent weeks at 1329 with the Spring lambs up on week to average 360.6 pence and tops of 432p/kg and £201 per head whilst Hogg numbers continue to dry up for a very mixed sample.  Cull ewes, however, a flying trade for an entry of 498 to average a very respectable £169 per head to a top of £272.

Calf numbers steady at 45 but trade again on fire with bulls to £760 and heifers to £630.

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Thursday 5^th June: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

142 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 260.9p/kg or £1723

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)     

Cows remain good to sell and whilst they are a little less, the overage meat has seen the smallest drop.  21 best cattle still north of £3/kg and up to a high of 344p for an Angus heifer (31 mnths) from David Gregory, Glossop.  Best cow today was a lovely 6 year old Limmy from Ben Langton that made 336p to gross £2667.  Cows remain very much the flavour of the day and if you have any to sell give us a try at Bakewell.

Results:

Gross Prices:

51 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 233.4p

Yes, a little less, but still some excellent prices.

4 OTM Clean 282-308p

Best big cows 257-268p

Parlour Holsteins 240-255p

Plainer sorts 220-240p

The best today:

5 OTM Bulls

9 OTM Steers

189 FINISHED CATTLE ave 355.2p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A mammoth entry in the prime ring from 61 vendors selling to a large audience of butchers, wholesalers and further finishers.

36 Young Bulls ave 350.9p/kg

All shapes and sizes including a couple north of £4/kilo from Owen Wells and family at Monyash.

Results:

Gross Prices:

65 Steers ave 350.9p

About 12 pence less on the fortnight but still measure up well against the opposition.  Quality blue steers from Keith Harrop rose to 414 and 400p with a cracker from Peter Gaunt at 412p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

88 Heifers ave 360p/kg

Again, the average is less but a bigger number of cattle selling to the feeding yards tells the story.  Quality pretty Limmys from John Grummett sold 428p all purchased by Joe Kemp, Butchers at Hayfield.  All the best fed, suckler bred girls still 400p plus.

Results:

Gross Prices:

476 STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Meg Elliott)

Good numbers forward following the Bank Holiday including a larger than normal entry of 62 bulls and also a lovely special entry of cows and calves from the Wainwright Family at Cold Eaton.

44 Breeding Cattle & Feeding Cows

The special entry of cows and calves from the Wainwright Family of Cold Eaton attracted much interest, no doubt attracted by the genuineness and style of the goods.

Trade was swift throughout topping at £3350 for a Blue cow and 2 month old heifer calf, with another to £3300.  The whole entry averaged a superb £2615.  Other outfits reached £1920 from PV Hawkins of Shirland.

62 Feeding Bulls

Sample Results:

216 Steers

Quality was a little lacking with trade easier for the younger good, however, the best still strong.

Sample Results:

198 Heifers  

Similar trade to the steers on the day topping at £2240 for a Limousin from J Taylor of Bonsall.

Sample Results:

45 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A very good entry of calves today with a total of 45 and plenty more could have been sold to an advantage.

A Lim bull topped the day at £760 from D Fotherby & Sons and a Blond heifer at £630 from SG Potter.

Bulls

Lim                      £760     D Fotherby & Sons

B Blue                 £660     JE & CM Fletcher

B Blue                 £655     GW & WL Neville

B Blue                 £590     J & J Walton & Sons

B Blue                 £585     J & J Walton & Sons

Hfrs

Blond                  £630     SG Potter

Lim                      £565     S & LM Kirby

B Blue                 £550     JR Hallam

B Blue                 £455     J & J Walton & Sons

B Blue                 £435     GW & WL Neville

433 SPRING LAMBS AVE 360.61P/KG

(Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

A much firmer trade on the week for all types with the best well finished types commanding a significant premium, top prices of 432p/kg and £201 per head.

Leading Prices:

Averages:

398 Hoggs ave 287.10p/kg

Very much a tail end sample, but those with cover still attracting attention with tops of 330p/kg and £176/head.

Leading Prices:

498 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

An excellent pre festival entry with extra purchasers present and all categories very well bid for.

As a general comment the meated horned types were a very strong trade but the entry as a whole lacked a few top end long pure Texels.

Top call for John Spillane at £272 with Jackie Trueman close behind at £270 and £267.

The top 10 pens averaged £251.90.

Best Mules over £207 with plenty of pens over £185.  The meated Swales topped just short of £120 with several lots over £95/head.

In the tups a fast trade to a top of £259 with other Texels at £252.

100% clearance and the average for the ewes levelled at £169.27.

30 slaughter rams averaged £145.30.

Ewes to £272 ave £169

Tups to £259 ave £145