Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Rather busier than expected with 849 cattle and 962 sheep on offer at a time of year when numbers generally dry up somewhat for the Summer.

Cattle prices a shade easier in all departments but still a strong demand and overall results looking very healthy.

Sheep prices heading in the opposite direction with lambs considerably dearer.

The store & breeding cattle numbers crept just over the yardstick with 507 on offer.

This total included 66 breeding stock which attracted plenty of interest.

Steers sold to £2480 to average £1512, heifers reached £2300 to average £1189 and feeding bulls averaged £1352.

The breeding section produced a number of highlights with Lim stock bulls to £5050 and cow and calf outfits to £3750.

Finished cattle numbers, whilst not as great as last week still looked good at 148 with prices a fraction less.

Top figures 432p and £3120 with the average for the 78 heifers a solid 354.7p.

OTM cattle were out in force with 136 on offer.  Top figures 365p/kg and £2898 per head.

The average was a useful 266.6p with the 126 cows averaging £1705 per head.

More calves again with 58 in total.  Bulls sold to £750 and heifers £600.

In the sheep department it was generally quieter.  The 334 lambs sold on a better trade with top figures 432p/kg and £201.79 per head.  The SQQ average was a commendable 366.1 pence.

The 306 hoggs were a very mixed sample with the best on offer to 338p and £180.49 per head.

The average emerged at 288.1p

There were 322 cull sheep with ewes selling to £234 averaging £135.85.

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136 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 266.6p/kg or £1747

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)     

6 pence up on the week

We thought they would be less but they were not with a good entry and a full ring of buyers needing the cows.  21 cows sold over 300p/kg and a high price of 365p (£2898) for a ped Limmy from G Blackshaw, Bakewell with other better sorts generally 320p plus.  Feeding men out in force with the leaner and younger sorts being retained to improve their value.

Results:

Gross Prices:

49 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 241.2p

A few better sorts and generally dearer.

A few heifer types up to 304p

The better fed cows 260-278p

Big Holsteins 245-255p

Leaner Parlour cows 230-240p

Only the plainest under 215p

The best today:

7 OTM Bulls

3 OTM Steers

148 FINISHED CATTLE ave 349.7p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Down 6 pence

A big drop last week and a bit less again today from 54 vendors selling to a full house of 20 different buying accounts.

28 Young Bulls ave 341.3p/kg

Two best over £4 and a top of 422p for a pure Limmy from Steven Wells, Monyash and a heavyweight from John Ottewell at 414p (£2898).

Results:

Gross Prices:

42 Steers ave 346.2p

Good to sell but at lower levels than 2 months ago.  John Grummett was the best of the day at 412p and Geoff Evans at 397p, Hfds to 329p and 5 B/W’s to 319p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

78 Heifers ave 354.7p/kg

Big numbers and trade good and the best nicely over 400p.  Steven, Steff and Owen Wells won the day at 432p for a posh shapey Lim, a OTM 36 mnth old big Char from Charlie Boden at £3084.  27 Natives saw 14 Angus to 373p, Hfd to 360p and Lincolns to 342p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

A tremendous entry of 507 head which attracted a great deal of interest with all cattle looking well sold on the day.

There was a marvellous selection of 66 Breeding Battle with plenty of demand for all varieties and notable prices as follows:

36 Feeding Bulls

It was another busy week for feeding bulls with 36 on offer.

Sample Results:

213 Steers

Whilst there has been a slight reduction in values in all cattle departments trade is still brisk and prices remain generally strong.

Young cattle remain very dear and it is the short finish cattle that have slipped slightly in recognition of reduced deadweight prices for finished stock.

These are typical results for today’s sale across the age range.

Sample Results:

192 Heifers ave £1,189

A good strong trade from start to finish with plenty of highlights.

Sample Results:

58 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A larger entry of calves this week and trade just as good.  A Lim bull topped the day £750 from H Tinker & Sons and a Lim Heifer at £600.

All other types looking equally as well sold.

Bulls

Lim                      £750     H Tinker & Sons

B Blue                 £700     RE Poyser & Son

Char                    £520     RS Torr

B Blue                 £515     GW & WL Neville

B Blue                 £500     GW & WL Neville

Hfrs

Lim                      £600

B Blue                 £480     S & LM Kirby

B Blue                 £470     JR Hallam

AA                        £370     GW & WL Neville

B Blue                 £370     TW Kent & Co

334 SPRING LAMBS

(Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

A reduced entry with trade up on the week despite reports of a reduced trade at the end of last week.

Best quality well finished types once again commanding a significant premium, but that said all weights and types in keen demand and looking well sold.

Top prices of 432p/kg and £201 per head.

Leading Prices:

306 Hoggs ave 288.18p/kg

An improved trade on the week for a very much tail end sample with all weights looking well sold on the day.

Tops of 338p/kg and £176 per head.

Leading Prices:

Averages:

322 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

A good entry post festival and fair to say the best meat at small weights still very good to sell but trade generally easier than recent weeks.

Very few long Texels forward with the better sorts well over £220.

Top call £234 for Boden & Davies with Texels and others at £214.

As detailed above the smaller sorts and horned types still a strong trade with Swales and Scotties still nicely towards £108 for the best.

Texel rams to £178, but some plain sorts on the entry.

Ewes ave £135.95

Tups ave £153