Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Rain at last with a measurable quantity over the last couple of days, but more hot weather to come.

Decent entries of stock for a July market with 688 cattle and 1,252 sheep on offer.

We have arranged a meeting in the market on Thursday 17^th July at 7.30pm.

A team of verts will be giving presentations on the benefits of vaccination.

It is important that we all know the facts.

With buyers from Wales unable to purchase sheep from England at present, if and when the rules change vaccination might be an important factor.

We have had a bumper entry of store & breeding cattle with a total of 368 forward, an unheard of entry for the time of year.

Whether this is because of a shortage of keep and fodder it is hard to say, but we ended up with a superb selection with several special entries of top notch cattle.

Bolstered by encouraging noises from the finished ring, trade was excellent with steers to £2,480 ave £1,517 with heifers to £2,760 ave £1,437 and a lovely lot of feeding bulls selling to £2,320 to average £1,707.

In the breeding section cows and calves topped at £2,280.

Over in the finished ring there were 124 cattle forward with top figures of 438p/kg and £3,004 per head.

The 72 heifers averaged 372.2 pence/kilo and £2,296 per head.

All in all, an encouraging result.

OTM cattle were out in force with 134 on offer.  No slacking of trade with the best to 350p/kg and £3,102 per head.  The averages were 265.7p/kg and £1,726 per head.

62 calves this week, the most for some time.

The prices tell their own story with bulls to £750 and heifers £665.

In the sheep department there was a decent selection of 774 Spring lambs.  Trade solid with the best to 388p/kg and £187.98 per head.

The SQQ average emerged at 333.3 pence making a typical lamb in the 39-45kg range worth £144.46 per head.

There were 400 cull sheep forward with ewes to £252 to average a healthy £137.90.

We have been asked to inform you that

The Funeral for

Dennis Kay

of

Lapwater Farm, Sheffield

Will be held at

Grenoside Crematorium

On

Thursday 17^th July

At 12.30pm
afterwards at the

Old Red Lion at Grenoside.

And also

The Funeral for

Mr Ernest Twyford

Of

Farley

Will be held at

Youlgreave Church

On

Thursday 17^th July

At 11.00am

133 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 265p/kg or £1726

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

More on offer and trade very similar which for the time of year is great.  Demand at present for the cows is strong with all of the processors bidding well for the offering as well as a strong contingent of feeding men looking to improve the value of leaner and younger cows.  All the better sorts easily over £3 kilo with a high of 350p (£1946) for a UTM Angus cow from Messrs Hague, High Bradfield with the best cow at 335p (£2425) for Messrs Baxter, Copt Oak Estate, Leicester.  Cows are good to sell and the processors are after more, if you have any to sell, give me a call and I will be happy to visit you on farm to let you know what we can achieve.

Results:

Gross Prices:

47 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 238p

Less good cows generally, but trade similar.

No OTM clean

Best cows 250-280p

Holstein types 230-250p

Plainer sorts 220-230p

Only a handful under 210p

The best today:

1 OTM Bull

4 OTM Steers

124 FINISHED CATTLE ave 365.1p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Up 10 Pence on the Week

Great news, all cattle dearer and more positively than we have seen for a couple of months.

24 Young Bulls ave 344.1p/kg

Generally, a little dearer and more could have been sold today without affecting trade.  Two lovely red Limmys made 415 and 408p from the Wells family, Monyash with Sue Jeffrey close behind to 396p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

28 Steers ave 365.6p

7 best suckler bred Limmys over £4/kilo in one of the best trades for a couple of months, Richard Boothby, Torkington to 418p/kg and big steers to £3,004 for Jack Blackshaw.

Results:

Gross Prices:

72 Heifers ave 372.2p/kg

The best trade for a few weeks with 24 over £4/kilo.  Peter Gaunt returned with a super run of suckler bred types at 438p, closely followed by Ben Langton at 434 and 416p.  18 Natives had Angus to 394p and Herefords to 374p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

An unusually large entry of 368 stores, this resulted from several consignments all coming on the same day.

Widespread promotion brought a full team of buyers to Bakewell and a superb trade was the result.

The sale started with 19 Breeding Cattle including:

44 Feeding Bulls

Then followed 44 feeding bulls the majority of which have been a special entry from Sutcliffe Bros of Doncaster.  There was an army of bidders for these with sample results as follows.

Sample Results:

140 Steers ave £1517

A superb assortment with numbers and quality boosted by several large consignments.  This allowed large, level bunches to be offered attracting fierce competition and speeding the progress of the sale.

Sample Results:

165 Heifers ave £1437

A great trade from start to finish with particular interest in the special entries as the following results indicate.

Sample Results:

62 CALVES (Auctioneers Ivor Lowe & Natasha Hall)

A bumper entry of calves on offer today.

Trade overall very good with a B Blue achieving £750 from J Cawser and a Char Heifer at £655 from RS Torr.

A larger entry of B/W with plenty of interest topping at £228.

Bulls

B Blue                 £750     J Cawser

B Blue                 £700     JR Hallam

B Blue                 £665     GW & WL Neville

Hfd                       £660     J Cawser

Lim                      £650     RS Torr

Hfrs

Char                    £665     RS Torr

B Blue                 £590     RE Poyser & Son

Lim                      £495     D Fotherby & Sons

Char                    £495     RS Torr

B Blue                 £480     AP Critchlow

812 SPRING LAMBS & 440 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A larger entry of 1252 sheep included 774 new season lambs.  Meated sorts in demand with best butchers types to 388p/kg with heavy weights to 360p/kg and overweights to 352p/kg with top gross of £188/head.

Overall average 336.22p/kg.

Leading Prices:

38 Old Season Lambs sold to 298p/kg ave 270p/kg with top gross of £161/head.

440 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

A very good July entry with nearly 450 penned.

There was spirited bidding in all categories with the better end continentals regularly £215 and above.

Top call £252 for smart Texels from Furness and Taylor with others at £220.

Several runs of stronger continental types £180-£196 with the better end Mules over £155/head.  Top 6 pens average £219.66.

Best Swales £122 plus and purchasers out for the plainer ewes to slaughter immediately.

In fairness, the average at £138.85 reflects a higher proportion of leaner and horned ewes rather than a great reduction in price and trade was good throughout.

In the rams some big strong Texels dominated the entry with these selling at £252 and £190 for the best.

Shropshire rams to £181.

Ewes to £252 ave £138.85         

Tups to £252  ave £193.83