Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Rather more stock about than we expected for the time of year with 546 cattle and 1,336 sheep on offer.

Trade buoyant in all sections and a general sigh of relief that we have had some rain.

The store and breeding cattle section attracted 240 head and there was a particularly strong line up of buyers resulting in a very fast trade.

Steers sold to £2,800 to average £1,458 with heifers to £2,520 to average £1,307.  Feeding bulls sold to £1,920.

The finished cattle section was particularly well supported with 154 in total and all those cattle were wanted as the results clearly demonstrate.

Top prices 447p/kg and £3,287 per head.  To give a flavour of trade the 80 heifers averaged 382.5p and a healthy £2,270 per head.

There were 94 cull and OTM cattle, a good number for July.  Top figures 398p/kg and £3,052 per head.

The average looked good at 271.7p and a remarkable £1,775 per head.

A decent selection of 60 calves saw bulls to £790 and £550 for the best heifers.

In the sheep shed there were 929 lambs with trade strong and the best on offer to 370p/kg and £214.10 per head.

The SQQ average was 342.7p making a typical lamb in the 39-45kg bracket worth £146.22.

There were 389 cull sheep for which there was an outstanding demand – ewes sold to £235 to average £141.33.

Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 24th July: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Thursday 7^th August: Major Suckler Cow & Calf Sale at Bakewell Market – 11am

226 Head Together with 2 Lim & Sim Stock Bulls & 11 Cont x in calf Heifers

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94 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 271.8p/kg or £1825

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Up 5 Pence

A very good show of cows with more meat on offer led to an improved trade and the average up by 5 pence on the week.  Plenty of good fleshed cows on offer with a top call of 398p (£3000.92) for a pure blue heifer (35 mnths) from Mark Sweetmore with all the better cattle generally north of 310p including plenty with a lot of weight.  Cows are very much in demand at present with a good company of buyers looking to purchase them.

If you have any to sell, please give me a call and I would be happy come and tell you how we could market them for you in Bakewell.

Results:

Gross Prices:

43 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 244.5p

More meat on show and a solid average.

Best fed cows 259-273p

Big Holsteins 240-255p

Parlour Cows 225-235p

Only the plainest end under 210p

The best today:

4 OTM Bulls

4 OTM Steers

154 FINISHED CATTLE ave 377.5p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Up 16 pence on last week

Up 102 pence on this week last year

Trade on fire for a good entry of cattle with all buyers on top form and wanting cattle.

33 Young Bulls ave 359.7p/kg

A few better sorts on offer and trade very good throughout.  6 best over £4/kilo and super top of 436p for the Wells family and Catherine Potter close behind at 430 and 428p with pure Blonds.

Results:

Gross Prices:

41 Steers ave 382.9p

Whether it be steers or heifers, big or little they were wanted today and the averages certainly reflect that.  All the better sorts over £4/kilo with a show stopper from Keith Harrop at 447p with Richard Boothby at 429 and Messrs Hazledine Farms at 425p.  12 natives saw Herefords to 386p, Angus to 370p and Lincolns to 366p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

80 Heifers ave 382.5p/kg

A super average, even more than last week’s flyer with some cracking sorts on offer that led to 28 over £4/kilo.  Top price today in both p/kg and £/head was a pure Limousin heifer (754kg) from Charlie Boden, Mellor at 436p/kg to gross £3287 and their other one at 422p (£3266).  8 best over 420p, 15 natives today saw Herefords to 404p and Angus to 400p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

A decent show of 240 store & breeding cattle at a time of year when entries can be at their lowest.

Plenty of buying power in evidence as rain stopped play in terms of harvesting operations and swelled the ranks of buyers around the ring.

The sale started with a few Breeding Cattle including:

27 Feeding Bulls

Sample Results:

109 Steers ave £1458

A good many young and small cattle in the entry, but all keenly sought.

Sample Results:

96 Heifers ave £1307

A useful assortment of heifers with a good number of young/small ones in the sample.

All well sold.

Sample Results:

60 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

Another excellent trade for all on offer with a packed ring of prospective purchasers looking for calves of all shapes and sizes.

Top call today for a B Blue bull at £790 with heifers to £550.

B/W’s looking particularly well sold today to a top of £295 with the average at £150.

Bulls

B Blue                 £790     TN Palfreyman & Son, Flagg

B Blue                 £780     RE Poyser & Son, Onecote

B Blue                 £750     BD Hudson, Ipstones

W Blk                   £490     S & LM Kirby, Eastmoor

AA                        £470     SG Potter, Bonsall

Char                    £470     PL Boam, Monyash

Hfd                       £450     LA & H Burtonshaw, Middleton

Hfrs

B Blue                 £550     BD Hudson, Ipstones

B Blue                 £520     J & J Walton & Sons, Tideswell

Hfd                       £400     J Cawser, Uttoxeter

AA                        £380     L Hadfield & Sons, Peak Forest

947 SPRING LAMBS & 389 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

Another excellent show of 1336 sheep included 929 new season lambs.  Demand increased as the day went on with two pens of big pure Texels in the second half of the sale selling at £214 (pen of 11) and £213 (pen of 10) with 2 big Suffolks grossing £213/head.  Best butchers lambs to 370p/kg with heavyweights to 366p/kg and overweights to 367p/kg.  Overall market average 344.41p/kg.

Leading Prices:

Old Season Lambs to 322/kg ave 271.38p/kg.

389 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneer Mark Elliott)

What a good entry and something for everyone with grazing purchasers operating very actively and the best a strong trade.

Top call was a smart run of Texels from David Furness and family at £235 with others at £232.  Jackie Trueman close behind at £230.  The best 8 pens averaged just a few pence short of £218.50.

Better Mules £168 and above and some horned ewes well over £125 per head.

Generally, some spirit in the job and as detailed the plainer and grazing section is being well supported.

Just a few tups with the long and best fleshed very good to sell.  Top price £218 for the Newtons at Mansfield.

Ewes ave £141.33        

Tups ave £149.00