Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

A very warm day 573 cattle and 1077 sheep on offer.

A feeling of stock being in short supply with demand strong and prices buoyant.

Lamb numbers down on the year as producers struggle to find lambs fit enough to sell finished.

There was a decent show of 298 store and breeding cattle with plenty of buying power in operation and purchasers present from considerable distances to the North and East to compliment the regular set.

Steers topped at £2,620 to average £1,636 with heifers to £2,680 ave £1,332.

Feeding bulls sold to £2,500 to average £1,156.

In the breeding section cows with calves sold to £2,500 and Limousin stock bulls reached £4,400 (7yrs) and £3,950.

We certainly have the customers for store and breeding cattle, if you have some to sell, do not hesitate to contact us.

104 finished cattle this week with prices very firm.  Top figures 432p and £3,105.

The average for the 32 heifers shows the strength of demand at 383.8p/kg and £2,302 per head.

OTM numbers solid with 101 on offer.  Trade a shade easier with less export demand, but returns still remarkable.  Top figures 366p and £3,110 average 250.1 pence and £1,628 per head.

70 calves this week with extraordinary prices.  Bulls to £740 and heifers £475.

In the sheep section lambs are in short supply with numbers well down on the year and clearly driving the price.

The 797 lambs reached 390p/kg and £208.55.

The SQQ average was a respectable 384.4 pence making a typical lamb in the 39-45kg bracket worth £148.86.

There were 277 cull sheep on offer with ewes selling to £248 to average £139.69.

Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 14^th August: Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale & Store Lamb Sale

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101 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 250.1p/kg or £1628

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Up 1 pence on the week

Good numbers for mid Summer with over 100 on offer from a wide Geographical area.  Trade generally a little less, although, the average was a penny more and about 70 pence more on this week last year.  6 over age clean topped £3 with a high of 366p for Nick Williams, Newtown.   Best cows generally 280p – £3, some with plenty of weight.

Results:

Gross Prices:

40 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 210p

1 OTM clean 298p

Best cows 232-269p

Holsteins 200-225p

Plainer sorts 185-200p

Only a handful under 185p

The best today:

3 OTM Bulls

3 OTM Steers

104 FINISHED CATTLE ave 372.5p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Up 10 pence

A lot less about after last week’s mega show with the averages up 10 pence on the week and exactly 100 pence more this week than last year.

24 Young Bulls ave 357.9p/kg

Trade blistering again with the best 6 bulls as good as you would see anywhere.  Ben Langton won the race at 437 and 436p with his Limousins just topping the Wells family at 436p x2 and Steven Jones at 428 and 422p.  5 B/W’s sold to 306p or £1842.

Results:

Gross Prices:

48 Steers ave 372.6p

Good numbers in the steers, but short in the heifers today.  11 best over £4 and up to 428p for a lovely Limmy from Peter Gaunt with plenty more suckler bred types on offer at big money.  12 natives saw both Angus and Herefords at 380p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

32 Heifers ave 383.8p/kg

The average is nicely up on the week to average 383p.  15 best over £4 and up to 432p for young Josh Hall, Longnor, with 5 more at 420-422p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

A good seasonal entry of 298 store & breeding cattle in a year when all markets are reporting lower numbers.

There is certainly no shortage of demand and trade continues at record levels.

The sale started with a selection of Breeding Stock which included,

39 Feeding Bulls

Sample Results:

127 Steers ave £1636

Not enough to go round with buyers struggling to assemble a load.

It might well be time to bring us some cattle before concerns about Winter straw and fodder supplies becomes an issue.

Sample Results:

122 Heifers ave £1332

Plenty of trade for all shapes and sizes.  Some very mixed cattle in the sample, but all finding a ready market.

Sample Results:

70 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A good entry of calves with demand there from start to finish and very consistent with previous weeks.

Bulls to top at £740 twice for B Blues from J Cawser and H Hodgkinson & Sons.

Heifers reached £475 for a Lim from S & LH Kirby.

A large entry of B/W’s with plenty of interest topping at £185.

Bulls

B Blue                 £740     J Cawser

B Blue                 £740     H Hodgkinson & Sons

Lim                      £590     JR Hallam

Lim                      £560     GS & L Wheeldon Ltd

Lim                      £530     TN Palfreyman

Hfrs

Lim                      £475     S & LM Kirby

B Blue                 £435     RE Poyser & Son

Lim                      £425     GS & L Wheeldon Ltd

B Blue                 £415     JE & CH Fletcher & Co

800 SPRING LAMBS & 277 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A slightly smaller entry of 1077 sheep saw trade very brisk throughout.  A total of 800 lambs on offer saw best fed lambs very briskly bid for with heavy weight sorts easiest to sell.

Best butchers lambs to 379p/kg with heavy weight butchers lambs to 390p/kg and overweights to 368p/kg.  Top gross of £208.55/head.  Several consignments of native and rare breeds within the entry today saw Hampshires to £195, Southdowns to £167, Jacobs to £142, Dorpers to £188 and Suffolks to £159.

Overall average 348.89p/kg and £151/head.

Leading Prices:

Averages

277 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

A very mixed entry but the top 15% were stronger and more stylish than last week and this resulted in inflated top end prices and the top 10 pens averaging over £235/head.

The Kunica Family at Moorwood Moor topped the day at £248 with a strong Texel with Harry Young close behind at £247.  Better continentals regularly £200 plus and good runs of sheep £210 – £222.

Best Mules well over £150/head with some plain and grazing types past £100/head and these looked the best trade of the day.

Generally, all categories a touch dearer than last week and more numbers needed to fulfil demand.

Tups topping at £240 for a pen of 5 Dorpers with Southdowns to £233 and Texels to £204.

Ewes to £248 ave £130.69       

Tups to £240 ave £217.20