Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Good entries of stock forward from no fewer than 272 vendors.

There were 853 cattle and 2,052 sheep on offer with a solid trade in all departments.

Many customers took advantage of the farmers MOT Day and went home with test results for blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol levels and blood sugar reports.

The various health staff and charity representatives did a great job, for which we are all very grateful.

Those with a few advisories can call at the drop-in clinic any Monday for a re-test.

Store cattle numbers were good for the time of year.

Buyers were out in force from far and wide and trade remains very firm, steers sold to £2,500 ave £1,595, heifers to £2,520 ave £1,455 and feeding bulls to £1,980 ave £1,434.

Just a few breeding cattle with cows & calves to £2,000 and a 5-year-old Lim stock bull at £3,400.

Don’t forget the special entry of in calf heifers next Monday.

The entry of 192 finished cattle was exceptional with top figures 462p and £3,618, the average for the 83 heifers was 396.5p/kg and £2,446 per head.

118 OTM and feeding cows this week with trade remaining good.

Top figures 342p and £3,298 per head, the averages looked very respectable at 254.8p/kilo and £1,640 per head.

A good show of 72 calves sold on a very brisk trade with bulls to £615 and heifers to £480.

A good turnout of sheep with 2,052 on offer.

Trade for the 1,501 lambs was not as good as last week with top figures 380p/kg and £178.97.

The SQQ average was 320.7p/kg, but it was too early to say whether this will prove to be a good trade on the week.

A typical lamb in the 39-45kg weight bracket came to £137.61.

537 cull sheep on offer with trade firmer.  Ewes sold to £232 to average £128.10 and the 19 cast rams sold to £255 to average £178.74.

Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 13^th November – Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

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119 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 254.8p/kg or £1640

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Up 12 pence on the week

It has been felt for a week or two that there has been more demand and today a big lift in price with some good cows in the entry and an average nicely up on the week.

Bakewell is certainly the place to market your Barren cows with a full line up of buyers waiting and needing cows for immediate processing.  Top price today was 342p for a 55 mnth old heifer from Meadow place with the best cow on offer being an 8-year-old pure Limmy at 340p to gross a remarkable £3298.  Better cows generally 280-320p with a number of leaner sorts being purchased for further feeding.

Results:

Gross Prices:

59 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 231p

Excellent to sell again

1 OTM Heifer 287p

14 best cows 260-275p

Holstein types 230-250p

Plainer end 210-230p

Small and lean under £2 (only 10 today)

The best today:

4 OTM Bulls

3 OTM Steers  

192 FINISHED CATTLE ave 384.1p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Up 12 pence on the week

The biggest entry for a few years met a monumental trade with all accounts firing hard and obviously needing cattle.

44 Young Bulls ave 375.6p/kg (up 26 pence on the week)

A good price but generally better bulls on offer including a run of 10 from Copt Oak Estate, Leicester that topped at 440p and 435p for handy weighted BB x Limmy types.  Heavy meated shape from Ben Langton made 435p (£3088) with a strong Limmy bull from the Wells family £3618 (415p).

Results:

Gross Prices:

65 Steers ave 374.7p

Big numbers in the clean with numbers of both steers and heifers way up on the week.  Superstar quality topped at 450p (£3186) for Peter Gaunt and a couple from Mark Froggatt at 448 and 434p.

12 Angus today topped at £4 for first in the ring , Belper Skip Hire.

Results:

Gross Prices:

83 Heifers ave 396.8p/kg

The biggest number for ages and one of the best averages Bakewell has ever seen.  Top call for today was a lovely sweet red roaned Limmy at 462p for Bernard Perkins.  The top 20 over 420p and a total of 48 heifers over £4/kilo.  New vendor to Bakewell Matthew Morris had 442, 438, 438, 430 etc for his run of Limmy heifers with plenty more vendors achieving beyond expectations today.  12 natives saw Angus to 405p and S Horns to 378p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

Another large entry of 470 store & breeding cattle saw very strong prices maintained with plenty of demand for all classes of cattle.

Suckled calves were quite numerous and there was very brisk bidding for these.

The sale progressed speedily with many vendors happy to sell their stock in well matched bunches which certainly commanded a premium.

The sale commenced with a handful of breeding stock which included:

24 Feeding Bulls

213 Steers ave £1595

An astonishing average bearing in mind how many small and young cattle featured in the entry.

Sample Results:

227 Heifers ave £1455

Sample Results:

72 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A very good entry of calves of all types with a very busy ring and many more could have been sold to advantage.

Bulls to top at £615 for a B Blue from JE Seals & Son.

Heifers topped at £480 twice for a Blond x from SG Potter and a Lim from JE Seals & Son.

A small entry of B/W’s to top at £155.

Bulls

B Blue                 £615     JE Seals & Son

B Blue                 £580     D Fotherby & Sons

B Blue                 £570     D Fotherby & Sons

Sim                      £555     CV Whilock & Sons

B Blue                 £510     RG Emmott

Hfrs

Blond x               £480     SG Potter

Lim                      £480     JE Seals & Son

Lim                      £460     D Fotherby & Sons

Lim                      £440     JE Seals & Son

Lim                      £415     G & L Belfield

B Blue                 £410     JE Seals & Son

1501 LAMBS & 537 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

Another excellent entry of 2035 sheep included 1501 lambs.  Demand very brisk throughout with a pen of Blue Texels topping the day at 380p/kg with heavy Texel butchers lambs to 369p/kg, top gross of £180/head.  Overall average 320.7p/kg

Leading Prices:

Averages

470 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

Another very good entry of ewes and rams and if anything, a greater proportion of stronger sorts penned with good flesh on the best and the average up.

Top call £232 for Texels from Nicola Beardsley with Richard and David Sessions at £226 and John Spillane at £224, the best 8 pens averaged £219.88.

Generally, plenty of good, strong continental ewes £175 plus with several runs £190 plus.

Mules good to sell with the better sorts £150 plus, horned types £130 plus for the best.

The tup section a flyer but very much influenced by a run of stock rams to a top of £255 for Texels with Suffolks to £220, Gritstone tups to £160.

Ewes to £232 ave £128.10

Rams to £255 ave £184.74

Overall average £130.10