Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Another busy day at Bakewell with numbers swelled by special entries in the breeding cattle department.

The changes in the weather with floods at the weekend and now frost.  All comes as rather a shock as we have forgotten what cold feels like, but rather more seasonal with Christmas 6 weeks away.

The store & breeding cattle section was a hive of activity with 79 breeding cattle and 375 stores forward a sample that included the annual consignment of in calf heifers from the Ede Family at Youlgreave.

The 40 Limousin & B Blue x heifers sold to £3,080 to average £2,277.

Steers reached £2,560 ave £1,516 and heifers £2,300 ave £1,310.

Feeding bulls sold to £1,980 ave £1,042.

The above prices indicating that feeding cattle are clearly in short supply.

Only 129 finished cattle this week with a considerable reduction in numbers from last week.  Trade solid with top figures 453p/kg and £3,361 per head.

The 65 heifers averaged a very respectable 387.7 pence and £2,348 per head.

The OTM section seemed quiet to start with, but a total of 150 head eventually arrived as farmers offload before Winter.

Trade little changed with averages 240.4 pence and £1,573 per head.

Top figures looking good at 323p and £3,070 per head.

A decent number of calves forward with 64 on offer, trade holding up well with bulls to £620 and heifers £535.

Over in the sheep shed things were quieter than last week with a total of 1,534 sheep on offer.

The 1,100 lambs looked well sold with top figures 370p/kg and £192.78 per head.

The SQQ was 325.1 pence making a typical lamb in the 39-45kg bracket worth £138.97.

Cull sheep numbers at 434 with ewes to £246 ave £126.18.

Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 20^th November – Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Friday 21^st November – Store Sheep Sale

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150 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 240.4p/kg or £1573

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Good numbers again today but trade a little easier as was expected with lots of cows in the markets nationally.

The best perhaps no less and a lovely pure Blond cow made 323p (£2629) with most of the better cows 280p+.

Results:

Gross Prices:

73 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 236.8p

Just a little easier, but look how the big cows add up.

4 OTM clean 290-314p

Best fed cows 248-278p

Big Holsteins 230-240p

Leaner cows 210-230p

Plainest end under £2

The best today:

4 OTM Bulls

4 OTM Steers 

130 FINISHED CATTLE ave 338.3p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Less numbers on offer and trade just a little bit harder work overall.

29 Young Bulls ave 338.3p/kg

4 lovely well bred and fed bulls over £4/kg and a high of 438p or £3197 for a tremendous Limmy from John Ottewell, Calow with other better sorts from Matthew Elliott & Mark Sweetmore also over £4.

12 B/W sold to 347p for Messrs Gilman.

Results:

Gross Prices:

36 Steers ave 367.4p

All types represented from the very best suckler sorts to a more commercial type feeder.  Very best pure Limmy from John Grummett made 410p with the best 5 over 400p.  Special mention to a mountain of an Angus from Andrew that made £3361.

Results:

Gross Prices:

65 Heifers ave 387.7p/kg

Trade at the top end is amazing with the handy weight butchers heifers as dear as ever and the best end cattle also still very high, but the second quality types are harder work today.  John Grummett had a couple of best at 453p x2 with the best two from Phil & Emma Watson at 451 and 444p, 2 heavy weights from Mark Sweetmore at 440p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

The total entry of 454 head included some 79 breeding cattle, mainly in calf heifers.

Confidence is running high with a tremendous demand for the breeding stock.

The largest consignment was the annual selection of Lim & B Blue x heifers from Messrs Ede of Youlgreave.

They sold 40 animals to reach £3,080 and average £2,277 with 8 making over £2,500.

There were new buyers around the ring to add to the regular following for Edes well respected stock.

Other breeding stock which included:

28 Feeding Bulls

171 Steers ave £1516

A decent selection with all ages, qualities and types represented.

Still plenty of buyers operating although some are now reaching capacity.

Trade still strong from start to finish as the results will demonstrate.

Sample Results:

176 Heifers ave £1310

All sorts in great demand, some cattle showing signs of the recent weather, but still selling well.

Sample Results:

64 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

An entry of 64 calves with trade being very consistent the past few weeks and continues on with bulls topping at £620 for a B Blue from TN Palfreyman & Son.

Heifers topped at £535 for a B Blue again from TN Palfreyman & Son.

Herefords very sought after topping at £455 from GJ Tideswell.

A small entry of reared calves forward with 4-month-old Herefords topping at £550 and a 4-month Angus up to £525.

Bulls

B Blue                 £620     TN Palfreyman & Son

AA                        £465     JE & CM Fletcher & Co

Hfd                       £455     GJ Tideswell

B Blue                 £455     RE Poyser & Son

Lim                      £450     SG Poyser

B Blue                 £425     RG Emmott

Hfrs

B Blue                 £535     TN Palfreyman & Son

Lim                      £390     H & H Bradbury & Sons

B Blue                 £380     JM & D Shepherd & Sons

B Blue                 £335     RG Emmott

AA                        £320     JE & CM Fletcher & Co

Hfd                       £315     D Fotherby & Sons

1100 LAMBS & 434 EWES & RAMS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

Another excellent entry of 1534 sheep included 1100 lambs.  Some excellent runs of fed lambs on offer again this week.  Best butchers lambs peaked at 370p/kg with heavy butchers lambs to 366p/kg and lighter weights to 350p/kg.  Best big lambs sold to 336p/kg and £192.78/head.  Overall average 325.17p/kg.

Leading Prices:

Averages

425 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

Yet again, a strong entry at Bakewell with purchasing power for all types and we still have customers out in force.

Generally, all categories very good to sell and trade faster than last week.

For the time of year there was a large proportion of the entry were grazing types which definitely had a reflection on the average per head.

All the best ewes £180 and above to a top of £246 for meat but sweet Texels.  The best 7 pens averaged £235 with stronger Mules £140 plus.  Lean Mules looked dear to a top of £118 per head.

The best of the Gritstones and bigger horned ewes topping in the £120 bracket.

In the rams Texels to £235 and £185.

100% clearance with 425 ewes ave £126.18

9 rams ave £199.22