Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

The stock keeps coming with numbers very similar to last week, plenty of buyers on parade and a decent trade in all sections.

Store & breeding cattle out in force with 433 head on offer.  Concerns about feed supplies and imported beef do not seem to have dented demand with plenty of highlights throughout the sale.

Steers sold to £2,500 ave £1,498, heifers to £2,400 ave £1,347 and feeding bulls to £2,050 ave £1,147.

What the figures do not show was the fantastic trade for suckled calves at the start of the sale.

In the breeding department a Lim stock bull topped the sale at £4,900, Cows in calf hit £2,750 and cows & Calves to £2,300.

Finished cattle numbers holding up with 138 in total, top figures 438p and £3,663 per head.

Our regular guide to the level of prices the heifer average showed 52 animals averaging 378.4p and £2,320 per head.

61 calves this week with bulls to a tremendous £720 and heifers to £460.

In the sheep department trade was up for all commodities.

The 1,157 lambs sold on a sharper trade with top figures 393p/kg and £186.60 per head.

The SQQ average looked good at 332.4 pence making a typical lamb in the 39-45kg bracket worth £143.18.

In the cull sheep section, there was a decent entry of 424 head with ewes to £302 to average £145.89, well up on last week.

Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 27^th November – Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

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175 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 247.7p/kg or £1640

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Massive numbers and more trade with the average back up seven pence on the week.

Bakewell is obviously the preferred place to market cows at present and why not with a big ring of buyers representing abattoirs and further feeders, all who want to bid for your cows.  Top call today was 351p (£2225) for a 33 mnth old B blue x heifer from Messrs Johnson, Ipstones with another OTM at 336p and the best cow at 335p for a 4-year-old Limmy.  We have the buyers, you have the cows, let’s put the 2 things together!

Results:

Gross Prices:

80 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 233.1p

Very similar on the week and some remarkable prices with the big cows easily over £2000.

3 OTM clean 295-316p

Best cows 260-300p

Big Holsteins with meat 240-260p

Leaner Parlour Cows 220-240p

Plainest end under 210p

The best today:

2 OTM Bulls

7 OTM Steers 

138 FINISHED CATTLE ave 366.7p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Just a few less on the week but a very similar trade to last week, although they are not as dear as a fortnight ago with pressure being put on the price of the product from the supermarkets.

39 Young Bulls ave 356.8p/kg

Some big bulls and big prices today ahead of next week’s show.  Jamie & Hannah Turnock waltzed away with the top price of 429p or £3663 for a pure Blond Bull.  David Goddard had Lims to 427 and 416p with Mark Shenton also with Pedigree Blonds to 415p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

47 Steers ave 356.8p

Best good to sell again, but a number of dairy bred sorts affected the averages again.  Joe & Jane Gibbs won the day at 418p for a smart red Limousin with a couple of best sorts from Philip Hooley at 414 and 408p.  21 Natives today saw Angus to 389p and Beef Shorthorns to 388p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

52 Heifers ave 378.4p/kg

Good numbers and good cattle with the best goods to market with the butchers looking for Christmas meat.  Phil & Emma Watson won the race to the top at 438p for a posh red Limmy that sold to Rob Foster, Quality Butchers at Retford.  Nigel & Julie Birch had their first draw heifers at 430 and 425p, most of the best cattle easily over £4.  17 Natives saw to 404p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

Another very good turnout with a total of 433 head on offer.

A good cross section of cattle with some smart suckled calves attracting plenty of interest.

Some consignments of cattle starting to show the effects of the recent weather and clearly ready for a higher plane of nutrition.

The sale commenced with some 24 breeding stock which included

44 Feeding Bulls

194 Steers ave £1498

A mixed lot with plenty of small/young types at the start of the sale, some clearly having had a hard upbringing.

All types sold well with strong demand at all levels.

Sample Results:

171 Heifers ave £1347

A very varied selection this week with some outstanding animals and some of the other sort too, but all round a ready market as the following results will show.

Sample Results:

61 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A slightly smaller entry this week but trade has definitely kicked up a gear with some smart beef bred calves entered from K Goldstraw which achieved top price for the bulls at £720 for a British Blue.

A Lim from H & H Bradbury & Sons was the top heifer of the day at £460.

Black & Whites topped at £110.

Bulls

B Blue                 £720     K Goldstraw

B Blue                 £690     TN Palfreyman & Son

Lim                      £530     K Goldstraw

B Blue                 £450     TW Kent & Co

Hfrs

Lim                     £460     H & H Bradbury & Sons

Lim                      £405     S & LM Kirby

AA                        £380     H & H Bradbury & Sons

B Blue                 £380     WE & HJ Neville

AA                        £355     W Bradbury

B Blue                 £355     GW & WL Neville

1157 LAMBS, 424 EWES & RAMS & 7 STORE SHEEP

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

Another excellent entry of 1588 sheep included 1157 lambs.  Best butchers lambs sold to a top of 393p/kg with a further 5 pens at 369p/kg plus.  Best heavy butchers lambs to 369p/kg and overweights to 326p/kg.

Overall average 332.45p/kg.

Leading Prices:

Averages

424 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

A fantastic overall average today of £147.07, which reflects the better quality of the entry this week being a larger portion of fed ewes. The top ten ewe pens all made over £223 and averaged £243.90 and the first two ewes under the hammer topped the day at £302 for Boden and Davies. Grazing ewes still well bid for and looking well sold on the day, being regularly £85-£125. Better end mules well over £140, horned ewes £80+.

10 Rams today averaging £195.90 right through and reflecting the quality, being largely strong, long texel types, with a top call of £218 from Little Onn.

414 ewes to £302 av £145.89

10 rams to £218 av £195.90