Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Entries modest for the last market before Christmas with just 1,052 sheep and 64 cattle on offer.

Those vendors who did consign stock enjoyed excellent prices in all sections.

The store & breeding cattle department was as anticipated very quiet with many more potential purchasers than animals to sell.

Cows and calves sold at £2,720 and £2,400.  Angus x steers to £1,550 and an over age Hereford x heifer to £1,250.

The finished cattle section comprised 15 head with trade much as last week.

The best on offer sold to 424p and £3,035 per head, the 9 very mixed heifers averaged 372p and £2,134 per head.

There were 18 OTM cattle with the best on offer to 278p and £1,975 per head.

The average for a middling sample 216.1 pence.

A nice few calves with 20 forward.  Bulls sold to £565 and heifers £550.

In the sheep section the lambs sold on a flying trade with top figures 400p/kg and £184 per head, the SQQ average looked very healthy.

A decent sample of 267 cull sheep also sold well with ewes to £259 ave £152.24.

A very Merry Christmas to all and a reminder that we are open next week on Monday 29^th December.

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18 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 216.1p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Only a handful and generally plainer cows on offer.  Top price288p for a 35-month-old Angus steer from PJ Brown, Plaistow Green.

15 FINISHED CATTLE ave 378.4p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Again, only a few but a storming trade all the way through with cattle considerably dearer for the small entry.

3 bulls to 422p for a B Blue x from Josh Hall

3 steers to 424p or £3053 for a Limmy from Steve Thompson

9 Heifers to 400p for a Simmy x from Phil & Emma Watson

20 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A reduced entry in the run up to Christmas with no let up in trade, with a very busy ring of potential purchasers present for all shapes and sizes.

The top of the day was a British blue bull from TN Palfreyman & Son at £565 closely followed behind with a British blue heifer from BD Hudson.

B/W’s to top at £330 twice

Bulls

B Blue                 £565     TN Palfreyman & Son

B Blue                 £550     BD Hudson

AA                        £540     G & L Belfield

B Blue                 £525     TN Palfreyman & Son

Hfrs

B Blue                 £550     BD Hudson

B Blue                 £425     TN Palfreyman & Son

B Blue                 £400     CV Whilock & Sons

B Blue                 £375     CV Whilock & Sons

768 LAMBS, 267 EWES & RAMS & 17 STORE LAMBS

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A very good pre Christmas entry of 1052 sheep included 768 lambs.  Demand very brisk for all types with best heavy butchers lambs to 400p/kg and lighter weight butchers lambs to 392p/kg.  The overall average 360.22p/kg up 14p/kg on the week.

Leading Prices:

Averages

267 Ewes and Rams

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

Buyers out in force for the pre Christmas market and trade strong from start to finish.

If anything, there were probably bigger proportions of strong finished ewes this week but trade had pushed on and all sections dearer.

Best continentals £218 plus with a top call of £259 and Jackie Tureman at £230.

Better Mules towards £150 but virtually no storming strong ewes penned this week.

Plenty of buyers for the plain and feeding sorts, and they looked yet again dearer.

Slaughter rams good to sell with some strong well fleshed continentals forward.  Best tups £218 and above to a top of £250.

Ewes ave an excellent £152.24

15 Rams to ave £174.27

Overall average £153.48