Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Decent entries in all departments with 676 cattle and 1,628 sheep on offer and a strong trade prevailing throughout.

Store cattle numbers were less than the equivalent market last year with quality short finish animals in short supply.

If you have store and breeding cattle ready for sale, do not hesitate, Bakewell buyers would like the opportunity to bid at them.

Steers sold to £2,560 ave £1,606, heifers to £2,200 ave £1,337 and feeding bulls to £1,950 ave £1,029.

Trade was fantastic from start to finish and buyers were operating at all price levels.  See if you can find some for next week.

In the breeding section 2 pedigree Simmental stock bulls both about 18 months old sold at £4,300 and £3,800.  And whilst supplies of store cattle were limited the finished ring was particularly busy with 178 head in total.

Trade was solid with the top figures 453p/kg and £4,019 per head.

The OTM ring was also well supported with 146 on offer.  Top figures 384p/kg and £3,200 per head.

The overall average indicating the general level of trade was a very healthy 257.8 pence.

Just 36 calves this week with a lack of supply driving demand, bulls reached £645 and £515.

In the sheep shed there was a good turnout of 1,628.

An impressive number bearing in mind the miserable weather over the last few days making sheep sorting a particularly unwelcome activity.

There were 1,324 hoggs in total with top figures 408p/kg and £121.90 per head.

The SQQ average looked very good at 351.1 pence making a typical hogg in the 39-45kg range worth £149.53.

A smallish entry of 278 cull sheep saw trade much stronger than in recent weeks with ewes to £272 to average £148.20

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May we respectfully ask that you use the footbaths and boot wash in order to reduce the risk

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Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 12^th February – Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

We have been asked to inform you that

The Funeral of

Mick Lilley

Will be held at

St Mary’s Church, Greasley

on

Tuesday 3^rd March at 2pm

146 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 257.8p/kg or £1692

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

One extra cow one penny more than last week and with two extra buyers at ringside, trade was excellent from start to finish.  There is an army of feeding buyers at Bakewell at present looking for leaner cows to improve and they are interested in both suckler and B/W cows.  15 different buyers today creating 18 different accounts.  This is competition at its very best, so what better way to sell your cows than to offer them to a ring full of buyers in the live ring at Bakewell.

Top price today was 384p for a pure Limousin heifer (35 mnths) from Jess & Sophie, Ashford Hall with other overage at 368 and 356p from Denly Allen and Jeff Turner respectively.  Best cow today was 355p for a B Blue x from James Hodgkinson.

Results:

Gross Prices:

80 Black & White and ex dairy cows ave 238p

Bigger entry, better prices.

OTM Clean 264 & 280p

Best end & fed cows 250-275p

Big Holsteins 240-250p

Parlour type cows 225-240p

Smaller or leaner types for feeding 210-230p

Only a handful of plain cows under 200p

The best today:

5 OTM Bulls

7 OTM Steers 

178 FINISHED CATTLE ave 363.6p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Massive numbers again on the back of an excellent trade last week and a full line up of buyers ensured trade was strong again.

36 Young Bulls ave 353.7p/kg

Some big bulls on offer today and a new order at ringside led to a strong trade for all.  Trade peaked at 451p (£3409) for a posh and strong Limousin from Charlie Boden, Mellor who had another Limmy at 426p and a massive Charolais at £4019 (388p).

Results:

Gross Prices:

60 Steers ave 362.1p/kg

Big numbers and tremendous quality at the top end as well as a number of leaner types but plenty of interest in all sorts.  John Grummett had a lovely pen of cattle with his only steer peaking at 438p (£2882) with other quality sorts 390p+.

Results:

Gross Prices

82 Heifers ave 369.5p/kg

Once again, a large show of heifers and trade was as strong as ever with the butcher types on best form.  John Grummett had 453, 450 and 449p for his trio with locals Alan Maier and Steven & Steff Wells both at 440p and Philip Hooley at 438p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

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

A respectable entry of 316, but we could certainly have sold a lot more, had they been available.

Do give Alastair Sneddon a call on 07973 982441 if you need advice on any aspect of the store & breeding cattle section.

Just a reminder to all to ensure that you book in before 12 noon on Friday.  We have had one or two vendors ‘miss the advertising boat’ in recent weeks and whilst their stock sold well on the day it is so much better for prospective buyers to see them on the list.

The early warning list works really well, please help us to keep it that way.

The sale started with breeding cattle which included 2 pedigree Simmental stock bulls from 2 different vendors, the results being:

40 Feeding Bulls

Sample Prices:

112 Steers ave £1606

We could have done with a few more in order to make any kind of impression on the demand, particularly some strong short finish types.

What we did have were unbelievably dear with sample prices for a rather mixed lot as follows:

141 Heifers ave £1337

A good many small and young cattle in the entry, but all types finding a ready market as these results will demonstrate.

Sample Results:

36 CALVES (Auctioneer Natasha Hall)

A slightly smaller entry of calves this week with trade just as strong.  A Blond x topped the bulls at £645 from SG Potter and heifers at £515 for a B Blue from TN Palfreyman & Son.

B/W’s topped at £445 for a 3 month old from S Pearson & Son, followed by a 1 month old at £202.

Bulls

Blond x               £645     SG Potter

B Blue x              £550     TN Palfreyman & Son

AA                        £515     G & L Belfield

Lim                      £450     TN Palfreyman & Son

Lim                      £450     S Pearson & Son

Hfrs

B Blue x              £515     TN Palfreyman & Son

Lim                      £455     S Pearson & Son

B Blue x              £435     SG Potter

B Blue x              £370     GW & WL Neville

B Blue x              £360     GW & WL Neville

AA                        £360     G & L Belfield

Hfd                       £335     D Fotherby & Sons

1324 LAMBS, 278 EWES, RAMS & GOATS & 26 STORE SHEEP

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

Another good show of 1628 head of sheep saw a total clearance in all sections.  A very good entry of 1324 lambs saw several runs of well fed sorts which attracted brisk bidding throughout to a top of 408p/kg twice.  Smaller sorts were very well bid for but overweight types still hard to place and worth not much more money per head.  The overall average 351.17p/kg.

Leading Prices

Averages

26 Store Lambs sold to £95 ave £91.31

278 Ewes, Rams & Goats

(Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift)

A few less ewes with some pristine shape in places but not many particularly big sorts forward and some ewes showing the effects of the recent continuous days of wet weather.

Generally, all sections better bid for this Monday, top price of £272 for plums from the Jones family at Alton, with other Texels at £267 and £248.  All the better goods £203 plus with the top 10 pens averaging £232.60.  Strong Mules £140 – £156.

Virtually no strong horned ewes and those forward showing the weather.  Some medium horned ewes £80 – £90 per head and the best to £134.

Best fleshed tups good to sell to a top of £210 for a Texel from Richard Gould with others at £208 and £207.

Goats a strong trade to a top of £186.

100% clearance on the ewes to average £148.20

25 Rams average £140.20

3 Goats average £128.67