Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

A full house for Store Cattle and decent entries of Finished and OTM too.

Sheep numbers well down with very few hoggs and Spring lambs slow to come forward after the cold dry Spring.

There were 551 Store & Breeding Cattle with recent price levels maintained.  Steers reached £1,350 with heifers £1,320 and Feeding Bulls £1,300.

A few more Breeding Cattle on offer with Cows & Calves to £1,950 and in-calvers to £1,280.

119 Finished Cattle peaking at 269p and £1,700 the average for the 47 heifers looked particularly good at 223.1p.

The 123 OTM & Feeding cows also put up a good performance with top figures 220 pence and £1,410.  The average was a useful 139.1p.

Sheep were very thin on the ground with only 190 Spring lambs forward.  What was lacking in numbers was made up for in value with the best to 402 pence and £171.11.  The SQQ average was 373.3p.

The supply of Old Season Lambs (Hoggs) has virtually dried up with only 203 on offer.

The best made 314p and £161.16 and the SQQ average for a rather mixed sample was 294.0p.

269 Cull Sheep on offer with ewes to £160 and the average £108.13

Forthcoming Market Fixtures

Thursday 20^th May: Lunchtime Sheep Sale, See our Facebook page for special entries.

Friday 21^st May: Orange Sale, all enquiries speak to Oliver Hiles on 07801 530899.

PLEASE NOTE

Monday 24^th May – Regular Monday Market

BANK HOLIDAY WEEK – The market will be on Tuesday 1^st June

FARM DISPERSALS

Friday 21^st May – Elnor Lane Farm, Whaley Bridge

Saturday 5^th June – Oak Tree Farm, Wysall, Notts

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ALREADY ENTERED FOR MONDAY 24TH MAY

121 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows Overall Average 139.1p

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles).

The same numbers as last week and a very similar overall average with a buyer less at ringside.  There are however plenty of bidders for all the cows on offer with the processors and breeders all competing for the offering, 18 individual buyers today creating 21 accounts.

Top 5 today over £2 with a high of 220p for a tremendously well-fed Blue x cow from Brian & Harold Ponsonby, Tideswell Moor to gross £1636.

Top 16 over 172p.  Natives had Herefords to 154p, Shorthorns to 135p, Angus to 147p and Lincoln Red to 152p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

51 Black & White and ex-dairy cows Ave 123.1p/kg

Generally, very similar with some big prices for the best and very little under £1.

OTM Heifers – 193 and 206p

Well Fed Friesian Cows – 140-154p

Big Holsteins – 125-145p

Leaner Holstein 110-120p

Plainer Cows under 105p

Top Black & White’s today

5 OTM Bulls

119 FINISHED CATTLE – overall average 211.6p (Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A very good show again from 39 vendors selling to a good ring of buyers and as always a total clearance of all.

25 Finished Bulls ave 193.1p/kg

Just 8 continentals today, hence the lower average but certainly no less trade with Dairy Shorthorns up to 201p and 196p and Friesian to 195p.  Best bred continental from Nigel Birch topped at 226p and 225p

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

47 Steers – overall average 209.9p/kg

Excellent cattle and some super prices with the best to 249p or £1693 for a Blonde x from Keith Harrop, 10 Natives had Hereford to 212p and Angus to 213p with B/W Steers to 197p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

47 Finished Heifers – overall average 223.1p/kg

The heifers always ring the bells at Bakewell with some super cattle at the top end.  Stan & Geoff Evans returned to the market with a pen of 4 best heifers and sold to 269p or £1700 for a shapey, well fed Limousin with his others at 262p and 258p.  Messrs Hollinshead had 258p for their best with Keith Harrop at 254p.  Angus to 210p, Hereford to 206p and Dairy x MRI at 201p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

Another capacity entry with 551 head on offer.

Trade holding up well in the face of price reductions in the deadweight world.

It seems the rain and the warmer conditions have allowed buyers to keep buying and there were some new names on the purchasers list clearly as a result of some grass growth.

The sale commenced with some

36 Breeding Stock which included:

25 Feeding Bulls with examples as follows:

There was also a 23 mnths Blue bull sold as a feeder by D Byard of Holmegate.

The proceeds were to be donated to the Children’s Heart Department at Leicester Hospital.

It made £1,300, the purchaser being Andrew Hallifield of Repton.

225 Steers ave £900

A strong sample this week reflected in the £900 average and despite a number of Black & Whites.

A decent trade through with the short keep cattle looking very well sold.

Sample prices include:

254 Heifers ave £799

A mixed sample with buyers operating at all price levels and a strong trade from start to finish.

Angus crosses looking very well sold in particular.

Sample Results:

37 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

Another fast trade throughout with numbers short of requirements.

Bulls saw a Limousin to £385 and B Blue to £365 and Heifers seeing both breeds to £345.

Only a small entry of B/W but plenty of interest and more could have been sold to advantage.

 662 Sheep including 190 Spring Lambs, 203 Old Season Lambs & 269 Ewes & Rams

(Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A total entry of 663 sheep included just 190 Spring lambs. A very good attendance of butchers and wholesalers saw prices still very brisk for the quality lambs on offer.  Bernard Archer topped the market with a pen of 7 Texel weighing 37kg and making 402p/kg with a second pen at 398p/kg. Best heavy lambs grossed £171/head.  The overall average 373.34p/kg

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

In the Old Season Lambs best fleshed sorts still in demand to peak at 314p/kg for the Phillips Family with others from the same farm at 306p/kg.  The overall average 294.03p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

Cull Sheep

Just 269 Cull Sheep on offer saw trade still very brisk with best Texels to £160/head and top 10 pens averaging £147/head.  Heavy Mules sold in the £100 – £128 range with Suffolk to £115 – £128 and heavy Woodland ewes to £90/head.

Cast Ewes       To: £160          Ave: £108.13

Cast Rams       To: £161          Ave: £114.15

Goats              To: £66