Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

Decent entries with 1,676 sheep and 703 cattle on offer, particularly encouraging bearing in mind the number of potential vendors under 6 day restriction after all the recent breeding sheep sales.

Trade solid in all departments with plenty of highlights for the top quality specimens.

A good show of 423 store & breeding cattle with all types in great demand.

Steers sold to £2,420, heifers £2,180 and feeding bulls to £1,800.

In the breeding section cows and calves hit £3,020 and £3,000 with young Angus stock bulls to £2,020 and in calf heifers to £2,300.

Strong numbers of finished cattle with 146 in total and a solid trade throughout.  Top figures 442p/kg and £2,997 per head.

Our regular barometer of trade, the average for the 59 heifers was 377.1 pence per kilo and a useful £2,289 per head.

92 OTM cattle this week with top figures 393p/kg and £2,886 per head.

The average looked particularly healthy at 249.1 pence/kilo and £1,679 per head.

Calf numbers steady at 42 with trade little changed and bulls topping at £825 and heifers to £650.

In the sheep section numbers were good with 1,171 lambs on offer.

Trade firm, but not quite as exciting as the recent trade for breeding sheep and rams.  Top prices 387p/kg and £199.39 per head.

The SQQ was a substantial 325p/kg, making a typical lamb in the 39-45kg weight bracket worth £139.87.

There were 497 cull sheep forward with ewes to £284 per head to average £140.34.

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Forthcoming Fixtures

Thursday 8th October – Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Friday 9th October– Store Lambs

Please note we have updated our policies regarding the unloading and loading livestock:

• Vendors/Hauliers are responsible for livestock until safely loaded onto the docks. It is the Vendor/Hauliers responsibility to chain and secure gates.

• Once unloaded, all livestock movements are under the direction and control of the Market Drovers.

• Vendors may assist with livestock movement at the discretion of the Drovers.

• Any assistance is voluntary, undertaken at the vendors own risk and must be in accordance with Drover instruction.

• We advise that Purchasers/Hauliers seek Drover assistance prior to loading cattle/sheep.

• If Purchasers/Hauliers choose to load livestock without Drover assistance, they do so voluntarily and at their own risk.

• It is the Purchasers/Hauliers responsibility to chain and secure gates.

• Please ensure that pass-out documentation matches animal identification prior to loading.

92 BARREN, OTM AND FEEDING COWS overall ave 249.2 pence or £1679

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A good line up of cows today with a few very special sorts amongst them and a solid trade from start to finish.  The overall average is almost identical to last week with good, strong competitive bidding for all the cows on offer.  Prices at the top end for the younger types are outstanding with a 33 month old (1 calf) B Blue x from John Kunica (Belper Skip Hire) at 393p with an older cow from the same home at 320p.  Ashley Mills had 370p for a lovely Lim x B Blue and Josh Hall had a lovely pure blue cow at 335p.  Plenty of customers still for the keeping cows that continue to look well sold.

Results:

Gross Prices:

43 Black & Whites averaged 225p/kg

Even more than last week and a rip roaring trade throughout.

Over age clean 256-306p

Best fed cows 240-252p

Holsteins 210-230p

Plainest end under £2

The best today:

3 OTM Bulls

4 OTM Steers

146 FINISHED CATTLE Ave 365.9p/kg

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

Strong numbers again and some very good quality at the top end but an abundance of grass fed steers & heifers that look well sold but at lesser prices than the yard fed sucklers.

23 Bulls Ave 356p

Average up again and some quality at the top end.  Steven Jones won the race and sold to 425p for a homebred suckler bull with Mark Sweetmore close behind at 417p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

64 Steers Ave 359.5p/kg

Good show of bullocks and at the top end quality was amazing with all the better end comfortably over £4.  Andrew & Rachel Mycock topped with their striking Limmy at 442p and a whole host of others in the 410’s and 420’s.  15 natives and 5 B/W’s all added to the trade.

Results:

Gross Prices:

59 Heifers Ave 377.1p/kg

Less heifers than steers today and once again some remarkable prices for the best with the butchers wanting and needing quality meat.  Ben Langton had a super pen today up to 442p.  A trio of vendors made 436p, Keith Harrop (Blond), Josh Hall (Blue) & Emma Watson (Lim).  14 native Hereford & Angus today with the shapey end 360-380p.

Results:

Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

A decent turnout for the time of year with 423 head on offer.

The first frost reported over the weekend definite signs of weather on the thinner skinned cattle.

We must not forget that we are in to October and Winter is on its way despite the current run of unseasonably warm weather.

The sale started with a selection of breeding cattle, all finding a ready market these included:

37 Feeding Bulls

A better sample with 37 on offer

Sample Results

202 Steers ave £1632

Customers operating at all price points which is just as well because the selection of cattle was very varied.

Some cattle having clearly suffered from the dry conditions and others at the opposite end of the spectrum having been fed in to a distinctly forward condition.

All sold well as the following sample results reveal.

Sample Results:

154 Heifers average £1402

More small and younger cattle this week hence the overall average.  Plenty of interest in all types and well matched bunches attracting their usual premium.

Sample Results:

42 CALVES (Auctioneer Tash Hall)

A very good entry of quality calves this week with the results speaking for themselves, Bulls up to £825 twice for British Blues from SG Potter & H & H Bradbury & Sons.

Heifers up to £650 for a Lim from TN Palfreyman & Son closely followed behind by another Lim at £640 from D Fotherby & Sons.

All calves to average £462.

B/W’s an extremely good trade up to £370.

Bulls

B Blue                 £825     SG Potter

B Blue                 £825     H & H Bradbury & Sons

B Blue                 £810     JE & CM Fletcher & Co

B Blue                 £810     TN Palfreyman & Son

B Blue                 £790     JE & CM Fletcher & Co

Hfrs

Lim                      £650     TN Palfreyman & Son

Lim                      £640     D Fotherby & Sons

B Blue                 £550     E Mellor

B Blue                 £530     E Mellor

Sim                      £530     G Matkin

1179 Lambs & 497 Ewes

Auctioneer Peter Oven

Another excellent entry of 1676 head of sheep included 1171 new season lambs.  The best shaped sorts peaked at 387p/kg and top gross of £20/head.  Overall market average 325.9p/kg.

Leading Prices

Averages

497 Ewes & Rams

Auctioneers Mark Elliott & Holly Swift

With a good run of ewes forward there was something for everybody from big & stylish to small and feedable.

New vendors present and well rewarded with a top price of £284 for David Furness with the Hamplett Family at Church Eaton with their best at £270.

Very big Mules well past £170 and plenty of strong continentals £185 and above.

Yet again, plenty of bidders for grazers and lean types with small end plain Mules around £100 to feed on further.

The average well up on last week reflecting a better proportion of strong continentals within the entry when compared to the last 3 trading weeks.

Only 10 slaughter rams forward to a top of £201 with Suffolks strong and meated to £198.

Ewes ave £140.34

Rams ave £166.30