Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

BAKEWELL MARKET

Monday 8th November

Plenty going on at Bakewell with new faces both amongst the buyers and the sellers.

795 Cattle and 1,793 Sheep on offer and prices stronger than ever.

A tremendous entry of 494 Store & Breeding Cattle maintained recent levels of trade with Steers to £1,520, Heifers to £1,380 and Feeding Bulls to £950.

In the Breeding Section Cows with Bull Calves reached £1,920 with Cows with Heifer Calves to £1,880.

The Finished Cattle ring saw plenty of highlights with top figures 330p/kg and top gross £1,971.

An indicator of the level of trade was the Heifer average of 242.1p for the 44 animals on offer with 36 Steers at 238.8p.

A good turnout of 137 OTM and Feeding Cows saw another solid trade with top figures 213p and £1,520 per head.  The overall average was a creditable 128.1p.

Calf numbers at 60 this week with Bulls to £440 and Heifers £280.

Sheep prices on the up again for the 1,259 Lambs on offer.  Top prices 320p/kg and £172.20.

The all important SQQ average was 262.4p.

Cull Sheep out in force at 533 with Ewes to £149 to average £84.90.

Forthcoming Market Fixtures

Thursday 11^th November: Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Friday 19^th November: Store Sheep Sale

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: SUNDAY 5^TH DECEMBER

Christmas Show & Carol Service

CAPTION COMPETITION

Last week’s caption competition attracted no fewer than 17 entries and caused the selection committee a great deal of head scratching.

There were 3 responses all referring to Bully’s star prize and we felt that we could not pick one of the three.

There was a very amusing politically in correct suggestion which had to be excluded and there was even a finely crafted poem, but in the end simplicity prevailed.

The winner – Paul Shardlow of Shirland

‘BID UP OR YOU’LL MISS THE BOAT’

The runner up was Tanya Kelsey, Shottle

‘SURF & TURF’

136 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows Overall Average 128.1p

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A bumper entry this week with 136 Barren and OTM Cattle from 62 vendors and selling to 16 different accounts at ringside.  Competition at its finest in the live ring at Bakewell.  The overall average is up 3 pence on the week with a good deal of cold cattle from outside in the entry today.  But as Bakewell is a Green Market buyers can buy to feed out of the ring to improve their value for another day and thank goodness that this facility exists at this time of year.  Top price today was a 1 calf 32 mnth old Stabilizer Cow selling at 213p with another 1 calf pure Blonde Cow just behind at 212p.  Best Limousin Cows 174-180p today with all the better sorts generally over 160p and plenty of coloured feeding cows 120-150p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

61 Black & White and ex-dairy cows Ave 110.6p/kg

Very similar overall to last week but loads of very lean Holsteins about.

The best fed Cows      133-146p

Big good Holsteins     120-130p

Leaner Parlour Cows  110-120p

Plain Cows generally  80-100p

Very Old or plain        Under 180p

Best Today

3 OTM Bulls

5 OTM Steers

£1340              Holst, 8yrs      Biggest Str I’ve seen               RG Sisson, Dale Abbey

107 FINISHED CATTLE – overall average 234.9p (Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

NEW MONDAY RECORD 330P/KG

5 OVER 300P

Equally as dear as last week with a new record top call and some staggering results.

27 Finished Bulls ave 218.4p/kg

Weight is certainly the key at present with bigger bulls no problem, Messrs Shenton, Handforth had a lovely run of 4 Blondes today selling to 269p and 264p to average £1848.  John Ottewell had 260p and 252p.  4 B/W Bulls all over 200p and up to 213p and 4 Shorthorn Bulls also selling to 206p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

36 Steers – overall average 238.8p

Unbelievably dearer than last week.  Stan & Geoff Evans remained at the top of the Steers at 305p today for his Blue x with Peter Shaw also selling at £3/kilo.  10 Native today had Hereford to 228p, Angus to 238p and Beef Shorthorn to 258p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

44 Finished Heifers – overall average 242.1p/kg

A new record again – 16 Limousin Heifers ave 276p

The Christmas buying is obviously in full swing now with buyers after the best quality cattle.  Best sorts an absolute joy to sell to create a new record price for a heifer on a regular Monday.  A homebred Limousin x heifer from regular vendors Steven, Steff and Owen Wells sold at 330p to gross £1861 with his other at 325p, Congratulations.  Roger and Lee White sold their lovely Black Limousin at 316p to Meakin Bros of Leek with another 6 over 280p.  6 Hereford to 219p and 9 Angus to 212p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

A wonderful line up of cattle with 494 on offer. Tremendous trade from start to finish with outstanding prices for well matched bunches and some real highlights for individual animals spotted by the specimen hunters.

The sale started with some 25 Breeding Cattle which included:

21 Feeding Bulls

Sample Results:

243 Steers ave £901

A decent and varied selection but all finding a ready market.  Hereford and Angus crosses attracting plenty of interest.  Other Natives, Devons and Galloways also in demand.

Sample Results:

205 Heifers ave £808

A good spread of ages and qualities, but buyers present seeking all sorts and some excellent prices achieved.

Typical Prices:

60 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

A further increase in numbers and trade very similar to last week.

Best Bulls saw a B Blue at £440 with Heifers to £280 and second quality sorts looking particularly well sold.

Black & Whites again attracted significant interest with the better sorts to a top of £98.

1260 Lambs & 536 Ewes & Rams (Auctioneer Peter Oven)

A total entry of 1796 Sheep included 1260 lambs, with trade lifting at the end of last week demand was very buoyant right from the start.  Best butchers lambs peaked at 320p/kg with heavy butchers lambs to 309p/kg and overweight lambs to 262p/kg.  A total of 26 pens grossed over £130/head to peak at £172.20/head.

Overall average 262.41p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

536 Cull Sheep

A very good entry of 536 Cull Ewes and Rams saw demand very brisk with best Texel x to £149 with 10 pens over £131/head to average £139/head.  Best Suffolks sold to £130 with Mules to £110 and Horned Ewes to £70.

Ewes to £149  Ave: £84.90

Rams to £160  Ave: £83.93