Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

 BAKEWELL MARKET

Monday 10^th January 2022

Things back to normal after the festive season with 577 Cattle and 1545 Sheep on offer.

The season of goodwill is still with us if the trade is anything to go by with excellent prices in all departments.

A good show of 288 Store & Breeding Cattle which was enough to make the journey worthwhile for the long-distance buyers who were all on parade in Bakewell.

Steers sold to £1,500, Heifers £1,290 and Feeding Bulls £1,260.

In Calf Beef Heifers sold to £1,200.

A decent number of Finished Cattle were on sale with 121 forward.  Heifers to 290p and £1,920 per head.  Steers to 289p and £1,954 per head and Bulls to 264p and £1,890 per head.  Thinking of trying some finished cattle at Bakewell – speak to Oliver Hiles on 07801 530899.

115 OTM & Feeding Cows with top prices at 206p/kg and £1744 per head.  The overall average a healthy 135.4p.

A few more Calves about with 53 in total, but lacking any quality highlights.  A solid trade with Bulls to £312 and Heifers £256.

Over in the Sheep department the 1,089 Finished Hoggs maintained recent levels for a mixed sample.

Top figures 327p/kg and 171p/kg.

The SQQ average a decent 273.0p.

A good number of Cull Sheep on offer with trade again very strong.  Ewes sold to £169 to average a remarkable £110.38

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES

 Thursday 13^th January: Regular Lunchtime Sheep Market

Friday 21^st January: HPLS Cattle Sale, entries being taken

Friday 11^th February: Orange Sale for TB restricted cattle

Friday 18^th February: Store Cattle Sale – Entries being taken

The Farming Life Centre

Bacon butty morning

The team from The Farming Life Centre will be popping along to the Bakewell branch of Carrs Billington on Friday morning 14^th January where we will be serving up bacon butties and a cuppa.  A great chance to find out more about our Farming for the Future Programme or any of our other services.  Pop along and see us between 10am and 12noon for a butty and a brew on us and a chat.  Directions: Carrs Billington, Unit 4-6 Kingfisher Building, Buxton Road, Bakewell, DE45 1GS.   See you there! 

Business Skills for Farming

All are welcome to Join us for a zoom session on  Business Skills for Farming to be delivered by Ed Lawley of Bagshaws LLP this Thursday 13^th January.  Meeting ID: 811 8699 7575
Passcode: 488948.  Contact us on 01629 810903 or 07483 373435 for more information.

Caption Competition

 The winning caption this week was sent in by Debbie Wain, Brassington

LET’S GO COLD TURKEY!

 115 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows Overall Average 135.5p

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A more regular entry as we move into the first proper week of trading in the New Year.  The cows have certainly started the year dearer than they were at the end of 2021.  All buyers operating today coupled with some lovely cows on offer led to a very good trade and average.  Top call today was a super pure ish Limousin 1 calf cow (37 mnths) from James Hodgkinson, Harley Grange selling at 206p to gross £1693.  Ross Mason had an OTM Heifer (38 mnths) at 195p with the best of the older cows up at 191p being a black Limousin from Tom Gratton, Riber to gross £1482.  All the better bred or fed cows 160p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

56 Black & White and ex-dairy cows Ave 126.1p/kg

Very dear and some super top calls.

The best                      114 – 157p

Big fed Holsteins        130 – 140p

Parlour Holsteins        118 – 128p

Plain Cows                  100 – 115p

Only a couple under £1

The Top 10:

6 OTM Bulls

 119 FINISHED CATTLE – overall average 229.95p (Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A very fast trade for all cattle, Trade similar to the highs of November and plenty of cattle 260 – 280p.

37 Finished Bulls ave 219.4p

A few more numbers for the first proper week of trading.  Trade outstanding from the off with regular vendor Keith Harrop at the top of the pile selling Limousin at 264p (£1642)  G Swindell had 259p for his pure Blue (£1890) with John Ottewell at 250p (£1725)  9 B/W sold to 210p (3 times) with only an odd Shorthorn Bull under £2.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

49 Steers – overall average 232.3p

31 Continental, 7 Native and 11 B/W on offer in what was a fantastic price for all on offer and possibly as dear as we have had them. To give you a flavour:

13 Lim Steers ave 264p or £1649

7 Blue Steers ave 255p or £1633

3 Blonde Steers ave 267p or £1878

5 Sim Steers ave 240p or £1700.

Top 8 today over 270p to a top of 289p for a John Grummett special Limmy.  Angus sold to 246p for DM Elliott & Son with 11 B/W averaging 162p with 9 from one vendor selling for further feeding to AFU Farms at ringside.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

33 Heifers – overall average 238.67p/kg

A superb trade but not enough to quench the appetite of the buyers at ringside.  Butchers quality Stabilizers topped the day at 290p for Robert Belfield, Leek closely followed at 286 for a posh Limmy from John Grummett with both selling to ‘show boy’ Wayne on behalf of H Meakin Quality Butchers in Leek.  Top 10 over 200p today.

Sample Results:

Averages:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

Back in the swing with 288 Cattle forward and buyers out in force.

The only problem being that the live stream camera in the store ring was suffering from gremlins for which we apologise.

Excellent demand for stores of all sizes and ages helped no doubt by the buoyant finished cattle returns.

The sale commenced with a few in-calf cows and heifers including:

Feeding Bulls

Only a handful.

Sample prices as follows:

 180 Steers ave £971

A rattling good trade right through with all types finding a ready market.

A very mixed sample with several minority breeds represented and a number of cattle well over 30 months in the entry.

If you have un-finished cattle that are over 30 months, do not hesitate to enter them, there are buyers keen to bid for them.

Hereford and Angus crosses selling well and Black & White achieving some spectacular prices.

Sample Results:

24 Heifers ave £893

Plenty of trade with excellent prices achieved for both Native and Continental crosses.

Sample prices as follows:

53 CALVES (Auctioneer Mark Elliott)

More about after the New Year and a lot of buyers present but quality a little mixed.

Blue Bulls topped the day for the Hadfields at Chamber Farm receiving £312 with the Broadley Family with another at £294.  A run of calves from the Hayes family at Shottle saw Saler Bulls to £252 and Lim cross Heifers to £248.

Ken Trickett at Rowsley received £256 for his Blue Heifers.

1089 Lambs & 466 Ewes & Rams (Auctioneers Peter Oven & Mark Elliott)

A very good entry of 1555 head of sheep included 1089 lambs.  The best meated heavier butchers lambs well bid for to peak at 327p/kg with overweight sorts to 288p/kg and top gross of £171/head.  The overall average 273.04p/kg

Leading Prices: –

466 Cull Sheep

A very good entry of 466 Ewes & Rams saw several runs of heavy weight Ewes with best to £169 for Texels, fat sorts to £166/head.  Best Mule Ewes sold around the £120/head.

Ewes   To: £169          Ave: £110.38

Rams   To: £150          Ave: £109.76