Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

 BAKEWELL MARKET

Monday 9^th  May 2022

Another full house with a total of 917 Cattle and 1,295 Sheep and a solid trade reported in all departments.

A bumper crop of store cattle with a total of 565 on offer together with 17 breeding cattle drew a large gathering of purchasers from both far and near and an excellent trade for all types with top prices for both steers and heifers of £1460.

Finished cattle numbers out in force with a total of 188 and trade brisk throughout with heifers to 308p/kg and steers to 295p/kg and a top price of £1989 per head.

Cull cow numbers similar to last week and again trade strong to a top of 238p/kg and £1989 per head.

In the sheep department Spring lamb numbers continue to increase with 278 on offer and trade remaining well in line to average 332p/kg and a top price of 372p/kg, whilst Hoggs start to dry up with 536 forward to average 270p/kg.

Cull ewe numbers very similar to recent weeks at 478 and trade again strong to a top of £184 per head.

Calves also well sold with best bulls to £450 and heifers to £370.

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES

Thursday 12^th May:  Regular Lunchtime Sheep Market

Thursday 19^th May: WCPGW

FARM SALES

Thursday 12^th May – Stilehouse Farm, Bradnop

Saturday 14^th May – Ashencroft Farm, Uttoxeter

Friday 20^th May – Stockley Hill Farm, Palterton, Chesterfield

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News from The Farming Life Centre

The Farming Life Centre team will be having a stand at the ABC on the first Monday of every month.  Please stop to say hello or pop across if you’d like to find out more about what we do.

Coming up:

Bacon Butty Project – We will be taking our Bacon Butty Project to Harden Clough Farm, Edale on Friday 27^th May by kind permission of the Metcalfe family.  Call in at the farm between 10am and midday for a cuppa and a bacon bap!

Farm Diversification workshop – Nick and Julie from Growing Rural Enterprise will be delivering a workshop on Wednesday 18^th May, 10am-3pm, from the conference room at the ABC.  Helping farm businesses to refresh and reflect on diversification enterprises, look into marketing and promotion and develop a personalised action plan.  Lunch included.  Contact info@thefarminglifecentre.org.uk or call 07483 373435 to book a place.  All welcome.

The Peak Farmers Group – Please get in touch if you would like to join the group or to book a place at either of the following events:

‘Down To Earth’ Farm Walk: Soil health and crop management – Understand soil and nutrient health, seed selection and crop management.  Hear from our expert speakers: Agronomist Ross Dilks, Soil Health Advisor Charlotte Allen, Seed Species Specialist Helen Mathieu.  Join us on Monday 23^rd May 11am – 2.30pm at Simply Milk, Home farm, Hassop Rd, Hassop, DE45 1NU by kind permission of the Dilks family.  Lunch included.

Massey Feeds Mill Tour – Tuesday 7^th June, 7.30pm – 9pm, Massey Feeds Holmes Chapel Mill – Mill Tour: Gain a glimpse into the world of animal feed manufacture.  Hear about Massey’s sustainable ruminant feeds with no palm kernel or soya products – a UK 1^st!  Supper and transport included.

Contact info@peakfarmersgroup.co.uk or call 07483 373435 to book a place.  All welcome

 121 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows Overall Average 179.12p or £1221.86

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A better show of cows this week from 57 vendors to a full line up of 16 buyers at ringside.  Generally, the cows were a little easier this week with the average back 5 pence/kilo but the average gross price of £1221 was identical to last week.  Best cows still comfortably over 200p and selling to a high of 238p for a 30 mnth heifer from Marcus Bristow, Sleaford with best cows to 222p twice for Blondes and Limousin from Mark Sweetmore, Sterndale grossing up to £1989.  16 best over £2

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

45 Black & White and ex Dairy Cows ave 162.1p/kg

Certainly, a little less but still strong money.

1 Clean Heifer: 208p

6 Better Cows: 182-195p

Big Holstein: 170-180p

Leaner Holstein 155-165p

Plain Cows under 150p.

Top today:

2 OTM Bulls

7 OTM Steers

188 FINISHED CATTLE – overall average 239.1p

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

THE BIGGEST ENTRY FOR YEARS!!

Even though we had 72 last week on the Bank Holiday we had an amazing entry of 36 Bulls, 57 Steers and 95 Heifers from 60 vendors and selling to a full line up of 23 different accounts.

36 Finished Bulls ave 225.64p

Smart Bulls a real price with the best 3 all suckler bred bulls over 290p and up to 296p for a pure Limousin from Roy Mycock, Buxton with his other at 292p and Jo Radford also at 290p for his Blue x Char Bull.  Big boys topped at 266p grossing up to £2292 for the Edge Family, Minninglow.

7 Dairy Shorthorn ave 205p up to 217p, J Hole & Sons

9 Holstein ave 193p up to 206p, AB Massey & Sons

1 Jersey up to 194p, AB Massey & Sons

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

57 Steers – overall average 231.5p

Good numbers of steers today including 21 Natives and 2 B/W.  Suckler bred continentals topped the day at 295p or £1929 for Richard Shaw, Stanley with handy weight sorts from Simon Shaw Browne at 283p.  Angus to 270p, Hereford to 250p, W Black to 229p and Lincoln to 224p with 2 B/W up to 207p.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

95 Heifers – overall average 249.68p/kg

A bumper crop of heifers with as many as we have seen at Bakewell for years.  Michael Wynne had a grand run of 6 heifers today topping at 308p/kg and 300p for shapy Limousin with a number of the better shaped sorts over 290p.

Sample Results:

Gross Prices:

STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Mark Elliott)

618 stores in total with all sectors well bid for and vendors well rewarded.

The sale commenced with the Breeding Cattle with results as follows:

Plenty of customers for the TB tested Feeding Cows:

36 Feeding Bulls

Sample Prices as follows:

 271 Steers

The small stores saw very active bidding and looked a fast trade particularly for Shorthorn and other natives.

Best continental plums very easy to sell with several purchasers leaving without fully filling their orders.

Middle types 19-21 mnths a little harder to sell as some purchasers take note of very dear purchased concentrate prices and other input costs. Yet again close to finished cattle a good solid trade throughout.

Sample Results:

229 Heifers

Again, the young sorts good to move and best big plums a fast trade, but perhaps a shade easier than recent weeks.

Sample prices as follows:

 26 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

Trade on fire with bulls seeing Char to £450, B Blue to £400 and B/W to £225 with heifers topping at £370 for a B Blue and £360 for Limousin.

All shapes and sizes in strong demand and many more could have been sold to advantage.

Bulls

Char                    £450     Clark Farms, Ringinglow

B Blue                 £400     E Morten & Sons, Barmoor Clough

Lim                      285        S Kirby, Eastmoor

Angus                 £250     L Hadfield & Sons, Peak Forest

Fries                    £225     D Fotherby & Sons, Wormhill

Heifers

Limousin           £360     Clark Farms, Ringinglow

B Blue                 £370     L Hadfield & Sons, Peak Forest

Angus                 £202     L Hadfield & Sons, Peak Forest

803 Lambs, 478 Ewes & Rams & 3 Store Sheep (Auctioneers Peter Oven & Mark Elliott)

A total entry of 1284 sheep included 278 New Season lambs and 536 Old Season lambs.  Demand for the Spring lambs very brisk throughout with the top price of 372p/kg being achieved 3 times and top gross price of £153.90.  The overall average 332.63p/kg.

Leading Prices: –

Averages:

Old Season Lambs

In the Old Season lambs demand still very brisk for the meated sorts with a top of 306p/kg for butchers types with heavy weight butchers lambs to 284p/kg and overweight catering types to 278p/kg.  Top gross price of £161.80/head.

Overall average 270.75p/kg

Leading Prices:-

Averages:

478 Cull Sheep

In the cull sheep a total of 478 on offer still very much in demand with best cutting ewes peaking at £184/head with 15 pens over £160/head.  Best Mule ewes sold in the £115-£130 head, Texel to £184, Suffolks in the £125 – £150 bracket with best meated horned ewes to £100.

Ewes to £184 Ave £115.55

Rams to £172 Ave £188.37

Just 3 Store Sheep saw Texel ewes and lambs at £188.