Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

BAKEWELL MARKET

Monday 6^th December

After a well-attended show and carol service on Sunday afternoon the Monday market saw the show stock sold at record prices.

The champion beast the property of Ellie Wynne of Snitterton, near Matlock sold at an astonishing £10.20 per kilo to gross £7,140 to B & T Kitson of Stockton

The Champion lambs from MJ Wells & Son of Monyash realised 600p/kg and £246 per head and were purchased by RC & L Bowring of Warsop.

Full details of the show can be found later in this report.

It is usual for stock numbers to be down on show day, but because of the wintry weather over the previous weekend when travelling was difficult or impossible there was a carry over of stock resulting in 707 cattle and 1,491 sheep on offer.

The Store & Breeding section badly hit by the weather last week was back to strength with 395 head of stock on offer.

Plenty of interest and a great trade from start to finish.

Steers reached £1,470, Heifers £1,220 and Feeding Bulls £1,080.

In the Breeding section cows with calves made up to £1,500, In calvers £1,180 and Stock Bulls £1,920.

There was an excellent entry of 148 Finished Cattle with average prices enhanced by the presence of the show cattle. Even so the figures were impressive with 58 Steers averaging 247.6p, Heifers ave 279.0p and 22 Bulls ave 234.5p.

Unusually for show day there was a decent crop of OTM and Feeding Cows.

Top figures 220p/kg and £1,870.  The overall average a useful 132.1p.

Calf numbers up somewhat at 44 and trade good with Bulls to £420 and Heifers £270.

In the Sheep department there were 1,228 lambs on offer.  Trade was outstanding with the SQQ average at 295.7p and although this figure included the show lambs the remaining sample was very varied.

260 Cull Sheep on offer with ewes selling to £180 to average a remarkable £109.61.

Forthcoming Market Fixtures

Thursday 9^th December: Lunchtime Sheep Sale

Friday 10^th December: Final Round up of Store Sheep 2021

Friday 17^th December: Orange Sale for TB Restricted Cattle

Friday 21^st January: HPLS Suckled Calf Sale

Farm Sales

Saturday 11^th December: Rescheduled Sale at Brierlow Bar

Announcements

A Celebration of the life of the late

Robert Mycock of Wormhill

Memorial will take place at St Margaret’s Church, Wormhill

Thursday 9^th December at 12.30pm

122 Barren, OTM and Feeding Cows Overall Average 132.1p

(Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

A good entry of cows that included a few special sorts for the Primestock week.  5 different cows topped £2 from 5 vendors with the highest price being 220p/kg for Bernard Perkins, Oughtibridge selling a 4yr old Limousin to gross £1518.  Better sorts generally 155p+.

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

65 Black & White and ex-dairy cows Ave 114.1p/kg

More on offer and another strong price.

The best          145p plus

Big Holsteins   130-140p

Parlour Cows  115-125p

Plain Cows      around 100p

6 OTM Bulls

5 OTM Steers

146 FINISHED CATTLE – overall average 259.3p (Auctioneer Oliver Hiles)

BAKEWELL CHRISTMAS PRIMESTOCK SALE

MONDAY 6^th DECEMBER 2021

Record Breaking Day at Bakewell

Champion Makes £10.20 or £7,140

Reserve Makes £7.90 or £4,503

“Unbelievable trade, Fantastic Cattle”

The Champion Presentation with the judge Phillip Parkin, Ellie Wynne holding the champion and the Duchess of Devonshire presenting the cup.

Bakewell Primestock Show and sale is fully established as one of the premier two-day primestock events in the country. The format works exceptionally well with the show of the stock being held on the Sunday afternoon with a massive crowd of spectators enjoying the festivities and Carol service. The stock is then held overnight and sold in the relevant sections on the Monday to a large band of buyers who descended from all corners to buy the show stock.

Highlight of the day is unquestionably the sale of the cattle champions with the Champion Beast selling for a record price of 1020p/kg or £7,140, the reserve champion making 790p (£4,503), with others at £4 and £3.65 and Steers at £4

A massive crowd descended on Bakewell was present on Sunday 5^th December for the Annual Carol Service, the Cattle & Sheep Show as well as a superb Hog Roast in the market concourse.

The Judging for the cattle this year was carried out by the well-known character, Mr. Phillip Parkin of Parkin Family Butchers at Howden, East Yorks. Many will have seen his weekly blog on Facebook. He did the most thorough job that anybody could have wished for and inspected every animal until they were satisfied with their placings. The quality of the cattle on offer this year was outstanding, it seems to get better and better each year and the judge was rightly impressed with the cattle.

Phillip selected an outstanding heifer to win the show.  A massive, 700kg British Blue Heifer that won the junior Heifer class and went on to be overall Champion from local show team of Michael and Ellie Wynne from Snitterton, nr Matlock. The Duchess of Devonshire was at ringside and enjoyed watching the judging and engaging with the farmers. She presented her families Devonshire Cup at the culmination of proceedings. The Champion sold on Monday to the Judges father on behalf of Mr Anthony Kitson, for his Five Houses Farm Shop at Yarm, Stockton on Tees.

Reserve Champion on the day, was another superb Blue X Heifer that was shown by Powdrill & Dickinson, Heage. This heifer won the Senior Heifer Class and weighed in at 570kg sold for 790p to gross £4,503 and was purchased by Peter Maycock Butchers at Openwoodgate, Belper.

Best Opposite sex to the champion and Champion Steer was a wonderful Black Limousin from regular exhibitor at Bakewell P & B Hodgson, Tumbywoodside, Lincolnshire. The steer weighed in at 652kg and sold for £4 and was purchased by Richard Taylor on behalf of his family firm, Owen Taylor & Sons Ltd, Leabrooks

Champion Steer from P and B Hodgson, receiving the trophy from Stephen Flewitt from Bakewell Show.

Champion Homebred beast this year was from a new exhibitor at the Bakewell primestock show. JB Thompson showed 2 homebred heifers this year with Shield winner being a massive 788kg Black Blue Heifer selling at 325p to gross £2561, selling to Owen Taylor & Sons Ltd, Leabrooks. Team Thompson rounded off their day selling their other heifer at £4

A new trophy that was first presented in 2018 was kindly donated by Robert Walker, past Chairman of the High Peak Livestock Society and a grand supporter of the market. This was given to an exhibitor bred and fed beast and a member of the HLPS. The winner this year was local, regular supporter, Nigel & Julie Birch, Monyash who showed a very sweet. Limousin heifer at 320p, being purchased by H. Meakin, Quality Butchers in Leek.

The High Peak Livestock Society Cup this year was won by Thorp Farms, Baslow who had a Red Limousin selling for 300p and being purchased by RW Walmsley, Butchers at Catterton, York

A Young Handler class, first introduced in 2015 to recognise the amount of young talent that show cattle at Bakewell. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to get cattle trained for showing and if it wasn’t for the interest shown by these young people on their family’s farms, then some of the cattle would not be brought forward for showing. This year there were 6 youngsters, aged between 16 and 19 years, competing for the trophy and it was the youngest of these, Fred Powdrill Swinscoe from Belper who was triumphant.

Full Results

(Judge – P. Parkin)

Class 1 – Junior Steer

Class 2 – Senior Steer

Class 3 – Junior Heifer

Class 4 – Intermediate Heifer

Class 5 – Senior Heifer

Class 7 – HPLS Trophy sired by Limousin

Class 8 – Robert Walker Trophy

Class 9 – Best Pure Bred Native

Best Young Handler

Best Young Beef Bull

Champion Devonshire Cup

Best Opposite sex to Champion

Best Exhibitor Born & Bred

Lambs

A smaller entry of show lambs forward this year for the judge Mr Robert Bowring of Mansfield.  He chose for his champions a pen of 41kg ¾ Beltex shown by Messrs MJ Wells & Son of Monyash which went on to sell for £6/kilo grossing £246/head.  All show lambs averaged 320p/kg

Show Results

22 Young Bulls

And Gross Prices:

58 Steers – overall average 247.6p

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

68 Finished Heifers – overall average 279.1p/kg

Sample Results:

And Gross Prices:

 STORE & BREEDING CATTLE – (Auctioneer Alastair Sneddon)

With the extra cattle that failed to make the journey to Bakewell last week there were 395 on total.  This entry had attracted a strong line up of buyers and trade was good from first to last.

The sale commenced with 33 Breeding Stock which included

Cows & Calves

In Calvers

Stock Bull

52 Feeding Bulls

Sample prices as follows:

167 Steers ave £947

A decent selection with plenty of buying power in operation and recent levels of trade maintained.

Angus and Hereford crosses well bid for as were the few Black & Whites.

Sample Results:

1433 Heifers ave £808

Some excellent bunches of heifers attracted plenty of interest from both feeders and breeders.

A rattling good trade from start to finish with sample prices as follows:

44 CALVES (Auctioneer Ivor Lowe)

A few more calves about and again with all types in keen demand

Some nice B Blue Bulls saw a top of £420 with Angus to £295 and Salers to £270 with less quality and smaller types equally as sought after.

A similar story for the heifers with a B Blue to £270 and a Limousin at £205.

Black & Whites again saw strong interest with the better end up to £100.

1231 Lambs & 260 Ewes & Rams (Auctioneers Peter Oven & Mark Elliott)

A very good show of 1491 head of sheep included 1231 lambs.  Demand very brisk even for non prize winning lambs with meated sorts in the 300-330p/kg range depending on weight.  The overall average 295.77p/kg

Leading Prices: –

260 Cull Sheep

A total of 260 cull ewes and rams attracted very brisk bidding for all types with more needed to fill demand.

Best Texels peaked at £180/head, Suffolk x to £160 and Mules to £127.

Ewes to £180  Ave: £109.61

Rams to £170  Ave: £82.96