Livestock & Dairy: Bakewell Market

A smaller entry for February after the bumper crop of over 800 for the January sale.  With Finished Cattle returns at an all time high and quality store cattle replacements thin on the ground, the stage was set and the Bakewell buyers pulled out all the stops to secure the quality on offer.

Buyers were out in force with a few distance travellers joining the locals, with all shapes, sizes and breeds looking very well sold.  When looking at the top prices and averages it has to be borne in mind that the vast majority of the cattle were spring 2020 born and therefore under 12 months old.

The sale progressed quickly with the cattle arriving at the sale ring in good sized even bunches with a few special individuals being picked out for the show men.  Bagshaws would like to thank the buyers for attending the sale and abiding by the COVID rules, also to the vendors for producing some marvellous runs of cattle to sell, the hauliers for delivering the cattle in the morning and removing them all in timely fashion and also to the market staff for handling the stock so well in the market.

The averages for the cattle were way up on the year and also on the remarkable sale that we held 4 weeks earlier in January, for the first time at the suckled calf sales the steers averaged over £1000 (up £85 on 2020) the heifers averaged £872 (up £157 on 2020) and the bulls levelled at £954 (up £125)

The next sale will be held on Friday 19^th March 2021 on behalf of the High Peak Livestock Society with good entries already received.

The sale commenced with a few breeding cattle with the highlight being a Pedigree Limousin bull (2yrs) from Roger & Lee White that sold for £2000

Sample Prices and Averages

60 Young Feeding Bulls   ave £954.50 (up £125 on 2020)

55 Steers ave £1003.00 (up £185 on 2020)

80 Heifers ave £872 (up £157 on 2020)