Trade much bouncier this week despite the lack of quality forward.
Topping the day was Edward & Diane Bennett at £1960 with other More third quality heifers in the £1300 – £1600 bracket.
More quality definitely needed to satisfy the current demand. Many buyers in attendance went home empty handed.
Theaves & Ewes Show & Sale
Large Crowd at Annual Grindley Collective Sale
Mark Elliott
The annual first Saturday of September Collective Sale at Grindley attracted a wide crowd from as far
away as North Wales and with the inclusion of a non-vat dispersal on behalf of the Hollinshead family
a wide array of implements, machinery, sundries and surplus effects saw spirited bidding.
In the small section:
• Cartoon Signs Up to £110 each
• Wooden Barrels £50 each
• IBC Tanks £40 each
• Wheelbarrows £42 each
• Clarke Blasting Cabinet £180
• Steel Staircase c/w Two Landings £440
• Cat Weather Vane £50
• 3 Cylinder Small Diesel Generator £520
• Woodworkers Small Lathe £85
In the Larger Kit:
• Honda Ride on Mower £720
• New Holland Outfront Mower £2,750
• Wrought Iron Tree Guards £180 per pair
• Two-Sandstone Staddle Stone Bases c/w Tops £250
• Horse Jumps £180 per set
• Perkins 4 Cylinder Diesel Engine £260
The non-vat section for the dispersal on behalf of the Hollinshead Family included;
• IAE Galvanised Sheep Race Stop Section £100
• Sets of 5 Hurdles Up to £85 per set
• 12ft Square Section Galvanised Gates Up to £80
• 15ft Mesh Bottom Gates Up to £120 each
• Tombstone Ring Feeders Up to £260 each
• Workbench c/w Vice £140
Within the Larger Items in the dispersal:
• Heavy Flat Roll £495
• Ritchie Mounted Chain Harrows £500
• Marshall 60 Barrel Spreader £2,400
• Ifor Williams LM126G Twin Axle Transport Trailer £2,520
• Ifor Williams Low Level Twin Axle Livestock Trailer £3,840
The tractors attracted wide interest:
• International 856 XL 2WD (B Plate) £4,900
• International 895 4WD c/w Quicke Loader (H Reg) being purchased by a Derbyshire farmer.
In the Larger Items:
• Twin Wheel Modern Acrobats £200
• Single Axle Small Ifor Williams Trailer c/w Demount Livestock Top £1,500
• West 2000 Dual Spreader £2,400
• Ifor Williams Twin Axle Plant Trailers Up to £2,320
• Ifor Williams Tri-Axle Transport Trailers c/w Side Up to £3,260
• Old Style Kuhn 3 Metre Power Harrow Up to £2,060
• JCB 406 Agri-Telehandler (Unregistered) £4,700
• Fordson Power Major (Ceased Engine) £2,300
• Massey Ferguson 415 Combine (Late 1960’s) £1,250
The recent dispersal sale on behalf of Chris Waterfall at Seighford attracted a very large crowd and
with just short of 400 lots to sell trade was good from start to finish.
In the Smaller Lots;
• 8ft Cladding Sheets £24 each
• White Wash Bucket £26
• Roll of Horse Tape £24
• Two-Mini Anvils £290
• Bench and Vice £140
• Belle Single Phase Concrete Mixer £120
• Six-Tubes of Grease £26
In the Cattle Sundries;
• Dump Bucket c/w Spare Pipework £85
• Three-Single Teat Calf Suckling Buckets £30 per set
• Unused Hip Lifter £145
• Vink Calving Aid £145
• Volume Washer Pipe £50
• Pairs of Small Hang On Galvanised Troughs £110 per pair
• 6ft Galvanised Hurdles to £70 per set
• Paxton Cattle Footbath £90
• Gates £75 each
Within the Machinery Section;
• Bultex Telehandler Mounted Post Knocker c/w Q Fit Brackets £1,180
• Jarmet Galvanised Mounted Sprayer £1,040
• John Deere 1365 Trailed Mower Conditioner £3,000
• Teagle 221 Mounted Supa Tedder £3,200
• John Deere 644 Round Baler £7,100
The Glendale Galvanised Heavy Duty Mobile Cattle Handling System had attracted wide interest from Shropshire, Yorkshire, Wales and all surrounding Counties and achieved a massive £10,500 to a farmer in Shropshire.
The principal items on the farm including a JCB Telehandler and Tractor with the JCB 526-56 (67’ Plate-4,033 hours) at £32,000 and the John Deere 6420 SE 4WD c/w MX Loader (08’-8,560 hours) at £22,800.
Within the final lots of the day included round bale haylage to £29 per bale and hay to £30 per bale.
A very good trade this week for the Pedigree Dairy sale with 50 head stalled and nearly all of them fresh calved cows & heifers. The best quality cattle are a remarkable trade at present with the 5 best over £2,400. The second quality heifers look better values between £1500 – £1800, generally good heifers but lacking the condition and milk of the higher prices.
Getting the top price today was a trio from the Meldamor herd of the Shepherd family at Bakewell. They sold 2 cows at £2580 & £2500 with their heifer selling for £2400. Brian Needham, Heaton also sold 3 today with his top heifers achieving £2540 and £2340 with his second calf cow making £2400. Other good heifers sold over £2000.
Next week is the Herd Dispersal of Montbeliarde cows (132 Head) From Buxton Partners, Barlaston. Catalogues now available online.
