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Leek Market Report
DAIRIES (103);
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
An easier trade for milkers which was perhaps a reflection on the quality forward saw the best to £2080 for a heifer from Andy and Jane Brookes of Field, Uttoxeter with another from Andrew Mills of Ratcliffe on Wreake to £1960.
A very pretty Shorthorn heifer from Shirley Kirkham reached £1870.
The special entry of In-calf heifers from the Hall Bros of Somerford Booth met a brisk trade peaking at £1680.
Next week we have the herd dispersal on behalf of Adrian Baskerville of Fradley, Lichfield. Take a look at the catalogue on-line at www.leekauctions.co.uk
Machinery Dispersal Report-Barms Farm, Buxton
With Bagshaws having sold Barms Farm, John and Lorraine Naden saw a very large crowd for the dispersal of their machinery and effects which had been very carefully maintained and driven and saw excellent prices
Mark Elliott
Within the smaller lots:
- 3 Pallets of Yorkshire Flags £420
- Granite Sets £100 per set
- Stone Salting Trough £85
- Draper Small Single Phase Compressor c/w Tools £180
- Small Steel Bench with Pillar Drill £100
- PTO Generator £610
- Cast Iron Log Burner £200
- 9 Hole Tractor Drawbar £30
- Belle Petrol Cement Mixer c/w Stand £210
Within the field lots:
There were some excellent items of sheep equipment with;
- Sets of 5 Sheep Hurdles £85 per set
- Wide Hang On Hay Racks £68 each
- IAE Short Covered Hay Rack £280
- Bateman Galvanised Sheep Turn Over Crate £460
- Bateman Dial Type Sheep Scales £600
The larger machinery saw spirited bidding with:
- NC Mounted PTO Road Brush £840
- Kilworth Log Splitter £560
- Vicon PS 753 Varispreader £860
- Krone AM 243 S Mounted Disc Mower £2,900
- Kuhn 300 Series Mounted Tedder £2,000
- Taarup Single Rotor Rake £2,850
- Very well-kept Massey Ferguson 139 Inline Baler (2006 Model) £10,000
The twin unit trailer mounted mini bale wrapper unit attracted a lot of interest to finally achieve £6,800.
Trailers were hot property with the old Bateson twin axle dump trailer at £2,250. Ifor williams twin axle LT85G Small Wheel Plant Trailer £1,450 and a very well kept Ifor Williams PAG Single Axle Sheep Trailer £2,850.
- The farms David Brown 1390 showing 4,354 hours-X Plate £5,200
- New Holland Boomer 50 (70 Plate-Only 114 Hours) £17,100
- Very well-kept New Holland TL100A 4WD (05-2,870 hours) £24,200
- Bobcat 1.5 Ton Mini Digger £5,800
- Bobcat 313 Skidsteer £4,250
- Honda TRX 400 Quad c/w Electronic Ram Bale Lift £4,120
In the included section:
- A very smart Logic Trailed Quad Sprayer achieved £960
- Graham Edwards 8ft Livestock Trailer c/w Decks £2,200
- Ford Ranger (59 Plate-117,000 Miles) £3,800
- Fully Galvanised IAE Short Model Cattle Foot Crush c/w Super Scoop £980
A small array of collectables and non-vat items saw:
- Stone Troughs Up to £660
- 2x Cast Lamp Posts £620
- Copper Plated Milk Churn £220
- Shepherds Crook £50 each
- Old Milk Bottles and Crates £50 per set
Further sales booked for April and May with Darley Moor Scheduled for Friday 29th April 2022.
Bakewell Market Report
Bakewell Market Orange Sale
Bakewell Market Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale
Leek Market Report
DAIRIES;
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Trade continues to be very strong for the best topping at £2300 on Tuesday for a stylish heifer from Messrs Callwood of Knutsford.
Close behind at £2240 was a 27kg heifer from David Brailsford of Chesterfield.
Ian Ellis of Ashover saw his heifer make £2140 with others from D Davenport of Sandbach to £2070 and P J Williams of Middlewich to £2060.
Trade for bulling heifers was swift topping at £910 to average £894.
Bakewell Market Report
Machinery Dispersal Report-Ingestre Manor Farm, Ingestre, Stafford
Large Arable Kits Pulls Large Crowd to Mid Staffordshire Dispersal
Mark Elliott
The dispersal on behalf of the Collier Family at Ingestre attracted bidders from across the UK and Ireland and into Northern Europe.
The stars of the show were undoubtedly the JCB Fastrac, Claas Lexion Combine and John Deere Self-Propelled Sprayers with successful purchasers from throughout the UK.
In the smaller lots;
- Old Gas Bottle Trolley £55
- Box of Tractor Link Balls £30
- International Old Front Grill £28
- Sets of Gate Hinges Up to £34 per set
- ESB 145 Battery Fencer Unit £80
- Scatterbird Gas Bird Scarer Units to £220 each
- Heiniger Single Phase Cattle Clippers £235
- Hydraulic Top Link £180
There was a wide array of grain store equipment including;
- Pedestal Fans £160 each
- Triple Unit Pedestals £290 per set
- Skiold Roller Mill c/w Heavy Duty Stand and Infil Hopper £3,500
- Sinor Moisture Meter £70
In the field;
- Riveted Old Water Troughs £25
- Sets of 3 Phase Extension Cables £60 per set
- Concrete Sleepers £360 per lot
- Round Fence Post £115 per lot
- New Roll of Sheep Wire £80
- Sets of 3 Galvanised Wired Cattle Troughs £150 per set
- Bateman Lamb Creeps £160 each
- Bulk Hog Feeding Hoppers £270 each
- Heavy Duty IAE Gates Up to £110 each
- Mobile Sheep Pen System £2,000
- Galvanised 6 Cattle Pen Gates £900
- Unistock Mobile Cattle Handling System £7,300
Within the machinery;
- Rear Mounted Grader Unit £2,080
- Cousins V Form 3 Leg Subsoiler £2,050
- Lemken Europal 8-Six Furrow Reversible Plough £6,900
- HE-VA Hydraulic Folding Ring Rolls £3,500
- HE-VA Trailed Combi Seeder Unit c/w Electric Seeder £6,200
- Amazone TA-TS4200 Mounted Fertilizer Spreader £10,750
- Amazone Series 4002-2 Seed Trailed Drill £27,000
Trailers were very popular item at the sale with interest from several hundred miles from sale site and sold as follows;
- Marshall Flat Bale Trailer £4,650
- AS Marston 14 Ton Root/Grain Trailer (2008) £10,200
- Twin Axle Walls Trailer/Graham Edwards Livestock Trailer £11,000
Within the prime mover machinery;
- Merlo P28-7 Telehandler (04) £13,800
- John Deere 5430i Self Propelled Sprayer (12-3,079 hours) £65,200
- JCB 4220 Fastrac (18-1,919 hours) £96,000
- Claas Lexion 550 (11 Plate-905 work hours) £78,000
There was a wide array of included items from local farmers including;
- New Holland TL90 2WD (53 Plate-8,200 hours) £9,500
- John Deere 6930 Premium 4WD c/w Loader (7,300 hours) £40,000
- Claas 3200 Quadrant Big Square Baler £39,000
- Simba Solo 380 ST Trailed Combi-Cultivator £7,600
- Marshall 10.5 Ton Grain Trailers £4,700 each
- Artic Trailers c/w Dolly Units £3,340
Further sales booked in Derbyshire and Staffordshire and Darley Moor scheduled for Late April 2022
Bakewell Market Thursday Lunchtime Sheep Sale
Leek Market Report
DAIRIES (36);
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
A superb trade despite the mixed quality forward saw two heifers reach £2220. The first from Messrs Callwood of Knutsford giving 26kg and the second a Dairy Shorthorn from Rob Kite of Milwich giving 28kg.
Close behind at £2200 was a 26kg heifer from Messrs Ellis of Ashover.
Cows topped at £1980 for a second calver from Messrs Bradburn of Wigan.
Hayden Whitfield of Doveridge kindly donated a Jersey x heifer to the Ukraine Crisis. After spirited bidding the hammer eventually fell at £1420 to Phil Wilson of Ashover. Leek Auctions have matched this price and a total including many other donations given in recent weeks will be announced soon.
Machinery Dispersal Report-Lower Castle Hayes Farm
“Massive Crowd at Tutbury Dispersal”
The sale on behalf of the Smith family at Lower Castle Hayes Farm, Needwood saw a very large crowd with over 650 lots numbered and the star of the show being a Case 150 Puma 50K tractor on a 67’ Plate at over £57,000.
In the small lots;
- Sets of Unused Silage Gravel Bags £50 per lot
- Two-Makita Battery Drills (No Charger) £210
- Sack Trolley £50
- Set of Steel Concrete Shuttering Sections £500
- Five Teat Calf Suckling Units Up to £105 per set
- Stallion 15 Place Linear Calf Feeders £170 per set
- Vink Calving Aid £170
- Kersten Petrol Driven Cubicle Brush £750
- Ag Maxi Dust Dispenser Up to £1020
- Holme and Laue Electric Milch Taxi £2,050
- Plastic Body Twin Wheel Wheelbarrow £205
Out in the field there was a large range of gates, troughs and cattle equipment with;
- Cattle Bunker Feeders £660
- Steel Leg Troughs £150 each
- Water Troughs £185 each
- Galvanised Gates £65 each
The unused Galvanised Calving Gate Pen Section achieved £1,080 with 6 Bar Galvanised Cattle Race Hurdles c/w End Gates to £1,200 per set.
The foot trimming crush achieved £3,450 with the galvanised auto foot bath unit at £3,300.
In the machinery;
- Cousins Front Mount Press £2,100
- Maschio DC3000 3 Metre Power Harrow £5,100
- Ritchie Hydraulic Folding Galvanised Chain Harrows £1,800
- Excellent Fleming End Tow Kit Heavy Duty Flat Roll £5,550
The farms KRM Twin Disc Rear Mounted Fertilizer Spreader had full GPS Kit and achieved an excellent £10,000. There had been much interest in the farms Vacuum Tanker and Keenan Diet Feeder with purchasers travelling from as far afield as Shropshire, Wales and North Hamptonshire. The Conor 2500 Gallon Single Axle Vacuum Tanker achieved £11,000, with the Keenan 365 Twin Axle Diet Feeder at £20,000.
The stars in the tractor line up were the Case 110 Maxxum in spite of having over 12,300 hours on the close and a 12’ Plate this achieved £20,800 with the prime mover for the farm Case 150 Puma 4WD c/w Front Linkage (67’ Plate-1,351 hours) at £57,200.
Yet again Telehandlers were the talk of the day with the farms Manitou MLT-735 (14’ Plate-7,700 Hours) at £28,500 and an older T’ Plate Manitou 527 (massive 19,000 hours) at a resounding £10,400.
The very well-kept Honda TRX 500 Quad Bike (nearly 7 years old but with only 575 work hours on the clock) achieved an excellent £7,000 to a local purchaser.
Within the Four Wheel Drive Vehicles;
The farms Land Rover Defender (56’ Plate-94,500 miles) at £13,200 and the Ford Ranger Wildtrak in Burnt Orange (14’ Plate-53,500 miles), at £17,000.
There were a wide range of included items at the sale with;
- John Deere 359 Conventional Baler at £2,800
- Massey Ferguson 6150 4WD £11,500
- Honda Big Red 300 Quad Bike £1,720
- Artic Trailers (No Dollies) Up to £900
- AJP Dolly Unit £1,360
- Bateson 12ft Livestock Trailer £1,800
Within the non-vat items;
- Milk Churns Up to £152 each
- Old Wooden Sheep Dip £210
- Poultry Feeders Up to £36 per lot
Further sales booked throughout the Spring with Darley Moor scheduled for the end of April, please check the website for further details, booking sales throughout the region. www.bagshaws.com