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.

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

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

Machinery Dispersal Report-Burns Farm, Church Warsop, Mansfield

“Outstanding prices at Nottinghamshire Retirement Sale”

The retirement sale on behalf of Mr Richard Green at Burns Farm, Church Warsop near Mansfield attracted a large crowd from as far a field as Forfar in Scotland and North Norfolk as well as Yorkshire and all surrounding Counties with a wide range of effects for genuine dispersal there was excellent bidding for all categories.

Undoubtedly the stars of the show were the New Holland tractors and JCB telehandler and with the majority of the items owned from new prices were as follows;

  • Three Phase Welder                                                                       £100
  • Kongskilde Space Heater                                                               £95
  • Stihl Single Phase Industrial Vacuum                                        £115
  • 10 Ton Trolley Jack                                                                         £390
  • Tarpaulin Sheets                                                                             £100 each
  • Grain Aeration Spear c/w Aeration Motor                             £110
  • Single Phase Ehrle HD623 Hot Washer                                    £1,620
  • 5000 Litre Plastic Bunded Fuel Store c/w Pump                   £3,100
  • Single Phase Compressor                                                             Up to £450
  • Tong Tip-Skip                                                                                 £460
  • Tong Single Phase Brusher Belt                                                  £2,200
  • Tong 3B Bulker Grader Single Phase                                         £5,200
  • Tong Bagger Weigher                                                                    £2,600
  • Morray Single Phase Belt c/w Stitcher Unit                           £2,100

Irrigation equipment attracted wide interest from local purchasers together with traders as far afield as Pembrokeshire.

  • Water Meters                                                                                   £190 each
  • Irrifrance Optima 110 400 Irrigation Guns                                       £14,600
  • Briggs 110/470 Twin Axle Irrigation Reels                                        £18,200
  • RM Equipment Self-Propelled Mobile Pump Unit c/w JCB Engine                 £13,000

In the machinery;

  • Eddlington Trailed Ring Rolls c/w Levelling Paddles                                           £2,750
  • Jaguar Mounted 2.5 Metre Flail Topper                                                                  £2,000
  • Amazone ZA-V 3200 Profis-Tronic Twin Disc Fertilizer Spreader                   £5,000
  • Cousins Hydraulic Folding Spring Tine                                                                      £5,550
  • Kuhn HR 3003 Power Harrow                                                                                      £4,400
  • Maschio SC300 Mounted Rotavator                                                                         £7,900
  • Kverneland DV 6 Metre Mounted Drill                                                                     £5,600
  • Swift Lift Extendo Cleated Belt Elevator                                                                  £11,400

Trailers and bowsers were a fast trade as follows;

  • Armstrong and Holmes 10 Ton (Mono Bodied)                                                    £6,950
  • AS Marston 14 Ton Grain Trailers (Mono Bodied)                                               £9,500
  • 10,500 Litre Twin Axle Hutchinson Trailed Water Bowser                                               £19,100

The JCB 536-70 Agri Super had been owned from new and showed 2,657 hours on sale day and achieved an eye watering £58,300 to a local farmer.

Attachments were a strong trade;

  • Strimech Wide Grain Bucket                                                                                       £1,220
  • Cherry Narrow Bucket                                                                                                   £740
  • Pedestrian Man Cage                                                                                                    £800

Both New Holland T Series Tractors were in excellent order with the T 6.175 (17’ Plate-1,268 hours) at £47,400 and the T 7.230 (18’ Plate-2,067 hours) at £59,600.

In the included items;

  • BOM Auger Bucket                                                                                            £920
  • 2000 Litre Bunded Road Going Fuel Bowser c/w Ring Hitch                            £3,400
  • Ifor Williams Flat Trailer                                                                                     £2,000

In the non-vat and collectable items;

  • Westwood T60 Ride On Mower (Excellent Order)                                              £2,560
  • Stihl Strimmer                                                                                                     £310
  • Lions Maid Ice Cream Sign                                                                                 £700
  • 3x Ford Vintage Front Weights                                                                           £95
  • Cylinder Roll Top Desk c/w Captains Office Chair                                               £430
  • 4x 56 ilb Weights                                                                                                 Up to £80 per set
  • Old Stone Boot Washing Trough                                                                         £400
  • Old Stone 5ft Rectangular Trough                                                                       £860

“Excellent kit and excellent trade”

More sales upcoming for Spring and Summer check out our website for further details www.bagshaws.com