An excellent Show & Sale on behalf of the Shorthorn Society as part of the monthly Pedigree sale this Tuesday. Top price of £2120 for a heifer from the Steeples family with the Shorthorns selling to £1860.
A good number of lambs about and trade still remaining firm. Top price of 200p/kg or £96.60/head with an overall SQQ average of 163p/kg. Cull sheep topped at £116.
Cull cattle trade remains hesitant, but a strong entry forward, with barrens selling to 129p/kg for a Hereford cow, with clean cattle to 176p/kg.
Less calves about and buyers about for them, but a top of £310 for a British Blue bull calf with heifers to £270.
A nice entry of pigs this Tuesday, with all qualities forward, selling to 128p/kg for cutters, and sows to 58p/kg.
BARREN COWS (71);
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A larger number of cattle about this week and prices less due to a large number of cattle about nationally.
Top price of 129p/kg for a 740kg Hereford from EM & CP Naden, Cheddleton. Limousins sold to 115p/kg for a 655kg cow from JH & IEA Bennett, Brandside.
Other top prices;
111p 700kg Simmental – EM & CP Naden, Cheddleton
110p 630kg Hereford – EM & CP Naden, Cheddleton
109p 865kg Simmental – D Klucznik, Longsdon
108p 670kg Holstein – W E Turnock & Sons, Onecote
106p 715kg Holstein – IJ & AM Barks, Blackshaw Moor
106p 685kg Holstein – IJ & AM Barks, Blackshaw Moor
106p 785kg Hereford – HA & TR Mycock, Grindon
104p 690kg Limousin – GW & SM Pattinson, Weaver
103p 845kg Shorthorn – S Kirkham, Hartington
Overall average of 85.66p/kg or £575.21 per head.
Top headage price of £954.60 for the 740kg Hereford from Peter Naden, with Simmentals to £942.85 and Shorthorns to £870.35.
CLEAN CATTLE (18);
Selling time – 10:45am approx.
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Trade still similar with a nice number forward. Top price of 176p/kg for a 515kg Limousin steer from Hambleton Bros. Other steers sold to 152p/kg for a 610kg Limousin from A W Kennerley & Son, Betley, with a 590kg Hereford from R G Chaddock, Gillow Heath.
Heifers topped at 164p/kg for a 540kg Limousin from E A Sessions & Sons, Dalbury Lees. Hereford heifers sold to 131p/kg and 130p/kg twice.
Top headage price of £927.20 for the Limousin steer from A W Kennerley, with others at £916.50 and £906.40, and heifers to £885.60.