Leek market
TUESDAY, MARCH 16
A VERY busy day at Leek, hosting the monthly Pedigree Dairy Sale with some very good quality cattle forward selling up to £2290 for heifers and cows to £2100 with yearlings selling on an excellent enquiry selling to £1090.
A super trade for barren cattle again this Tuesday and more on offer, selling up to 160p/kg and £1312.50.
More cattle required for the demand on offer!
Hogg’s still continue to sell on a unreal trade, with the SQQ average at 296.5p/ kg and up to 355p/kg for the best quality sorts and £165.26 per head! Culls ewes also just as strong, albeit a bit less than last week up to £152.
Calves just as dear as they have been with many buyers looking to stock up, with bulls selling to £378 and heifers to £335.
A good entry of pigs sold on a solid trade, with bacon pigs to 150p/kg twice.
BARREN COWS (60);
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Another smashing trade for all barren cattle this Tuesday with buyers forward looking for numbers, and great to see a good turnout of stock from vendors.
Top price of 160p/kg for a 755kg Aberdeen Angus cow from P & D Smallwood, Middlewich who sold another at 156p/kg for a 730kg Aberdeen Angus cow. Blonde’s topped at 150p/kg for a 620kg cow from James Gilman, Bosley.
Black & whites sold up to 151p/kg for a 735kg Holstein from T Swinson & Partners, Caverswall and 150p/kg for a 875kg Holstein from ET Hanson & Sons, Alford.
Overall average of 124.97p/kg or £874.49 per head.
Top headage price of £1312.50 for a
Holstein from ET Hanson & Sons, with other Holsteins to £1287.60 and £1238.40 and Angus’ to £1208 and £1138.80.
CLEAN CATTLE;
Selling time – 10:45am approx. Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Two black & white bulls sold at 167p/kg for a 540kg Friesian and a 530kg Friesian at 165p/kg, both from J E Archer & Sons, Hilton.
DAIRIES (138);
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
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PIGS (94);
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
An excellent trade this Tuesday, with a few less on offer, but prices well up on last week by £15 - £25 per head!
No lighter pigs forward this Tuesday. Bacon pigs topped at 148p/kg for a trio of 96kg pigs from David Goldstraw, who also sold another 3 at 136p/kg. PF & PD Parsons realised 145p/kg for a pair of 97kg pigs with 144p/kg for 89kg pigs from J & B Fentem, with Bernard Minshull selling a run at 144p/kg, 142p/kg, 140p/ kg and 139p/kg.
Heavy pigs topped at 145p/kg for a pair of 106kg pigs from Bernard Minshull, Buxton, who also sold a 109kg pig at 120p/kg and the Fentem family selling 109kg and 106kg pigs at 111p/kg.
Sows were in a strong demand up to 95p/kg for a 280kg sow from PF & PD Parsons, with a 201kg sow at 85p/kg for Chris Hine and a 244kg sow at 81kg for JW Bailey.
A 218kg Cull boar realised 48p/kg for G Longden, Bamford.
SHEEP SECTION;
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929
946652) CALVES (122);
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899);
A better show of calves today with trade actually dearer than last week. While the trade is so hot, it is surely the timer to sell some. If you want any advice on prices, please give me a call on 07801 530899. 25 Continental Bulls av £260.16
The best look dear but the second and third quality look the best sold. Very smart fresh blues from Will Wood, Rushton sold up to £378 with the top 10 all over £300; mediums £250 - £290 with a few smalls under £250.
10 Blues av £256 to £378 - W Wood & Son
5 Sims av £295 to £325 - S & M Huxley & Son
10 Lims av £247 to £318 - N E Goodwin & Son
29 Continental Heifers £206.14
Very very dear again with seasonal buyers fighting hard to secure numbers. Two super Blues from Andrew Hulme made £335 and £315 with posh fresh Blondes at £290 from Messrs Gilman, Buglawton. 10 Best over £230; mediums £190 - £220 with a few smalls under
£180.
12 Blues av £208 to £335 - DW & P Hulme
5 Sims av £237 to £290 - S & M Huxley & Son
8 Lims av £160 to £235 - Foker Grange Farm
4 Blo/char av £251 to £290 - EJ & VC Gilman
44 Natives
Best bulls look best sold with a smart Hereford to £314 for K W Powell with other good bulls over £250. Best of the heifers was a Hereford at £215 from Pete Beswick with only some spring calving heifers under £100.
7 Black & White Bulls
Best at £122 for Jim Hudson with others at £110 and Brown Swiss at £118.