Farming and pets
Leek market TUESDAY, MAY 31
A VERY good turnout for the dispersal sale of behalf of S M Weston & Sons, Roston, which saw top prices of £3000 and 31 dairies over £2000. A superb trade from start to finish!
More barren cattle forward this week and trade just the same seeing some excellent prices achieved up to 206p/kg or £1563.25.
A stronger trade seen for Spring Lambs this week with prices up to 410p/kg and £174.68 per head with the average of 359.51p/kg overall. Less hoggs about but trade still remaining firm with top price of 302p/kg or £187.44/head. Cull ewes saw an superb trade once again, topping at £190 to average £117 overall.
Pigs sold on a good enquiry seeing the best porkers to 174p/ kg or £171.70 per head with good prices throughout.
A good turnout of buyers for calves this week met a strong trade selling up to £405 for a Simmental bull calf and heifers to £295.
BARREN COWS (51);
Selling time – 10:00am Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
Good to see more cattle about this week and trade just the same! Top price of 206p/kg for a 545kg British Blue from
A E Allcock, Waterhouses and a 610kg British Blue at 200p/ kg for B & BM Rowlinson, Bottomhouse. Another Blue from AE Allcock realised 195p/kg and a 845kg Limousin achieved 185p/kg for K L Potts, Mottram St Andrew.
Overall average of 146.11p/kg or £863.47 per head.
Top headage price of £1563.25 for a 845kg Limousin from KL Potts, with Angus’ to £1344.60 & £1339.80, British Blues to £1267.50 & £1220 and Shorthorns to £1241.
A 735kg Saler bull realised 179p/kg (£1315.65) from MJ & VP Oliver & Sons, Toft Green.
CLEAN CATTLE;
A 675kg Angus sold for 209p/ kg from FG, JM & TE Carnwell, Dilhorne.
DAIRIES (142);
Selling time – 11:30am Auctioneers – Meg Elliott
(07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
Shieldhouse Dispersal to £3000 with 31 £2000+
A very large crowd gathered for the Dispersal of the Shieldhouse Herd of Holsteins and A-shieldhouse Herd of Ayrshires on behalf of the Weston Family of Roston, Ashbourne. They were no doubt drawn by the real quality on offer which saw a top price of £3000 and the entire herd average a superb £1831.
Topping the day was a fresh second calver by De Vlottenburg Fantasy. She had given 9711kg in her heifer lactation. Sold giving 45kg she went to the Minshall family of Tean.
Hot in pursuit at £2800 was a February calved third calver by Nafta. Due in again in January to Dynamite she was giving a massive 52kg and went to John Bayley of Nuneaton. Another second calver by Fantasy calved in February reached £2560 to a Stafford purchaser.
Ayrshires topped at £2360 for a milking heifer due again in November to Ryland Red to Messrs Sales of Leek.
In total 29 passed the £2000 barrier to average out an exceptional £1831 which included some with faults.
The commercial section saw a mixed quality forward which sold to a very strong trade topping at £2400 for second calver from Phillip Brocklehurst of Mobberley with heifers from John Stone of Onecote to £2100.
Overall the strong trade continues to hold if not improve. Please get in touch if you have stock to sell.
PIGS (85);
Selling time – 9:15am Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894).
Another good trade for pigs this week. Pork pigs topped at 174p/ kg for a 65kg pig from David Goldstraw, Meerbrook who also sold a 74kg pig for 167p/kg and 72kg pigs at 164p/kg. 159p/kg for 74kg pigs from J & B Fentem.
Cutters topped at 166p/kg for 81.5kg pigs from J & B Fentem who also sold 85kg pigs for 164p/kg, 78kg pigs for 138p/kg and 81kg pigs for 122p/kg. 166p/ kg also for 81kg pigs from David Goldstraw and 164p/kg for 79kg pigs from M R Banham.
Bacon pigs sold up to 166p/kg for a 90kg pig from J & B Fentem and 164p/kg for 87kg pigs from the same home who also dols others at 162p/kg, 152p/kg and 136p/kg. a 94kg pig made 160p/ kg from Bernard Minshull and 160p/kg and 158p/kg for 87kg and 100kg pigs from David Goldstraw.
Heavy pigs topped at 130p/ kg twice for a 111kg pig from M R Banham and 110kg pigs from Bernard Minshull. A pair of 107kg pigs at 114p/kg for Bernard Minshull and 108p/kg for 116kg pigs from the same home.
Two cull sows sold up to
81p/kg for a 193kg sow and a 264kg sow at 66p/kg, both from Bernard Minshull.
SHEEP SECTION;
Selling time 11:00am Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
SPRING LAMBS (252);
A steady entry saw a very fast rade with plenty of the best lambs seeing 380p/kg and better topping at 410p/kg.
Heavy lambs also well bid for topping at 364p/kg for 47.5kg and a top headage of £174.68. Many more could be sold each week!! Overall average of 360p/ kg.
BUTCHERS HOGGETS (163);
Numbers drying up but a stronger trade throughout, particularly for the big hoggs.
Top of 302p/kg but heavies really looking the best sold to 288p/kg or £187.44/head.
Overall average of 253.5p/kg for a tail end entry.
CULL SHEEP (170);
A seasonal entry saw a sharp trade with best Rams to £190 and best ewes to £185.
Overall average of £117.49.
CALVES (155);
Selling time – 10:00am Auctioneer - Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
A bigger and better entry of
155 head with some good strong calves in the entry and a big line up of buyers led to a super trade throughout.
44 Continental Bulls
Good numbers and some solid calves about with buyers for all. A super black Simmental from the Sutton family, Morton topped the day at £405 (29 days). Top 15 over £300; mediums calves £230 - £290 with a few smaller bulls under £200.
29 Blues av £261 to £370 - DW & P Hulme
8 Sims av £291 to £405 - EB & BM Sutton
6 Lims av £221 to £325 - NG, JMH & H Mellor
The same numbers as bulls and again a good line up of buyers for all qualities. Best Blues sold to £295 twice for Messrs Cooper, Church Lawton and Peter
Gilman, Thorncliffe (both 7 weeks old). 14 best over £210; mediums £150 - £200 with smaller and younger sorts less.