Price Watch
FROM the Chelford Review, w/c November 28, 2016 CATTLE £300 a barrier stopping all the regular buyers, stopped many times top £302 for Colin Sherwin`s Simmental bull, Blues to £300 for Lea Farming and JG Moss, Angus bulls a much sharper trade to £240 at just eight days for RS Davies, many other Natives over £200, today some younger plainer types £120+. POULTRY Turkeys and geese were the top 10 highest prices, with two American Geese fetching £19 (all prices per head) two pens of two black turkey, four in total, £18, two white turkeys £17. Another two pens of bronze turkeys £17, another two white turkeys £16. A goose fetched £15 and a pair of Toulouse geese £15. PIGS Porkers average £108.25, Cutters average £121.49, Baconers average £104.42, Overweight average £115.50. SHEEP The Reserve Championship ticket was awarded to a pen of 42kg Texel Cross lambs from Ken House, Congleton, which sold for 280p/kg (£117.60 per head) to C. Partington, Glebe Farm Shop, Astbury, whilst the Young Farmers Championship was also won by the House family, this time with their 45kg Texel Crosses which made 255p/kg (£114.75 per head) to C. Webb Butchers. EGGS Free Range Large £1.40, Free Range Medium £1.10, Medium 90p, FR Small 50p, Duck £3.40, Brace Pheasant £1.50, Brace Duck £1.50, Brace Partridge £4, Pigeon 70p POTATOES Washed Nadine x 10kg £3.00, Harmony x 12.5kg £3, Wilja £5.50, Nadine £4, Piper £4, Accord £3.50 FRUIT & VEG Bunched carrot 60p, dirty carrot £3, spring cabbage £4, gold beetroot £2.50, beetroot £2.50, leeks x 7lb, £4.75, Calabrese x 6lb £5, onions £3.25, Savoy x 9 £2.50, Rope Onions £3, Dirty Parsnip x 10lb £1.75, Cauliflower x 7 £6, sprout stems x 8 £5.50, swede x 14lb £4, January King x 6 £3, washed carrot £4. PRODUCE There was a much sharper trade for straw with round bale barley £76 to £94 per tonne and squarebale £74 to £81 per tonne. Big bale wheat straw £56 to £70 per tonne and a single load of oat straw £70 per tonne.
Small bale barley made £108 per tonne.