Price Watch
FROM the Beeston Review, w/e February 2 CATTLE Some super cattle on offer it has to be said, but no less than 30 cattle over £1,000 selling to a top price of £1,365 for a pair of Blue Steers from Mr Andrew Worthington. A further pair from Andrew made £1,295 apiece and leading the native returns was Rodney Latham with Angus x to £1,240. Great to see Brenda Sutton with a super pen of Beef Shorthorn steers, selling to £1,190, Bernard Lowe also over £1,100 with Sim x steers to £,1140. POULTRY Point of lay pullets were in abudance with Welsummer Yearlings selling for £10 (all prices per head). Two lots of Copper Blue Maran pullets (7 in total) £12. A Buff Wyandotte Pullet £14, a Copper Black Maran pullet £12. Welsummer Bantam pullets £7. 4 Silkie x POL £5 2 Black Minora Pullet bantams £6. 5 Maran POL £9. Numerous lots of cockerels sold up to £7. PIGS Once again, quality, wellfinished butchers pigs sold well throughout, for all weights, and particularly at porker weights. Plainer pigs, and those likely to kill out at lower percentages, again proved more difficult to place. Prime finished pigs to 139 p/kg (73.5 kg) Sows to 38.0 p/kg, store pigs saw Welsh gilts to £87. SHEEP Lambs: new season – premium max p/kg 240.0; ave p/ kg 221.5, prime max p/kg 218.0; ave p/kg 208.5: others max p/kg 192.0; ave. p/kg 181. Ewes average £ 62.63, rams average £75. Only a handful of in-lamb ewes in today. Store lambs found several buyers, despite a shortage of feeding quality, with Texel cross 3 and 4 year-old ewes, due mid-February to the Texel making £116. EGGS Just over £1 per dozen. POTATOES £5 per bag - Valour. FRUIT & VEG Carrots £1.50 per bag, parsnips £2, red cabbage to £3, hard cabbage to £3, leeks £2.50, sprouts £2.50. PRODUCE Three loads of wheat straw in quads made £120 to £128 per tonne, nicely above vendor’s expectations. Hay of horse/ sheep quality in mini-Hestons made £25 per bale and medium quality second cut haylage realised £55 per tonne.