Price Watch
FROM the Chelford Review, w/e March 16 CATTLE Andrew Williamson gave himself a break from lambing to sell the top priced steer at £1225, native breeds fared slightly better this week with Angus x from Graham Evans to £1,200, Lim x from John Goodwin at the same price and countless steers over £1,100 and no less than 30 over £1,000! POULTRY Top price went to R Smith achieving £26 per bird for some 10 month old Norfolk Bronze turkeys, followed by C Holland reaching £24 for a single Blue Splash Silkie Hen. R Stretch sold a Blue Bell & Amber Link pullet to £20.50 each reflecting the demand today. PIGS Richard Wilson always shows a nice pen or two; selling bacon weights to 156p/kg and cutters to 154p/kg, grossing £152 and £140 respectively. Pork weight pigs sold to 150p/kg or £123 in the lump for S Griffiths but once again, coloured pigs were slightly harder to place. Cull sows sold to 57p/kg for the best, with headages up to £76, the mixed quality is reflected in the average of 29p/kg. Weaners a phenomenal trade; selling from £30 to £50 per head and averaging £40! SHEEP All top quality lambs over 245 p/kg, to a top of 261 p/kg, with a total of 34 pens selling for more than 240 p/kg. As has been the case for some time now, the heavyweight lambs seem to command a premium through the auction, often penalised through the deadweight system. Today at Beeston all lambs sold over 52 kg averaged £124.44, to a top of £142.48. Such was the buoyancy of trade, every lamb sold between 25 and 52kg averaged £99.23... per life. EGGS Free range duck eggs to £1.50 per dozen. POTATOES £4.80 per bag (Wilja) ave £3. FRUIT & VEG Carrots £2.50 per bag, parsnips £1.40, savoy cabbage to £1.80, tundra to £1.80 PRODUCE Six loads with plenty of demand for more, the yard was packed with buyers! Oat straw sold to £130/t, wheat to £128/t for a 7-tonne load. Barley straw sold to £38 per bale.
A huge load of 17 tonne of haylage sold to £64/tonne. 14.5 tonne of silage sold to £22/tonne.