WELSH MARKET REPORTS
Monmouthshire Livestock Auctioneers, April 18
Finished Hoggets
A much smaller entry of 584 tegs overall, firmer than Monday with an SQQ of 238.48p/kg.
Heavy tegs over 44kg noticeably better to a top price of 269p/kg (£129-48kg) K & D Powell; 268p/kg (£118-44kg) WJ & GA Williams; 268p/ kg (£126-47kg) OE Harris; 265p/kg (£127-48kg) GT Phillips; 265p/kg (£121-45.7kg) GJ & EB Watkins & Son; 263p/kg (£129-49kg) ET & V Morris.
Top price per head £137 for 72kg from D Mantle and 67kg from M Phillips, numerous pens once again over £130.
A short supply of quality mediumweights saw these peak at 276p/kg (£110.50-40kg) for Beltex from EW & A Saysell, with all meated sorts well over 250 pence. 33-36kg weights selling to strong demand, including a top of 256p/kg (£92-36kg) again from EW & A Saysell; 253p/kg (£88.50-35kg) from SB & RE Jones. Lightweights to 242p/kg (£75-31kg) also from EW & A Saysell; 238p/kg (£72-30.3kg) from GJ & EB Watkins & Son.
New Season Lambs
An entry of 84 lambs to level at 277.31p/kg and a top price of 299p/ kg (£99.50-33.3kg) from PW Maddocks; 289p/kg (£110-38kg) from J Pike.
Stronger lambs to 273p/kg (£120-44kg) from DA Evans & Partners and a top price per head of £123 (44kg) from EA Jones. Cull Sheep
471 cull sheep sold to a very strong trade, although not quite to the highs of recent weeks.
PC Jenkins topped the trade at £146 for a terrific Texel ewe.
Charollais to £114 from RD, DR & RS Heath, who also sold Suffolk X to £107. A pen of Texel ewes from WG Davies & Son sold at £108.
The best ewes £90-plus, mediums £75-plus. Best of the Welsh to £78 from CM Davies & Son, and £75 from WJ & GA Williams.
The stronger sorts generally £55-£70.
Very little under £40. Not too many strong rams on offer, the best Welsh at £101.50 from GB & FE Ralph. Toothers sold very well at £114 from R & L Anthony Ltd; £100 from SB & RE Jones.
A large entry of goats sold to £84 from Wallis Farms Ltd, plainer goats £60.50.
Newcastle Emlyn Store Mart Report, April 17, from Dai Lewis Cyf Auctioneers
Another good entry forward in all sections, with more barrens presented this time, but again many more needed to satisfy demand.
A good selection of beef barrens peaked at 142.0p/kg and levelled at 119.3p/kg. One dairy overage steer made 115.0p/kg. A good show of cows and calves met a fast run and again many more needed to satisfy demand.
Weaned calves and store cattle met a stronger run than the previous mart, with purchasers being more confident that the grass is now growing!
Prior entries for breeding stock, weaned and store cattle tour, Newcastle Emlyn office for the next mart on May 1.
Barrens OVAV £753.75.
£1080 Messrs Davies & Jones, Blaenantrhys, Bancyffordd;
£860, £670 Messrs Davies, Rhydlydan, Talgarreg;
£800, £660 Messrs Davies, Rhosgeler, Rhos;
£800 Messrs James, Bryngolau, Capel Iwan;
£720, £715, £710 etc Messrs Morgan, Ffrwdwenith Ganol, Aberporth; and
£700 Mr Joynson, Brithdir, Gwernogle.
Cull Bull
£905 Messrs Howells, Lodge, Trelech.
Overage Steer
£460 Messrs Davies, Blaendyffryn, Horeb.
Stock Bull
3yo Lim £1800 Messrs Jones, Nantypele, Nanternis
Cows & Calves.
£1700, £1640, £1620 etc Messrs Jones, Nantypele, Nanternis. Welshpool, April 10, Morris Marshall & Poole and Norman Lloyd
Store cattle
Trade was absolutely on fire at the mid-month sale of store cattle, with some excellent bunches of cattle being sold in just an hour and a half, which led buyers to question why more cattle couldn’t be sold in bunches at the end of the month sales – vendors, please note buyers like bunches!
The averages were better on steers than the end of March, with heifers selling very similar.
Averages of the day were 235.61p a kg or £1014.71 per head for steers and heifers averaged 215.32p a kg or £889.24 per head.
Leading the way with top price per head were:
Steers
Limousin (x1) 565kg £1255 E Jones & Son, Penbontpren, Cwmbelan.
Limousin (x1) 640kg £1240 E Jones & Son, Penbontpren, Cwmbelan.
Limousin (x1) 500kg £1160 E Jones & Son, Penbontpren, Cwmbelan.
Charolais (x1) 490kg £1155 EH & EW Anwyl, Rhosgoch, Staylittle.
British Blue (x4) 517kg £1150 J T Francis & Co, Penygaer, Golfa.
Heifers
Limousin (x1) 580kg £1295 M H Pugh, Gilfach, Kerry.
Salers (x1) 615kg £1260 T E Lewis & Son, Abergwenlas, Llanbadarn Fynydd.
British Blue (x1) 670kg £1185 T E Lewis & Son, Abergwenlas, Llanbadarn Fynydd.
Limousin (x1) 495kg £1165 M H Pugh, Gilfach, Kerry.
Charolais (x1) 500kg £1145 D Evans, Bryngolau, Llanfihangel.
Top prices per kilo were as follows:
Steers
Limousin (x5) 351kg 289.20p per kg W T Jones & Co, Croesllwyn, Llanidloes.
Limousin (x1) 365kg 280.80p per kg W T Jones & Co, Croesllwyn, Llanidloes.
Limousin (x1) 380kg 276.30p per kg W T Jones & Co, Croesllwyn, Llanidloes.
Charolais (x1) 385kg 270.10p per kg A & LC Evans, Tynycelyn, Dinas Mawddwy.
Charolais (x5) 351kg 262.10p per kg E & H Chapman, Morfodion, Oakley Park.
Heifers
British Blue (x1) 375kg 248p per kg D E Morgan & Co, Cefntwlch, New Mills.
Charolais (x1) 350kg 245.70p per kg Fachwen Farms, Awelfa, Tregynon.
Charolais (x1) 435kg 241.40p per kg A & LC Evans, Tynycelyn, Dinas Mawddwy.
Charolais (x3) 386kg 239.60p per kg E & H Chapman, Morfodion, Oakley Park.
Limousin (x2) 385kg 239ppkg E Jones & Son, Penbontpren, Cwmbelan.