SOUTH EAST MARTS - HAILSHAM MARKET

Primestock report for:
WEDNESDAY, 7^th JANUARY 2009

CATTLE (19) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Dearer on the week, excellent trade for the best. James Wallis top price for the year so far – Limousin cross steer 178p - £1,100 plus. Jim and Nick Geering break new ground with their homebred Limousin cross steer, nearly £1,250. Hailsham’s speciality the Sussex - Carola Godman-Law has steers to 169p and Dick Bradford on behalf of St. Georges Retreat have steers to £972. Best Continental cross steers can easily command 170p, more needed.  Please let us know what you are sending.
Tel:- RRW 07860663345

WEDNESDAY'S HOT SPOTS
J D Wallis’ 620 kg. Limousin 178p
JH Geering & Son’s 720 kg. Limousin 173p
Mrs C Law’s 545 kg. Sussex 169p
JH Geering & Son’s 570 kg. Limousin heifer 164p
St. Georges Retreat’s 600 kg. Sussex 162p
St. Georges Retreat’s 500 kg. Sussex 160p
J B Gormley’s 635 kg. Limousin 153p
Mrs C Law’s 555 kg. Sussex 152p
St. Georges Retreat’s 510 kg. Limousin 150p
J B Gormley’s 495 kg. Limousin heifer 144p

CULL COWS & OTM CATTLE (12)
Short in numbers and short in quality but no shortage of demand - all dearer. Mrs. PA Greenwood’s Angus cow 108p, Ian Williams’ lean Simmental cross cow 105p, medium weight plain cows 75 and 74p. Many, many more could have been sold to advantage on this trade.

CALVES (14) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
One pen of mostly native bred calves all keenly competed for, new customers present for the New Year. Ridgewood Farms’ medium type Angus cross bull £100, Limousin cross bull £97, Hereford cross bull £87, Angus cross heifer £68 and Hereford cross heifer £85.

PIGS (11)
All coloured pigs on offer - pork weights spots £58/£68 each and small Saddleback weaners to £23 per head.

SHEEP (902) - Auctioneer: Nick Young Start 11.15 prompt

MILK LAMBS (13) - Mr & Mrs H Wyatt to £77.

HOGGETS (590) Overall average £69.02 per head
The best price in the UK today was at Hailsham just ask anyone who was there. The weak pound and strong euro has helped as well as the freeze and a definite shortage. It is so crucial to get these lambs right, especially with the big price. Let us know what you have.
Sincere apologies for the frozen weighbridge this week - therefore no prices per kilo on offer, but look at these prices per head!
Leading prices per head: SJ Carr £84.20, £80, £77, RW Kemp & Ptn £84, £81, £76, NJC & P Clouting £82, £82.50, £77, J Shippam £82.20, M Brett £79.50, GN & J West £77.50, C Unsted £77, GW Gribble £75, Mrs D Owen £75, C Deroo £74.80.

EWES (72)
In a word unbelievable - simply the best - better than all the rest !!
L Andreozzi £74.50, £70.50, C & J Biddle £70, £68, £62.50, FJ Pope £63.50, G Gribble £62, G Bowers £62, J Monnington Farms Ltd £59.

STORE LAMBS (316)
We predicted this trade before Xmas, there is definitely money to be made whether buying or selling. It pays to keep in touch during these very interesting times - Remember nothing is forever! L Andreozzi £64.50, £45,
JD Trunkfield Farms Ltd £62.50, £61.80, P Kelly £57, R Rogers & Sons £56, CE Hepher £54, £42, M Foley £52.50, £46.20, D Fieldwick £49.50, D Miles £49, D Powell £46.50, £46, £45.20.

THE 2009 HAILSHAM MARKET CALENDARS ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM THE OFFICE
Please let us know if you would like one and we’ll be happy to send you one.

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Fortnightly Sales of
STORE CATTLE
next sale to be held on
MONDAY, 19th JANUARY
Entries now being taken for this sale
Please let us have your entries early for inclusion in the catalogue
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FARM DIRECT

BULLS GALORE - Some to hire - some to buy
Continentals and Natives - One Angus looking for a good home for 8/12 weeks
Simmental, Limousin, Charolais, Angus, Sussex, Herefords, plenty of bulls in the bank and interest rates low
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DAIRY DIRECT - ALL SOLD
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FODDER STORE
ALL AVAILABLE - Hay, Straw and Silage, mostly big round bales of hay, big round/square of straw also clamp grass silage
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NEW ON THE MARKET - SHEEP DIRECT
98 Suffolk and Texel cross in-lamb ewes, mostly one lambers,
all scanned in-lamb to Texel to lamb mid February onwards
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DEADSTOCK DIRECT
Coleman steel slurry store - Molex L11 fibre bulk feed bin
RRW 07860 663345 / 01323 844874

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BLUE TONGUE MEETING
Brown & Nuttall, Heathfield, Highcroft, Hailsham
Howe, Starnes, Gatwood & Blowey, Uckfield
Senlac, Battle in conjunction with the NFU present
“BLUETONGUE - THE LATEST”
Dr. Chris Oura - Animal Health, Pirbright
One of the world’s leading experts on Bluetongue - who speaks the language farmers understand
At the Horseshoe Inn, Windmill Hill (on A271)
on Tuesday, 20th January 2009 at 7.30 pm
The presentation will be followed by a Question and Answer session chaired by Jeff Trunkfield, County Chairman NFU
followed by light refreshments at the bar
“There will be a PA system this time!”
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PRESS RELEASE FROM THE LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEERS ASSOCIATION

Prime lamb numbers sold through livestock auction markets rise by 27.8% in one year. The latest AHDB annual market throughput statistics clearly show that farmers are returning to the live auction ring to sell their prime cattle and prime sheep in unprecedented numbers. In ‘08 some 6.9 million prime lambs were sold through livestock auction markets in GB, which compares to 5.4 million in ‘07, an increase of 27.8% on the year.
The new season SQQ lamb price was 130.50p per kg, which was 28% higher, compared with ‘07. Old season SQQ lamb averaged 126.32p per kg, 16% above the previous years levels.
In ‘08 some 1.8 million cull ewes were sold through livestock auction markets in GB, which compares to 1.5 million in ‘07, an increase of 20% on the year. The overall cull ewe average price in ‘08 was £32.96 per head, £4.35 higher in comparison with ‘07. In ‘08 some 370,000 head of finished cattle were sold through livestock auction markets in GB, which compares to 369,000 in ‘07. AHDB estimates that the overall GB finished cattle slaughtering were down by 5.5% in ‘08.
The overall steer average in ‘08 was 144p per kg, 29% up on the year with heifers averaging 146p per kg, 28% above ‘07 levels. Young bulls averaged 141p per kg, 30% up on the year. 170,000 cull cows were sold through live auction marts in ‘08 to average 91p per kg, 40% higher than the ‘07 average.
Chris Dodds, Executive Secretary of The Livestock Auctioneers Association says “these statistics are even better than I had predicted. They clearly tell us that farmers in GB see the auction mart system as a vital tool to their marketing options, with the live ring being their only available forum where live, open, transparent and competitive trade can all be brought together in one place. Competition is the cornerstone to our industry and livestock markets are undoubtedly here to stay. It is my opinion that the live ring has been a price setter rather than a price taker over the last 12 months and farmers are always keen to follow and support a marketplace that continually offers strong competitive bidding for their products. As more farmers return to live ring selling it offers purchasers more of an assurance that they can selectively source the correct quantity of stock that their slaughter contracts are demanding.”