South East Marts – Hailsham Market
Primestock report for:

WEDNESDAY, 8th APRIL 2009

CATTLE (39) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Consolidating on last week - more cattle forward, some for further finishing.
Mark & John Cornwell have a Limousin x Charolais heifer, smartly bred and smartly fed and worthy of its 168p price tag. Top call in the steers
D Hobbs & Son’s Simmental cross steers 168p twice. Best of the purebred Sussex - Mrs Carolla Godman Law’s 570 kg. steer 156p. Holstein steers to 133p. Holiday weekend approaching, keep in touch for next week. RRW - 07860 663345

WEDNESDAY'S HOT SPOTS
M F & J C Cornwell’s 570 kg. Limousin heifer 168p
D Hobbs & Sons’ 435 kg. Simmental 168p
D Hobbs & Sons’ 420 kg. Simmental 168p
J & M Jones’ 605 kg. Limousin 156p
Mrs C Law’s 570 kg. Sussex 156p
B J Foster’s Limousin heifer 575 kg. 1.54p
Mrs C Law’s 605 kg. Sussex 154p
M F & J C Cornwell’s 610 kg. Limousin 153p
B J Foster’s 500 kg. Limousin 153p
M F & J C Cornwell’s 670 kg. Limousin 150p
R W Kemp & Partners’ 620 kg. Limousin 150p

Steers - No. – Price

Heifers – No. - Price

PREMIUM (E & R/2,3 &4L)

7

158.3p

2

161.0p

PRIME (R4H and 0+ 3 & 4)

14

145.4p

3

145.2p

OTHERS (Remainder)

4

134.5p

9

134.0p

CULL COWS & OTM CATTLE (24)
All continuing in the fast lane, tremendous interest in all grades whether finished or to feed on. Best of the Friesian Holstein culls 110p, 109.5p etc., lean steaking cows just under 100p. Medium fleshed older beef cross 113p. Cows to feed and graze the summer all in the 110p/120p price range. Best of the beef cross steers 30/48 mos some finished some to feed 152p, 148p, 144p, 140p twice.
Next Wednesday, 15th April - to be included in this market - Three Pedigree Sussex cows, to be sold immediately prior to the cull cows and overage beef - not been with the bull since calving last year - potential breeders. Boxted Lock, Gestlingmead & Lanolee breeding, born ‘02/’04.
also Pedigree Aberdeen Angus bull, born 2000, entered.

CALVES (10) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Still in orbit - again tremendous enquiry for the few calves on offer. Karova Farm’s Hereford x Friesian bulls 4/7 weeks old to £265 and averaged £215 and heifers to £195 and averaged £189. Limousin cross heifer to £147. Selling them privately? - why not try the auction system.

SHEEP (774) Auctioneer: Nick Young Start 11.15 prompt
LAMBS (9)
Not enough to create a continuity of demand. IH & FC Field 200p (£68), 187.5p (£60), NJC & P Clouting 174.4p (£86.50).

HOGGETS (390) Overall average 178.4p per kilo
As the price goes up to around the £2 per kilo mark buyers are predictably much more fussy. The right ones ring the bell and achieve the price whilst the others do not. Please ensure they are right. If in doubt our fieldsmen can advise just give us a call.
Leading prices per head: DS & P Humphrey 193.5p, P Gorringe 193.4p, 187p,
D Walker 192.5p, 188p, E Gingell 192.5p, Littleworth Farms 192.3p, SJ Carr 192.2p, 190.7p, 189.5p, 187.1p, 186.7p, A Ellett 188.8p, Armada Farm 184.5p.
Leading prices per head: DE Walker £92, SJ Carr £90, £89, £84.50, £84,
P Gorringe £89.50, £87.50, £85.50, NJC & P Clouting £88, £86.50, M Brett £83.50, FJ Pope £82.

EWES (198)
A rip roarer of a trade for the right ones. The Ultra plain and the ultra fat are discounted. G Harvey £94, J Glessing £85, £83.50, £77.50, M Gammons £83, LM Morgan £82, £80, Lord Lloyd £81, JD Trunkfield Farms £80, E Gingell £79, D Gosling £78.50.

STORE LAMBS (166)
Still no let up in the trade but please watch those teeth. Armada Farm £77, £71, £68, £63, S Piper £64.50, J Fisher £64, LM Morgan £64, M Fitton £62, M Haynes £60,
R Gorringe £57, C Unsted £50.

EWES & LAMBS - We need many more, with the rain comes the grass - and with milk lambs in short supply surely this must be the time to get stuck in. £29.13 per life.

WOOL SHEETS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE
at HAILSHAM MARKETon WEDNESDAY, 15th APRIL
WEDNESDAY, 29th APRIL WEDNESDAY, 13th MAY - 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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STORE CATTLE REPORT
MONDAY, 6th APRIL ~ Auctioneer:Roger Waters

Thorndean Farms’ Limousin steers head the returns this week.
£920 at 22/24 months old
Stores four or twenty four months old, it makes no difference -
all very much wanted.

SUCKLER BRED STEERS & HEIFERS - just under twelve months
J Barton-Jayne’s Charolais cross steers, 9 months £670, and heifers £565
ATD & SR Clutterbuck’s Limousin cross steers, 11/12 mos £630
J & JH Rodger’s Charolais cross steers, 9 mos £570
Mrs J Andrew’s Sussex cross steers, 12 mos £555

SUCKLER BRED STEERS & HEIFERS - just over twelve months
Thorndean Farms’ Limousin x Belgian Blue cross steers £720 and heifers £630, N Hedges’ Blonde cross steers, 12/13 mos £700,
AA & M Woolgar’s Limousin cross steers, 12/13 mos £685 and heifers £680,
AJ & GM Gingell’s Simmental cross steers, 13/14 mos £642,

OLDER STORES - 17/24 months old
A good number selling in the £800 plus price range - plenty of confidence exists for the existing finished price levels to continue
Thorndean Farms’ Limousin steers £920,
PE Perryman’s Charolais steers £885,
New Wharf Farm’ Belgian Blue x Friesian steer, 22 mos £820, Limousin cross steers, 17 mos £700, FC Harman & Son’s Sussex cross steer £730

ANGUS CROSS
Nearly to £900 ! - N & J Coleman selling cattle in Hailsham for the first time have Aberdeen Angus cross steers to £892 at 24 months
Others reaping the rewards of traditional breeding:-
S Flittner’s outwintered Angus cross steer, 22 mos £865,
GA & M Osgood’s homebred Angus cross steers, 18 mos £632
and heifers £540, Mrs C Neale’s Angus cross steers, 17 mos £547
and not forgetting
PJ Friend’s Angus bull - Marchants Eros CO68 £1,100
and to finish FRIESIAN HOLSTEINS
out the yard from New Wharf Farms’ 20/22 mos £690
outwintered from S Flittner, 18/19 mos £670
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No Sale Next Week due to
EASTER BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY
Next Sale of STORE CATTLE
to be held on MONDAY, 20th APRIL
Entries include:- 40 Aberdeen Angus cross steers and heifers, born Mar/May ‘08 from JS Tilley, 20 Simmental and Aberdeen Angus cross steers, 14/21 mos from N Hicks, 12 Aberdeen Angus cross steers and heifers, 12/18 mos from R Thomas,
10 Aberdeen Angus x Sussex steers, 7/8 mos from
RD Uridge Farms, plus many more other good entries coming forward
and thereafter
MONDAY, 27th APRIL
to incorporate
THE SPRING SHOW & SALE OF STORE CATTLE
Prizes awarded for:-
BEST PEN OF STEERS & BEST PEN OF HEIFERS
(Any age, Minimum of three in a pen)
First Prize £25, Second Prize £15, Third Prize £10
CHAMPION PEN - DON HUTCHISON MEMORIAL TROPHY
plus for the BEST PEN OF HEIFERS
- THE DENNIS WALKER MEMORIAL CUP
Special Prizes for the BEST PEN OF CONTINENTALS
and BEST PEN OF NATIVE BRED CATTLE
Prize money offered will only be presented for stock bona-fide sold
Entries now being taken for both these sales
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HERSTMONCEUX COLLECTIVE
at LIME END FARM
Herstmonceux, Nr. Hailsham
Inc. Nuffield 345, Ford 4000,M/F 699, Ferguson TED 20,
Same Taurus 60 tractors; Bedford Army lorry/bus; 2 x Polaris,
1 x Yamaha big bear and Kawasaki Mule quad bikes;
‘L’ Reg. Leyland DAF & Ford Fiesta diesel vans;
16 Trailers inc. livestock (I/W, Rice & Bateson), bale, tipping, grain and plant
(‘07 Bateson 3½t, 16' vgc); Farm machinery inc. 9 ploughs (Lemkin, Ford Ransomes, Ferguson, Kverneland, etc.); 6 mowers & toppers (Fleming, Bomford, Zetor, Bamford and PZ); Kuhn & Vicon vari-spreaders; chain and grass harrows; Springtine & Ransomes cultivators; M/F baler; Flat eight bale grab and sledge, McConnel bale slave, Unifarm hayrake; Hedgehopper hedgecutter; tractor & machinery spares; livestock equipment;horse sundries; gates and fencing materials; mowers; strimmers;rotovators; small tools, old & new, timber, paint, flowering shrubs and trees, go karts and bikes, guinea fowl and chicken, etc. etc.
on SATURDAY, 18th APRIL at 10 a.m.
CATALOGUES NOW AVAILABLE

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Mark Littmoden
Traditional Mole Catcher
01273 483636 – 07949472495
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MOBILE WELDING SERVICE
MIG & ARC - For all Farm Repairs and Fabrication
Tel: Rob Sargent
07809 545849 or 01424 892620
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GRAHAM LONG - Professional Mole Catcher
Using traditional trapping methods
Member of the Guild of British Mole Catchers - fully insured
Over 30 years experience
07795 226296 - 01435 813718
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** FARM DIRECT**
DAIRY DIRECT
Eighteen Friesian Holstein in-calf cows, majority second to fourth calvers,
due mid April onwards to Holstein Friesian
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Seven Friesian unserved heifers - all by proven Genus bull, approx. 12 months old
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BULL BANK
Natives on offer - Sussex and Angus -
Looking for proven Limousin bull, 24 months plus.
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FODDER BANK
Grass slow to grow - fodder bank still open - maize and grass silage available - silage bales and hay as well.
 RRW 07860 663345 / 01323 844874