South East Marts – Hailsham Market
Primestock report for:

WEDNESDAY, 13th FEBRUARY 2008

CATTLE (41 ) Auctioneer: Roger Waters

Roaring on and good to see a few more on offer. Hailsham has customers for allsorts! Top slot for the second week running - its becoming a habit - Julian Mockford’s homebred Limousin cross steer at 129p & grossing nealry £800. Best of the heifers Derek Southouse’s (back from his travels) Limousin cross 121p. Continental cross suckler bred steers and heifers all changing hands at 115p-129p price range. Beef from the dairy - all prominent. St. Georges Retreat’s Belgian Blue x Friesian steer £850+, John Gormley’s Angus x Friesian steer £750+, Malc McCubbine’s Belgian Blue x Friesian heifers nearly £700.

WEDNESDAY'S HOT SPOTS
J Mockford’s 615 kg. Limousin 129p
J & M Jones’ 620 kg. Limousin 127p
MG Southouse’s 630 kg. Limousin 121.5p
MG Southouse’s 515 kg. Limousin heifer 121p
St. Georges Retreat’s 540 kg Sussex 120.5p
Mr & Mrs AS Shookhye’s 520 kg. Blonde d’Aquitaine heifer 120p
J & M Jones’ 625 kg. Limousin 119p
St Georges Retreat’s 715 kg. Belgian Blue 119p
J Mockford’s 535 kg. Limousin heifer 118p

CULL COWS & OTM CATTLE (19)
Overage beef and culls in short supply and like the under thirty month beef trade in top gear - all very good to see. Best of the overage beef to Roger Daltry’s Simmental cross 94p twice. Best of the cows Rupert Taylor’s young Charolais 94p, Red Poll cow 89.5p, no meat cows less than 76.5p, one plain Shorthorn x Friesian 48p.

CALVES (20 ) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
All guns firing - spirited competition for all breeds. Top call Paul Rossi’s young Belgian Blue cross bull £142 and heifers to £109. Limousin cross heifer to £95. Best of the natives - Sussex cross bull £102 and heifer £79. Good black and white bulls to £15, reared Angus cross bull £157. Already entered for next week - two consignments of twenty Belgian Blue cross and Aberdeen Angus cross bull and heifer calves.

PIGS (0) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
No pigs on offer - entered for next week 2 sows and 2 gilts p lus 13 weaners inc. six well grown Landrace.

SHEEP (1179) - Auctioneer: Nick Young

HOGGETS (493)Overall average 113.3p per kg.
Big entry and the trade a touch easier in line with the national trend. Nonetheless no complaints, fierce competition throughout. But please, please make them meat. Best Beltex and Charollais lambs from AA & M Woolgar making the top price per kilo of 125.7p.
The trade is at Hailsham and it is now

Leading prices per kg: AA & M Woolgar 125.7p, 122.3p, 116.7p, Little Exceat Farm 125p, 118.1p, 116.6p, JRV Wheatland 120p, 114.5p, RW Kemp & Partners 118.8p, 115.6p, DW Reed 116.9p, J Monnington Farms Ltd 115.8p, 115.2p, 114.5p, JN Carr Farms 114.5p.
Leading prices per head: RW Kemp & Partners £58.20, £53.50, £52.20, £52, FG Coles £56.80, Little Exceat Farm £55, JN Carr Farms £54, SJ Carr £54, £53, Freshfield Farms £54, JRV Wheatland £53.80, Ashdown & General Land Co. £53.50

EWES (245)
Up, up and away, we said they would get dearer - Hailsham was on fire. Eastlands Farm £51, £47, H Hawkins & Co £46, R & W Brown £45.50, RFF Brown £45, BC Thomas £44.50, Freshfield Farm £43.

STORES (411)
Nowhere better to sell or buy. Undoubtedly with the finished price improving now is the time to do both. JRV Wheatland £48, Fairfields Farm £42.20, D Fieldwick £41, J Breeds £40.80, K Axell £39.80, £37.80, RG Whyman £39.80, £39.50, £37.20, PEG Reed £38, S Fenton £35.80. Next Wednesday, 15 young Suffolk cross ewes with their lambs at foot.

SPRING SHOWTIME AT HAILSHAM
EASTER SHOW & SALE PRIME CATTLE & MILK LAMBS
on WEDNESDAY, 12th MARCH

Prizes Awarded For:-
Class 1 - Best Pen of 3 Milk lambs (up to 32 kilos l/w)
Class 2 - Best Pen of 3 Milk lambs (32.1 kilos & over l/w)
Champion Pen of Lambs £25
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£25 for the BEST PEN OF HOGGETS (min of 5, any weight)
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Special Prize of £50 for the BEST BUTCHERS BEAST
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and £25 for Reserve Butchers Beast
plus a few 'Judges Specials' at his discretion
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£25 for the BEST COW
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All stock entered on the day will be eligible for the show
Please let us know what you will be bringing
Prize money offered will only be presented for stock bona-fide sold