South East Marts – Hailsham Market
Primestock report for:

WEDNESDAY, 14^th MAY 2008

CATTLE (28) Auctioneer: Roger Waters

Rock solid trade, all medium and heavyweight Continental cross suckler/dairy bred steers or heifers 130p plus topping out with Kenny Simmons’ specials at 150p and 145p, his young homebred Limousin cross steers £800 plus at 18 months. John Gormley has dairy bred Limousin cross heifers at 142p and John Ayres has Friesian steers to 124p.

Cattle looking short next week. Please keep in touch

WEDNESDAY'S HOT SPOTS
K Simmons’ 515 kg. Limousin 150p
K Simmons 560 kg. Limousin 145p
JB Gormley’s 580 kg. Limousin heifer 142p
J & M Jones’ 610 kg. Limousin 141p
St. Georges Retreat’s 455 kg. Limousin heifer 140p
J & M Jones’ 450 kg. Limousin heifer 140p
J & M Jones’ 530 kg. Limousin heifer 140p
J Mockford’s 540 kg. Limousin heifer 139p
BJ Foster’s 545 kg. Limousin heifer 139p

CULL COWS & OTM CATTLE (13)

Short and sharp, all meat cows changing hands between 99p/119.5p.
Chris Rea’s excellent young Simmental/Hereford to 119.5p.
Steaking/grazing Simmental to 96.5p, Grade one crossbred Charolais 109p. Natives: Sussex and Angus cross 99p and 96.5p. Plain aged Friesians 74p. Many more could have been sold to good advantage.

PIGS (23) Auctioneer: Roger Waters

All met a ready sale. Two pens of white crossbred weaners to £20. Tamworth crossbred £14.50, feeding gilt £38

CALVES (73) Auctioneer: Roger Waters

Over 70 young and reared calves, lots of calves, lots of customers and lots of trade. Reared stirks:- Belgian Blue cross bull £243, Charolais cross bull £210, Hereford cross bull £185, Angus cross heifer £147, Friesian Holstein bull £133, JH & JHB Bayne’s Limousin cross heifer £202 and bull £190 at ten weeks. Young calves: Majority Angus cross, bulls £130, £120, £117, £100, etc. and heifers £95, £95, £90, £90 and £87, etc.

Selling calves then let us know what you’re bringing - every little helps
Next Wed, 21st - 10 Angus & Sussex cross heifers, 18/22 weeks old

SHEEP (1033) Auctioneer: Nick Young

Hailsham Sage Jim Frizzell said trade for all sheep was off the Richter scale

LAMBS (85) Overall average 199.1p per kg.

Nothing like enough for the level of demand. Predictably “Maestro” Andreozzi does exceptional business. There is no point selling store milk lambs now - they are not good enough to kill and too early to be sold as stores. Our best advice is to creep feed and hit the £80 mark. It is essential you let us know in advance what you have.

Leading prices per kg: L Andreozzi 221.5p, 220.5p, 215p, 211.3p, 205p, 203.9p, 200.9p, IH & FC Field 196.9p, 190.5p, 185.7p, 184.3p, DS Homan 192.6p. Leading prices per head: L Andreozzi £89, £87.50, £85.50, £83, £82, DS Homan £70.50, IH & FC Field £69.50, £68

HOGGETS (380) Overall average 141.5p per kg.

Fierce trade 160/170p+ the order of the day. We want your hoggets at Hailsham but please watch those teeth.

Leading prices per kg: Littleworth Farms 182.7, 164.5p, R Parsons 171.9p, 170.6p, R Gorringe 162.2p, 156.6p, MK Wickens 160.3p, 156.5p, RJ Verity 153.7p, RH Smith 153.6p, A Matthews 152.9p.
Leading prices per head: R Peate £76.50, £74.50, £69.50, K Davis £76.50, £74, J Carr £73, FJ Rogers £72, A Matthews £72, £71.50 DS Homan £71.50, P Jarrett £71.50, RH Smith £71, BJ Baker £71, £70.50, JRG Smith £70.

EWES (265)

There is no comparison with the Hailsham trade anywhere. If you have ewes and are not at Hailsham you are not making the best price.K Manning £65, RH Smith £65,
K Simmons £61.50, J Glessing £60, H Wyatt £56.

EWES & LAMBS - Off the Richter scale! We rang the bell at Hailsham. The grass is growing and everybody wants couples but at Hailsham we make the best price. AJ & AC Cheesmur’s Welsh Mule shearling ewes and Hampshire Down lambs £44 and £34 per life.

Entered for Next Wed. 21st - 10 Suffolk Mule tegs with their lambs

STORES (232)

A good trade. JD Goodman £62.50, J Carr £59, DG Jackson £58.50, £54.50, £46, £43, K Russell £57.50, GA Verity £53.50, £47, I Williams £49.50,
D Powell £48, DE & SE Goulder £44.

PLEASE NOTE WE MUST START SELLING AT 11.15 PROMPT