CHRISTMAS PRIMESTOCK MARKETS
CHANGE OF PLAN
WE WILL NOT BE HOLDING A MARKET
ON WEDNESDAY, 23rd DECEMBER
but will definitely be holding one
on WEDNESDAY, 30th DECEMBER
(weather permitting)
Please let us know what stock you will be bringing so we can inform purchasers
We would like to take this opportunity of wishing all our clients
A Very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
from all of us at HAILSHAM MARKET
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First STORE CATTLE sale in 2010
to be held on MONDAY, 11th JANUARY
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THE 2010 HAILSHAM MARKET CALENDARS
ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM THE OFFICE
Please let us know if you would like one and we’ll be happy to send you one

CATTLE (12)  Auctioneer: Roger Waters
More buyers round the cattle ring, demand similar to last week, long term supporters Jim and Nick Geering lead the way with their Limousin cross heifer at 147p.
John and Mary Jones’ steer a Simmental cross this time at 145p and worthy of it.

No Sale next Wednesday - Next sale Wednesday, 30^th December
Please keep in touch - 07860 663345

HAILSHAM'S HOT SPOTS
JH Geering & Son’s 535 kg. Limousin heifer 147p
J & M Jones’ 655 kg. Simmental 145p
JH Geering & Son’s 645 kg. Limousin 143.5p
MF & JC Cornwell’s 565 kg. Aberdeen Angus 133p
RM & CG Scott’s 695 kg. Limousin 131p
G W Gribble’s 710 kg. Hereford 129p
MF & JC Cornwell’s 465 kg. Aberdeen Angus heifer 128p

CULL COWS & OTM CATTLE (15)
Not the numbers of the previous weeks, just a little more interest. Meated crossbred Simmental cows to 90.5p, Holstein feeding cows to 84p, lean Charolais bull 81p. Overage beef - under 36 months and over 30 - Roger Daltry’s Hereford x Friesian steer to 121p, Mark & John Cornwell’s Holstein steers to 116.5p, Young Sussex cow/heifer under 4 years to 94p.

CALVES (24) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
The strong interest in calves remains right up to Christmas - customers still very anxious to buy. British Blues rule the returns - Paul Rossi’s two week old heifers to £240 and bulls to £200. Lord Newton has Blue cross heifers to £200 and Thakeham Farms have Blue cross heifers to £190.
Reared Friesian Holstein bulls to £145 and reared Ayrshire bulls to £56.

PIGS (8) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Just four pens looking good value - Lightweight feeding gilts to £21.50, GOS gilt £49.

SHEEP (996) Auctioneer: Nick Young
LAMBS (532) Overall average 157.2p per kilo
Variable quality, many lambs adversely affected by the hard weather. The trade fell into two halves, the best lambs making the best prices, the others predictably not. However, no major complaints, the prices speak for themselves.
Leading prices per kg:- RH Smith 177.8p, RG Whyman 175p, 167.8p, O’Neill Smith Ltd 171.9p, 168.6p, 161.4p, 160.6p, J Monnington Farms Ltd 168.4p, CA Lee & Sons 168.1p, 166.3p, 162.3p, FS Major & Sons 162.5p, P Appleby 162.4p, A L Ainslie 161.9p, 161.6p, A C Ellett 161p
Leading prices per head:- Fairfield Farms £83.50, £77, RH Smith £81.50, £80, AC Ellett £80, CA Lee & Sons £79.50, £76, JL & MC Andrews £78, FW & MJ Akehurst £77.50, M Brett £77 (twice), GN & J West £77, O’Neill Smith Ltd £77, £76.50, DJC Gosling £76, CM Wettern £75.50.

EWES (138)
Other centres were way back, not so at Hailsham, very healthy returns, mind you good grazers around the £50/£55 mark look value to farm on, if you have the space and the grass. N J Shearman’s ram £77.00,
CA Lee & Sons £73, £60, I & L Hutchison £70, GW Gribble £68, V Fraser £66, AC & JI Knight £62 (4x),
D Miles £60, A Ainslie £59, AC Ellett £59, £58.50
STORE LAMBS & BREEDING SHEEP (326)
Hailsham is the place for store lambs whether buying or selling. The trade today was like a camping holiday in the West Country !!! - “intense” !!!
J D Adamson Ltd. £63.00, G Isden £59.50, CA Powell £58, SF Sargent £57.50, Mrs ACW Orr £57, £49.50, R Rogers & Sons £54 (twice), V Fraser £54, CA Powell £54, D Fieldwick £53, £50.

Please note change of plan - no market on Wednesday, 23rd December
but we will be going Wednesday, 30th December
Please let us know your entries for this date
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WEDNESDAY, 16th DECEMBER ~ Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Only a small sale but very well attended with buyers
from far away places - just a few leading prices:-
Loyal supporters Mr & Mrs Jackson of Surrey out with their Charolais cross steers
£725, £720, £718 at 18 months
W Godman-Dorrington from West Sussex has Sussex cross
steers £512 and £495 at 12 months.
Mrs Mountain from Mid Sussex, Aberdeen Angus cross steers £370
and heifers £290 at 7 months
John Baldwin from Kent, Angus x Friesian heifer £415 at 18 months
and finally Mark Thorpe’s Simmental cross steer, 18 mos £590
and Blonde cross cow, summer calving £485
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First Sale in 2010 planned for MONDAY, 11th JANUARY
Entries now being taken for this sale
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JACK MARSH
Sad to report the passing of Jack Marsh who died on Wednesday, 16th December 2009, aged 95, formerly of Snells, North Chailey - well known for his cattle haulage business which took countless loads of livestock into Haywards Heath Market throughout the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and Hailsham in the nineties.
For funeral arrangements please contact RA Brooks & Son, Ravenoak, Allington Road, Newick -
Tel: 01825 722895
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** FARM DIRECT**
Nearly another completed year of successful trading from Farm to Farm -
SEM always happy to help, commission only charged on successful sales.
Looking for stock ? Always give us a ring it might not necessarily
be advertised on our Farm Direct page.
Dairy Cattle to sell ? We have an extensive data base of customers
nationwide - at the moment we are looking for young Friesian Holstein
cows close to calving or springing
Fodder Direct - silage, hay and straw is looking to be short -
If you have fodder surplus to your requirements - let us know.
Pigs Direct - no deal to small, always happy to help
Large White boar, 8 months looking for work
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RRW 07860 663345 / 01323 844874
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168th HAILSHAM FATSTOCK SHOW
ANNUAL DINNER & CUP PRESENTATION EVENING
at WELLSHURST GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB
on SATURDAY, 23rd JANUARY 2010
Tickets:- £25.00
Further information from Sally Habberfield - Mobile 07850 111837
or Eve. 01935 424624 or e-mail sallyhabberfield@hotmail.com
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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
Member of British Traditional
Mole Catchers Register
“One Mole left on Oct 1st can push up in excess of a 1000 molehills by April 1st”
Don’t delay get them caught early.
Day - 07795 226296 Eve - 01435 813718
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HEATHFIELD MARKET
Burwash Road
Tel. 01435 862132
FARM FRESH XMAS TURKEY,
GAME & POULTRY AUCTIONS
to be held on
18th & 22nd DECEMBER at 11 a.m.
Wholesale Prices - Easy Parking
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For your amusement
On a more light hearted matter as those Single Farm Statements land on your mats just prior to Christmas we would like to thank Mr. Nigel Johnson Hill for allowing us to re-produce the following letter that was indeed send to David Miliband earlier this year. We are not sure whether he received a reply or if he did whether we could print it.

Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),
Nobel House, 17 Smith Square,
London
SW1P 3JR
Dear Secretary of State, My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for £3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs.. I would now like to join the “not rearing pigs” business.
In your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to rear pigs on, and which is the best breed of pigs not to rear? I want to be sure I approach this endeavour in keeping with all government policies, as dictated by the EU under the Common Agricultural Policy.
I would prefer not to rear bacon pigs, but if this is not the type you want not rearing, I will just as gladly not rear porkers. Are there any advantages in not rearing rare breeds such as Saddlebacks or Gloucester Old Spots, or are there too many people already not rearing these?
As I see it, the hardest part of this programme will be keeping an accurate record of how many pigs I haven’t reared. Are there any Government or Local Authority courses on this?
My friend is very satisfied with this business. He has been rearing pigs for forty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was £1,422 in 1968. That is - until this year, when he received a cheque for not rearing any.
If I get £3,000 for not rearing 50 pigs, will I get £6,000 for not rearing 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 pigs not raised, which will mean about £240,000 for the first year. As I become more expert in not rearing pigs, I plan to be more ambitious, perhaps increasing to, say, 40,000 pigs not reared in my second year, for which I should expect about £2.4 million from your department. Incidentally, I wonder if I would be eligible to receive tradable carbon credits for all these pigs not producing harmful and polluting methane gases?
Another point: These pigs that I plan not to rear will not eat 2,000 tonnes of cereals. I understand that you also pay farmers for not growing crops. Will I qualify for payments for not growing cereals to not feed the pigs I don’t rear?
I am also considering the “not milking cows” business, so please send any information you have on that too. Please could you also include the current Defra advice on set aside fields? Can this be done on an e-commerce basis with virtual fields (of which I seem to have several thousand hectares)?
In view of the above you will realise that I will be totally unemployed, and will therefore qualify for unemployment benefits. I shall of course be voting for your party at the next general election.

Yours faithfully,
Nigel Johnson-Hill