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South East Marts – Hailsham Market Primestock report for: WEDNESDAY, 21st APRIL 2010 CATTLE (36) Auctioneer: Roger Waters Cattle have been in the yards a long time looking for a lift in returns - not happening this month. Good bred Continental cross steers and heifers with weight change hands 140/145p. Mark & John Cornwell’s homebred Limousin cross top call steer at 150p Richard White leads the heifers with homebred lightweight Limousin cross at 148p. Numbers looking shorter next week. Please let us know what you have.
M F & J C Cornwell’s 615 kg Limousin 150p St. Georges Retreat’s 535 kg. Limousin 149p St. Georges Retreat’s 510 kg. Limousin 148.5p R White’s 510 kg. Limousin heifer 148p St. Georges Retreat’s 480 kg. Limousin heifer 147p M F & J C Cornwell’s 580 kg. Limousin heifer 144p J H & J H B Bayne’s 660 kg. Limousin heifer 142.5p Flower & Lawrence’s 680 kg. Limousin 142.5p R White’s 455 kg. Limousin 140p Flower & Lawrence’s 700 kg. Limousin 140p
COWS & OVERAGE BEEF (32) Auctioneer: Roger Waters All wanted, some very well fleshed heavyweight beef cows on offer - turn the weighbridge needle and make the price! Mrs D Mellor’s Simmental cross cow £1,065+, CALVES (24) Auctioneer: Roger Waters Excellent competition once again with potential customers going away empty handed - best call £300 for Charolais crosses six weeks old. Younger Limousin cross bulls £230, £197 and Blonde cross and Limousin cross heifers £175, £173, £170, £165, etc. Angus cross heifers £200. Best of the black and white bulls reared at 16/18 weeks £205. Selling calves why not try the auction ring - we have the customers PIGS (21) Auctioneer: Roger Waters Plenty of variety - white pork weight gilts to 90p per kilo and coloured entires 80p per kilo. In pig Saddleback sows to £115. Saddleback sows with litter of eight £177. British Lop weaner pigs selling well to £33 each.
Nothing like enough to judge, clearly in demand, The Norton Farm P’ship 205.4p (£76). Keep in touch and please let us know what you have HOGGETS (435) Overall average 158.7p per kilo A disappointing trade, the national was back and so were we. Good quality meated hoggets are in short supply both at Hailsham and in the UK. Undoubtedly the price will improve in the weeks to come, provided you have the right fed meated sheep to sell. Leading prices per kg:- A R Lavender 187.5p, 174.3p, 170.1p, RE Jarvis 183.7p,168.2p, Burnt Oak Farm 177.9p, 172.4p, RJ Verity 173.9p, Mrs P Garratt 172.5p, D Miles 172.3p, 171.1p, 170p, Littleworth Farms 170.7p, T Carr 168.8p, S Macdonald 168.6p, JD Goodman 168p Leading prices per head:- R H Smith £94, £84.50, £84, £80, BJ Baker £86, RJ Verity £84.50, AR Lavender £82.50, £80, RR Waters £82, £80, FW & M Akehurst £81.50, £80, EWES (277) We predicted last week what would happen and it did. However, all the best ewes stood their value, it was only the less fortunate models which really suffered. All things considered no complaints. G N & J West £90, £83, £75, P & SA Haworth-Booth £87, £78, RJ Miles £87, R & W Brown £85, S Smithers £79, RFF Brown £75, Mr & Mrs K Watts £75, WH Gingell & Son £75, I Williams £75, Littleworth Farms £75, EWES & LAMBS - Tremendous demand, big entry expected next week. STORE LAMBS (65) Great trade, everyone seems to have grass now. Burnt Oak Farm £67, FJ Rogers £65, £59, £57, AB Goldsmith £61, Wednesday, 5th May - Flock Dispersal - 12 Suffolk x Mule ewes, genuine 3rd lambers with their 22 Texel cross lambs at foot, born from 15th March 2010 onwards. Ovivac’d prior to sale,ewes on Heptavac P and wormed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORE CATTLE REPORT MONDAY, 19th APRIL ~ Auctioneer: Roger Waters Selling well, but no doubt easing back on February/March price levels.
RD Monnington’s Sussex cross cow with Sussex cross heifer calf £780 and with Sussex bull calf £760
Mostly suckler bred, not the number of some weeks, the first quality cattle maintain their price. D Nicholls’ Simmental cross steer, 16 mos £660, Mr & Mrs K Watts’ Blonde cross steers, 12 mos £650, AA & M Woolgar’s Limousin cross heifers, 12 mos £625, I May’s Simmental cross steer, 12/13 mos £590, J & JH Rodger’s Sussex x Limousin steer, 11 mos £580
- Quality is the key of that there is no doubt Mrs D Mellor’s suckler steer, 14 mos £730 Liverton Partners’ Angus x Friesian steers, 16/18 mos £680, Wise Agricultural Suckler steers, 10/11 £605, W Visser’s Aberdeen Angus x Friesian steers, 12/13 mos £485 K Booker’s Angus steers, 6 mos £370 SUSSEX
J Lewin’s steers, 24 mos £660 WH Gingell’s Crossbred heifer, 22 mos £637
Pete Parkes top man has top cattle, homebred Friesians outwintered £580 at 16/17 months also Brown Swiss x Friesian £575 at 18 mos Other black and white prices:- Poland Bros’ Holstein £300, M Peters’ steers, 8 mos £325, J Marsh’s steers, 7 mos £312
P Perryman’s Charolais-x steers, 23 mos £770, Mrs D Mellor’s Simmental cross steer, 18 mos £755 C Kidger’s Simmental x Friesian steers, 21 mos £625 DS & P Humphrey’s Simmental x Friesian heifers, 24 mos £610 ~~~~~~~~ Next Sale
MONDAY, 26th APRIL Sale of 350 STORE CATTLE incorporating ANNUAL SPRING SHOW & SALE OF STORE CATTLE Judges:- George Watson, Snr. and Jnr. 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 £25 for the BEST PEN OF NATIVE BRED CATTLE (Prize money kindly donated by John Covell, Durrants Farm) Entries include Annual Consignments of:- 35 Belgian Blue and Limousin cross steers, 11/12 mos from M Muggeridge, 24 Aberdeen Angus cross steers, 17/18 mos from A Goldsmith, 22 Limousin cross steers and heifers, 16/20 mos from CH & P Green, N Velvick,14 Aberdeen Angus cross bulling heifers, 12/18 mos from LM Morgan, No Sale - Monday, 3rd May - Bank Holiday Next Sale thereafter - Monday, 10th May ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AYRSHIRE FARM, Ripe, Nr. Lewes SATURDAY, 17th APRIL 2010 All roads led to Ayrshire Farm and many did “Like a race meeting” - some people remarked capacity crowd in the spring sunshine, registered buyers crashed through the 1000 barrier Selling for a real scottish character that Sussex folk will not forget - never a dull moment! Some very good machinery and Deadstock on offer and some very good prices. Tractor, Telehandler and Machinery:- ‘03 McCormick MTX 125 tractor ........ £15,500 ‘07 Kamatsu Galeo mini digger and bucket...... £13,800 Richard Western SF12 mono tipping trailer......... £7,000 ‘02 Marston dump trailer........... £4,400, Livestock Lots:- IAE crush and weigh frame ............ £1700, Miracle milker. .............£600, Feed barriers.............. £300. Lister sheep shearer ............ £220, not forgetting Range of dog kennels, but no dogs........... £2,500 and the Dovecote, but no doves...... £190 Included items of interest:- John Deere 459 conventional baler £5,800 Griffiths mono grain trailer ......... £3,300 Parmiter folding harrows ......... £1,000 Pedigree Hereford Breeding cattle - Best of the bids Pedigree Hereford cows with young bull calves at foot ............. £970, £950, £950, £950, etc. Pedigree Hereford cows with young heifer calves at foot ........... £970, £940, £900, £870, etc. Pedigree In-calf Hereford heifers to ............ £800 Pedigree Yearling Hereford heifers to ............ £575 Stock bull - Lincoln 1 Dayton ......... £1,070 Pedigree Aberdeen Angus Breeding cattle - Best of the bids Pedigree Angus cows with young bull calves at foot ........... £1100, £1000, £980, etc. Pedigree Angus cows with young heifer calves at foot .........£965, £890, £840 Pedigree In-calf Angus heifers to...... £910 Pedigree Angus bulling heifers to ............ £650 Pedigree Angus yearling heifers to ............ £490 Stock bull - Sandside Barnabus ......... £1,300 Young Stock bull - Aynho Erossiter Eric - for the moment remains unsold. And for something completely different:- Ostrich hens.............. £180, Kune Kune gilt pigs. £35, Pygmy goats to........... £60 Traditional and rare breed poultry Black Orpington hens and cocks...... £23, Buff Orpington hens and cocks.... £20 Trio of Bantams. £17.. Trio of Light Sussex £11 and small chicken houses.. £90, £85, £77 also penned - Scotch Blackface ewes and lambs to £80 per couple and those not penned last seen heading across the neighbours wheat field to Laughton !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HERSTMONCEUX COLLECTIVE SALE at LIME END FARM of AGRICULTURAL & GARDEN MACHINERY, BUILDERS' & CONTRACTORS' PLANT viz: David Brown 995, Case 1594 hydrashift, ‘B’ reg. M/F 698, Ford 4000, Ferguson T20, and Int. tractors; McConnell and Kubota 101 diggers; Dumper, ‘H’ Reg. Subaru pick up and ‘L’ Reg. Nissan 2.7T Terrano; 3 Ifor Williams livestock trailers, plus bale, tipping and plant trailers; grass and chain harrows; fert. spreaders; cambridge ring roller; McConnell Rhino, Claas WM165 and John Deere 1350 mowers; Fransguard RV390 tedder, McConnell topper and others, New Holland 640, John Deere 550 and M/F 128 balers; other tedders, grabs, acrobats, haybobs, etc. also Livestock equipment inc. cattle crushes, troughs, feeders, hayracks, horse equipment, etc.; fencing stakes, gates, netting, timber, barriers, small tools (as new), mowers, generators, chain saws, shrubs, chicken, etc. this SATURDAY, 24th APRIL at 10 a.m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Other Spring Collective Sale dates coming up Ardingly Showground - THURSDAY, 13th MAY Entries close Friday, 30th April South Godstone - SATURDAY, 19th JUNE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PRE-MOVEMENT TB TESTING REGULATIONS BE SURE YOU HAVE GOT IT RIGHT BEFORE MOVING CATTLE TO HAILSHAM MARKET New Areas were brought into force in January 2010 Do you know what TB Testing Parish you are in ? All cattle 42 days old and over (when the date of birth is “day 0”) moving out of a 1 or 2 yearly testedherd must have tested negative to a TB test within 60 days prior to movement unless the movement satisfies any of the exemptions. Please make sure if you are in a one or two yearly testing parish that your cattle are pre-movement tested before coming into the market. If you are unsure what area you are in please telephone market or your local Trading Standards Office ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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