South East Marts – Hailsham Market
Primestock report for:
WEDNESDAY, 24th FEBRUARY 2010

CATTLE (27) Auctioneer: Roger Waters

Similar entry, similar trade. John and Mary Jones back in the gold medal position, heavyweight Limousin cross steers at 154p and 147.5p. Graham Beck’s heavyweight Sussex find favour at 144.5p and also take the top bid heifer price at 143.5p.
Keep them coming please

HAILSHAM'S HOT SPOTS

J & M Jones’ 625 kg. Limousin154p
J & M Jones’ 695 kg. Limousin 147.5p
W Beck & Son’s 725 kg. Sussex 144.5p
W Beck & Son’s 650 kg. Limousin heifer 143.5p
W Beck & Son’s 610 kg. Sussex 143p
J W Down’s 590 kg. Sussex 143p
W Beck & Son’s 615. kg. Limousin heifer 140p
R W Kemp & Partners 555 kg. Limousin heifer 140p
R J Ayre & Son’s 645 kg. Limousin 140p
J W Down’s 595 kg. Sussex 140p

Steers - No. - Price

Heifers – No. - Price

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

2

150.8p

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--.-p

PRIME (R4H and 0+ 3 & 4)

12

137.9p

                   6

                137.5p

OTHERS (Remainder)

2

128.8p

5

121.4p

COWS & OVERAGE BEEF (18) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Continuing where we left off last week, we just need more to satisfy the present buyer demand. Continental crosses are king - Belgian Blue cross 115p, Simmental cross 109p, Native bred well fleshed cows - Angus cross 108.5p, 99.5p,and 99p. Steaking Friesian Holsteins with weight 96.5p, 96p, etc., Dexters to 75.5p! Overage beef firm as ever, heavyweight Hereford x Friesian steers to 121p.   Keep the customers coming, more numbers required.

CALVES (26) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Calves continue to sell extremely well - confidence abounds. Reared Montbeliarde cross, 14 weeks £297, younger sorts - Belgian Blue cross bull £257, £235, etc. and heifers £197, £192, etc. Aberdeen Angus cross bull £195, £157 (twice), heifer £120. Good Friesian bulls £98, £72

PIGS (25) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Exceptional demand for Norman Hick’s porker weight gilts at 119p per kilo that said he also sold heavyweight cutters and entires at only 65/67p per kilo. John Whiteman’s coloured feeding gilts £36 and a pen of blue runners to £30 each. Entered for next week - 28 white heavy feeding store pigs, 6 white crossbred breeding sows, in-pig to white boar plus a white boar.

SHEEP (1084) Auctioneer: Nick Young
HOGGETS (505) Overall average 168.5p per kiloA really good show of finished hoggets including plenty of heavyweights. The roll of honour speaks volumes.
Leading prices per kg:- R G Whyman 197.5p, 180p, GE Tobitt 191.3p, 183.1p, 180p,
L Barrett 186.6p, 184.3p, 182.8p, C Unsted 185.7p, G Harvey 185.6p, SJ Carr 182.7p, JN Carr Farms 180.6p, 179.9p, M Butler 179.1p.
Leading prices per head:- B J Baker £106.50, £89.50, SJ Carr £97, £85.50, A Taylor £89, RH Smith £88.50, £86.50, P Gorringe £88, £86.50, M Butler £88, £87, £86,
AL Ainslie £86 (twice), H Hawkins £84.50 (twice)
EWES (148)
A top of the world trade, amazingly dear. Numbers certainly back but this trade unaffected by the Euro as they are mainly for UK consumption. Several around the £100 mark. Why go anywhere else, surely there is nowhere better than Hailsham to sell your ewes and we proved it again today.
P Gorringe £106, £91.50 (twice), G Harvey £100, NH, CP & S Tebbutt £97, M Butler £95, A Taylor £93, BJ Baker £93, £92, £88, L Barrett £92.50, K Axell’s ram £92, £91,
D Miles £89.50, JA & SE Cole £88.
STORE LAMBS (431)
The fury was unleashed today, never has there been as good a trade for store lambs, how long can it last? Dr SWC Winchester £75, £70,
I Gasson £71, £65, £59, FP Russell Farms £70 (twice), £66, SMJ Baldock £69, GWH Osbourne £67, JA Keen & Son £67, LM Morgan £64.50, RG Whyman £63, PB Russell £62, GE Tobitt £62.

Don’t delay get your sheep to Hailsham and benefit from this trade.


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MONDAY, 22nd FEBRUARY ~ Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Good to see the second sale in February attracting an entry of close to 350 head with buyers old and new, all contributing to another excellent trade.
Please keep them coming for March and a big thank you to all those who supported the February sales.
SUCKLER BRED STEERS & HEIFERS - 9/12 months
Outstanding steers from Christine Howe remarkably selling at £790 and heifers at £700, aged all between 9/10 months - demand razor sharp for the quality runs on offer. Other leading prices:-
R White’s Charolais cross steers, 11 months £755, Muntham Farms Ltd’s - Robert Heath Simmental cross steers, 12 mos £732, Newhouse Farm Ltd., Twineham - Charles Davies Simmental cross steers, 10/11 mos £660, O’Neill Smith Ltd’s Blonde cross steers, 9/10 mos £620 and heifers £575
ABERDEEN ANGUS STORES
- Angus cattle out in force as are the Angus customers - purchasers from Kent to Oxford battle for the best but local farmer/grazier Alan Westgate secures the head pen of suckler steers from Mrs PA Greenwood at £705, 11/12 months old and heifers of similar age reach £515. Other leading prices:-
HJ Cross & Son’s outwintered steers, 22 mos £870 and heifers, 21 mos £635, D Newington’s homebred steers, 14 mos £670 and heifers, 14 mos £610, N Velvick’s Angus x Friesian, 18 mos £535 and heifers £495, K Booker’s Purebred Angus steers, 11 mos £535
OLDER STEERS & HEIFERS - 18/24 months old
Both suckler bred and dairy bred steers and heifers, all well done but just not enough of them, Mrs Jane Andrew has 21 month old Sussex x Charolais steers at £860 and £810, other prices of note
RC Baker & Co’s Belgian Blue x Friesian steer £780, Charles Diplock’s Limousin x Angus/Charolais steer, 18 mos £780 and heifers £690, HJ & R Clifton’s Limousin cross steer, 24 mos £780, Bulstrode Farms Ltd’s Belgian Blue x Friesian steers, 18 mos £705, RJ Verity’s Limousin cross heifer, 17/18 mos £525
Worthy of mention - CM Crowther’s Purebred Sussex steers £770
and finally just a few - FRIESIAN HOLSTEIN STEERS
W Visser’s, 12 months plus £420 and D Fieldwick’s 12 mos £385
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Next Sale of
STORE CATTLE
to be held on
MONDAY, 8th MARCH
Entries already include:- 20 Simmental cross steers and heifers, 10/22 months from Newhouse Farm Ltd, 16 Continental cross steers and heifers and Friesian steers, 16/18 mos from N Velvick, plus 6 Pedigree Sussex bulling heifers, 18/24 months from CM Crowther, plus many more good entries coming forward
Make the most of this trade and enter your cattle now

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UNRESERVED DISPERSAL SALE
of the entire milking portion of the long established SMITHBROOK HERD of
37 PEDIGREE ORGANIC AYRSHIRES
inc. 2 Dairy Shorthorns, Calving all the year round, very hardy, running out in the day throughout the winter, loose housed, low cost system, closed herd since ‘98, four year TB testing parish
WEDNESDAY, 10th MARCH
Removed from Redlands Farm, Lodsworth to
HAILSHAM MARKET for convenience of sale
on the instructions of Mr. PS Chandler, quitting milk production.
To be sold immediately following the sale of cull cows at approx. 1.30 p.m. and not before
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Note for your diary
SPRING SHOWTIME AT HAILSHAM
EASTER SHOW & SALE of PRIME CATTLE & MILK LAMBS
to be held on
WEDNESDAY, 24th MARCH 2010
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)
Prize Money - First £15, Second £10, Third £5
£25 - Champion Pen of Lambs
£25 for the BEST PEN OF HOGGETS (min of 5, any weight)
£25 for the BEST BUTCHERS BEAST
and £25 for Reserve Butchers Beast
plus a few 'Judges Specials of £10 ' at his discretion
£25 for the BEST COW
Please let us know your entries for this day
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ARDINGLY SHOWGROUND
First Spring Auction of
AGRICULTURAL & GARDEN MACHINERY,
BUILDERS' & CONTRACTORS' PLANT
on THURSDAY, 18th MARCH
Please note the change of date from original calendar
Entries now being taken for this sale and close Friday, 5th March
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FARM DIRECT
BULL BANK
Open for business - 2010 Season
In the vault - Simmental Stock Bull and available early April
Registered Aberdeen Angus bull, approaching 4 years old
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BEEF DIRECT
WANTED - Eight Belgian Blue x Friesians to bull in the spring
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BRITISH WHITE & ABERDEEN ANGUS CROSS IN-CALF HEIFERS,
Calving late March onwards
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EIGHT IN-CALF BEEF COWS
Calving February to Aberdeen Angus
also available Beef cows with calves at foot, Oct/Nov born
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DAIRY DIRECT
WANTED - 20 Young Friesian Holstein cows or heifers, springing to calve or freshly calved
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PIGS DIRECT
Four In Pig Large White and Landrace Gilts
Pick from thirty Middle White x Large Black weaner store pigs
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SHEEP DIRECT
Seventy Five Suffolk cross and Texel cross In-lamb ewes
Flock ages, due early April onwards
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FODDER DIRECT - HAY, STRAW, SILAGE
We have many farmers keen to buy
Big round or big square baled hay and silage
Looking to sell? we are just a phone call away
Wheat and oat in big squares and rounds available
RRW 07860 663345 / 01323 844874
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SHEEP TAGS - EID
Tagging this year’s lamb crop
Keep all your options open
Do not restrict your marketing opportunities
South East Marts recommend producers to use a Single Electronic Tag or Full EID if you intend to retain ewe lambs for future breeding either to be sold or kept as flock replacements. Sheep tagged with a single electronic tag will ensure you get maximum competition for your lambs in the market place.
Non Electronic tags will not give the option of further fattening, further sorting for defined outlets and will restrict your marketing opportunities.
We believe the benefits gained by sheep producers who tag with a single electronic tag, and the sheep industry generally, will far outweigh the small additional cost
- keep all your options open
All Store lambs will need to have a single electronic tag.
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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 865370
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K.W.G. - WOOL SACKS
Sheet Distribution at Hailsham Market
will be on
Wednesdays, 24th and 31st March between the time of 10 am - 3 pm
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Heathfield & District Agricultural Show News

Heathfield Show Livestock Schedules are now available at Hailsham Market. The ever popular Heathfield and District Show, to be held on Saturday, 29th May this year, has just released their Schedule for 2010 show. Following the success of the 2009 show, with over 500 entries in the three Livestock sections, the Show Council has worked hard to maintain the popularity of the classes.
The Successful ‘Any Other Pedigree Beef’ class is to be split into two classes for the 2010 Show - Native and Continental and in the Open Beef class all the cattle will be weighed on the showground.
The Pig section was introduced in 2008 is growing in size every year. This year sees the introduction of a Commercial Pig section with four classes for Cutter Pigs.
The Young Handler classes will again be run in the Sheep, Pig and Cattle sections. “We encourage entries in these classes because the young people are the future of farming in Britain and will ensure the continuation of the farming industry in the south east into the next century”.
Schedules are available at Hailsham Market or can be downloaded from www.heathfieldshow.org