South East Marts – Hailsham Market
Primestock report for:

WEDNESDAY, 24th JUNE 2009

CATTLE (26) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Yarded cattle making up the majority of the entry and rewarded accordingly.  Dick Bradford on behalf of St. Georges Retreat scores double top with his Sussex x Limousin at 175 and just behind his Limousin cross suckler bred steer at 172p. He also has a Continental cross heifer at 162p. Mostly suckler bred Continental cross steers and heifers changing hands in the 145/155p price range. Cattle looking short for next week.

WEDNESDAY'S HOT SPOTS
St. Georges Retreat’s 570 kg. Limousin 175p
St. Georges Retreat’s 560 kg. Limousin 172p
St. Georges Retreat’s 560 kg. Limousin 162p
J Mockford’s 590 kg. Simmental heifer 155p
J Mockford’s 620 kg. Simmental 154p
C Deroo’s 715 kg. Charolais 150p
St. Georges Retreat’s 520 kg. Limousin 150p
St. Georges Retreat’s 480 kg. Sussex 145p
The Norton Farm P’ship’s 725 kg South Devon 144p
The Norton Farm P’ship’s 565 kg. South Devon heifer 144p

CULL COWS & OTM CATTLE (14)
Very short entry of culls - Continental cow £1020 plus for Martin Muggeridge’s Charolais cross. Best Friesians 105p, Plain heavyweight Friesian 89.5p, Well fleshed South Devon 113.5p, Trade remains very firm for all classifications.

CALVES (8) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
A shame only eight! but selling very well. Young Belgian Blue bull £280, Montbeliarde cross bull £120, Reared Holstein stirks to £189, Simmental cross heifers, 20 weeks to £270 and £260.
Next week, Wednesday, 1st July - 11 reared calves from Plumpton College inc. Angus and Sussex

PIGS (22)
All coloured pigs on offer. Saddleback lightweight porkers 71p per kilo, Crossbred gilts £70 per head, Berkshire cross cull boar £85, Saddleback cull sow £100. Selling pigs then please let us know what you are bringing.

SHEEP (617) Auctioneer: Nick Young Start 11.15 prompt
LAMBS (506) Overall average 149.2p per kilo

Better entry of milk lambs, however, some showing the effects of the dry weather. Trade was definitely back, although Hailsham fared better than most other centres thanks to the power of the retail butcher.

2009 Show & Sale Results
Suffolks:- 1st Prize - Norton Farm Partnership - 46.5 kg. £75.50
2nd Prize - CA Powell - 37.9 kg. £55.50
3rd Prize - J West - 44.3 kg. £61.00
Texels:- 1st Prize - Friday Street Farmers - 43.3 kg. £70
2nd Prize - Friday Street Farmers - 41.25 kg. £64.50
Southdowns:- 1st Prize - Mrs MAE Clark - 33.6 kg. £60.50
2nd Prize - Mrs MAE Clark - 35 kg. £52.50
3rd Prize - Mark Littmoden - 32.3 kg. £52.00
A big ‘Thank you’ to everybody who supported the show and our Judge David Turner

Leading prices per kg:- Mrs M A E Clark 180.1p, R Marsh 170.5p, D Powell 164.7p, 158.9p, The Norton Farm Ptship 163.6p, 162.4p 162.3p, 161.7p, 160.1p, Friday Street Farmers 161.7p, 158.7p,
M W Littmoden 161p, J D Trunkfield Farms Ltd. 159.2
Leading prices per head:- Norton Farm Ptship £75.50, £70.50, £70.50, £69, £68, £67.50, R Marsh £75, JJ Seller & Ptn £73, R Gorringe £72, Friday Street Farmers £70, L Andreozzi £68.50, G N & J West £68.
HOGGETS (42) Overall average 103.8p per kilo
Between 80p and 131p depending on quality.
Leading prices per kg:- Mrs MA Till 131.3p, R Gorringe 130.9p, A C Ellett 112.8p. Leading prices per head:- Todd Mitchell £55.50, R Gorringe £55.00, £54.50, A C Ellett £46.50, M K Wickens £45.50
EWES (65)
Short entry - many more could have been sold to advantage.
R Gorringe £74.50, £65, Mrs MA Till £74.00, RD Thomas £71.50, The Norton Farm Partnership £71,
LM Morgan £69, PG McDonald £66,
Ewe and two lambs a real humdinger to £122.
Quality is everything - getting it right and producing the proper goods is essential. If in doubt consult our fieldsman. With the seasonal lull please keep in touch and let us know what you have.

Next Week - WEDNESDAY, 1st JULY
FLOCK DISPERSAL
62 Young Breeding Ewes, two and three lambers, early lambing flock, all bred lambs this year,
Blue Tongue Vaccinated and on Heptavac

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Fortnightly Sales throughout the Summer
Next Sale
MONDAY, 29th JUNE at 11.30 a.m.
Entries include:- Second Special Homebred Consignment of 50 Belgian Blue and Limousin cross steers and heifers, 10/15 mos from M J Muggeridge,
41 Limousin, Simmental and Aberdeen Angus cross heifers, 14/16 mos from EJ Brickell & Son,
29 Beef and Continental cross steers and heifers, 10/21 mos from Plumpton College, 25 Continental cross steers and heifers, 12/18 mos from T Carnaghan, 21 Friesian steers, 12/16 mos from
N Velvick, 15 Limousin cross steers and heifers, 25/26 mos from GR Morris & Son, 15 Simmental cross steers and heifers, 9/18 mos from R Gorringe, 12 Limousin cross steers and heifers, 12 mos from R Verity, 11 Friesian steers, 8/10 mos from HJ Brickell, plus 2 Pedigree Sussex cows, one with her Pedigree Sussex heifer calf at foot from J King & Son, plus many other lots forward
Next Sale thereafter - MONDAY, 13th JULY
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Crowhurst, Near Battle
Important Sale of well maintained
ARABLE MACHINERY & LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT
Viz:- ‘F’ Reg. JCB Loadall 525-B telehandlerplus attachments; ‘L’ Reg. Fiat 115 4/wd, Ford 6600 and Muir Hill 121 dual wheel tractors; John Ford 8t monocoque tipping and flat bed bale trailers; Maxi Lift five leg Premier subsoiler; Dowdeswell DP120 four furrow plough;Amazone drill combination - i.e. KE302 power harrow and drill star drill 3m; Compact Diablo 6m hyd. ring rolls; Machio Reco tiller power harrow 3.5m; Opico folding grass harrowswith seeder; Votex topper, used only two seasons; Bamford B467 hedgecutter; Quickfencer erection frame; Bauer slurry pump; Briggs irrigator; Lawrence Edwards power washer; IAE Centurion cattle crush, Feed barrow; drinking tanks, numerous gates, feed troughs; Forster Technik auto calf milk feeder, oak beams, also included by permission ‘99 New Holland LM410and ‘04 Cat TH330B telehandlers, ‘07 JCB 530-70 loadall; ‘85 John Deere 4030 with power loader, ‘74 Leyland 245, David Brown 1380 Tractors; Trailers inc. Artic 28’, Ifor Williams 8’ plant, etc.; Toppers and Mowers inc. Kuhn FC283 and Deutz Fahr KN25; New Holland 841 round, John Deere 550 and Welgar AP630 balers; plus 100 lots of new tools, Chickens, Ducks and Geese
on SATURDAY, 4th JULY
By order of J W Vernon and others
Sale to commence at 10.30 a.m.
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