South East Marts – Hailsham Market
Primestock report for:

WEDNESDAY, 30th APRIL 2008

CATTLE (34 ) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
On fire, best trade for a long time. Ten cattle 140p plus, fourteen cattle 130p plus. Graham Beck’s lightweight Limousin cross butchers heifer 160p to Sean Hutchings. John and Mary Jones share the limelight with their heavyweight Limousin cross steer at 152p. Messrs. Beck and Jones have three steers over £1,000. Hereford x Friesian heifers to 135p, Sussex x Friesian heifers to 132p. Indeed a cracking trade for all breeds and classifications.

WEDNESDAY'S HOT SPOTS
W Beck & Son’s 525 kg. Limousin heifer 160p
J & M Jones’ 665 kg. Limousin 152p
W Beck & Son’s 680 kg. Limousin 149.5p
W Beck & Son’s 550 kg. Limousin heifer 148p
W Beck & Son’s 550 kg. Limousin heifer 147p
W Beck & Son’s 670 kg. Limousin 145.5p
J & M Jones’ 710 kg. Limousin 143.5p
W Beck & Son’s 505 kg. Limousin heifer 143p
BJ Foster’s 675 kg. Limousin 142p
W Beck & Son’s 610 kg. Limousin heifer 141p

CULL COWS & OTM CATTLE (32)
Cull cows and overage beef continue at the recent high rates. Hailsham top five Friesian Holstein cows 100p, 99p, 98.5p, 98p and 97p. Plain Friesian cows 70/80p price range. Fat Sussex 103p twice, no first grade Continental cross on offer. Overage beef still very much wanted, Colin Broucke’s black and white crossbred steers to 116.5p per kilo and £920 per head. Friesian heifers with age 109p per kilo and £926 per head.
Keep them coming.

PIGS (17) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Weaners to £22, sow to £60.

CALVES (74 ) Auctioneer: Roger Waters
Seventy plus head on offer and a crowd of customers to sell to - a mix of reared and younger calves - a keen keen trade. Mrs MEH Pile & Son’s reared Belgian Blue cross steers £235. R Moseley’s Aberdeen Angus cross steers, 4 months plus £187 and heifers £142, JH & JHB Bayne’s Limousin-x heifer, 10/12 weeks £190, Thakeham Farms’ Blonde cross bull, 5 weeks £172 and Belgian Blue heifer £117, New Wharf Farms’ Simmental cross bulls, 5 weeks £195. Younger calves:- Limousin cross bulls £130 and heifers £105, Sussex cross bulls £95, Friesian Holstein bulls £5 - £20. Eight month old stirks:- Sussex cross steers £300, Angus cross heifers £237 and Friesian Holstein steers £171.

SHEEP (780 ) Auctioneer: Nick Young

LAMBS (59)Overall average 185.6p per kg.
The right ones (not the “moggets”!) crash through the £2 per kilo barrier. How we wish we had more let us know what you have. Finishing and sorting are of paramount importance. B A & PT Heath £78, Friday Street Farmers £75.50 (195.6p), £73 (197.3p) Luke Colbourne £74.50 (200p), Mrs MAE Clark £74 £68.50 (190.3p)

HOGGETS (417) Overall average 130.5p per kg.
Dearest this week so far by comparison with other centres despite the fact we were painfully short of good meated hoggets. If you have properly finished hoggets, Hailsham is the place to sell them. Wonderful to see West Sussex Premier retail butcher back in action at Hailsham.
Leading prices per kg: Littleworth Farms 150p, A Turner & Son 146.7p, CA Lee & Sons 146.7p, Broomham Estate 145.1p, WD Smith & Son 145p, AR Lavender 144.4p, L Barrett 144p Leading prices per head: A Turner & Sons £69, R Peate £68.50, £66.50, T Avon £67.80, K Davis £67.50 (twice), C A Lee & Sons £66.50, RG Whyman £66.50, L Barrett £66.50.

EWES (223)
Every ewe was battled from first to last. An unprecedented trade, certainly £10 per head dearer than anywhere else in the South of England - Awesome!! don’t miss this trade. If you want to sell ewes Hailsham is the place. L Andreozzi £64.50, £62, RJ Verity £59.50, R Peate £59, HC Grissell £58.50. EWES & LAMBS - About and about they do look good value - presumably because of the bad weather.

STORES (81)
Nothing like enough. With good stores reaching £55.50 why bother fattening them. SJ Carr £55.50, A Taylor £45.50, P Hall £41.50.

PLEASE NOTE WE MUST START SELLING AT 11.15 PROMPT -

Come hell or high water, Please get you sheep in early, Help us to help you
Next Wednesday, 7th May - Flock Dispersal of 100 Breeding ewes,
Suffolk x Mule, Texel x Masham with their Suffolk cross and Wensleydale cross lambs at foot.

K.W.G. - WOOL SACKS
Sheet Distribution at Hailsham Market will be on Wednesday, 14th May between the times of 10 am - 3 pm