SOUTH EAST MARTS HAILSHAM MARKET
STORE CATTLE REPORT:-

MONDAY, 18th FEBRUARY ~ Auctioneer: Roger Waters

Stores taking off - rocket to £777 per head
Young steers £592 at nine months plus

Good to be a store cattle auctioneer - a February flyer especially for the quality Continental cross calves born spring/early summer -
all Blue Tongue tested - many steers making £150 past their weight – Miss C Howe and Messrs. Muggeridge, Norris and Wheatland - all share the price and the glory. Some of the fireworks included:-
Miss C Howe’s Charolais cross steers, April/May born £592,
M Muggeridge’s Belgian Blue cross, march born steers £490 and heifers £470, FP Norris & Son’s Simmental cross steers, April born £497,
JRV Wheatland’s Charolais cross, June born steers £430 and heifers £375

BREEDING STOCK - including Rod Sargent’s Beef Herd Dispersal
Late spring and summer calving to Angus, all keenly competed for
Young Charolais cross cows £625, £610, £580, £570, etc.
Old Sussex and Devon cross £595, £500, £450, etc.

ANGUS & HEREFORDS -
mostly younger sorts and in short supply and in demand
CD William’s Angus cross steer, 18 mos £500,
B Gurr’s Angus cross steers, 13 mos £427,
DG Alexander’s Angus cross, 7 mos £360,
H Baker & Son’s Hereford steer, 10 mos £370 and heifers £285

OLDER STEERS AND HEIFERS ~ the figures and returns speak for themselves, Pete Perryman’s Charolais cross heifer, 27 mos £777,
FP Norris & Son’s Simmental cross steer, 21 mos £680,
S Clancy’s Simmental cross steer, 18 mos £580,
W Visser’s Sussex cross steer, 21 mos £555

Footnote:- Twelve months ago - February 2007
Peter Perryman sold a Charolais cross heifer £670, 22/25 mos
this year his 27 mos heifer made £777
Christine Howe sold her Charolais cross steers, 9 mos £505
this year her 10 mos steers £592

Blue Tongue testing all very relevant in the Vector Free period £3 to test plus your vets charges - those tested cattle in 18th February sale sold very well and included the larger consignments of suckler bred Continental cross cattle
Weekly Sales from March, next sale - MONDAY, 3rd MARCH
Entries now being taken for this sale