SOUTH EAST MARTS HAILSHAM MARKET
STORE CATTLE REPORT:-

MONDAY, 28th APRIL ~ Auctioneer: Roger Waters

SPRING SHOW & SALE OF STORE CATTLE

Not many empty pens, good to see a market full of cattle and customers with deep pockets to buy them. Long may it continue.
Bob and Mike Sherwood take the cup and the price -
(they will have to compete in the Champion League next year!)

Our thanks to Mr. Jim Sansom for so ably judging this year’s competition.
Best Pen of Steers First & Championship Pen - M & R Sherwood
Second - M & R Sherwood - Third C H & P Green
Best Pen of Heifers First - CH & P Green
Second - CH & P Green - Third - AD Woolgar
Best Pen of Continentals - M & R Sherwood
Best Pen of Native Bred Cattle - D A Hole

BREEDING STOCK -
Just a few in-calf Continental cross cows selling to £570 from
WM Cleverley - More beef cows in the pipeline - watch this space

SUCKLER BRED STEERS & HEIFERS
- either side of twelve months
To buy some well bred yearling steers, around the £500 or just under is the ball park figure and an insatiable demand exists.

Bob & Mike Sherwood’s Limousins a little special and a big price,
13 month steers £610 and 12 month steers £575.
Other leading prices:- Miss N Morrison’s Simmental cross steer, 12 mos £525,
N Hedges’ Simmental cross steer, 12 mos £525, D Nichols Simmental cross steer, 12 mos £520, AA & M Woolgar’s Limousin cross steer, 13 mos £515, P Nash’s Simmental cross steer, 12 mos £502, K Axell’s Limousin cross steers, 12 mos £490, BK Selby’s Blonde cross steers, 10 mos £490, and Blonde cross heifers, 10 mos £390, AR Waters’ Simmental x Charolais heifer, 13 mos £475,
AD Woolgar’s Limousin cross heifer, 10 mos £380

STEERS & HEIFERS - Fourteen months to twenty months
Bob & Mike Sherwood’s Limousins even a bit more special
and at even a bigger price head the league -
Heifers at 15/18 mos £772 and steers at 17 mos £725
Other prizewinners - CH & P Green’s Limousin x Hereford/Friesian, 16 mos £682, also out in front P Gilman’s Hereford cross steers, 18 mos £692, South Devon steer, 16 mos £632, CH & P Green’s Limousin x Belgian Blue/Friesian steer, 18 mos £630, A Scott’s Belgian Blue cross steer, 18 mos £552, I Williams’ Charolais cross, 18 mos £540, J Barton Jayne’s Charolais cross, 15 mos £700,
AR Waters’ Simmental steer, 15 mos £540 and heifers, 14 mos £512,
AJ & GM Gingell’s Simmental steer, 14 mos £497

NATIVES - have their niche market both
Angus and Sussex out in numbers and all enjoying a very good trade
CP Ponsford’s suckler bred Angus cross heifers top shot at £667 other top calls include AB Goldsmith’s Angus x Friesian steers, 22 mos £660,
WB Hesselgrave’s Angus cross suckler bred steers £565 and heifers £550
AR Waters’ Angus x Friesian steer, 13 mos £560 BLA Cornford’s Angus cross suckler bred steers, 12 mos £470 and heifers 19 mos £535, R Dunkley’s Angus cross steer, 14 mos £500, EC White & Son’s Angus cross steer, 10 mos £425 John Covell’s Native Special Prize goes to David Hole’s purebred pen of 22 month Sussex steers £590 - “all a bit Special” ! - Other Sussex returns C Kidger’s purebred heifers, 25 mos £545, CF Ponsford & Son’s Purebred steers, 22 mos £590 and heifers £467, CJ & CH Hodgkin’s purebred steers, 10 mos £325

OLDER SORTS - 23/26 months old
David Hole has Hereford cross, 23 mos £717,
RC Baker & Son’s Limousin cross, 25 mos £692 and Belgian Blue, 23 mos £658,
I Williams’ Sussex x Charolais steer, 23 mos £647 and heifers £712,
M Cleverley’s Charolais cross, 23 mos £650 and FW & VE Vine’s Hereford cross, 26 mos £585 and finally even older sorts - M & T Bourner’s Over Thirty Monthers and more, a big big Limousin cross at £825!
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MONDAY, 5th MAY - BANK HOLIDAY - NO SALE
Next Sale of
STORE CATTLE ~ MONDAY, 12th MAY

Entries include:- 40 Aberdeen Angus cross steers and heifers, 12/24 mos from
Dr A & Mrs LJ Martin, 35 Blonde d’Aquitaine cross steers and heifers, 11/12 months from Mr. & Mrs K Watts, 20 Limousin cross steers and heifers, 6/8 mos from
Dutton Partners, 20 Continental cross steers and heifers, 12 mos from P Nash,
16 Crossbred and Continental cross steers and heifers, 8/12 mos from J Marden,
16 Limousin cross steers and heifers, 12/14 mos from M & R Sherwood,
15 Limousin cross steers and heifers, 12/18 mos from R Walker & Son,
14 Continental cross steers and heifers, 24 mos from J Cobden, 13 Purebred and Sussex cross steers and heifers, 12/24 mos from Willingford Farm Partnership,
12 Simmental cross and Aberdeen Angus cross steers and heifers, 12/16 mos from
H Hawkins & Co., plus many other entries coming forward
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thereafter onMONDAY, 19th MAY