SOUTH EAST MARTS – HAILSHAM MARKET

Primestock report for

Wednesday 12th August 2020

PRIME CATTLE (9) (UNDERAGE & OVERAGE) Auctioneer: Roger Waters All Very Firm - Nick Geering’s quality homebred Limousin cross heifer 212p & grosses nearly £1300! Lightweight Limousin cross steer to 195p per kilo, Hye House’s Fleckvieh steers £1000 plus CULL COWS (10) Auctioneer: Roger Waters Ever upwards wholesalers & feeding customers once again very keen to buy - no well fleshed Red Tractor Approved cows forward. Best of the beef cows Neil Osborn’s Sussex 136p per kilo and just under £900. Best of the dairy M&J Franklin & Son’s Friesian 132p per kilo & £864 per head & Northdown Partnership’s Holsteins to 130p per kilo & £903 per head. CALVES () Auctioneer: Roger Waters No calves on offer PIGS (23) Auctioneer: Roger Waters Young Saddleback gilts, ten weeks old, rocket to £52 each Landrace x White hybrid gilts £44 circa 30/32 kg. Pietrain cross similar age £44 Good to see the pig trade so buoyant.

SHEEP (1149) Auctioneer: Nick Young

Train crash near Stonehaven - A Level Results – Glorious twelfth, start of the Grouse season, Blistering Hot today at Hailsham

MILK LAMBS (789) Overall average 203.7p per kilo Hailsham today was blistering hot and so was the trade, but only for the best biggest meated lambs, with trade probably the warmest in England. Undermeated sorts are best sold in the store section, this has been proven time and time again. Top honours go to R Hoggins at £109.50 per head and Hailsham’s own Rosie Russell at 226.3p per kilo. Leading prices: R Hoggins £109.50, K Ashburner £107.50, £105, FG Coles £106, RJ Miles £106, D Smith £103, A Almeida £102.50, The Norton Farm Partnership £100.50, £99, M Christian £100, £96, J Sheehan £100, PB & LA Grenham £98, R Russell £98, RFF Brown £97.50, Ashdown & General £95.50 Top prices per kilo: R Russell 226.3p, RJ Miles 225.8p, 225.5p, D R Westgate 223.2p, M Christian 221.7p, RFF Brown 221.6p, The Norton Farm Partnership 221.4p, 220p, RJ Verity 220.6p, W&P New T/a Moorhouse Farm 219.3p, D Smith 219.2p, A Almeida 219p, 218.6p, EJ Day (Penshurst Ltd) 218.6p, R Hoggins 218.1p, PJ Greenaway 218p CULL EWES (227) Biggest and best and big framey graziers a good trade. Mason Estates, Butter Box Farm have top price at £85. Fat and Ultra lean models are wanted but only at a reduced price. Big runs are ultimately preferred. Leading prices: Mason Estate £85, RJ Miles £77, £65, Oliver Hill £75, The Norton Farm Partnership £70, £60, R&W Brown £66, R Russell £65, £62, S Wilson £65, R&W Brown £64, £60, RJ Verity £64, Milwards Farm £60 STORE SHEEP (405) The sunshine has burnt the grass away and it is impossible to finish lambs on old pasture in any event. Get selling now, you will definitely be able to buy back for less money later on. Top price of £65 goes jointly to J & M Craig and James Gasson. Leading prices: J&M Craig £65, £62, £61.50, (twice), J Gasson £65, RG Whyman £63.50, D R Westgate £63.50, R Rogers & Sons £62, JRV Wheatland £62, R Castle £60

Please keep in touch and let us know what you have.

Entered for Wednesday 19th August 100 Texel & Suffolk cross Store Lambs

Wormed & Sprayed, Forward in Condition from Brightling Pack

Store Cattle Sale

Wednesday 12th August Auctioneer Roger Waters

Congratulations to FS Major & Sons Well Done Mickey

for their fine run of homebred British Blue cross & Limousin cross Steers & Heifers

Bred locally, reared locally & sold locally the results speak for themselves - four figure returns

and not forgetting Norman Hicks’ Purebred Limousin steers & heifers also a real highlight

Steers £1000, Heifers £910 at 15/16 months

A very good show of cattle for the beginning of August and despite the lack of grass, poor silage & hay crops a very very sharp

trade from beginning to end

Other Leading Prices Breeding Stock

Mrs C Walker’s Pedigree Sussex cow & steer calf £1007 Pedigree in-calf Sussex cow £820

Continental cross Steers & Heifers - all ages N Osborn’s Limousin cross Sussex steers, 19 months, £1150

& heifers, 17 months, £940

Limousin cross Steers, 20 months

£1070 & Heifers, 15 months

£1000

British Blue cross Steers, 21 months

£1000 Heifers 19/20 months

£1030

Mrs Pat Woodley’s Charolais cross steers, 20 months £1058

& heifers, 17 months £975

Mrs Jane Andrew’s Simmental cross steers, 15 months, £920 & heifers, 14 months, £870

Mrs C Walker’s Simmental x Sussex steers, 16 months, £850

Native Bred Steers & Heifers - all ages

CV & RP Neale’s Aberdeen Angus cross steers, 21 months, £1170

& heifers, 21 months, £1020 Hereford cross steers, 23 months, £1080

David A Hole’s Purebred Sussex steers, 26 months, £960

H Baker & Son’s Hereford cross steers £405

Next Store Cattle Sale

Wednesday 26th August

Including: Five British Blue Cows with five Aberdeen Angus bull calves at foot from

V Marsh, British Blue cross heifer with Sussex cross heifer calf at foot from AC & J Knight, Six Hereford x Friesian heifers from B Felton etc. etc.

Further entries anticipated

Livestock Auctions/COVID-19

Updated 24th July 2020

Hailsham Market from now on will be operating under standards agreed by DEFRA and The Welsh

Government.

Conditions which now apply to the sale of all Primestock, Cull Animals and Store Stock.

As from Monday 27th April

Similar conditions will also apply to the

Sale of Breeding stock

Ie Beef Cows and Calves, Ewes with Lambs at Foot

THIS IS NOT A RELAXATION OF EXISTING COVID 19 RULES/PROTOCOL ALREADY IN PLACE - JUST

AN EXTENSION

All Purchasers must register on entering the market.

Social distancing must be strictly adhered to, i.e. 2 metres apart around the sale ring or sale pens.

Gathering points MUST be prevented. Please wear face coverings in the market.

South East Marts will be implementing a “Drop & Go” policy for vendors. Vendors MUST remain in

their vehicles on arriving at the market and when delivering animals to the loading docks must stay

in their vehicles, market staff will unload the vehicle and take animals to their sale pens.

Sale documentation MUST be collected by auctioneer’s staff from the vendors vehicle, vendors

MUST NOT take paperwork to the market office or to the clerk at booking in points or enter the

penning area.

We ask that all prospective buyers sanitise on entry to the market and again on exiting the market.

Disposable gloves will be available to all.

Buyers on collecting their invoices from the market office do so only by adopting the two metre

rule - we ask for simply that only one purchaser should collect their invoice in the

usual queuing area.

Specific to Store Cattle Sales: Should any Store Cattle vendor wish South East Marts will

facetime/video call the producer when their cattle are being offered through the auction ring so

they can be party to sales from a safe distance.

Vendors and Buyers please abide by these regulations, do not jeopardise the continuation of

Livestock Auctions during these difficult times.

Livestock Auctioneers nationwide have assured the Government that Social Distancing will be

applied at all times - Please abide by this

We all wish to stay in business and we all wish to reduce the risk

of COVID-19 infection.

COVID 19 Track & Trace is now in operation

Should anybody that has been in the market test positive they will be required to identify contacts.

Contacts - ie. someone within 1 metre of them with whom they have had

a face-to-face-conversation, had skin-to-skin physical contact, have coughed on, or been in other forms of contact within 1 metre for 1 minute or longer someone within 2 metres of them for more than 15 minutes someone they have travelled in a vehicle with - or has been seated near them on public transport.

Subject to COVID 19 Guidelines

ARDINGLY SHOWGROUND

Collective Sale

Agricultural & Garden Machinery

Livestock Equipment,

Builders/Contract Plant,

Small Tools etc.

SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2020

Entry Forms Available

Provisional Date

Subject to COVID 19 Guidelines

OSNEY LODGE FARM

Byers Lane, South Godstone Surrey

Late Summer Collective Sale

Agricultural & Garden Machinery

Livestock Equipment, Builders/Contract Plant,

SATURDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 2020

FARM DIRECT BULL BANK

New on the market: Aberdeen Angus bull three years plus, TB One Pre movement tested can collect immediately

Young Limousin Bull Four Year TB Parish

Registered Aberdeen Angus bull available to hire for the short term

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DAIRY DIRECT

Seven Friesian bulling heifers, 22 months plus Pictures & Breeding Available

Four Year TB Parish

Seventeen Friesian down-calving heifers Four Year TB Parish

West Sussex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SHEEP DIRECT TEXEL SEMEN

Available by private treaty from leading Texel flocks nationwide including Tophill, Knock, Forkins, Muiresk Craighead, Garngour Coval

& many others All in store with AB Europe Malvern.

One hundred & seventy Organic Suffolk x Mule shearling ewes - will divide

Tel: RRW 07860 663345 or 01323 844874

Barkers Animal Health are pleased to announce that Alex Moss will now be the South &

South East Representative for Barkers Animal Health Welcome Mossy

Contact: 07718 532971

South East Marts

Market Street

Hailsham

East Sussex

BN27 2AG

01323 844874

07860 663345

info@southeastmarts.co.uk

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