HALLWORTHY MARKET REPORT

THURSDAY 10th OCTOBER 2019

EVERY THURSDAY Gates Open 6.30am

SALE TIMES

09:45 am Draft Ewes followed by Prime, Store Hoggs & Breeding Sheep

10:45am Tested & Untested Prime & OTM Cattle 11:00 am Store Cattle & Stirk

Hallworthy Stockyard, Hallworthy, Camelford, Cornwall, PL32 9SH

Tel: 01840 261261 Fax: 01840 261684

Website: www.kivells.com Email: hallworthy@kivells.com

189 Draft Ewes

Smaller entry met a much improved trade, with 6 buyers in attendance. 11 pens over £80 to a

top call of £95.50, for a Texel from Messrs Martyn Uglow of Boyton. Strong Suffolk x Ewes to

£84, from 3 vendors. Mules to £73, from B A Sheep of Treskinnick.

237 Fat Lambs

A much faster trade for all

weights, up around £5 to £6

ahead. More Lambs could have

been sold as buyers orders were

left unfilled. Over all average on

the day was 172p. Several pens

over 175p, to a top of 183p, for a

smart pen of Charollais x 42kgs, £77, from Lee Saunders, Wheel Agar, Darite. Followed by two

pens from Messrs Abel Bros, Lower Godsworthy, Tavistock which realised 178.6p, for 43kgs

£76.80. Top per head on the day was £84.50, for a pen of heavies from Jim Goodenough of

Higher Tremail, Davidstow.

155 Store Lambs

Small entry met a stronger trade, with no big framed lambs on offer. The average framed

Lambs saw pens ranging from £62 to £64, top being from Mike Harris of South Tawton.

Breeding Ewes 733

A strong trade cross the board, with again a large crowd of buyers in attendance. Top on the

day was £112, for a pen of Romney 4T, from Messrs Parnell and Kent of Carruan Farm, St

Minver. Henry Banbury of Dowland saw his full mouth Mules sell to £83. John May, St Merryn

had a run of Suffolk x Mule Ewe Lamb, which were much in demand, with his first two pens

realising £86. Hametethy Farms, St Breward had a consignment of Beluah 6 and full mouth

Ewes on offer which topped at £75. Mule 2T’s topped at £110, and Swaledale 2T to £75, all sold

by Mr A England.

Rams 76

A lot more Rams on offer saw a 75% clearance rate. Top on the day was £250 for a Texel

Shearling from Jack Neale & Sons of Wilky Down, followed by Andrew Ham of Higher Basil who

realised £240, for a cracking 6T Polled Dorset. John Creeper of Higher Tregunnon, also topped

at £240 for a Suffolk Ram Lamb.

Weight Top Average Per Head Per Kilo Per Head Per Kilo

32.1-39 65.50 171 62 161.1

39.1-45.5 80 183 72 173.9 45.6-52 84.50 176 84.50 176

Overall 84.50 183 72.20 172

SHEEP AUCTIONEER STEVE PROUSE 07767 895366

More Cattle on offer met a stronger trade, South Devons topping the day at £1040, for a bunch

of 20 month Steers from Messrs M & C Sandbach & Son of St Breock, who also sold two other

bunches at £950 and £920. More Charollais on offer this week, saw a pair of 24 month Steers

sell to £1015, from Mr R Parsons of South Petherwin. Messrs R & M Strongman of Laddock,

Truro was next who saw their bunch of four 19 month old Steers realise £985. A good run of

Cattle from Messrs J & K Symons of Polmear, Camelford, saw their shapely Limousin x Steer top

at £935. Not so many Angus Steers on offer, but ones that were forward were in demand,

topping at £835 from Mr R Parsons, who also sold a big framed Steer at £835. Simmental x

Steers from Messrs J & K Symons of Camelford, met a strong trade, selling to £915, for a choice

19 month old. Over 100 Heifers on offer, with the fleshy Cattle selling to a top of £895, for a

pair of Limousin x Heifers from Robert and Julie Honey of Higher Beer, Marhamchurch. Messrs

M & C Sandbach & Son of St Breock topped the South Devon Heifers, with a choice 21 month

old at £890. Alan Ead of Hensaviston had a smart run of Cattle on offer, which saw his choice

Limousin x Heifers reach £870.

Cows and Calves

A smart run of Hereford Cows and Calves from Messrs Holland of Grougath, St Kerverne,

Helston saw four outfits over £1000 to a top of £1135.

STORE CATTLE AUCTIONEER RICHARD DENNIS