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w/e MONDAY 21ST AUGUST 2017

WEEKLY SALES NEWS

STOCK SOLD DURING THE WEEK

Prime Sheep 2,257

Store Cattle 70

Prime Cattle 283

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Wednesday 16th August 2017

Auctioneer: Thomas Hiorns

933 Prime Lambs 64 Ewes SQQ – 192.94 £116.50 and 236p/kg £91.00

Spring Lambs – SQQ 193p/kg

The SQQ of 193p/kg included a vast number of very, very lean lambs. These lambs would be far better sold on a Friday.

However, the meat today sold as dear as anywhere with Beltex lambs from M/s A T Ivory & Son, up to 236p/kg weighing

39kg and also selling 44kg at 216p/kg. Good to see old faces back in the aisles both happy with weight and price. N

Boyles also showed a full pen of quality to 216p/kg. Quality sold exceptionally well with Hutton’s Farm selling to 213p/kg

for 40kg. Lovely to see Norman Deeley back taking 211p/kg twice. N Boyles topping the gross with £116.50 for a 63kg

lamb. Honesberie had a run of their consistent high quality to top at £109.50 for 56kg and to average £106.62 for 50

lambs.

Please if you have fat lambs bring them on a Wednesday, we have the buyers to give you the trade.

Cull Ewes

Suffolks today to £91.00 with Continental x to £75.00. Mules sold to £71.00.

Weight Nos Ave (p/kg) Top (p/kg)

LAMBS (32.1-39) 23 186.31 236.00

LAMBS (39.1-45.5) 649 192.16 216.00

LAMBS (45.6-52) 137 196.42 208.00

LAMBS (52+) 34 195.16 201.00

Av (pr/hd) Top (pr/hd)

CULL EWES 64 55.38 91.00

SELLER PPK

A T IVORY & SON 236

A T IVORY & SON 216

N BOYLES 216

HUTTONS FARM 213

N DEELEY 211

N DEELEY 211

EW & JE MASTERS 209

LEACH FARMS LTD 208

HONESBERIE FARMS 208

N BOYLES 208

SELLER PPH

N BOYLES 116.5

HONESBERIE FARMS 109.5

HONESBERIE FARMS 107.5

R AVERY 107

HONESBERIE FARMS 107

HONESBERIE FARMS 106

HONESBERIE FARMS 104

N BOYLES 103

LEACH FARMS 101.5

A T IVORY & SON 100.5

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Friday 18th August 2017

**ABERDEEN ANGUS X STEER AVERAGE - £1205.85**

Auctioneer: Simon Draper

Store Cattle – 70 Forward

A useful entry for mid-August, trade continues to be very strong for the short keep cattle topping at £1440.00 and

£1430.00 for Aberdeen Angus x steers from M/s Williams, Bradden. Peter Brown sold his usual run of Aberdeen

Angus x Friesian to £1200.00 and £1165.00. British Blue x Friesian from the same farm sold at £1160.00. Hereford x

Friesians from Mrs J M Wallington sold at £1110.00. Stephen Taylor sold his run of Homebred Limousin x steers and

heifers 16 months to £1130.00 & £1062.00 at 15 months with the best pen of heifers at £1040.00, others sold to

£1035.00 and £1000.00.

Simmental x 16 months from M/s Pearman & Son sold at £932.00. Feeding cows sold to £990.00 for a Simmental cow

from Stephen Taylor.

Store Sheep - 1054

Auctioneer: Thomas Hiorns

A marvellous day was had by all. 1045 store lambs sold through ring 3 to average £62.60. M/s HS & DR Weaver

travelled all the way down from Stoneleigh to take the day’s top spot with tight skinned Texel x selling to £68.50. The

days highest Suffolks were from Mr J W Pickford selling to £67.00 for the first pen and £65.50 for the second. Chess

Valley Livestock sold a fantastic run of 180 Charollais x lambs to top at £67.00 and average £64.50. Shorter keep

lambs were £65.00 plus with medium keep £60.00 - £65.00. Only two pens were below £58.00 with nothing below

£50.00.

We are expecting a similar entry next week with 500 already entered. Please if you have stores to sell let us know by

1pm Monday 21st August.

Steers to £1440.00 Heifers to £1040.00 Store Sheep to £68.50

NOS AVE PRICE (PR/HD)

MAX PRICE (PR/HD)

TOP BREED

STEERS 39 1126.05 1440.00 ABERDEEN ANGUS X

HEIFERS 30 929.13 1040.00 LIMOUSIN X

COWS 1 - 990.00 SIMMENTAL X

BULL CALVES 3 332.67 358.00 ABERDEEN ANGUS X

HEIFER CALF 1 - 235.00 ABERDEEN ANGUS X

STORE LAMBS 1054 62.60 68.50 TEXEL X

Deadweight – Week ending Friday 18th August 2017

Stock sold: 283 Cattle, 206 Sheep

Top Prices/Head

Clean Cattle (187)

Another good number placed especially as many would be vendors busy with harvest. Prices achieved very pleasing for the time of year; all

outlets standing on (see price list below). Overall much better quality placed but not so many heavyweights. Top price steer a Charolais x (-

U4L) at £1585 with others at £1581 Aberdeen Angus (O+3), £1569; £1544 and £1540 (all U+4L) Limousins. A heavyweight Aberdeen Angus

heifer (R4L) selling at £1569.

Top Steers £1585 Charolais -U4L £1537 Aberdeen Angus R3

£1581 Aberdeen Angus O+3 £1529 Limousin U+4L

£1569 Limousin U+4L £1526 Aberdeen Angus R3

£1544 Limousin U+4L £1504 Charolais U-3-

£1540 Limousin U+4L £1500 British Blue R3

Top Heifers £1569 Aberdeen Angus R4L £1336 Aberdeen Angus O+4L

£1491 Aberdeen Angus R4H £1330 Sussex R4H

£1435 Charolais U=3- £1316 Charolais R=3=

£1397 South Devon R4L £1308 Charolais U-3=

£1359 Aberdeen Angus R3 £1243 British Blue R=4-

Young Bulls £1438 Charolais U-2+ £1244 Simmental R=4+

£1413 Charolais U+2+

Clean Steer £1585 Beef Cow £1308 Clean Heifer £1569 Dairy Cow £1223 UTM Bulls 12-16 M £1438 OTM Steers £1624 OTM Heifers £1556

Commercial

Steers/Heifers

Best

Butchers

Heifers

Beef

Shorthorns

Young

Bulls

Aberdeen

Angus

Organic Native

Breeds

E

U+ 385p 400p 378p

-U 375p 391p 395p 373p 430p 495p 375p

R 365p 381p 385p 363p 425p 485p 365p

O+ 355p 375p 420p 475p

Best

Beef Cows

Dairy

Cows

OTM’s

OTM Aberdeen

Angus

Organic

Cows

-U 310p 368p 410p

R 305p 310p 358p 405p 350p

O+ 300p 295p 348p 395p 345p

-O 300p

For up to date prices and information please contact John Blanchard or Daniel Slade. For weights and grades please contact the

Deadweight Office.

Spring Lambs (206)

Pre booking by THURSDAY is essential. Please have as accurate numbers as possible, you may be charged for un-used numbers

and extras may not fit on. Hoggetts coming to an end. Lambs a firm trade and wanted as firms make the switch over.

OTM Clean/Mature Bulls/Cull Cows (96)

Numbers up on the week especially in the barren cows

department. Very few best beef cows placed, a top prize £1308

for a South Devon (-U3) with another at £1269. R4L Hereford

X’s topped at £1232 (R4H) and Beef Shorthorn at £1212

(O+4H). A much larger number of dairy barreners including

several better quality types topping out at £1223 for a Holstein

(-O4L) £1073 and British Friesian (-O4L) £1002. Medium weight

Holsteins £855 to £886 for P+2/-O3.

OTMs

Trade remains firm, Aberdeen Angus X steers selling at £1624

(O+4L) and £1579 (O+4L) and Aberdeen Angus heifer selling

at £1556 (R4H) and £1320 (O+4L). A couple of Wagyu steers

over 36 months selling at £1362 (-U4L) and £1258 (-U3).

A RECORD BREAKING SHEARWELL THAME SUMMER SHEEP FAIR

The Annual Summer Sheep Fair was held on Thursday and Friday last week, when 26,601 head of Breeding Sheep

and Store Lambs passed through the ring to gross a staggering £3.05 Million and setting the benchmark for all other

breeding sheep sales this season. The sale was topped by a Texel Ram sold through the ram ring at £910.00 and

females at £540.00.

The main ring saw a high of £218.00 for Beltex x from MF & DM Elkington.

North of England Mules topped at £196.00 to average £130.10, up £7.20.

Suffolk x topped at £158.00 to average £131.91, up £6.91. Suffolk Rams to £530.00

Beltex x topped at £218.00 to average £162.99, up £28.99. Beltex Rams to £900.00

Texel x topped at £210.00 to average £141.44, down £3.66. Texel Rams to £910.00

Scotch Half Bred topped at £190.00 to average £176.61. Charollais Rams to £705.00

Cheviot x topped at £155.00 to average £138.00.

Pure Cheviots sold at £190.00. Cheviot Rams to £210.00

Lleyn x topped at £136.00 to average £120.95. Lleyn Rams to £340.00

A clearance of 97.9% was achieved.

Beltex x: found favour again this year, with M/s Elkington, Northants topping the day with a run at £218.00 and

£205.00. Gore Farms followed at £202.00 along with the well-travelled Davies Bros from Llangadog with two pens at

the same price.

Cheviot: Only one pen of Pure Cheviots selling to £190.00 from Garfield Stephens who also topped the Scotch Half

Breds at the same money. The Cheviot Mules on offer were not quite as strong as previous years topping at £155.00

from M/s N F Hodges & Son followed by Peter and David Morris at £154.00, John Goodman £153.00 and Rob and

Caroline Mole at £152.00.

Charollais X: From M/s J North & Son sold at £148.00 and £138.00 with N F Hodges & Son’s pen at £145.00.

Dorset X: From M/s H H Johnson & Son, Bridport sold to £124.00.

Lleyn: Sold to £136.00 twice from John and George Morris another pen £131.00 and followed by Keith Davies at

£130.00.

Mules: The smarter shearlings found favour this year either lambed or dry. Henry Tustian took top honours in the

show ring and the sale. Henry took the best pen of shearlings which went on to sell for £196.00 and the NEMSA

trophy for best run selling at £196.00, £180.00, £178.00 and £172.00 and dries at £162.00. Peter and David Morris

sold at £160.00, W.J.R Haynes £156.00, Rob and Caroline Mole £152.00 as well did W H Allan. Double theaves a

great trade to £140.00 from Stuart McIntosh and £130.00 from Conrad Lester.

Suffolks: Eddy Bullman was consistent again winning the Suffolk x class and selling at £158.00. M/s Smith and

Branson sold at £148.00 as did Rob and Caroline Mole, Conrad Lester, Peter Hird (Aspatria) and George Eaton. Alice

and Henry Hunt followed at £147.00.

Texel: Gore Farms topped at £210.00, Davies Bros £194.00. M/s R & H Lawrence £188.00 twice and £182.00.

Garfield Stephens £180.00 twice and Michel Cross £179.00. M/s G E Haynes & Son followed at £175.00.

Older ewes a really strong trade, Suffolk x from Peter and David Morris sold at £130.00, Mules from M/s Pearson

£115.00 and £112.00, Rawding Partners £110.00, Charlie Lines, £109.00 along with Martin Eadon. Rob and Caroline

Mole sold Suffolk x at £116.00 and £107.00.

Ewe Lambs: Mr T C Dawson travelled down from County Durham with 715 wonderful Texel X N C Mules to take top

honours at £120.00, £110.00 and two pens at £98.00.

Store Lambs: The rapid grass growth and buoyant prime trade contributed to a rise in average of £5/head for the

feeding lambs. Once again the long keepers look best sold. Miss H Levinge topped the day at £77.00. Chris Tucker,

Devises sold Continentals to £68.00 and £67.50 along with Mr G Weston, Sydenham Grange. Michael and Liam

Roberts from Llanferres sold to £67.00 for their run of Suffolk x.

Rams - 264

A similar sized catalogue to last year met a mixed trade for the variable quality on offer, albeit there being strong

demand for selected breeds and drafts therein.

In the MV Accredited section, the Midland Beltex Society held their annual show here once again with the Supreme

Champion Rosette going to the champion male shown by Mr A Bishop of ‘Bishops Beltex’ who later sold to £740.00,

whilst the Champion female was exhibited by VJ & ML Roots ‘Freckleton Beltex’ who sold to £540.00.

Overall Sale Results:

10 Shearling Ewes to £540.00, averaging £455.00.

7 Shearling Rams to £740.00, averaging £540.00.

2 Ram Lambs to £410.00, averaging £360.00.

Other MV Accredited Sale Results:

Blue Texel Shearlings sold to £470.00 from Yeat Blue Texels, to average £430.00.

Beltex x Texel Shearlings sold to £430.00 from VJ & ML Roots, to average £410.00.

Beltex x Charollais Shearlings sold to £770.00 from R & B Smith, to average £496.00.

Texel Shearlings sold to £910.00 from R & B Smith, to average £463.00.

Charollais Shearlings sold to £705.00 from GA & JA Curtis, to average £425.00.

Charollais Ram Lambs sold to £510.00 from GA & JA Curtis, to average £391.00.

Charollais Ewe Lambs sold to £132.00 from GA & JA Curtis, to average £126.00.

Suffolk Shearlings sold to £530.00 for DF & AG Jefferies, to average £468.00.

Suffolk Ram Lambs sold to £400.00 from M/s MJ & JA Pinney, to average £361.00.

Lleyn Shearlings sold to £340.00 from CG & JF Phillips, to average £311.00.

Non MV Accredited

In the Non MV Section, aged Pure Bred Charollais and Beltex ewes sold to £270.00 and £240.00 respectively from

Davies Bros, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire who also sold top Beltex x Charollais shearling rams to £900.00 to average

£707.00 and a draft of Beltex x Texel shearlings to £650.00 for a £472.00 average. D W Gurney & Son sold Beltex

Shearlings to £470.00, with other sales including Dorset teaser rams to £265.00.

Beltex x to £900.00, average £464.00

Suffolk to £295.00, average £245.00

Texel to £245.00, average £215.00

Dorset to £265.00, average £263.00

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