Each week goes up a level and today was no exception.

Records were broken - well broken both in the Calf ring and the Store Cattle ring.  Cattle cannot be valued to within 20%.

Feeders and Farmers generally are wondering what to do for the best - "Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon for you dont know if profit will come from one activity or another or maybe both " - Ecclesiastes 11:6

HIGHLIGHTS
STEERS
Simx 21mo £2140 J Everson
Limx 15mo £2080 Rounding Bros
Simx 21mo £2000 J Everson
Limx 16mo £2000 Rounding Bros
Simx 11mo £1980 Mills on Wheels
Simx 13mo £1950 R Giles
BBx 12mo £1880 Cook and Colman
Simx 11mo £1880 Mills on Wheels
Simx 13mo £1740 Mills on Wheels
BBx 13mo £1740 R Revell

HEIFERS
S.Horn 24mo £2000 T & H Sheldrake
Limx 12mo £1640 Cook and Colman
AA 19mo £1610 Mrs J Gooch
Simx 11mo £1600 Mills on Wheels
Hfd 34mo £1570 J Waspe
BBx 12mo £1550 R Revell
BBx 12mo £1550 Davis Dairies
Limx 6mo £1500 AE Baker & Son
BBx 15mo £1500 A Burcham
Limx 13mo £1500 Mills on Wheels

BULLS
Limx 68mo RW & DR Coe
Saler x 22mo £1480 EJW Holman & Partners
S/Devon 13mo £1470 Bures Farm Partners
Simx 12mo £1340 A Gee
Red Poll 22mo £1340 A Gee

Cows to 288ppkg (£1612) foe Roger Moore with only one below 200ppkg


Important notice to Farmers - please get Farm Assured if you can, it makes a real difference.

 

A lot of interest in Cows and Calves with 2 outfits from RW & DR Coe to £2200 and £2000.
An in calf Lincoln Red Cow from P & S Beginn reached £1760 with an Angus Heifer & Calf from R Paterson to £1720

Calf trade at the moment resembles a nuclear chain reaction !
A record price for a B. Blue Bull from CW Potter at £730.  R Paterson sold Charolais to £565 and Hereford Heifers to £400.  Alex Dann also reached £565 for a Blue, with smaller ones from RJ Barnes at £445. Eddie Brighams little Herefords sold to £360

Trade continues to be good in general, building up to the Festival and will continue to be wanted. Store Hoggs still very strong but numbers are drying up.

PRIME HOGGS (382)
Today many lambs booked in as finished, ended up in the stores. Good entries from James Case, HHB Farms though Nigel Holden topped at 400ppkg and Christine Kinge at £173 per head.

STANDARD LAMBS (87) 342.10 TO 400.00 AV 372.74 £121.00 TO £153.00 AV £138.56
MEDIUM LAMBS (196) 341.40 TO 388.00 AV 356.72 £140.00 TO £171.00 AV £149.13
HEAVY LAMBS (61) 340.00 TO 368.00 AV 349.35
HEAVY + LAMBS (38) 275.00 TO 319.60 AV 295.78 £153.00 TO £170.00

NEW SEASON LAMBS (4)
First of the New Season Lambs selling to 355ppkg & £160.00

Good strong trade with Ewes with meat and selling to £242 for Bures Farm

£10.00 to £242.00 av £137.21

CULL RAMS (13)

£110.00 to £190.00 av £162.85

These remain very strong, with plenty of buyers, selling t o £151 for Stow Estates. Also Suffolks from Bethany Atkinson selling to £149

£26.00 to £151.00 av £110.69

Highlight today was in lamb Polled Dorset Shearlings, in lamb to the Charollais Ram, due 12/04 selling to £250 from Tom Buck