HOLSWORTHY MARKET REPORT Wednesday 8 January 2020

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Gates open 6am

SALE TIMES 09:45 am - Draft Ewes followed by Finished Lambs 10:30 am - Store Lambs & Couples 09.45 am - Calves and Stirks 11 am - Store Cattle followed by Finished & OTM Cattle

11 am - Dairy Cattle

A huge crowd of potential buyers filled the store cattle sale gallery and pushed the best to £1,115 for a British Blue from Messrs Heard of Hartland.

Holsworthy Livestock Market, New Market Road, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7FA

01409 253275

402 DRAFT EWES & RAMS WEIGHT TOP AVERAGE & 666 HOGGS – 09.45 am Per P/Kg Per P/Kg Auctioneer: Steve Prouse 07767 895366 LAMBS head T68L head TLW 32.1-39 74.20 204 69 190.10 39.1-45.5 90 211 85 194 45.6-52 97.20 203 94 194.40 52+ 100.50 168 100.5 168 Overall 100.50 211 89 194 EWES Light 89 71 Heavy 106.50 96 Rams 102.50 100

Again a strong trade met across the board with the well fleshed lambs averaging around 200p to a top of 211p for a pen of 40kgs £84.20 from Alan Tucker of Stibb Cross followed by 2 other producers who realised 205p. Mr ST Tucker of Hatherleigh 40kgs £82 and Messrs J&C Stoneman of Sampford Courtenay 42.6kgs £87.20. Several pens of heavies realised £95 and over to a top of £100.50 for Anthony Bariball of Clawton.

402 DRAFT EWES & RAMS

More ewes on offer nationally after the Christmas break and a very fast trade was met. Our entry today saw a very large number of plain and hill bred ewes on offer which reflected in the overall average of £72.38. However the good meat ewes saw several pens around £100 to a top of £106.50 for a pen of Suffolk X from Malcolm & Graham Piper of Herdwick, Holsworthy. Pen after pen of Mules over £80 to a top of £89.50 from Geoff May of Astral House, Instow with another pen at £88.50. Mashams topped at £82 for Swaddledown Farms of Bratton Clovelly. The plain ewes met a flying trade to a top of £65 from 3 vendors.

207 STORE HOGGS

A flying trade saw several pens around the £80 to a top of £85 from Mike Down of Whitsley Barton, Winkleigh.

COUPLES

A small entry very much sought after Polled Dorset to £180 and singles topped at £165 all sold by Danny Norman of Dolton.

237 BABY & REARED CALVES – 09.45 am Auctioneer: James Morrish FLAA 07814 010133

BREED BULLS HEIFERS CALVES No Top Ave No Top Ave Friesian 39 142 69.31 - - - Limousin 13 310 219.15 18 240 155.94 British Blue 39 395 258.95 37 395 166.89 Aberdeen Angus 30 225 132.40 15 150 90.53 Hereford 10 250 136.90 9 155 84.78 Charolais 9 332 270.44 - - - Simmental 1 280 280 - - - Devon 6 122 81.67 2 58 44

A tremendous start to 2020 with only 3 empty pens in the whole calf section. Overall top call today was £395 for a bunch (x5) of Blue steers (3mths) in from John Elliott & Family of Bradford, the same good vendor also topped the heifers also at £395. Messrs Petherick & Son of Kilkhampton enjoyed a really good trade with their young Blues at £350 whilst the very best baby Blue bulls (41 days) came in from John Cann of Highampton at £290. This weeks Folk2Folk Champion calf came in from Messrs PH Collins Partnership reaching £310 for a wonderful Limousin bull (39 days) and purchased by Andrew Short of Week St Mary. Other similar calves from Messrs Collins reached £305 & £275 whilst Rachel Skinner saw the best of her team to £295. Simmentals were in short supply but saw plenty of interest with Wrangworthy Dairy topping at £280. Charolais calves met a flying trade with the best to £332 on behalf of WS Jose & Son of North Tamerton whilst B&D Andrew of Shebbear hit £285, £278 & £262 for 30 day bulls with the best of a nice run of 28 day old Charolais in from Nick Bowden of Beaworthy topping at £285. Plenty of Angus bulls forward sold to a better trade with the best realising £225 for D&D Furse of Ashwater with Messrs Pincombe of Umberleigh close up at £220 and Steve Urquhart at £200. Devon bull calves were out in force this week and were topped by the best of a run of 15 up from Messrs Care of in Mid reaching £122. Plenty of Hereford bulls today saw GG Smale & Son of St Stephens at £250 (x2), £200 for Messrs Steer of Tavistock, £160 for Messrs Home and £118 for the pick of a tidy run of very young calves from Best Farms Partnership of Landulph.

Holstein bulls were easy to sell with prices returning to the ‘good old days of yesteryear’ with the best at £142 & £125 (x2) for GG Smale & Son, £110 for Messrs Griffin & Son £105 for AA Parsons with the top 15 averaging £107.50. Plenty of farmers and traders looking to buy Black & White bull calves.

In the heifer pens Blues once again dominated the market with a whole team of 3mth old Blue heifers between £395 - £265 for John Elliott and the best baby Blue heifers from Messrs R&S Home at £220. Limousin heifers saw plenty of trade with Messrs Monks of Okehampton presenting a quality line up of 5 week old heifers and hitting £240 for their best.

Speaking after the auction Kivells Auctioneere James Morrish said “An excellent start to the year with vendors going home happy. 3 new buyers again this week adding to the line up with farmers from St Austell to Cheltenham choosing to do business at Holsworthy. Prior to the sale the calf ring stood in silence to remember John Watts of Watts Livestock Transport who were a major part of Westcountry livestock farming for many many years. John’s funeral will be held on Tuesday 14th January at 11am at Landkey Church”.

NEXT WEEK – FIRST MONTHLY SHOW & SALE OF REARED CALVES & STIRKS Current entries include consignments of 17 Limousin & British Blue steers & heifers (3mths), 9 Limousin steers (3mths) and 30 Blue & Limousin steers & heifers (3-6mths). Kindly sponsored by Folk2Folk of Launceston.

210 STORE CATTLE – 11 am Auctioneer: David Kivell - 07899 960272

STEERS HEIFERS

No 0-15 mths 16-22 mths 23+ mths 0-15 mths 16-22 mths 23+ mths Breed Sold Top Ave Top Ave Top Ave Top Ave Top Ave Top Ave A.Angus 24 740 660 ------895 760 - - British Blue 78 850 705 1100 985 1115 1070 680 540 890 840 910 910 Hereford 18 720 690 870 870 1000 1000 - - 735 685 - - Charolais 3 - - 900 900 - - 690 690 - - - - Friesian 35 - - 815 700 970 880 - - 490 490 - - Limousin 21 - - 1050 985 - - 685 650 860 775 - - Simmental 16 590 505 860 780 - - 585 475 690 690 - - Blonde 3 - - 955 882 - - - - 780 780 - - Montbellairdd’Aquitaine 1 - - 1015 1015 ------

A big thank you to both buyers and vendors which resulted in a flyer for our first sale of the year, many cattle up £100 with the ring full to capacity with buyers. A few forward finishing cattle saw a top call of £1,115 for a 31 month British Blue from Messrs Heard of Hartland. Several well-presented younger 16-20 month stores from Mr G Rose of Highampton saw an overall average of £1,007 for 14- 17mths topping at £1,100. Dairy x and Continentals 17-20 months also up £100 on before Christmas trade with plenty of British Blue steers £900- £1,000. British Blue heifers rose to £910 for 2 from Messrs Congdon of with plenty of other 18-20mth heifers between £850-£900 and many more would have sold well. Several young Continental and Native steers and heifers also sold to a much improved trade. Young Aberdeen Angus steers from Messrs Johns of Kilkhampton to £685 (x7). Other 8-10mth Dairy x Aberdeen Angus steers from the same farm to £615 with plenty of 10-12mth British Blue steers at £600+. More required. The fastest trade this week was for Holstein steers which saw a flyer from start to finish, the stronger Holsteins with flesh topped at £970 for 2 from Messrs

Heard of Hartland with leaner framier Holsteins seeing several bunches over £800. 2 Non-Farm Assured beef cows topped at £600 for an Aberdeen Angus from GRAZING COWS & Messrs Collins of St Clether, Herefords from Messrs Emmerson of Bridestow OTM COWS 11 am sold to £545. Out of parlour Holsteins sold to £500 for Mr S Urquhart of Auctioneer: David Kivell Holsworthy. OTM cows topped this week at 110p for a 836kg cow from Messrs Harris of Briderule realising £919, top price per kilo was 114p for a 788kg from Messrs Goaman of Hartland.

This week’s winner of the Lark Plant was awarded to Messrs Heard of Hartland for a 31 month British Blue

reaching £1,115.

Kivells notice to Store Cattle Vendors It has come to our attention in recent months that a large number of in calf Store Heifers are being reported, and because of this the vendors are having to pay large vet bills and cost of losses to the purchaser. In previous years we have found that vendors who have scanned their Heifers empty at the time of their TB test, have had a stronger trade on the day, and that has covered their cost of scanning, based on this although it’s voluntary and not compulsory to scan your Heifers, we would highly recommend it. On talking to purchasers they would be more than happy to give a little extra with the guarantee of empty Heifers.

DAIRY CATTLE Top Ave 1st Calving Heifers 1600 1408 40 DAIRY CATTLE - 11.00 am 2nd Calving Cows 1480 1236 Auctioneer: Mark Bromell - 07966 430001 3rd Calving Cows 1480 1270 Mark Davis - 07773 371774 4th – 6th Calving Cows 1480 1097 In Calf Heifer 980 980

A useful entry for the first sale of 2020 saw a slightly steadier trade than before Christmas.

Top call of the day was £1600 for a freshly calved Heifer ‘Bocaddon Formula SS Cornelia’ yielding 34Kgs and selling on behalf of SR Gilbert & Son of Sheepwash. This was closely followed by another Heifer ‘Bocaddon Poldark BT Polconnie’ which sold at £1550 on behalf of the same vendor. Mr RBP Nicholls sold a freshly calved Heifer calved late December and yielding 34Kgs at £1500.

The Cow section topped at £1480 on three occasions. Firstly for Bocaddon Superpoll DK Polbomene’ a 2nd calver yielding 47Kgs on behalf of SR Gilbert & Son and secondly on behalf of Messrs HL Banbury & Son of who sold both a 2nd calver and an excellent 2013 born Cow at £1480. Mr CJ Sampson of Tavistock sold a good consignment of 4 Holstein Friesian Crossbred Cows topping at £1450 for a 2nd calver yielding 33Kgs.

Mr WCV Davey of Delabole sold a smart In Calf Heifer due early Feb to Hereford at £980.

Forthcoming Dairy Sales:

Wednesday 22nd January- Mid-Month Dairy Sale. Entries to date include freshly calved Cows and Heifers. Further entries invited for cataloguing by 10am Thursday 16th January.

Wednesday 29th January- Reserved for a Herd Dispersal Sale of 80-100 Organic Dairy Cattle.

- JANUARY SALES MONDAY 13th – HOLSWORTHY 11AM & HALLWORTHY 1PM TB Restricted Sale of Prime Cattle, Barren Cows & Store Cattle Entries for licencing close on Monday 6th January. WEDNESDAY 15th - HOLSWORTHY Weekly Market of 200 Store Cattle to inc 18 forward, well fleshed SS Lim hfrs 18-22mths, 20 BB strs 18-20mths, 16 AA strs & hfrs NS 20mths. PLUS Special Sale of In Lamb ewes to include a flock dispersal of 50 Texel, Charollais x and Suffolk x scanned In Lamb to Charollais & Texel Rams due 24th Feb onwards. Further details contact S Prouse. THURSDAY 16th – HALLWORTHY Weekly Market to include Beef Breeding Sale. WEDNESDAY 22nd – HOLSWORTHY Weekly Prime & Store Market to inc Dispersal of 21 in-calf Sim Cows (PD’d in-calf to Ped Sim due March onwards) + Pedigree 5yr old Sim Bull. PLUS Mid-Month Dairy Sale. Entries invited for cataloguing by 10am Thursday 16th January. THURSDAY 23rd – HALLWORTHY Weekly Market to include Special Sale of In Lamb Ewes. WEDNESDAY 29th – HOLSWORTHY Reserved for a Herd Dispersal of 80-100 Organic Dairy Cattle. Further details to follow. FORTHCOMING MACHINERY SALES SATURDAY 1st FEBRUARY 2020 HOLSWORTHY MONTHLY MACHINERY, PIG & POULTRY SALE Sale to include clearance of workwear comprising safety shoes/boots, boiler suits, welding boiler suits, polo shirts etc. Entries invited to 01409 253275 / [email protected]