EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE
MARKET REPORT JUNE 2021 Friday 18th June – Store Stock Market
Current Covid-19 Regulations
We are strongly encouraging all vendors to “drop & go”. Stock can be sold on “owner’s approval” - please ensure your contact details are on the entry form. If in extreme cases (chiefly breeding stock) vendors feel strongly about staying to see their stock sold, only one person from a business may stay and they must leave as soon as their stock has been sold. Everybody must enter via the main entrance and ensure they are wearing face coverings and have sanitised their hands. We ask all people on site to adhere to strict social distancing measures reverting back to the 2m rule with a face covering. No social visits can be permitted. Active buyers and sellers only, with just one representative per business allowed. No children allowed.
Kivells would like to thank both vendors and purchasers for their support and co-operation at this difficult time.
EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE 01392 251261 [email protected] www.kivells.com Friday 18th June 518 STORE CATTLE AND STIRKS – 10:00 AM Auctioneer: Simon Alford 07789 980203
Store Steers to £1360 Store Heifers also to £1250
These store cattle look to be getting dearer and dearer week upon week as we saw several new faces around the sale ring this Friday and together with the regular buyer they whipped up a ferocious trade. Steers topped at £1360 for a pair of strong Charolais (26m) from Tony Webber of Loxhore whilst a trio of slightly younger Charolais bullocks (24m) from Colin Horton of Stokeinteignhead rose to £1235 apiece and a decent pen of four (22m) drew £1220 for Dave Reddaway of Widecombe in the Moor. A much later born Charolais (14m) from Sandy Harvey of Lifton sold well at £1200 with further young steers from Rob and Sue Greed of Cornwood reaching £1270 for a red Limousin (14m), other Limousin steer prices of note included a stunner (22m) from Sandy Harvey at £1240 who also sold a young British Blue steer (15m) for £1225 followed by Rob and Sue Greep again who sold their Blue bullock (18m) for £1210 and a smashing Beef Shorthorn (20m) for £1235. John Reddaway and Sons of Cossick Cross saw a cracking South Devon steer (23m) ease to £1200 and the Philp Family of Ilsington sold the best of the Hereford steers (26m) for £1180. As with the steers, the heifer section was headed by Tony Webber with a top quality Charolais (20m) easily making £1250 with further classy Charolais females (only 15m) fetching £1155 for Dave Reddaway. An eye catching British Blue bred heifer (11m) full of potential from Matt and Vicky Smith and Jess Maynard, Thelbridge returned a very decent £1200 whilst a couple of South Devon heifers (25m) of high order came back at £1190 for P and W Coaker of Widecombe in the Moor. More well turned out sorts from Sandy Harvey saw her Devon heifer (15m) reach £1120 with striking red Limousin heifers (20m) drawing £1080 for Rob and Sue Greep and Simmental heifers (25m) realised £1050 for Heather Bond and Daughters of Bovey Tracey.
Please notify us of intended numbers by Thursday lunchtime if you are bringing store cattle on a Friday, we message over three hundred potential purchasers the day before the sale and the more we can advertise the more buyers we can attract. Market office 01392 251261 or 07791 484290
134 STIRKS & SUCKLED CALVES Auctioneer: Ian Caunter 07813 068935
A tremendous mid-June entry of Stirks & Suckled Calves met an outstanding trade. No show stoppers forward this week but a cracking run from Joe Mawle of from Okehampton presenting a super run of dairy bred cattle with this best British Blue steers (10m) making £860, Charolais’ off the same good farm reaching £825 with Limousin cross steers (10m) achieving the same figure. Smart Devon cross steers from Richard Hill in from Dunsford saw the best top at £850 (10m) with younger sorts to £820 & £780. Trevor Chugg down from Chulmleigh presented a lorry load of cattle with the best topping at £765 for Limousin cross steers (7m) with younger Angus steers (6m) to £620 x2. Matthew Spooncer, Lewdown saw Hereford cross steers (9m) top at £740 with Welsh Black’s off the same holding and of a similar age obtaining the same figure. Simmental cross steers (11m) from Pat Lee down from Rackenford levelled out at £700. SJ Younger in from Bradninch saw Limousin cross stirks (8m) to £680 whilst Blue’s from R N May down from Barnstable (8m) that went on to achieve £610. Heifers again following tremendous demand topping at £715 from Joe Mawle presenting a cracking bunch of Blues (10m) with a pen of Charolais’ and a pen of Limousin’s at the same age achieving £690. Yearling Limousin cross heifers from Mike Coles in from Sidbury topped at £690. Blue heifers from CJ Courtier & Son in from Whiddon Down levelled out at £650 whilst young Hereford heifers (9m) from Matthew Spooncer topped at £640. Young blue heifers (8m) from R N May achieved £575, Angus heifers from SJ Younger topped at £560 (10m), whilst Limousin cross heifers from Trevor Chugg (7m) achieved £545, the same figure achieved for Jack Tucker from Cullompton presenting Simmental cross heifers (8m), with Angus heifers off the same good farm (9m) obtaining £500.
Trade again remarkable!
107 CALVES – 10.15 AM Auctioneer: Mark Davis 07773 371774
A slightly smaller entry of Calves saw a cracking trade CALVES - 10.15 AM from start to finish! Top bull calf of the day was £405 Auctioneer: Mark Davis – 07773 371774 for a weaned Aberdeen Angus bull from Dallyns Dairy Ltd of Barnstaple who also sold others to £400 & CALVES Bulls Heifers £310. British Blue bulls sold to £388 for Paul Hendy of Breed TOP AVE TOP AVE Kingsbridge with others to £370 for Buddleford British Blue 11 388 299 12 315 255 Partnership of Clyst Hydon, £370 for Kathryn Starr of Dunkeswell and £350 & £310 for Messrs HJ Baldwin Charolais 3 375 365 3 365 290 & Son of South Molton. Charolais bulls to £375 & £365 Simmental 4 370 335 4 260 250 for David Headon of North Tawton and £355 for Blonde 2 260 222 1 175 175 Frank Pike of Clayhidon. Simmental bulls to £370 for Martin & Caroline Greenslade of Cullompton and Limousin 3 260 225 5 420 312 £330 x 2 & £310 for Messrs GE Furneaux & Son of Aberdeen Angus 7 405 282 17 370 189 Modbury. Hereford bulls to £275 for Buddleford Partnership. Belted Galloway bulls sold to £215 for Devon 1 125 125 1 95 95 Andrew & Liz Hammett of Umberleigh, Heifers Hereford 3 275 153 3 420 255 topped the day at £420 twice for a weaned Hereford Welsh Black 2 75 75 heifer from Dallyns Dairy Ltd and for a month old Limousin heifer from Paul Hendy who sold another at Belted Galloway 1 215 215 £390. Dallyns Dairy Ltd also sold Aberdeen Angus Holstein/Friesian 11 270 115 heifers at £370, £360 & £310. Young Charolais heifers Ayrshire 5 112 89 sold well to £365 for Frank Pike and £285 for David Brown Swiss 1 110 110 Headon. Young Blue heifers to £315 & £312 for Paul & Joy Harvey of Kingsbridge with others to £292 for Jersey 2 46 33 Norman Pyle and £280 for Messrs HJ Baldwin & Sons. Guernsey 5 52 50 Simmental heifers to £260 & £250 for Messrs GE Furneaux & Son. Limousin heifers to £255 for Rob & Jack Chapple of Axminster. Friesians met a flying trade topping at £270 for a weaned bull from Messrs HJ Baldwin & Sons with young British Friesians from Andrew & Liz Hammett selling very well to £155 x 2, £140, £105 x 2 and £85 x 2. Ayrshire bulls sold well to £112 x 2, £80 x 2 & £65 for Messrs Nicholls of South Molton whilst a run of Guernsey bulls sold to £52 x 4 for Martin & Caroline Greenslade.
140 BEEF BREEDING CATTLE Auctioneer: Mark Davis 07773 371774
A cracking entry of Beef Breeding Cattle met an exceptional trade from start to finish! A Selection of Breeding bulls sold well to a top of £3250 for a purebred Charolais bull from Messers AJ & TLJ Hawkins of Simonsbath, Somerset. A 2013 born Pedigree South Devon bull from Julie Bullock from Crediton sold well at £1600 whilst a 2015 born Pedigree Aberdeen Angus bull sold at £1520. Two young Pedigree Simmental bulls from Messrs J & JV Hall of Penzance sold at £1300 & £950. A 2013 born Pedigree South Devon cow sold with a March born steer calf at £1600 for Messrs RT & AR Smaridge of Totnes. Three Pedigree South Devon Heifers from Messrs P & W Coaker of Newton Abbot sold to £1160 x 2 & £1020. A Stabiliser In Calf Heifer sold well at £1100 for Oliver Hudson of Chulmleigh.
The Dispersal sale of 52 Limousin x and Pedigree South Devon cows with Aberdeen Angus x calves at foot on behalf of Messrs Stevens & Clinton Share Farming Partnership of Okehampton sold to a cracking trade to average £1343 per outfit. Top of the day was £1720 for a 2014 born Limousin x Cow with a Angus steer calf at foot with other Limousin x similar aged cows to £1550 x 2 & £1500 x 6 whilst the best of the Pedigree South Devons sold to £1700 for a 2013 born cow with a March born Steer calf, other similar aged outfits to £1680, £1650, £1550 & £1520. A dispersal consignment for Robert & Kathryn Cole of Chulmleigh sold to an exceptional trade topping at £1680 x 2 for 2014 born Limousin x cows and their Charolais bull calves with others to £1580 & £1520.
2756 SHEEP – 10.45 AM Auctioneer: Russell Steer 07788 318701
Older Ewes to £200 Shearling Ewes to £200 Store Lambs to £104.50 Graiziers to £120 Double Couples to £235 Single Couples to £210 Stock Rams to 850gns
2105 BREEDING EWES, SHEARLINGS & EWE LAMBS
An increased entry of 2105 breeding ewes and shearlings sold at unprecedented levels with 97% finding new homes and across all ages a quite remarkable average of £171.88 was achieved. Older ewes sold to £200 for a smart pen of Dorset 4T’s from first time vendor Foxhollow Farms of Little Norton whilst Suffolk x FM ewes reached £162 twice for Gareth Hutchings of Launceston and more of the same travelling down from Henley on Thames in search of Westcountry grass from Bob & Tom White sold well and to £145 averaging £141 for their run.FM Dorset & Dorset Mules were regularly £140-£148 with lesser sorts maybe not just as dear and trading a little beyond their high cull value. Dorset Shearlings weren’t the trade of the May Fair although two vendors did ring the bell at £200 for their best, firstly MJ & DM Lake of South Molton who had other pens at £195 and then also £200 for Mark & Henry Johnson of Bridport who had others at £198, £194 & £192 twice. Several smart pens of strong purebreds from £180 to £190 whilst some smaller, generally younger sorts and some ewe lambs traded £140 to £170 and perhaps looking value on the year. A smart entry of Dorset x Mules were a tidy trade with plenty of buyers looking for these, First prize in the show topped the trade at £198 for Winston Thorne of Umberleigh who had others at £190 (x2) whilst second prize went to Richard Brooks of Bridport who sold 12 pens at £195 and another at £190 whilst third prize went to Mark & Henry Johnson who sold their best few pens at £190 and others at £188, a fait matched by cousins and brothers Ian and Brian Johnson. The popular run of Dorset x BFL shearlings from Brian Westcott of Exford sold to £195 twice and all 634 Dorset shearlings averaged £186.54. Suffolk x Mule shearlings were the trade of the day with Robert & Tom Chanin of Thorveton topping the section with two smart pens at £200, others to £196 (x2) for Brian Palfrey of Stoodleigh, £195 for 5 pens from Steve & Sarah Cole of Calverleigh and £194 (x3) for Jack Borough of Chardstock. Nothing much at all with a dark face under £178 and all 316 Suffolk x Mule shearlings averaged £189.66. Texel x Mules possibly ten pounds behind the Suffolk’s with all Michael & David Snell of Knowstone, John Simmons of South Chard and Sam Habberfield of Wiveliscombe reaching £188 with their best, other almost second quality sorts were £155 to £170. A double pen of eye catching Kerry Hill shearlings from Brain Webber of Cullompton sell well at £158 and just the one pen of Mules changed hands at £150 for Tony England of Tiverton.
126 STORE LAMBS
126 Store lambs were a decent trade considering prime trends through the week, best lambs to £104.50 for Gordon Bricknell of Christow. Several pens of medium to short keep lambs sold from £90 to £96 as longer term sorts met with greater interest than previous weeks and often £74 plus resulting in a tidy average of £88.69.
110 GRAZERS & HOGGS
A decent number yet again and taking nothing away from our Monday market saw ewes sell to £120 for P Smith of Honiton and £112 for AM Bond of South Milton as Robert Rogers of Totnes sold two pens of fit Dorset x Mules well at £111. Plenty more ewes and wethers over £100 and Hoggs to £115 for M Coles of Sidbury.
65 EWES & 91 LAMBS (156 LIVES)
A tremendous entry of 65 ewes with 91 lambs for the time of year sold well and to £235, £230 & £215 for Mervyn Brice of Stoodleigh with his usual flock aged ewes with young lambs that also saw singles make £184, £182 & £180 twice whilst singles topped at £210 for G Jones of Newton Abbot.
In anticipation that this is the last week for couples a brief history search shows that we have sold 5637 outfits to an average of £184 this season which started back in November. A phenomenal number and overall average, the like of which we have never seen before! Thank you both vendors and buyers.
4 PEDIGREE EWES
Just four pedigree Charollais shearling ewes from Roy Endacott of Spreyton sold well at 300gns (£315) a piece.
79 STOCK RAMS
A quality line up of 79 rams were another strong trade with the best Dorset breeders ram making 850gns for shearlings from Les French of Launceston who had another at 680gns, more Dorset’s at 650gns and 500gns (x4) for Rich & David Rossiter of Kingsbridge and 500gns also for the same breed from Andrew & Chris Kingdon of Newquay. Two smart Suffolk shearlings sold well at 700gns for Paul Quick of Crediton who also had a pair of Charollais shearlings at 500gns and Texel at 450gns. More Charollais at 480gns and 450gns for Guy Goldring of Ashburton and Charollais and CharTex’s selling well and to 480gns & 450gns (x3) for Steve Dennis of Bow. Plenty of straight commercial shearlings trading 350 to 440gns and older rams keenly contested too often into the late 300’s. 66% clearance, very little under 300gns and overall average of £429 was achieved.
EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE
TUESDAY 13th JULY
49TH GREAT JULY FAIR ANNUAL SALE OF BREEDING EWES & RAMS TO INC: SHOW & SALE OF SUFFOLK CROSS SHEARLINGS, MV & NON MV RAMS ON BEHALF OF THE WEST COUNTRY SUFFOLK SHEEP ASSOCIATION *Entries for cataloguing close Wednesday 30th June*
All entries and enquiries to Russell Steer 07788318701 or the Market Office 01392 251261 [email protected]
765 ACRES OF STANDING STRAW Auctioneer: Ian Caunter 07813 068935
The 32nd Annual Standing Straw Sale here at the Exeter Livestock Centre saw trade surpass expectations. A good crowd witnessed a very strong trade throughout. Winter Barley topped at £125 per acre x2 on behalf of the Earl of Devon c/o
R & P Farming, Mamhead with other fields realising £123, £122 and £120 per acre all from the same holding, with 320 acres of Winter Barley averaging £111 per acre. Winter Wheat following in high demand with the best topping at £127 per acre on behalf of the Earl of Devon c/o R & P Farming again with other fields to £123 & £122 x2, with 383 acres of Winter Wheat averaging an identical price to the Winter Barley at £111 per acre. A small entry of Winter Oats topped at £104 per acre with the 53.5 acres averaging just shy of £100 at £98 per acre.
AVERAGES Winter Barley £111 per acre Winter Wheat £111 per acre Winter Oats £97.75 per acre
FORTHCOMING SALES
FRIDAY 18th JUNE – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Beef Breeding Stock and the 33rd Annual June Sale of Early Breeding Ewes & Ram. Plus Collective Standing Straw Sale.
MONDAY 21st JUNE – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Prime Stock Market & Dispersal Sale of 172 Autumn Calving British Friesian Cows & Heifers on behalf of Mr DAR Williams.
FRIDAY 25th JUNE – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Organic Cattle & Sheep, 1st Weekly Sale of Store Lambs Plus Fortnightly Pig Sale
MONDAY 28th JUNE – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Prime Stock Market
FRIDAY 2nd JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Native Breed Cattle
MONDAY 5th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Prime Stock Market
FRIDAY 9th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Fortnightly Pig Sale
MONDAY 12th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Prime Stock Market
TUESDAY 13th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE 49th Great July Fair Annual Sale of Breeding Ewes & Rams to inc: Show & Sale of Suffolk Cross Shearlings, MV & Non MV Rams on behalf of the West Country Suffolk Sheep Association
FRIDAY 16th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Sale of Dairy Cattlein inc Summer Gold Jersey Sale
MONDAY 19th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Prime Stock Market
TUESDAY 20TH JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Sale of TB Restricted Prime Cull & Store Cattle
FRIDAY 23rd JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Beef Breeding Stock & Fortnightly Pig Sale
MONDAY 26th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Prime Stock Market
FRIDAY 30th JULY – EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Organic Cattle & Sheep plus First Season Sale of Innovice Rams. Sale of Dairy Cattle.
EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Matford Park Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8FD 01392 251261 [email protected] www.kivells.com