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Market Days – to facilitate social distancing we will be selling protect & detail your vaccine & date of treatment on our entry form. store cattle, stirks and fat and cull pigs on alternate Saturdays Enhance your sale value. Visit: www.bvdfree.org.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: 03332 413113 with the store lambs and cull ewes. We will hold a weekly sale Please note Vendors warrant not to sell a PI of calves.

Sat 28th March Store Cattle, Stirks, Calves & Fat & Cull Pigs. 83 DAIRY CATTLE Commencing 11am Prompt Sat 4th April Store Lambs, Cull Ewes, Cull Goats & Calves. Auctioneers: Derek Biss Office: 01278 410250, Mob 07850 932555 Andrew Clements Office: 01278 410250 Mob 07769 904704 The sheep will be sold through the store cattle ring and the calves will be sold through dairy ring to facilitate social distancing of the Want to know in advance how many dairy cattle are entered each week on our buyers. Saturday dairy market? Receive email updates on a Friday afternoon by emailing [email protected] or check http://www.gth.net/sedgemoor/pre-entered-stock No other category of stock will be sold at our Saturday market. A super trade for the best and good for the rest as buyers stock up in these uncertain times. Cows were in demand today when a classy second Vendors MUST remain in their vehicles whilst market staff calver from R & M Lougher & Son of Bridgend sold to £2200. Others unload the vehicle and take their stock to the pens. The sale from the same Vendor sold at £1900. Other cows to £2100 and £1500 documentation MUST be collected by our staff from the Vendor’s from RJ Barns, Norwich, Norfolk. Pedigree Ayrshire heifer £1380 from vehicle at the unloading bay. AD Bolderston, Norfolk. £1800 and £1520 from J Trott; £1680 from Deptford Farms. Vendors MUST not enter the pennage area or any other part Best heifers to £2140 and £1900 from JG Morgan, Tewkesbury. of the market premises. Please ensure your mobile telephone Others £1980 from DJ Cheacker; £1900 and £1880 from W Green & Sons, number is on your entry form, so if you sell your stock with a Warminster; £1900 from Snook Ltd; £1820 from P Snell; £1820 from reserve or subject to approval, we are able to contact you quickly. Deptford Farm; £1820 from AP Ractliffe; £1820 and £1800 from Venn Farm Partnership; £1800 from AKJ Reed & Son. Crossbred heifers Buyers will be restricted to allow Social Distancing (2 metres £1720 from Venn Farm Partnership. between each buyer). Buyers MUST sanitise on entry to the Incalf heifers to £1050 CB Powell & Son and calves to £200 (2x) from market and on exiting again. Buyers MUST wear gloves whilst RL & ME Trott. in the market. Any buyer who does not actually secure a TYPE Min Max Ave purchase MUST register with the office after the sale. st 1 Quality Heifers £1750 £2140 £1831 Hauliers MUST ensure their name and contact details are 2nd Quality Heifers £1000 £1740 £1540 recorded on the entry form for the stock they are delivering. 1st Quality Cows £1500 £2200 £1775

Monday Markets will continue as currently with the above 2nd Quality Cows £1020 £1020 £1020 protocols implemented. 1525 STORE CATTLE, SUCKLERS & STIRKS

1088 STORE CATTLE & GRAZING COWS SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE Commencing 10.00am - Gates Open 6am

Proud to Serve the South West’s Farmers DEDICATED RING FOR FEEDING CATTLE OVER 400KG

Auctioneers: Robert Venner Tel: Office 01278 410278 Mobile 07889 SATURDAY STORE STOCK MARKET 006503 Will Handel Tel: Office 01404 46222 Mobile 07894 616167

Fieldsman: Adam Hayes Mobile 07889 064309

6 Day Standstill in Operation

ST Please pre-enter stores with our office by midday on Friday. In the region of 140 SATURDAY 21 MARCH 2020

buyers are contacted/spoken to over the course of Friday afternoon/evening.

To have accurate information of entries by Friday noon would help greatly.

TOTAL STORE STOCK: 6954 HEAD

For Saturday 28th March 2020:- 60 day PMT date: 28th January 2020 (count Greenslade Taylor Hunt Report day after injection as 1 and day of sale as 60). Farm Assured – sell before 29/35 months. Non Assured – sell before 26/32 months. Unfed as Tremendous trades across all sections. Dairy to yearlings – sell before 20 months. £2200, Store Cattle to £1285, Store Lambs to A massive Spring entry of 1088 store cattle, part of a phenomenal 1525 £129.50, Cull Ewes to £231 – a new record. with the stirks met a tremendous trade. Best cattle and Angus and Herefords continue to be very well sold. Generally a very good show of cattle on offer, when a higher proportion of better cattle were on offer.

TH Top was £1295 for a forward Limousin steer (21m) from

WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL AT 4.30PM

LE Sweetland & Son, Musbury, who sold a further good Limousin at

ORANGE MARKET £1125. Top drawer Limousin steers at £1270 (4x 20/23m & FA) and

DEDICATED SALE FOR bTB RESTRICTED CATTLE £1220 (23m & FA) from WJ Bown, Catcott. Well fleshed Limousins £1270

nd Licences to be applied for by 22 April from (22m) £1240 (18m) and £1190 (25m) LR House, Dunwear. Well grown

DEFRA on 03000 200301 or Limousins £1230 (21m & FA) and £1120 (24m & FA) IG & GS Roberts,

Email: [email protected] ; £1205 (22m & FA) £1185 (4x 24/26m & FA) £1175

Store Cattle, Prime Cattle, Barren Cows, Feeding Cows & Cull Bulls (5x 21m & FA) £1170 (3x 22m & FA) £1160 (5x 23m & FA) £1155

Cattle to be herd, SIT or PMT tested in the last 90 days. (5x 17/19m & FA) £1150 (3x 18/19m & FA) and £1110 (22m & FA) all from

ET Summerfield, Oxford and £1100 (17m) MG Trevelyan, Wrangway.

Blue steers rose to £1250 for a forward type (24m & FA) from A Bray, www.gth.net Entry Forms & Market reports.

Wrantage, who sold others at £1150 (2x 22m & FA). Good Blues at;

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£1120 (5x 21/25m & FA) IG & GS Roberts again. Fit Blue steer £1110

(18m & FA) SER Hunt, Kilve. Outlying Blues £1100 (22/27m & FA)

The Derek Mead Health Room CJ & PH George, Truro. Some smart Charolais steers forward at £1225

The New Health Room for Free Health Checks & Advice from 8.30am – (20m) and £1190 (4x 21/22m) SC Norman Salway Ash; £1205

12.30pm. IS CLOSED AT THE MOMENT (6x 16/21m) and £1175 (2x 21m) LE Sweetland & Son again; £1165

Come & see us for information, details or talk to one of our nurses. This is (21m & FA) LF & JM Heywood, Loxbeare and £1165 again

open to all workers supporting the farming community, no matter in which (only 15m & FA) HR & BM White, Watchet.

County you live.

Pure Simmentals rose to £1175 (4x 19/22m & FA) ME Sampson & Son,

11 GRAZING COWS (Pre-movement tested) Upottery. Others to £1095 (2x 22m & FA) A Bray again. Blonde steers

to £1155 (19m & FA) ET Summerfield & Son again. Auctioneer: Robert Venner Tel: Office 01278 410278 Mobile

Native steers sold to £1250 for an outstanding Angus 07889 006503

(25m, FA & sire) from DH Creed Ltd, Martock. Further well grown Angus £1140 (22/23m, FA & sires) MJ & RD Russell, Chew Magna; £1130 A small entry of grazing cows topped at £660 for a Holstein Friesian (2016) (5x 22/23m, FA & sire) A Bray again; £1125 (21/23m & sire) cow from AE Chudley & Son. RJ & EJ Collier, Kingsdon; £1120 (20m & FA) G Bown & Son Ltd, Wells; 437 BUSK CALVES & STIRKS Commencing 11.00am £1105 (5x 22m, FA & sires) and £1090 (5x 22m, FA & sires) GW Herrod, DEDICATED RING FOR REARING CATTLE UP TO 400KG Axminster; £1100 (9x 24/25m, FA & sires) CJ Board & Partners,

Auctioneers:

Lottisham; £1090 (3x 23/25m, FA & sires) and £1050 (3x 28m, FA & sires) Martyn Venner Tel: 01823 277121 Mobile: 07813 697012 LF & JM Heywood again; £1090 (4x 24m & sires) MS Ward & Son,

Weymouth; £1080 (4x 25/26m & sires) WR & NA Rich, Northleigh and Robert Baker: Tel: 01278 765588 Mobile: 07834 740027

£1070 (6x 18m & sires) RH Beaty, Walton. Stabiliser steer at £1190 Pre movement test required for Saturday 28th March 2020 if born on (24m & FA) from LF & JM Heywood again. Herefords peaked at £1130 or before 15th February 2020. Please try and register all named sires on the (21m & FA) GJ & SM Down, High Bickington. Others £1095 (7x 22/23m, passport and detail sire on the entry form. Please can Vendors make every effort to FA & sire) A Bray again; £1065 (22m, FA & sire) MJ & RD Russell again; pre -book by email [email protected] or by phone 01278 410278. Buyers do look at our £1055 (4x 23m/24m & sires) and £1050 (4x 23/24m & sires) website pre - entered stock page. MS Ward & Son again. Good Shorthorn steers at £1075 (4x 20m) and A good entry of stirks, when there was not the general quality forward of £1065 (27m) R & M Vickery, Thorncombe. last week sold to a fast trade. Dairy breeds peaked at £990 for Montbeliardes (4x 25m & FA) from Top price of £955 (14m) for a British Blue steer from LF & JM Heywood again, who also sold Fleckvieh at £980 HR & BM Whi te & Sons, who sold another to £845 (14m). Further British (2x 24m & FA). Good Friesians at £940 (22m & FA) AW Selley & Son, Blues to £765 (2x & 14m) R & S Vant; £720 (10m) PM Willis and South Molton; £910 (3 x 18/20m) RH Beaty, Walton. £685 (10m) B Jeffery. Charolais to £895 (3x & 13m) from Holsteins at £905 (22m & FA) IG & GS Roberts & Sons again; £900 HR & BM White & Sons, who sold others to £895 (3x & 12m). Further (10 x 18/22m & FA) G Bown & Son Ltd again; £870 (2x 24m & FA) Charolais to £795 (12m) Hutchings & Son; £780 (3x & 11m) from IF Ford & Partners, Olveston and £830 (4x 21/23m & FA) MH Doble, AS Cowling and £750 (8m) B Calder. Limousins to £855 (10m) Beaminster. Further Fleckvieh at £885 (18/19m & FA) AE Selley & Son E & IW Studley, who sold others to £850 (2x 10m) £730 (2x 10m) and again. £705 (3x 7m). Further Limousins to £850 (10m) B Williams; £818 (5x 8m) Heifers topped at a tremendous £1280 for a fleshed Limousin (24m) £705 (7m) WJ & RA Alford; £830 (4x 11m) £800 (9m) £790 (10m) £755 from LR House, Dunwear, who sold further best type Limousin heifers at (10m) B Jeffrey; £800 (12m) J Popham and £750 (12m) WG Vant & Sons. £1240 (18m) £1240 again (21m) £1170 (24m) and a Charolais at £1085 Here fords to £830 (13m) FP Hill & Son, who sold others to £680 (2x). (22m). Further top drawer Limousin at £1265 (24m & FA) who sold others Further Herefords to £705 (2x 14m) SJ Williams; £695 (2x 7m) £650 (7m) at £1155 (20m & FA) and £1040 (23m & FA). Further good Limousin B Calder; £685 (3x 7m) M Davey & Son and £680 SMA Elsworth. £1100 (23m & FA) J Ridd, Alverdiscott; £1050 (21/23m & FA) Saler to £790 (4x 10m) KC & JC Heard, who sold others to £780 (2x 9m). AW Selley & Son again; £970 (22m & FA) J Popham, North Newton and Simmentals to £738 (13m) £725 (14m) £725 (3x 13m) Griffin & Son; £730 £970 again (23m & FA) PJ Betty, Othery. Blue heifers rose to £1125 for (10m) R Hares and £720 (9m) BK Hockey. Devons to £660 (2x) a shapely type (18m & FA) from AW Selley & Son again. J Ridd also HR & BM White & Sons. scored with a Blue at £1100 (24m & FA). Further better Blues £1095 He ifers to £925 (14m) for a British Blue from R & S Vant, who sold (3x 23m & FA) IG & GS Roberts again, £1075 (23/24m & FA) others to £805 (11m) £700 (12m) and £665 (10m). Further British Blues RD & SA Patch again; £1060 (19m & FA) £1010 (19m & FA) and £995 to £700 (9m) WG Vant & Sons, £620 (11m) SJ Williams and £595 (12m) (14m & FA) SER Hunt again; £990 (4x 20/21m & FA) and £955 (3x 20/21m G Reason. Limousins to £800 (13m) HR & BM White & Sons, who sold & FA) GJ & SM Down, High Bickington; £985 (7x 21/22m & FA) ot hers to £670 (13m). Further Limousins to £755 (11m) £750 (3x 12m) CJ & PH George again; £975 (4x 18/22m & FA) G Bown & Son Ltd again £740 (2x 12m) WG Vant & Sons; £725 (3 x 11m) £680 (4x 12m) and £965 (25m & FA) AJ Bown, Binegar. Pure Simmental heifer at £1120 RJ Gooding; £705 (3x 8m) WJ & RA Alford; £670 (4x 11m) B Jeffery and (22m & FA) RJ Edmunds, Buckland Newton. Further strong Simmentals £600 (10m) SJ Williams. Blonde to £720 (2x 11m) RJ Gooding and £660 £1095 (25/26m & FA) and £975 (22m & FA) GJ & SM Down again. Some (11m) DG Knight. Charolais to £695 (4x 12m) £650 (5x 12m) smart Charolais on offer at £1090 (4x 22/23m & FA) £1055 (4x 22/23m & HR & BM White & Sons; £675 (4x 10m) AS Cowling. Herefords to £630 FA) £1000 (4x 21/23m & FA) and £995 (3x 23m & FA) all from J Ridd (13m) R Hares and £510 BK Hockey. Angus to £610 (17m) G Reason. again; £1015 (28/29 & FA) Hutton & Sons, Bristol; £995 (4x 20/22m) and Simmentals to £570 (4x 13m) and £570 (4x 12m) Griffin & Sons.

£935 (3x 21m) SC Norman again; £980 (10x 18/24m & FA) PJ Betty again Steers Max £955 Ave £567 and £970 (9x 19/26m & FA) Ham Farm Partners, . Heifers Max £925 Ave £474 Smart Blonde at £1050 (20m & FA) DG Knight, Colerne. Native heifers peaked at £980 for Angus (7x 17/21m, FA & sires) from Breed Steers Others Heifers Others G Bown again. Further Angus £950 (27m) R & M Vickery, Thorncombe; Charolais £895 £795 £695 £675 £945 (19/20m & FA) MKJ Reed & Son, Blackborough; £940 (28m) Limousin £855 £850 £800 £755 DC & LM Smith, Portishead and £900 (2x 28m & sire) S Boyles, Rose Ash. Herefords at £935 (2x 24/28m) DC & LM Smith again. Others to Simmental £738 £730 £570 £495 £905 (only 9m) DR & SG Crank, Rose Ash. B/Blue £955 £765 £925 £805 Holstein heifer at £905 (32m & FA) from MJ Frampton & Son, Blonde £595 £360 £720 £660 Broadwindsor. Brown Swiss at £900 (30m & FA) Foremore Ltd. Hereford £830 £705 £630 £510

Steers Max £1295 Ave £891 Devon £660 £390 - - Heifers Max £1280 Ave £795 Angus £510 £495 £610 £500

Breed Steers Others Heifers Others Friesian £475 £305 - - Saler £790 £780 - - Charolais £1225 £1205 £1090 £1085 Montbeliarde £455 £260 - - Limousin £1295 £1270 £1280 £1265

Simmental £1175 £1095 £1120 £1095 360 NON-EXPORT CALVES Commencing 9.45am

B/Blue £1250 £1150 £1125 £1100 Auctioneers:

Blonde £1155 £1080 £1050 - Andy Clements Tel: Office 01278 410250 Mobile: 07769 904704

James Wotton Tel: Office 01404 46222 Mobile: 07899 955935 Stabiliser £1190 £950 - -

Jamie Batt Tel: Office 01935 415300

Aberdeen Angus £1250 £1140 £980 £950

Hereford £1130 £1095 £935 £905 th

For Saturday 28 March 2020 Calves born on or before

th Brown Swiss - - £900 - 15 February 2020 will require a pre-movement test.

Holstein Friesian £900 £870 - -

Friesian £940 £910 £950 - Calf section drovers are available after the conclusion of the auction to assist with the loading of calves. Please feel free to ask for assistance. Fleckvieh £980 £885 - -

Montbeliarde £990 - - - Auctioneers: Charles Clark Tel: Office 01460 238383 REGISTERED PEDIGREE NATIVE SIRES Shorthorn £1075 £1065 £1035 - Mobile:Pedigree 07850 sire ear 691561 number on& Andypassport Clements by BCMS. PedigTel: Officeree sire 01278name 4102on entry50 Mobile:form. Please 07769 note 9047 abattoirs04 verify sires by DNA testing. SUCKLER COWS, CALVES & STOCK BULLS Auctioneer: Derek Biss Tel: Office 01278 410250

Beef Breeds (300) – not able to be exported from market Cull Ewes & Rams (1928) A good entry of over 300 beef calves met a good trade throughout, not so An even larger entry of 1928 cull ewes and rams sold to an absolute flyer many smaller calves forward as previous weeks. Top of the day was of a trade, probably the dearest seen at Sedgemoor! Best continental £390 for 16 week old Blues from M & JE Simpson, same vendor to ewes sold to a record price of £231 for a Texel from Oxbridge Farm, £355 (3x). Younger Blues to £290 (2x) from JWO Marsh & Partners; £285 when others from the same Vendor sold to £192. Other best ewes to £182 from TW & JC Cross. Limousins to £320 (16 weeks) from JW Wyatt. from RJ & MA Curtis; £180 from CL Popham; £171 from KA Hill, JA Naish Younger Limousins to £248 from KF & LW Mitcham. Charolais to £310 and Chapel Farm Partnership; £170 from JB Pearce & Sons; £165 from from SM & DM Turner, same vendor £290 and £282 from CE Veysey to RM & FR Thorne; £164 from RJ & LA Mitchell & Voke. £280. Simmentals to £252 from PT Bale & Sons. Cull rams sold to £195 from PW & L Clist, when others sold to £177 Continental heifers to £330 (2x) and £310 (5x) for Blues (16 weeks) from S & J Yendole & Butler; £170 (2x) from RJ & LA Mitchell & Voke; from M & JE Simpson, other Vendors £310 from JW Wyatt. Younger £169 from Hanchard Farming and £165 from D Gould. Blues to £238 from J & EM Phillips & Sons; £230 from A record overall average at £105.87. JWO Marsh & Partners and £228 from PD & JL Biss. Charolais to £295 Breeding Ewes & Rams (149) and £270 (3x) from for SM & DM Turner Ltd. Reared Limousin to £250 A large entry of 149 breeding ewes sold to £118 from J Cowling, who from RA Plowright; £245 from Hale Bros. Younger Limousins to £200 from sold a run of North Country Mule inlamb hoggs at the same monies. J & EM Phillips & Sons. Simmentals to £195 from JH & DJ Hurford. Couples (294 Ewes & 441 Lambs) Native bulls to £360 for a reared Hereford from JH & DJ Hurford. Another larger entry of couples, when 294 ewes with 441 lambs at foot Younger Hereford to £250 and £240 from Arrijan Farming Ltd. Others were penned. Best of the doubles to £198 (£66/life) from £232 from PJLS Farms Ltd. Angus to £315 (2x) from JW Wyatt; £250 Chapel Farm Partnership. Others to £190 (£63.33/life) from and £240 from RW Sheldon & Sons. RF Williams; £185 (£61.67/life) from AF Willmington; £180 (£60/life) from Native heifers to £220 (3x) from RA Plowright. Others £200 (2x) G Whitcombe and N & K Forrester. Singles to £158 (£79/life) from Hale Bros and £180 from J & EM Phillips. Herefords to £170 from Chapel Farm Partnership. Other best types to £157 (£78.50/life) from Lilylane Farms Ltd; £165 from DJ Mogford, £150 RM & CG Drew & Son. AF Willmington; £150 (£75/life) from S Darlow; £142 (£71/life) from Breed Type No Max Vendor Other C & S Sully Farming. Triplets to £200 (£50/life) from Price Chapel Farm Partnership. Overall average £55.87/life. Blue Bull 42 £390 M & JE Simpson £355 Goats (169) Hfr 48 £330 M & JE Simpson £330 A huge entry of 169 goats sold to £152 from Bagborough Farms, when others sold to £116, £100, £88 and £85 from PA & PJ Ormerod and Charolais Bull 13 £310 SM & DM Turner £290 £102 from Varney Enterprises. Overall average £94.25. Ltd Orphan Lambs (61) New Sale Time 11am Hfr 17 £295 SM & DM Turner £270 Trade picked up this week when a marginally smaller entry of mainly Ltd younger types peaked at £52 for a strong lamb from SJ Tapp of Limousin Bull 14 £320 JW Wyatt £248 . Overall average of £20, best seen for a while. Hfr 12 £250 RA Plowright £245 Mortality & Rejected Meat Insurance Simmental Bull 4 £252 PT Bale & Sons £220 15p per head will be deducted from the Cull, Prime Sheep & Goats to Hfr 4 £195 JH & DJ Hurford £175 cover all deaths & rejections at slaughter.

Hereford Bull 33 £360 JH & DJ Hurford £258 Hfr 23 £170 Lilylane Farms £165 PIGS Commencing 11.00am

Ltd Auctioneer: Mark Walters Angus Bull 44 £315 JW Wyatt £315 Tel: Office 01458 250000 Mobile: 07833 598713 ***PIGS MUST BE PRE-BOOKED*** Hfr 38 £220 RA Plowright £220

Fleckvieh Bull 6 £175 LJ & SF Gould £95 th Please Note The Next Pig Market is on Saturday 28 March 2020

Friesians (59) – not able to be exported from market

Please ensure your pig entries are pre-entered to reserve your

A shorter entry of 59 dairy sired calves met a much brighter trade

pens. especially as a couple more buyers were present. Top of £130 from

MW Nash Farming Ltd. Others £115 from GJ & JM Boyer; £92 from - RL & ME Trott. Best rearing types £80 plus, mediums and smaller calves POULTRY Commencing 12 Noon

more buoyant than previous weeks. Fleckvieh to £175 from Auctioneer: Jamie Batt Tel: Office 01935 423478 LJ & SF Gould. Ayrshires to £48 from Riddle Farm Partnership. George Bone Tel: 01460 238383

th 4986 SHEEP Commencing 10.00am Next Poultry Sale Saturday 18 April Auctioneers: Store Lambs & Grazers FODDER Commencing 1:00pm Richard Webber Tel: Office 01769 574500 Mobile 07740 881180 & Paul Ashton Tel: Office 01278 410250, Mobile 07866 673857 Auctioneer: James Wotton Tel: Office 01404 46222 Mobile Breeders & Couples 12.30pm or following Grazing Ewes whichever 07899 955935 is earlier. Tom Mellor Tel: Office 01278 410250, Mobile 07929 649195

Rams & Orphans Jamie Batt Tel: Office 01935 415300 George Bone Tel: 01460 238383 FORTHCOMING SALES APRIL REQUIREMENTS TO SELL SHEEP Mon 6th The Blackertor Valais Blacknose

ALL SHEEP MUST HAVE AN ELECTRONIC TAG. ANY SHEEP OVER Production Sale being 15 Valais 12 MONTHS OF AGE MUST HAVE 2 MATCHING TAGS ONE OF WHICH MUST BE ELECTRONIC Blacknose males & females with FCI DECLARATION - on entry form additional entries from Gemstones & DEFRA ARAMS LICENCE – separate from entry form DO NOT BRING LAME, BLIND, EMACIATED OR SHEEP WITH SCAB. Halsbury POSTPON ED

Any presented will be turned away and will need to be licensed home. Fri 10th Good Friday – Office Closed

th Store Lambs (1945) Sat 11 Monthly Catalogued Sale of Organic A slightly smaller entry of 1945 store lambs sold to an equally strong trade Store Stock 10am Ring 2 for all forward. Top price of £129.50 went to EG & CS Rowe & Son. Mon 13th Easter Monday – No Market Others to £120.50 from L Williams; £120 from Snook Ltd, H Attwell and Tues 14th Prime Cattle, Barren Cows, Prime H Edmunds; £117 from T Hyslop; £115.50 from Church Farm Publow; £114 from JM Harper; £113 (2x) from N Sargent; £112.50 from Lambs & Cull Ewes Church Farm Publow and WW Reynolds; £112 from RJ & LA Mitchell & Voke; £110 from V & J Clark Farming and TH & JP Case; £109.50 and £109 from J Hannam; £109.50 from E Wittridge and £109 from EB & JA Webber and J Northmore. Overall average £85.38.

Forthcoming Dairy Sales MARCH Mon 30th **SALE CANCELLED – AVAILABLE BY PRIVATE TREATY** The Dispersal Sale of the NMR Herd of 209 HOLSTEIN FRIESIANS Comp: 88 Dairy Cows & Heifers Inmilk &/or Incalf; 50 Incalf Heifers; 4 Bulling Heifers; 51 Yearling & Younger Heifers; 15 A Lot Heifer Calves & 1 Hereford Bull for Weston Farm Ltd. Please contact 01278 410250.

Forthcoming Devon Cattle Sale APRIL Thurs 2nd ** SALE CANCELLED – AVAILABLE BY PRIVATE TREATY ** The Devon Cattle Breeder’s Society Annual Spring Show and Sale of Ruby Red Devons. Comp: 17 Bulls; 8 Cows with Calves at Foot; 11 Served Heifer; 28 Maiden Heifers; 10 Steers and 6 Lots of Semen.

Forthcoming Deadstock Sale APRIL Thurs 16th ** POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ** AT WALFORD CROSS, , , TA2 8QW. The Annual Collective Auction of Tractors and Agricultural Machinery.

Land For Sale Land at Walton, Street, Somerset

36.35 acres of agricultural pasture land at Walton, Street. Available in three lots of 11.22 acres, 12.26 acres and 12.87 acres, or as a whole.

For sale by Informal Tender. Completed tender forms to be submitted prior to 12 noon on Wednesday 8th April 2020.

Guide Prices: Lot 1 11.22 acres £50,000 Lot 2 12.26 acres £50,000 Lot 3 12.87 acres £55,000 As a whole 36.35 acres £155,000

Contact Sedgemoor Agricultural Office on 01278 410250 (Ref: THM)

Annual Grass Auctions

Tuesday 31st March 2020 At Oaktree Arena, Edithmead, Highbridge at 7pm

HIGHBRIDGE & NORTH SOMERSET DISTRICT Annual Spring Auction Sale of Grasskeep Rights 872 Acres Entered

Please call the Burnham-on Sea Office for a Catalogue 01278 765588 ------Thursday 2nd April at 7.30pm At The Beambridge Inn, , Wellington, TA21 0HB

TAUNTON & BRIDGWATER AREA ANNUAL GRASS AUCTION Entries to date: 3.90 acres at Blagdon Hill; 53.69 acres at Bradford On Tone; 18.95 acres at Chelston; 31.31 acres at Creech St Michael; 19.82 acres at Comeytrowe; 44.92 acres at Cullompton; 21.79 acres at Milverton; 17.88 acres at North Newton; 38.92 acres at West Buckland; 30.15 acres at West Lyng. ** Further Entries Accepted ** For further information please contact Paul Ashton 01278 410250 ------Wednesday 8th April 2020 at The Langport Arms Hotel, Langport At 7pm

LANGPORT & SURROUNDING DISTRICT GRASS SALE Approx 365 acres in Langport, Wick, Muchelney, Aller, Hambridge, , Lyng, Athelney, Othery, Greylake, Fivehead, Oath & Curload

Further details and catalogue available from Langport Agricultural Office 01458 250000