Holsworthy Market Report
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HOLSWORTHY MARKET REPORT Wednesday 26 August 2020 EVERY WEDNESDAY Gates open 6am SALE TIMES 09:45 am - Draft Ewes followed by Finished Lambs 10:30 am - Store Lambs 09.45 am - Calves and Stirks 11:00 am - Store Cattle followed by Finished & OTM Cattle 11:00 am - Dairy Cattle Another sensational day at Holsworthy comes to an end with just under 400 Beef cattle, 200 Dairy cattle, 230 Calves and 1200 Sheep with a top call of £2000 on behalf of Messrs S R Gilbert & Son. Holsworthy Livestock Market, New Market Road, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7FA 01409 253275 748 LAMBS, 399 DRAFT EWES & RAMS WEIGHT TOP AVERAGE Per P/Kg Per P/Kg 09.45 am LAMBS head TLW head TLW Auctioneer: Steve Prouse 07767 895366 39.1-45.5 99.50 228 90 209.5 748 LAMBS The lamb trade has rallied around again up around £4 per 45.6-52 102.50 220 97 205.4 head, our overall average on the day 209.5, well up on other Overall 102.50 228 93.10 209.5 centres earlier in the week. Several pens over 220p to a top EWES of 228p for a smart pen of 43kg £98 from Mr & Mrs Tucker Light 84 70 of Hatherleigh followed by Robert Lee of Winscott, Bideford who realized 226p for his 44kg £99.50. Numerous Heavy 103.5 92 pens over £98 to a top of £102.50 for a pen of 46kg from Rams 100 86 Graham Cowling of Bude. 231 STORE LAMBS As previous weeks all store lambs very much sought after. Top being £75 for Suffolk crosses from Edward Bellamy of Peter Tavy followed by Godfry and Owen Davey of Bratton Clovelly who realized £74.50 for their Charollais x. DRAFT EWES & RAMS Similar entry met a much faster trade up around £7 per head and a lot more could have been sold. Top on the day was £103.50 from Barry Lyons of Morwenstow for a Charollais followed by Simon Sluggett of Alvacott who realized £103 with his Suffolks. *** AUTUMN / WINTER GRASS KEEP *** We have a number of Sheep farmers looking to secure grass keep for lambs / hoggs and ewes either short term or long term for Autumn / Winter 2020 / 21. We also have a client urgently looking for grass keep for approx. 500 well-bred store lambs. All lambs are drenched and ready to go to grass now! For further information please contact James Morrish 07814 010133 302 CALVES & STIRKS – 09.45 am Auctioneer: James Morrish 07814 010133 A really busy week saw 237 calves on BREED BULLS HEIFERS Wednesday whilst on Monday 65 sold No Top Ave No Top Ave through our TB restricted collection service. A. Angus 20 280 174.60 22 200 124.68 On Wednesday a useful run of stirks saw a top Friesian 23 105 51.96 - - - call of £600 on behalf of Graham Lewis of Welsh Black - - - 2 160 132.50 Waterloo with Mike & Edward Brown of Montbeliarde 1 180 180 - - - Frithelstock close up at £550 for British Blues Fleckvieh 1 92 92 - - - going home with Dave Wootton of Ashreigney Charolais 3 315 306.33 - - - and Messrs Hopper of Penleigh at £495. Simmental 2 335 250 - - - Baby calves saw a ‘stand on’ trade from last week Limousin 6 395 173.67 9 300 147.56 with the Petherick family in prime slot at £415 for British Blue 34 415 282.41 43 352 238.47 a sweet Blue bull and going off with regular buyer Hereford 9 282 215.67 11 252 137.18 Harry Smith. Messrs Dark & Son made the long trip up from Mullion in West Cornwall to reach a massive £395 for a classy Limousin bull going off to Exmoor. Messrs Davey of Northlew near Dartmoor topped their line up at £390 with Peter Denton of South Cornwall at £388. Messrs Cleave of Morwenstow on the North Cornwall coast hit £378 for 29 day old Blue bulls with a nice line up of 58 day old Blues from Messrs Bradley Farm Partnership of Camelford topping at £348. Best of the Charolais’ today reached £315 for David Headon of North Tawton with others from Mike Greenaway of Tetcott at £305. Baby heifers saw a much improved trade this week being up £15-20 on the week. Top 3 places went to Messrs Petherick of Bude at £352 & £340 with 5 vendors over the £300 mark all selling calves under 42 days old. Holstein bulls saw a top call of £105 for Kevin Parsons of Jacobstow with Messrs Bass of Bodmin at £100 and 7 vendors between £85-92. On Monday over 60 TB restricted calves sold to a top call of 80p/kg for 2 vendors with the heaviest calves up and over £75. No collection on Monday due to Bank Holiday however normal business will resume on Monday 7th September. Entries for all calf sales to 01409 253275 or James Morrish 07814 010133. 400 STORE CATTLE – 11 am Auctioneer: David Kivell 07899 960272 A superb entry of cattle this week saw a flying trade! Stronger feeding types saw a stronger trade than previous weeks with plenty over £1100. Will Prouse of Torrington had a good run of 24mth British Blue and Aberdeen Angus steers with British Blues to £1195 others £1100 (5) and Aberdeen Angus to £1090 (5). Ken Ford of Bideford realized £1180 for 4 pure bred Charolais steers 17mth and more are required. Strong heifers in short supply with a top call of £1210 for a Limousin from Mr D Crocombe of Barnstaple. Some well farmed 14-17mth Aberdeen Angus and South Devon heifers from Messrs Prouse of Holsworthy topped at £1095 with other 14mth heifers from the same farm at £870. Young 10-12mth Continental and Natives saw another large number of purchasers still keen to buy pushing several bunches of British Blue and Aberdeen Angus steers past £700 and heifers past £650, especially good considering most cattle showing signs of being weathered. More required. A much larger entry of 112 Holstein steers saw a trade way up on previous weeks. Stronger types rose to £855 for a steer from Mr C Kivell with 9 other Friesians realizing £840 for Messrs Loatmead Farms of Bradworthy. Younger 12-16mth Holsteins were up £60-70 with steers from Messrs Mott at £660 with other bunches repeatedly over £600. GRAZING COWS – Out of parlour Holsteins from Messrs Adams of Torrington topped at £620. Lean older cows £510-545. Non-farm assured White Park cows sold to £595 for 3 from Messrs Facey of Holsworthy. FINISHED CATTLE – Grass finished Holsteins from Mr D Soper of North Petherwin topped at 162p for a 646kg steer with other Holsteins from the same farm realizing £1069. OTM WEIGHING COWS – Top price was 130p for a heavy cow from Messrs James of Halwill realizing £995. 200 DAIRY CATTLE - 11.00 am DAIRY CATTLE Top Ave Auctioneer: Mark Bromell - 07966 430001 Weekly Market: st Mark Davis - 07773 371774 In Milk Heifers 1 Quality £2000 £1920 In Milk Heifers 2nd Quality £1550 £1550 Weekly Market 3rd Calving Cows £1400 £1400 A small entry for the weekly market ahead of Cross-bred In Calf Heifers £1000 £940 the main dispersal sale saw a strong trade with Dispersal Sale of the ‘Maxworthy’ Herd: over 40% of the heifers forward selling at Summer Calved Portion: £2,000. Messrs. S R Gilbert & Son from In Milk Heifers £1890 £1717 Sheepwash realized £2,000 for freshly calved 2nd & 3rd Calving Cows £1995 £1508 heifer, ‘Bocaddon Rozzer RPT Daisymay’. Paul 4th & Older Calving Cows £1523 £1234 Nichols from Penzance was celebrating his Stale In-Milk Portion: birthday at Holsworthy market and did so in In Milk Heifers £1890 £1264 style jointly topping the market at £2,000 on nd rd two occasions for two freshly calved heifers 2 & 3 Calving Cows £1365 £958 th ‘Apricot Brekem Sugar Crystol’ and ‘Hadge Sunkist 5 & Older Calving Cows £714 £675 Penny’. More fresh milk still required to meet Milk Cows with Faults – ¾’d etc £1312 £838 demand. ALL IN MILK AVERAGE £1995 £1199 Dry Cows £1470 £1174 Dispersal Sale of the ‘Maxworthy’ Herd In-Calf Heifers – Due before Christmas £1470 £1245 Today saw the first consignment of the In-Calf Heifers – Due Spring 2021 £1050 £773 ‘Maxworthy’ herd on behalf of John and Carole Maiden/Yearling Heifers £672 £478 Uglow and family sell to a very solid trade. ‘a’ Lot Calves – Summer born £420 £333 This commercial herd of cows with a pedigree ‘a’ Lot Calves – 3 months + £714 £471 background are robot milked. The summer calving portion met strong demand topping at £1,995 for a second calver calved in July yielding 39 Kgs, with third calvers selling up to £1,837. Heifers sold to £1,890 for a freshly calved heifer yielding 26 Kgs with the majority of heifers selling at over £1,600. Older freshly calved cows also sold well topping at £1,523 for an early July calved fourth calver. Staler cows saw an easier trade as would be expected but still saw quality cattle meeting a firm trade with heifers topping at £1,890 for an outstanding December calved heifer still yielding 30 Kgs. Staler cows sold to £1,365 on three occasions for second and third calvers. Cows with faults such as being three quartered saw an easier trade to recent weeks. In calf heifers due before Christmas sold well topping at £1,470 for a Norwegian Red Cross heifer due November to a Hereford. Spring calving in calf heifers had an easier trade and were in less demand.