HALLWORTHY MARKET REPORT THURSDAY 3rd MAY 2018

EVERY THURSDAY Gates Open 6.30am

SALE TIMES 09:45 am Draft Ewes followed by Prime, Store Hoggs & Breeding Sheep followed Tested & Untested Prime & OTM Cattle 11:00 am Store Cattle & Stirk NAMED SIRES Store cattle and calf purchasers are continually requesting the names of sires of Angus, South Devon and Hereford cattle. Please supply this information by writing it on the passport, it reflects in the sale price.

Hallworthy Stockyard, Hallworthy, , , PL32 9SH Tel: 01840 261261 Fax: 01840 261684 Website: www.kivells.com Email: [email protected] SHEEP AUCTIONEER STEVE PROUSE 07767 895366 216 Draft Ewes Good entry again met a very fast trade. 12 Pens over £100 to a top on the day of £120, sold by Les Parish, Milcroft, Launceston, followed by Anthony Old, High Barn who realised £117 with his 1st pen and £104 with his 2nd. 167 Fat Hoggs The Hogg trade has jumped up to Weight Top Average Where it was 3 weeks ago, the Per Head Per Kilo Per Head Per Kilo good meat Hoggs met a flying 32.1-39 95.50 251 94 246.4 trade, top per kilo being 259p for 39.1-45.5 112.50 256 103 236.4 apen of 46kgs £119 from Ian 45.6-52 121 259 114 242.8 Watson, Bradford Manor. The 52+ 147 249 137.50 243.5 heavies met a tremendous trade Over all 147 259 126.40 240.4 top shout being £147 from Jake Cleave, Tregildren Farm, St Kew, who also realised £144.50 for 2 other pens of Suffolk x. 41 Store Hoggs A strong trade selling to a top of £82.50 from Mr F J Harding, Galford Farm, Lewdown. Couples 31E & 42L Smaller entry saw the ewes with young sappy lambs in keen demand. Doubles to £176 from Nigel Taylor, St Wenn, and the Singles topped at £132 from Bill and Tawn Danger, Tintagel. 78 New Season Lambs A few more lambs about, Weight Top Average Met with more interest and Per Head Per Kilo Per Head Per kilo a lot more could have been 32.1-39 114 293 109 289.3 sold. Overall average of 39.1-45.5 124 303 121.30 295.9 292.5ppkilo. The tight Over all 124 303 116 292.5 skinned young lambs to 303ppkilo from Ken Turner, Troswell, they were 40.2kgs £122. Several pens realised between £2.95 to £3 a kilo. Top price per head was £124 for a pen of 42kgs from Paul Taylor, Roche.

STORE CATTLE AUCTIONEER RICHARD DENNIS

304 Store Cattle A lot of younger cattle around this week. Suckler x Cattle were at a premium with Mr R Drew of , topping the sale today with a pair of Limousin x British Blue Steers at 17 months to £1155. S Eastley of Bucklawren Farm saw his top end a British Blue x Steer realising £1085, with his best Limousin Steer to £1010. R J Mitchell of Bude saw the top of his run of Cattle to £1005 for a growthy Charolaise x Steer. Heifers were again plentiful this week, top of this section went to M Bloomfield of North Hill with an outstanding run of Devon & Saler x Cattle. His first pen of 5 well grown Heifers fetching £1060 and his second pen to £1000. RJ & J E Uglow of Treskellow, saw his pen of cracking Simmental x Heifers top to £1005 x5. Mr S Eastley of hit the top end with a bunch of 4 British Blue Heifers to £985. A small production sale of Pedigree Hereford Heifers from Mr Faull of , his top a pair of 23 month Heifer by Freetown Eloquent, realise £920 with the next pair same way bred to £880 at 18 months. Cows and Calves were headed by Mr J R Cobbledick of South Petherwin, Launceston with a strong Charolais x Cow with Heifer Calf at foot to a top of £1360. Cows and Fats Top call today went to Mr A R Finnemore with a Limousin x Cow to 135ppkilo and an older Cow to 109ppkilo.

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Permitted development rights mean it is even easier to attain planning permission to convert an agricultural building to a dwelling!

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Rural Reflection April 2018 What a wash out March turned out to be! Heavy, enduring rainfall throughout March combined with even more snowfall has resulted in the ground now being heavily saturated with a somewhat lacklustre covering of grass, far from ideal for turning out stock. Fingers crossed spring will finally ‘spring’ upon us this month so that the spring crops can be sown, fertiliser can be spread and stock can be turned out of the sheds. The Basic Payment Scheme application window opened in the middle of March and all of the Kivells Rural Professional team are now busy completing applications for farmers across the West Country, and will no doubt be keeping busy with the same up until the 15th May deadline. As a team we have found a lot of re-mapping has occurred as a result of a wide scale remapping exercise undertaken by the RPA in the second half of 2017, meaning there are some mapping errors in the form of incorrect field boundaries and fields being incorrectly split or amalgamated. If you have any issues with mapping that you require help with please do be in touch with your local Kivells Rural Professional office and we will do all that we can to help. If you have not yet received your 2017 BPS payment, bridging payments worth up to 75% of the estimated 2017 claim value were due to be made on 4th April, with the monies expected to arrive in bank accounts on 6th April. For any claimants in this situation the RPA should have contacted you by either email or letter at the end of March. If you require any assistance with previous years’ payments please do contact your local office. In some cases we are still trying to rectify mis- payments to clients for the 2016 and even the 2015 scheme years, to which in a lot of instances the RPA are only just responding to query forms submitted many months ago. As of 6th April 2018, some fundamental changes to Permitted Development Rights have come into force, which will no doubt be of interest to many of you. The first main change is that under agricultural permitted development rights the maximum size limit for the erection of a new agricultural building is now 1000m2 on large farms (previously the size limit was 465m2), as ministers have recognised that larger buildings are often required in order for farmers to be able to adopt the latest innovations in farming practices. The size limit of 465m2 will remain for small farms, however the exact definition of what is a small farm and what is a large farm for the purpose of these rights as yet remains to be seen. The Class Q Permitted Development Rights (conversion of agricultural buildings to residential dwellings) have also changed slightly since 6th April. Previously, the conversion of agricultural buildings to residential dwellings was limited to a maximum of three residential units per agricultural holding with a maximum of 450m2 floor area. This has now been altered to allow conversion of up to 465m2 of floor space and up to a maximum of five residential units, with the following

allowed for:  3 larger homes with a combined maximum floor space of 465m2  A maximum of 5 smaller homes with each unit being no more than 100m2 in floor area  Or a mixture of large and small homes, (together totalling no more than 5 homes), of which a maximum of 3 can be large homes These alterations certainly offer good opportunities for those who are looking to erect new agricultural buildings and for those with an existing large complex of agricultural buildings that are ripe for Class Q conversion. Kivells have a wealth of experience dealing with planning applications and so if you have a project in mind, whether large or small, please do contact us; we would be more than happy to assist. The hedgerow and boundary grant is currently open for applications, whereby you can apply for up to £10,000 as a stand-alone capital grant for works including hedgerow laying, gapping up and dry stone wall restoration. If any such works are required across the farm this grant is certainly worth applying for as the money is there and needs to be spent by someone! The deadline for submitting an application is 30th April, which is now speedily approaching, and if you require any assistance in completing an application please do be in touch with the Kivells team.

Until next time…... On Behalf of the Kivells Rural Professional Team

Caroline Squire Exeter Office

The Kivells Rural Professional Team David Kivell 01409 253275 [email protected] Lisabeth Miller 01409253 275 [email protected] Mark Bromell 01409 253275 [email protected] Bellew 01392 252262 [email protected] Mark Bunt 01579 324927 [email protected] Ian Caunter 01392 252262 [email protected] Tom Rattray 01566 776886 [email protected] Squire 01392 252262 [email protected]