EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE MARKET REPORT JANUARY 2021 Monday 25th January – Prime 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 th Monday 25 January 46 PRIME CATTLE & BARREN COWS – 10:45 AM Auctioneer: Simon Alford 07789 980203 Prime Cattle to 229ppk and £1422 Barren Cows to 175ppk and £1348 Numbers back this week with another strong trade for both finished and cull cattle with a definite premium being paid for those better quality types. Prime cattle rose to a high of 229ppk given for a trim 548kg Limousin heifer (20m) which returned £1252 for Rosie Fishleigh of Sourton Cross whilst a slightly older and heavier (580kg) Limousin heifer out of the same trailer drew 214ppk and £1238. Michael and Stephen Harvey of Hennock brought some neat Blonde bred heifers which sold to 224ppk and 218ppk with the heaviest weighing in at 642kg and realising £1396. Michael Tooze of Broadsands saw his 650kg Aberdeen Angus steer rise to 214ppk and £1396 followed by a 594kg Limousin steer at 209ppk and £1238 for Jason and Cathy Crang of Cadeleigh and a 692kg Limousin heifer off the same farm which at 206ppk reached a market topping £1422. The better of a couple of well-fed 638kg South Devon steers from Steve Harris of Littlehempston fetched 209ppk and £1330. A pair of powerful Limousin barren cows from Michael Ware of Silverton headed that section with one at 730kg easing to 175ppk or £1273 whilst the other at 820kg reached 165ppk and an immense £1348. Further first rate Limousin bred cows from Andrew Johns of Newton Abbot picked up 143ppk and £1078 whilst a young 618kg Simmental barrener from Douglas Horton of Kingsbridge returned 174ppk and £1072. Native breed sorts saw a 596kg Devon cow reach 136ppk and £807 for Jeff Harvey of Hennock, Aberdeen Angus from Graham and Lisa Heard of Broadclyst topped at 135ppk and £987 and a solid looking 788kg Lincoln Red earned 129ppk and £1012 for Richard Smallwood of Bridestowe. Hereford’s ran to £1062 (840kg x 127ppk) for J Smerdon and Co of Ivybridge who also sold a 570kg Belted Galloway cow for £641 (570kg x 113ppk). 1211 SHEEP – 09.30 AM Auctioneer: Russell Steer 07788318701 Spring Lambs to £121.50 & 269 ppk Prime Hoggs to £ 135 & 290 ppk Cull Ewes to £156 & Rams to £139 477 PRIME HOGGS & 50 PRIME SPRING LAMBS 691 PRIME LAMBS A quieter day in the sheep pens as some farmers react to the price drop and keep hoggs at home whilst others were hampered by the cold weather and treacherous road conditions. Just 477 prime hoggs were an offering best described as mixed and sold to a similar trade to that seen at the end of last week but some 22p short of our average last Monday at 233ppk. In spec hoggs short of requirements and always 235 to 250ppk selling to a top of 252ppk for Jerry Wood of Dartington with Top Average No’s £’s Per No’s Weight PPK PPK 45kgs at £113.50, other smart 44kg Beltex sired hoggs from the Baxter Fwd Head Fwd family of Exwick sold at £108 and similar weight hoggs sold at £107.50 PRIME LAMBS for Arthur Palmer of West Alvington and £107 for Robert Seward of 98.50 266 98.50 266 33-39 1 Silverton. Half a dozen pens over £115 to a top of £118.50 & £115 for (+1.50) (-3) (+1.50) (-3) 115.20 271 109.16 262 overweigh ts from David Harris of Stoke Fleming, £118 for Peter Hunt 40-45 34 of Stokeinteignhead, £116.50 for MJ Down of Zeal Monachurom and (-3.70) (+3) (-3.44) (~) 114.00 234 111.07 234 46-52 15 £115Prime also Lambs for to £86K &Welsh 180ppk of Dawlish. NigelCull BaverstockEwes to £90 &of Rams to £99 (-7.50) (-30) (-7.43) (-13) Doddiscombleigh had 50kgs at £115.50 as Lee Properties Ltd of PRIME HOGGS Totnes had 47kgs make £113, CT Farming of Winkleigh had the same 25-32 39 70.00 226 70.00 226 weight at £11250 and Brian Trant of Dittisham sold 46kgs at £112.20. (-17.00) (-64) (-7.94) (-25) Of691 the PRIME 181 hoggsLAMBS under 40kgs only 44 were not of mountainous 97.00 249 84.75 231 33-39 142 descent! These sold to £97 (249ppk) for 39kg Suffolk crosses from (-15.00) (-38) (-4.93) (-16) Erth Barton Farming Partnership of Torpoint whilst the best of the hill 113.50 252 100.40 235 Another quiet Monday in the sheep pens with 691 prime lambs selling at40 recent-45 levels114 with a top of £86 for Texel x hoggs sold to £86.80 for both Peter Heard of Okehampton and Abel (-11.30) (-38) (-11.14) (-23) 50kg lambs from David Goss of Littlehempston who also had 51kg Charollais at £83.50 and smart 47kg continentals at Bros of Tavistock, so we’ll call it a draw, although Abels did claim the 46-52 140 115.50 244 111.39 229 £83 (177ppk). Overweights to £85 for AJ Carter of Dawlish and £81.50 for Paul West of Holbeton.(-10.00) ( -Other20) 50(-8.50)-52kg (-20) top per kilo for hill sorts of 235ppk. 118.50 224 114.23 208 53+ 42 lambs selling at £85 for Tripp Bros & Sons of Dunsford £84.20 for Tony Pickard of South (Molton,-16.50) £82.80(-14) for(-10.20) Ken (-9) IncludedChapple in of today’ Oakfords entry and were£82.50 50 for prime RD Middleton new season & Sonlambs, of Ashreigney. surely a A trio of smart 47kg Beltex crosses from record number for the time of year, which met decent demand from Top Average Tracey Pike of Luppit sold at £82.50 (176ppk). 45kg Charollais lambs to £77 for Len Sharland 134.00of Tiverton and the86.80 same local butchers and wholesalers as well as some larger abattoirs. EWES 567 price per head for 44kgs from Keith Milton of Pennymoor who also claimed top price per kilo(-22.00) when his two pens(-11.29) of Topping the trade at £114 was smart 49kg lambs from Robin & Liam 127.00 98.67 RAMS 27 Daresmart of 41kgUpot lambstery who rose hadto 180 others & 178ppk scaling or 47kgs £73.80 at & £110 £72.80 as respectively.well as A great line up of well(-12.00) finished light( -lambs1.14) handierfrom 28 weighted to 39kgs 43kg saw toplambs per at head £111.50 of £66 (259ppk). achieved Phillip by both Dennis Blackaton of Manor Farms of Widecombe with 39kg NorthCheviots Tawton and alsoclaimed of 38kg top Suffolkppk when crosses he soldfrom 40kg Abel lambsBros of at Tavistock £108.50 who(271ppk) also partedas well with as 42kgs 33kg achievingWelsh lambs the atsame per head and David & Adrian Cole of Bradninch sold 43kgs at £110 and relation and neighbour Derek Cole of Bradninch sold £56.20, 31kg hill lambs at £54, 30kgs at £53.20 (177ppk) and a large pen of 28kg Scotties at £48.20. Overall average is 37kgs at £98.50 (266ppk). NSL SQQ 262ppk. just a penny better at 170ppk. 567 CULL EWES & 27 RAMS 691 PRIME LAMBS Almost367 CULL 600 EWES cull ewes & 20 and RAMS/WETHERS rams were again lacking the quality of last week but if anything sold to a stronger trade for all forward. Top money today of £134 for a Texel ewe from AT Edwards of Tavistock whilst Martin Gillbard of Morchard BishopA short sold entry penful’s of just at under£129, 400£124.50 cull sheep& £113, sold Derek with Colea better of Bradninch feel to the saw trade his as best mule make and £128 other with medium another weight two ewespens at £118.50, the Perryman family of Black Dog at £126 & £119.50 and Stuart Middleton of Cullompton with Suffolk’s at £125. were noticeably dearer than seen in a long time. Best crossbred ewes to £90 for a pair of Black Texels from Tracey Crossbred ewes to £120 for Colin Edwards of Tavistock, £119.50 & £117.50 for P Bryce of Dunsford, £119.50, £116 & £114.50Pike of forLuppit, John £89.50, Crooke £88.50 and fa &mily £86 of for Sandford penfuls ofand strong £119.50 Suffolk & £116.50 crosses fromfor Geoff Tom TrippYandle of of East Mamhead Prawle. and A plethora£87 for of Bluefacedsimilar from Leicester Tim Whitley ewes were of Widecombe. all tightly priced Others with £75 Peter to £84 Heard depending claiming on £118, breed, Neil cond & Matition Cole and weight.of Yelverton Best mulesat £116.50 as andmentioned Angus Mortimore looking £6 of-£9 Chagford dearer on at the £116.