EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE MARKET REPORT NOVEMBER 2020 Monday 23rd November – Prime Stock Market ** WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS!** HELP US TO HELP YOU and lets keep the Country fed with GREAT BRITISH FOOD! EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE 01392 251261 [email protected] www.kivells.com Monday 23rd November 51 PRIME CATTLE & BARREN COWS Auctioneer: Simon Alford 07789 980203 Prime Cattle to 216 ppk and £1409 Barren Cows and Cull Bulls to 132 ppk and £1334 Prime cattle prices saw a further leap in price on Monday with a decent quality entry well rewarded with several over the 200ppk mark. Top price of the morning was 216ppk given for a very well turned out young (18m) 580kg Charolais heifer from Rosie Fishleigh of Sourton Cross which realised £1249 this was followed by a heavier 652kg heifer of the same age and breed again from Rosie which saw 200ppk and grossed £1300. A further run of well bred and fed sorts from Phillip Haydon of Cheriton Bishop sold well and to 215ppk for his 518kg South Devon steer followed by his 594kg Charolais bullock at 208ppk (£1232) and a 568kg Charolais heifer at 205ppk and £1161. Next in line were a couple of smart Blonde heifers from Keith and Hilary Harvey of Bovey Tracey which both hit 209ppk with the heavier at 676kg taking home £1409. Michael Ayre of Thorverton saw a 490kg lightweight Limousin heifer draw 204ppk whilst Limousin steers from Jason and Cathy Crang of Cadeleigh fetched to 198ppk and £1235 and South Devon steers from Basil and Steve Cane of Plymouth saw 189ppk and £1324. Barren cows a fair trade again this week with a top of 132ppk given for a decent 536kg Simmental cross from Tony Francis of Okehampton with best South Devon cows to 126ppk and £848 for Dave and Shirley Mudge of Hexworthy and 116ppk and £977 for Dave and Karen Smith of Littlehempston. A 618kg Blonde barrener from Mary Curtis of Cadeleigh sold for 115ppk and Colleton Barton of Chulmleigh sold 726kg Devon for 113ppk and £816. Several cull bulls on offer this week with a massive 1126kg South Devon from Grenville Hockridge making 119kkg and £1334 and a lighter 926kg Simmental from David Slade of Chagford seeing 118ppk and £1088. 1321 SHEEP – 9.30AM Auctioneer: Russell Steer 07788 318701 Prime Lambs to £102.50 & 221 ppk Cull Ewes to £114.50 & Rams to £110 662 PRIME SPRING LAMBS 691 PRIME LAMBS Slightly more prime lambs forward but numbers still tight and despite no improvement in the demand for heavy Top Average lambs, handyweights were certainly dearer on the week leaving £’s the SQQ up 6p to 209ppk. Best of the heavy lambs around the No’s £’s Per No’s Weight Weight Per Fwd Head Fwd £100 mark with a top of £102.50 & £100.80 for overweights Head from Lee Properties of Totnes, £102, £100, £98.50 & £98.20 for PRIME LAMBS Mark Palfrey of Yeoford and £100 for Peter Tucker of Cadeleigh. Some super 49kgs sold to £100.20 for Tom Yandle of Mamhead 25-32 19 64.80 209 61.01 200 and £100 also for all Roy Adams of Talaton, Mark Harvey of 83.50 221 76.86 200 33-39 136 Slapton and Mark Palfrey again. Best of the 47kgs to £99.50 again (+2.70) (+5) (+1.18) (+7) 97.00 220 91.06 210 40-45 212 for Mark Harvey and £98.50 for Arthur Palmer of West (+3.80) (+8) (+4.38) (+6) Alvington as 46kgs sold to £98.50 for both Dave Pollard and MS 100.20 214 96.75 198 Prime Lambs to £86 & 180ppk Cull Ewes to £90 & Rams46 to-52 £99 235 & JS Southwood, both from Black Dog. 45kgs to £96.50 for Jill (+2.40) (+7) (+3.04) (+3) 53+ 60 102.50 189 99.33 177 H andley of Sampford Courtenay and £95.50 again for Arthur (+2.50) (+14) (+3.01) (+10) Palmer as some super pens of smart 44kg lambs rose to £97 (220ppk)691 PRIME for LAMBS Alan Weymouth of Salcombe and £95.80 (218ppk) Top Average 114.50 71.34 EWES 643 for MS & JS Southwood. 43kgs to £92 again for Jill Handley as (+12.00) (+4.98) 42kgsAnother sold quiet to £91.50 Monday (218ppk) in the sheep for the pens Steer with family691 prime of Ashburton lambs selling at recent levels with a110.00 top of £86 for Texel80.84 x RAMS 16 and50kg 41kgs lambs peaked from David at £87.20Goss of Littlehempstonfor Pete & Angela who also Smerdon had 51kg of Charollais at £83.50 and smart(+10.50 )47kg continentals(-2.94) at Rattery.£83 (177ppk). Lighter Overweights lambs continuing to £85 for to AJ get Carter dearer of Dawlish each week, and £81.50 underpinned for Paul Westby the of Holbeton.strength ofOther the 50 store-52kg market withlambs 39kgs selling selling at £85 to for£83.50 Tripp for Bros Robert & Sons & of Christi Dunsfordne Steer£84.20 of for Avonwick, Tony Pickard 38kgs of South to £82.80 Molton, (218ppk) £82.80 for KenAJ W ithers & ChappleSons of of Cove Oakford whilst and £82.50the top for pence RD Middleton per kilo & went Son of to Ashreigney. Martin & ADavid trio of Sampson smart 47kg of Beltex Chudleigh crosses with from 36kgs at 221ppk (£79.50). A super light pen of 31kg fed Mules from Abel Bros of Tavistock sold to £64.80 and 209ppk. Tracey Pike of Luppit sold at £82.50 (176ppk). 45kg Charollais lambs to £77 for Len Sharland of Tiverton and the same price per head for 44kgs from Keith Milton of Pennymoor who also claimed top price per kilo when his two pens of smart 41kg lambs rose to 180 & 178ppk or £73.80 & £72.80 respectively. A great line up of well finished light lambs from 28 to 39kgs saw top per head of £66 643achieved CULL by EWESboth Blackaton & 16 RAMS Manor Farms of Widecombe with 39kg Cheviots and also of 38kg Suffolk crosses from Abel691 Bros PRIME of Tavistock LAMBS who also parted with 33kg Welsh lambs at More£56.20, cull 31kg ewes hill forward lambs at too £54, with 30kgs a standat £53.20 on trade(177ppk) and and some a large better pen sortsof 28kg forward Scotties saw at £48.20. a lift of Overall £5 in theaverage average is to just level a penny at £71.34. better Eight at 170ppk. lots into three figures with a top of £114.50 for a Charollais ewe from Roy Endacott of Spreyton, £107.50, £106 & £104 for continental crosses from Mark Harvey of Slapton and £107.50 for a trio of Texel crosses from Phil Lee of Tedburn St Mary. More Texel crosses at £100 for Tom Yandle of Mamhead, £99 for both Jill Handley and Paul Bowden of Drewsteignton as the best of the Suffolk crosses sold to £98 for Roy Adams 367 CULL of Talaton,EWES & 20 £97.50 RAMS/WETHERS for Tom Yandle and £97 for GP Young of Tedburn St Mary. Rams in line with the ewes selling to a top of £110 for a trio of Suffolks from Tom Yandle as Ray Tucker of Bridford sold his best Suffolk A short at entry £105 of and just Paul under Bowdens 400 cull sheepTexels sold realised with a £99. better Mules feel tono the different trade as on mule the and week oth wither medium the best weight £80 ewesto £84 whilstwere mediumnoticeably sorts dearer were than £68 seen to in £78 a long and time. grazers Best usuallycrossbred always ewes £60to £90 plus. for Hilla pair ewes of Black out Texelsin number from againTracey today withPike meat of Luppit, ewes £89.50, either £88.50side of & £50 £86 whilstfor penfuls leaner of strongsorts meeting Suffolk crosses slightly from more Tom resistance Yandle of and Mamhead from £15 and to£87 £35. for similar from Tim Whitley of Widecombe. Others £75 to £84 depending on breed, condition and weight. Best mules as Prime Lambs to £86 & 180ppk Cull Ewes to £90 & Rams to £99 mentioned looking £6-£9 dearer on the week with two pens selling at £77.50 & £74.50 for Brad Simmons of Prime & Cull sheep Mortality and Rejection Insurance ThorndonAs of 1st Cross, April 2019 £76.50 a levy for of 15pEllen (12p Yandle plus VAT) of Mwillamhead be deducted and from a meated all prime run and from cull sheep Sam soldUrsell at Exeterof Tedburn on a Monday St Mary to sold to £76,cover £74.50, deaths £73 and & meat £72.50. rejections Hill ewes associ fewerated with in slaughternumber stockand oftenfrom this £30 sale. to There£40 with is an exceptionno real strength to this levy present if a vendor and is very 691 deemedPRIME toLAMBS have an epidemic of cysticercus-ovis or similar, but in this unlikely event the auctioneer will liaise with the vendor in few question.lots sold under £25. Rams a touch stronger trade too with Brad Simmons also topping these with a weighty AnotherSuffolk selling quiet atMonday £99 followed in the sheep by AJ pensCarter with with 691 a Texel prime at lambs £92.50 selling and B at Moseley recent levels of Hittisleigh with a top realised of £86 £89. for AllTexel cull x 50kgsheep lambs averaged from £62, David which Goss is of up Littlehempston £10 on the week, who half also of had the 51kg lift is Charollais due to quality, at £83.50 the otherand smart half is 47kg the strengthcontinentals of at £83trade.