HALLWORTHY MARKET REPORT THURSDAY 12th APRIL 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, Camelford, Cornwall, PL32 9SH Tel: 01840 261261 Fax: 01840 261684 Website: www.kivells.com Email: [email protected] SHEEP AUCTIONEER STEVE PROUSE 07767 895366 356 Draft Ewes Largest entry seen in April met a real trade from start to finish. The overall average including all the Hill ewes was £82.80, 11 pens over £110 to a top of £121 from W C Mably & Son, St Endellion. Followed by Messrs G T Grigg & Son, Trengune, who realised £119.50 for his pen of Texel’s. Mules up to £101, Hill Bred Ewes to £77. 388 Fat Hoggs A lot more on offer met a Weight Top Average Per Per Per Per tremendous trade. They Head kg Head kg are going dearer by the 32.1 - 39 91 260 72.30 207 week. The overall 39.1 - 45.5 126 278 114 264 average per head on the 45.6 - 52 134 277 130 265.5 day was £121.01p, which 52+ 150 267 146.50 256.6 has never been seen at Over all 150 278 121.01 261.5 Hallworthy before. Still more Hoggs could have been sold. The well fleshed Hoggs saw several 270p to a top of 278, for 2 pens of Polled Dorset, 45kgs, £125 from Messrs W L & E Sandercock, Trevilly, Delabole. Messrs A & J Richards from Trewidland, Liskeard had 2 smart pens of 46kgs which realised 277p £127.50. The heavy cutting hoggs were the star of the show, with an overall average of £146.49 ahead, to a new all time record of £150 for 2 pens sold by Mr G Graham, Camelford. Messrs G T Grigg & Sons, Tregune, saw their first 2 pens of Texel heavies, top at £147. 57 Store Hoggs Small entry with all small framed Hoggs on offer. Top being £72.50 from Bill Dangar, Tintagel. Couples 73E & 109L Good entry met a faster trade and more could have been sold. Doubles up to £174 from Paul Taylor, Roche. 10 pens of Singles over £150 to a top of £182 for a pen sold by Les Nicholls, Whitecross, Wadebridge. New Season Lambs A few lambs on offer met a flying trade, more lambs needed please. Top per kilo being 331p for a pen of Suffolk x 36kgs £119 from Miss J Brown, Launceston. Top per head was £132 from Mr B G Couch, Bodwen, Helland. STORE CATTLE AUCTIONEER RICHARD DENNIS 300 Store Cattle 300 Cattle through the ring at Hallworthy with a bit of renewed optimism of the grass on its way. Top call today went to Mr AJH Lawry of Garras, Truro, with a super run of 20 Cattle headed up with a Limousin x Steer to £1195. Closely followed by Messrs Colwill & Wickett of Laneast, Launceston, his forward run of growthy Limousin x Steers topped out at £1185. J & RM Rowe of Looe, saw his best, of a bunch of 3 South Devon x Steers top to £1105. Messrs Colwill & Wickett came in again with their next run to £1100. Mr Rowe saw his second bunch of South Devon x Steers to £1090. Top Friesians were from Linnick from South Petherwin with their first pen to £925. British Friesian type to £875. The Heifer section was topped by Mr R Tilly of Penzance, with his run of Simmental x, a pair of Heifers realising £1000. Messrs Brewer & Brewer of St Merryn, with his run of Blonde D’Aquitaine top out at £930. Younger Cattle were again in demand, with two vendors both with runs of 25 Charolaise x Suckled Stores 9-13 months. Pure bred Steers from R K Tucker of Sydenham Damerel, topped this section with well shaped and grown cattle realising a top of £945 x5 and £910 x6. His top Heifers saw £820 x6. Mr A F Bolt of Tresparrett, saw his best to £940, with a group of 6 to £915 and a third to £900. Cows and Calves A few about with Mr W Mark of Tywardreath, St Austell, topping out at £1700, with a Hereford x Cow, PD incalf with 7 month Hereford Steer at foot. P J North of Bude, saw the best of his run of Limousin x Cows with British Shorthorn Calves at foot. His best an 80 month Cow with Steer calf at foot, running back with a Hereford Bull, topped to £1320, and his next to £1155. Fat Cows Mr J Thomas of Bodmin saw his best Charolaise x Cow to 128 ppkilo, and a second at 117ppkilo for a well fleshed South Devon x Cow. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR MARKET PRICES EMAILED TO YOU? Please let us have your email address or call the Market Office on 01840 261261 or email us on [email protected] FORTHCOMING SALES APRIL SALES SATURDAY 14TH – MAYS COUNTRY STORE, ST AUSTELL Mid Cornwall Poultry Sale WEDNESDAY 18th – HOLSWORTHY Weekly Prime & Store Market to include Special Sale of Couples & Hogg Couples also Mid Month Special Dairy Sale THURSDAY 19TH – HALLWORTHY Weekly Store and Prime Market to inc monthly Beef Breeding Sale and Special Sale of Couples SATURDAY 21ST – HALLWORTHY Poultry Sale SELL YOUR SURPLUS ENTITLEMENTS WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE 2018 DEADLINE! TRADING WINDOW NOW OPEN! Please contact:- Caroline Squire on 01392 252 262 (opt 2) Or email [email protected] Need an additional house on the farm? Want to maximise capital when selling agricultural buildings? Permitted development rights mean it is even easier to attain planning permission to convert an agricultural building to a dwelling! Pop into your local Kivells Rural Professional Office for advice and information or call Holsworthy - 01409 253 275 Exeter - 01392 252 262 Launceston - 01566 776 886 Liskeard - 01579 345 543 Vacancy at the Holsworthy Livestock Market Receptionist (maternity cover) The role: Kivells are looking for a full time Market Receptionist to cover a period of maternity leave at the busy Holsworthy Livestock Market. The successful candidate will work on reception together with undertaking administration for the agricultural department. Likely duties will include assisting clients both face to face and by telephone, supporting the cattle auctioneer, preparing catalogues for sale, market reports and advertising. The candidate: will be bright, cheerful, willing to help and quick to learn. The successful candidate will possess excellent customer service skills, be organised, computer literate and be able to work on their own. A background knowledge in agriculture is an advantage. This is an interesting and varied role requiring a candidate with a strong work ethic and the ability to adapt. Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8.45am to 5.00pm. Additional hours for some Saturday sales will also be required. To apply for this role, please email [email protected] or call 01409 259544 for an application form. Alternatively please visit www.kivells.com. Closing date for applications to be received: Friday 27th April 2018 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.