EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE MARKET REPORT June 2019 Friday 21st Store Stock Market EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE Matford Park Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8FD 01392 251261 [email protected] www.kivells.com Friday 21st June 355 STORE CATTLE, STIRKS & BEEF BREEDING STOCK – 10AM Auctioneer: Simon Alford 07789 980203 Steers to £1205 Heifers to £885 Friday saw store steers top at £1205 for a trio of strong ‘brindle’ Limousin steers (27m) from Ken Harris of Ivybridge whilst Beef Shorthorns were the order of the day making £1095 (18m) for Eddie Yeandle of Cheriton Fitzpaine and £1050 (26m) for Michael Tooze of Broadsands, the latter also seeing £1055 for a smart Charolais steer (26m). A pair of British Blue bullocks (24m) from Steve Baker of Kennford rose to £1050 apiece whilst Aberdeen Angus steers (21m) saw £950 for Basil Cane of Plymouth. Young steers of note included a cracking Limousin (only 14m) at a decent £970 for Alan Cook of Ivybridge and £885 for a couple of Blonde D’Aquitaine steers of a similar age from Martin Curtis of Plymouth. A tremendous run of store heifers from Bruce Ellett of Exmouth headed that section with a bunch of four well grown Charolais (22m) catching the eye and selling for £885 apiece closely followed by Bruce’s better pen of Salers heifers (23m) at £880 a life. A muscled South Devon heifer (25m) from Basil Cane looked good money at £870 as did a British Blue (19m) from Graham & Carol Northmore, Clyst Honiton at £835. Strong Blonde D’Aquitaine heifers (24m) from Ian Lethbridge, East Allington fetched £805 with neat later born types of the same breed seeing £865 for Martin Curtis again and a nicely shaped British Blue heifer (only 13m) took home £790 for Matt & Vicky smith of Thelbridge. Just a few Organic stores on offer with young (13m) Aberdeen Angus heifers from Sam Walker, Otterton to £630. 76 STIRKS & SUCKLED CALVES – 11.30AM Auctioneer: Ian Caunter 07813 068935 Despite the weather clearing up in many areas and plenty of grass on the ground a good entry of youngstock was seen here at Exeter on Friday with plenty of men to buy them. Top priced steer calves rose to £680 for a pen of five smart South Devon’s (9m) from Chris & Barbara Palk of South Brent with their next draw reaching £660 for a trio of the same age. Further quality bred South Devon and Limousin youngsters from Richard & Felicity Luscombe of Shaugh Prior eased to £660 for a bunch of six. A decent group of four well reared British Blue steer stirks (10m) from Chris & Kate Stephens of Bickington fetched £645 a piece whilst Beef Shorthorn steers (8m) from M & H Spooncer of Lifton made £560. Heifer stirks topped at £510 for another pen of quality Limousin and South Devons (9m) from Richard & Felicity Luscombe closely followed by ten cracking South Devon females (8m) from Chris & Barbara Palk at £490 a life. Please contact Ian Caunter 07813 068935 for any marketing advice. 93 CALVES – 10.15 AM CALVES - 10.15 am Auctioneers: Mark Davis 07773 371774 & CALVES Bulls Heifers Ian Caunter 07813 068935 Breed TOP AVE TOP AVE A useful entry of calves sold to a decent trade British Blue 14 355 217 5 190 167 topping at £400 for an outstanding 4 week old Lim x bull calf from Paul Hendy of Kingsbridge who sold Charolais 1 322 322 2 198 186 another at £300. Other Limousin bulls to £345 & Simmental 6 305 160 7 168 149 £340 for Ian Pincombe of Crediton and £335, £330 Limousin 8 400 325 3 220 173 & £325 for Andrew & Rose Retter of Honiton. British Blue bulls to £355 twice for Messrs GJ Hereford 10 325 119 11 178 90 Merchant & Son of Newton Abbot with others to Aberdeen Angus 8 270 165 7 165 89 £348 and £330 & £315 for Messrs MF Yendell & Holstein / Friesian 9 50 19 Son of Crediton. Charolais bulls to £322 for Nike Hooper of Spreyton. Hereford bulls to £325 for Derek Burrough of Yarcombe with others to £238 for David Reeves & Partners of Kingsbridge. A good run of Aberdeen Angus bulls to £270, £262 & £252 for Messrs BM Baker & Son of Cadbury. No real topping heifers on show but the best sold to £220 for a smart Limousin from Andrew & Rose Retter. Charolais heifers to £198 for Mike Hooper and British Blue heifers to £190 for Roy Emmett of Cullompton. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR SALES PRICES OR A COPY OF THE MARKET REPORT EMAILED DIRECTLY TO YOU? Please call the Market Office on 01392 251261 or email [email protected] and let us have your email address. 2589 SHEEP – 11AM Auctioneer: Russell Steer 07788 318701 2177 BREEDING EWES The first breeding ewe sale of the season kicked off as expected to a cautious yet not calamitous trade. Plenty of interest in pretty much all classes of sheep resulting in all but 9 pens finding new homes. Just under 200 older ewes kicked the sale off to a good trade, especially for pure Dorset’s with a flock dispersal topping the sale at £126, £118, £114 & £111 for SA Vickery & Partners of Bridport. Dorset Mules 4T’s made £112 for Robert Partridge of Teignmouth and more pure Dorset ewes at £114 for Joe Rowe of Somerton and £108 & £103 for Ray Tucker of Bridford. Suffolk cross 6T-FM ewes sold to £104 & £98 for Keith & Christine Morish of Cheriton Bishop. Amongst the shearlings pure Charollais shearlings topped at £160 for Roy Endacott of Spreyton and pure Dorset shearlings took the next top prices at £150, £149 & £148 (x2) for MJ & DM Lake of South Molton. More Dorset’s at £134 for Winston Thorne of Umberleigh, £130 (x3) & £122 (x4) for Brian Westcott of Exford and £118 for David & Adrian Cole of Bradninch. A great show of Dorset Mules, probably met the hardest trade of the day with the second prize pen taking top price at £136 for Richard Brooks of Bridport who then went on to sell the next 10 pens at £130. Brian & Ian Johnson of Bridport had third prize in the show and sold all five of their pens at £132 whilst first prize was awarded to John Simons of Chard who received £128 & £126 for his best. Berrichon x Dorset’s to £130 (x2) for David & Adrian Cole and the majority of Dorset Mules traded from £110 to £126 to average £121 down just £4 on the year. A much larger and generally decent quality entry of Suffolk cross shearlings sold away well with plenty of customers for them this early in the season. A Stand out run of Suffolk cross Cheviot Mules sold to £137, £132 (x2), £131 & £130 (x2) for Rob Holmes of Dunchideock, two nice pens at £136 for Suffolk cross Mules from Roger Rottenbury of Black Dog, more of the same at £133 (x2) for John Simons and £132 (x2) for Robert Chanin of Thorverton. Plenty then selling from £118 to £130 and keenly bid for resulting in an average of £123, back £15 on the year but with twice as many sold. A big number of Mules at this early fixture met with a decent level of interest, especially for the lower end, improving sorts. Ross & Emma Sizmur of Okehampton sold two smart pens at £124 as well as others at £120 & £117 whilst Peter Parker from Lincolnshire saw the best of his make £115 (x2) & £110. Texel Mule shearlings peaked at £126 for four pens from Brian Webber of Cullompton who had others at £120 and £126 also for smart looking Berrichon x Texel Mules from Roger Rottenbury who had more of the same at £125 and straight Texel Mules at £124. 46 STORE LAMBS/HOGGS & GRAZING EWES Grazers sold to £83 for a Zwartbles ewe from Gary Tuckett of Ivybridge and £67 for Chris Popham of Trull as the few store lambs forward sold to £65 for Joe Rowe of Somerton and £58 & £57 for R & JM Westlake of Plymstock. 100 EWES & 171 LAMBS (271 LIVES) A sizable entry of 100 ewes with 171 lambs sold well and to £188 for 8 Dorset ewes with 15 lambs (£65.39/life) from John & Diane Vooght of Dunsford who also had 7 flock aged Mules with 12 Suffolk sired lambs at £173 (£63.74/life). Straight doubles from Mervyn Brice of Stoodleigh sold to £170 & £152 as well as selling a pen of 5 triplets at £178. Other doubles and mixed pens between £128 and £148 and best of the singles reached £142 (£71/life) for Joe Rowe and £128 (£64/life) for Keith & Christine Morish of Cheriton Bishop. ***ALL COUPLE VENDORS MUST SUPPLY STRAW FOR THE PENS CONTAINING LAMBS*** 95 STOCK RAMS Rams seemed a stickier trade with more forward and just over 60% finding new homes. Top money went to the first rams through the ring whilst next top price went to the last consignment through, proving where you are in the catalogue has little effect on price providing you bring something good. The first two rams in were Suffolk shearlings from Mike Waycott of Ashburton and sold well ahead of expectations at 480gns apiece as next best price went to the powerful Charollais from Nigel Dennis of Ipplepen that saw his best achieve 450gns & 410gns. Other Suffolks at 400gns (x2) for Steve Rachel Lang of Plympton with 4T’s who also had a Charollais of the same age at 340gns. Mark Hayman & Abi Dart of Bradninch sold a Charollais shearling at 360gns as well as top priced Dorset shearlings at 350gns (x2) whilst Richard & Robert Hole of Sherborne sold a striking Dorset ram lamb at 350gns.