MONDAY 23RD MAY 2016
61 VENDORS SOLD 1146 HEAD OF STOCK
THROUGH THRAPSTON MARKET LAST WEEK
A good show of sheep, with one short of 900 on offer on Thursday, along with
20 prime cattle, which made for a busy day at Thrapston. National prices for
lamb have fallen quite dramatically, and sooner than expected this year, which
has disappointed many; hopefully, the weak pound will improve the
competiveness of UK produced lamb. On another positive note, the beef price
has turned a corner and increased, which caused some fierce bidding battles
around the ring between the buyers. Let’s hope it follows last year’s trend,
lifting each week to November.
If you have any stock to market, please do not hesitate to contact our
Auctioneers or market team with your entries, so that we can inform our
potential buyers. We are continuously striving to improve liveweight sales in
your local area, and with your support, we can achieve a much better and
stronger market to sell your sheep and cattle at a premium.
We are in contact with the buyers on a daily basis, and if we know what you
have to sell, we can market your stock to its best ability. Our payment is
guaranteed and made on time (prime stock one week after the sale and store
stock as early as 3 days after the sale). We pay for all of their weight, the fifth
quarter, and have no bits trimmed because they are overweight. SELL LIVE
AND THRIVE. If you would like any on far m advice, our Auctioneer s
would be pleased to visit you for a FREE on farm inspection.
REPORT FOR SATURDAY 21ST MAY
Store, Breeding & Cows with Calves - 134 Entered
Auctioneer Alastair Brown
Another excellent trade which was helped by the upturn in beef cattle prices.
3 x 16 month Limousin steers from Nick Sansom topped at £1192; S & R
Wright saw their 19 month Charolais steers realise £1140; a 26 month South
Devon steer from K Finch sold to £1100; an entry of 10 Limousin steers, 17
months, from JP Watts topped at £1040.
Top price heifers realised £1065 for Steve and Glen Holgate, for 3 x 19 month
Limousin heifers, with others to £1015; S & R Wright entered 2 x 26 month
Charolais, which topped at £960; whilst Basil King’s heifer entry sold to £940
for a 29 month Shorthorn and his Lincoln Red heifers sold to £675; Burton
Bros sold two heifers, a 31 month South Devon to £900, and a 29 month
Hereford for £810. Younger sorts saw prices to £700 for 4 Limousin steers, 7
months, from TH Branson & Son; yearling Limousin steers sold to £775 for
Messrs Corney & Sons Ltd; JA & P Dickinson sold 2 x 11 month Aberdeen
Angus steers for £820, and a 12 month Limousin for £780. JW Garton sold
his 14 month Simmentals to £780 for steers and £645 for heifers. 3 cow type
female entries topped at £1080, for a 47 month Charolais, which had never
had a calf, from West & Munden, with one other, a 32 month Angus heifer, at
£920; a 12 year old Limousin cow, that had recently run with the bull, topped
at £730 from HC & A Reynolds. A much better entry is expected this week,
please see our list for further information. If you have some to sell do it soon,
we will be in June before you know it.
Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep - 103 Entered
Auctioneer Alastair Brown
A good number came forward this week, mainly ewes and lambs which
topped at £78.50 a life for A J Day & Son, with their 22 Suffolk x Mule ewes
with 23 strong lambs at foot. Others entered topped at £76.50 for 12 young
Mule ewes, with single lambs at foot, from Andrew Geary, while some others
shown didn’t make what the vendor thought they should and returned home,
the lambs were a lot younger than the others entered. 4 feeding ewes topped at
£65 from Andrew Geary. It’s a tricky time to be trading ewes and lambs,
especially with the lamb trade. But a gamble may be worth taking for some
young breeding ewes? If you have some let us know.
Pigs - 4 Entered
Auctioneer Alastair Brown
A surprise entry of 4 small 15kg pigs sold to £10 each. Please inform us of
your entries, as we do have buyers wanting small numbers of pigs.
Calves - 15 Entered
Auctioneer Alastair Brown
A better entry of calves this week saw prices top at £290 for a 3 week
Simmental bull calf from Valley Farms Ltd. Oliver Williams saw his 3 x 4
week Hereford bulls top at £205 and £200 and a younger one at £175.
Simmental heifers topped at £195 for a 14 day old and a similar aged Angus
at £175.
More calves are wanted, if you have any to market, please let us know.
Sporadic entries cause regular buyers not to be in the market every week,
unless we can inform them about entries. Please inform us of your entries
early, to ensure that all the buyers will be present at the sale.
ENTRIES FOR SATURDAY 28TH MAY
VENDOR
STORE CATTLE
G Ryman
50 Purebred Charolais Steers
D Hancock
34 Continental Steers & Heifers
S Higgott & Son 6 Purebred Limousin Steers
SAC Holgate
38 Continental Steers
JP Watts
8 Purebred Limousin Steers
58 Homebred Simmental / Limousin /
F Lever
British Friesian & Hereford Steers & Heifers
AGE
12-24 Months
12-14 Months
12-24 Months
14-17 Months
12-18 Months
REPORT FOR THURSDAY 19TH MAY
Prime Butchers Cattle - 20 Entered
Auctioneer Alastair Brown
More are suddenly needed, as numbers get less in all centres. The deadweight
buyers have lifted their prices, looking for cattle, which usually happens at
this time of year, with liveweight prices often increasing quicker than the
deadweight. So if you have some to market, take full advantage of the live
sales.
Prices topped at 220p twice for Nick Sansom with some quality Limousin
heifers, weighing up to 580kg, and a 15 month Limousin 580kg at 190p.
Matching that was Hugh Brightwell with some heavier Limousin heifers,
weighing 658kg, and realising £1234.62.
Steers topped at 190p for a 670kg, 21 month, Limousin from TH Bletsoe &
Son, with others weighing over 700kg at 189p from John Wilkinson, topping
at £1361.50 with a Charolais steer. Heifers averaged 197p or £1147, whilst
heavyweight steers averaged 180p or £1271. More are needed in this section,
4 recorded buyers, buying on 6 different accounts for 20 cattle, is better than
many centres. Contact Alastair Brown 07885 804450.
New Season Lambs - 236 Entered - Sold at 10.00am
Auctioneer Alastair Brown
More forward again this week, but trade was disappointing, although it is a
National trend and not just locally.
Prices topped at 204p per kilo for John Blackman with his 42kg Texel x
lambs, only a few pence behind was John Gowling & Sons topping at 202p
for their 43.5kg Texels, and Cartwright Farms sold their 46kg Charollais to
200p.
Light lambs sold to 190p for 39kg lambs from Hall Farm, lambs 39-45.5kg
sold from 166p to 190p, and the up to 52kg category sold from 163p to 200p.
Top price per head sold to £95 for John Gowling & Sons with their 48kg
Texels, followed by £92 for Cartwright Farms Turvey, with their 10 x 46kg
Charollais.
Light lambs sold to £74 weighing 39kg from Hall Farm, Wigsthorpe, lambs
to 45.5kg sold from £66.50 to £88.50 for DJ Haycock & Son, and the over
45.5kg lambs sold from £78 to £95 for John Gowling & Sons.
More are needed each week, prices should remain stable until numbers
increase. Imports look like being slightly down on the year (-3.4%) and
exports slightly up and, with the weak pound, hopefully the export trade
should hold prices at a level throughout the summer.
Kgs
48.0
46.0
47.0
47.5
45.5
43.5
44.0
42.0
43.5
43.0
NEW SEASON PRIME SHEEP - LEADING PRICES
PRICE PER HEAD
PRICE PER KG
Price
Vendor
Kgs
Price
Vendor
£95.00 John Gowling & Sons
42.0 204.0p L Blackman & Son
£92.00 Cartwright Farms
43.5 202.0p John Gowling & Sons
£90.00 L Blackman & Son
46.0 200.0p Cartwright Farms
£89.50 L Blackman & Son
44.0 199.0p DJ Haycock & Son
£88.50 DJ Haycock & Son
41.0 199.0p DJ Haycock & Son
£88.00 John Gowling & Sons
48.0 198.0p John Gowling & Sons
£87.50 DJ Haycock & Son
41.0 198.0p MJ & JA Pinny
£85.50 L Blackman & Son
39.5 197.0p GL Gent & Son
£85.00 John Gowling & Sons
41.5 196.0p NP & MJ Russell
£83.00 L Blackman & Son
45.5 195.0p DJ Haycock & Son
Auctions Team Direct Dial Telephone Number
01832 736757
NEW SEASON SQQ (STANDARD QUALITY QUOTATION) WEIGHTS
WEIGHTS
TOP PRICE
AVERAGE
Kg
Per Head
Kg
Per Head
Standards 32.1-39kg
190.0p
£74.00
190.0p
£74.00
Mediums 39.1-45.5kg
204.0p
£88.50
191.13p
£80.57
Heavies 45.6-52kg
200.0p
£95.00
188.95p
£95.00
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Over Weights 52kg +
Cull Ewes
£100.00
£72.06p
Prime Hoggets - 539 Entered
Auctioneer Alastair Brown
Still large numbers of hoggets on the open market, and with many abattoirs
coming up to finish their hogget contracts at the end of May, who knows
what the trade will do? It will be in the hands of supply and demand.
Prices seem keen at the moment, and this week’s top price was £93 for David
Curtis, with many others above the £90 mark.
Light lambs sold from £40 to £53 for a pen of 10 Texels from M Towler, up
to 45.5kg lambs sold from £73 to £82.50 for TJ Collins & Sons, up to 52kg
lambs sold from £82 to £92.50 for TJ Collins & Sons, and some real heavy
weights 63.5kg sold to £95.
Top price per kilo sold to 191p for TJ Collins & Sons, light lambs to 149p
shown by Burton Bros, up to 45.5kg lambs sold to 195p for Robert Banks,
with others to 184p, up to 52kg lambs sold to 191p from 142p, and the over
52kg category sold to 170p with lambs shown by David Curtis.
Keep the lambs coming and as soon as possible, processors will be changing
over to New Season lambs very soon. If you have some to market, please
contact us with your entries.
Cull Ewes & Rams - 121 Entered - Sold to £100
Auctioneer Shaun Barron
Another good show of ewes today, although no real top quality, with good fit
ewes wanted, but over fat ewes slightly harder to place. The average slightly
back on the week at just over £72 all in.
Texels took the top honours today with a real powerful ewe from James
Tibbits at £100, with S Thomas taking £90 and RJ & WR Crosse close behind
at £89.50.
S Armstrong, back after last week’s fast trade with another load of Romneys,
to top at £90. AC Downing took £87 for their entry today, with Pat Mould
consigning the top price Suffolks at £86.
David Hughes took £83.50 for his Texels, with Pat Mould taking £81 for
another of his entries. £79 was achieved on three occasions today, twice from
DM Walsh and once from Thornby Farms. G Smith took £78 for his pen of
four, with John Gowling at £77 with his entry. Josh and Dan Burton were
back again this week to take £75 for Suffolks.
43 Mule ewes this week averaged £70, with a top of £78 for S Thomas, with
Pat Mould close behind at £76. William Robinson took £74 for his best pen,
with Kelton Farms at £73.50. Mules today were in demand, and at these
prices are going a long way to buying their ewe lamb replacements in the
Autumn. Take advantage of the current good trade and market them soon.
Only 3 rams today, with John Gent taking £96 for a Suffolk and Brian
Reynolds taking £87 for a couple of Texels.
Buyers still actively require ewes every week, with real competition for each
and every pen. Please book in all entries as soon as you know they are
coming.
THRAPSTON COLLECTIVE
MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT SALE
Friday 10th June 2016
Commencing at 10.00am
NEW VENUE :
PAST HALDEN’S PARKWAY, THRAPSTON
(OFF THE MAIN A605, SIGN POSTED HUNTINGDON ROAD)
For Entry Forms or further information
visit www.bletsoes.co.uk or Contact
Alastair Brown 07885 804450,
Shaun Barron 07969 097704,
Claire Worth 01832 736757.
We look forward to seeing you at
Northamptonshire YFC County Show & Rally
On
Saturday 28th May 2016
At
Scotland Wood Farm, Kelmarsh, Northants, NN6 9LU
The Cereals Event
On
Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th June 2016
At
Chrishall Grange, Nr Duxford, Cambridgeshire
We look forward to welcoming you on to our stand,
where light refreshments will be available throughout the day.