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CIRENCESTER LIVESTOCK
MARKET REPORT
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TUESDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2007
152 REARING & WEANING CALVES
10.30 am – Auctioneer: Jon Pullin
Another good entry of calves met a similar trade to last week with plainer
calves again difficult to sell, Friesians also tougher. Best calves as
always met a premium with the best heifers also wanted.
Friesians (19): A very smart British blue looking Friesian from G M
Lambert topped at £158. A smart run of British Friesians from J Millard
sold between £38 and £78, plenty of plain third quality calves £5-£7.
Native Breeds (22): Two very smart Hereford bulls made £188 and £165
for K D Sheridan. Angus bulls generally of medium and third quality top
£123 for D Wheeler, £102 and £110 for R L & A R Hawker. Smaller
bulls £50-£75. Angus heifers topped at £69-£73 for R L & A R Hawker,
best on offer £65-£70+, smaller sorts £28-£30.
Charolais (6): Only medium bulls on offer today selling between £100
and £130.
Simmental (22): Good entry, some first quality bulls from Tortworth
Estate, August born sold at £256, £240 and £236. Medium bulls traded
at £125 - £150, plainer types £80-£110. Strong heifers again from
Tortworth Estates sold to a top of £174 and £154. Best young heifers
from B Gough & Sons to £90 and £119, smaller plainer heifers £44-£52.
Limousin/Blonde (29): Plenty on offer from this breed today saw best
Limousin bulls from R W Howells top at £235. £170 for a good sort
from R J & BJ Kingston. Medium bulls traded well today £125 - £155,
blonde bull calves reached £150 for J M & P J Evans smaller blonde
bulls £65-£100. Limousin heifers topped at £90 for J W & S Cook, £80
for D Meredith, medium Blonde heifers on offer £45-£50.
British Blue (7): Top bull from Geoff Lambert £232, £166 for R J D
Taylor. Blue heifers topped at £146 for E G & M Price, £116 and £115
from R J Taylor.
Weaned Calves:
Friesian (8): Mainly Holstein types of 2-3 months on offer traded at
£21-£32.
Hereford (11): April/May born bulls from A E Gray made £240 per
head. A super bunch also of 8 heifers April/June sold very well at £208
for A E Gray.
Simmental (8): A good bull from Stroud Green Farm (June) made £270.
Younger heifers (July/Aug) made £90 per head.
Limousin (6): A smart set of calves from A R Cozens saw a Limousin
bull (June) at £230 and 5 heifers (June/July born) at £148.
British Blue (1): A single heifer from A E Gray (August) made £152.
Angus (9): A run of Jersey x Angus from M/s Aldridge topped at £78 for
bulls (1.5 months), heifers of a similar age £43-£45.
9 COWS & CALVES
11.30 am - Auctioneer: Arthur White
A short entry sold to a reasonable demand. F D Bennett’s Simmental x
heifer (04) and her Blonde x steer (Aug 07), £560 with another with
Simmental x heifer calf (Aug 07) £450. A Simmental x Cow (01) and
her Simmental x heifer calf (Aug 07) £550 for E Pert with another also
with Simmental x heifer calf £472. Angus x heifer and her Angus x bull
calf made £418 for B J Goss. A young pure bred Simmental Stock Bull
(April 06) made £525 for A Langsbury, two older Stock bulls Blonde
(99) made £460 and Simmental bull (01) making £400.
706 STORE CATTLE
11.30 am - Auctioneer: Arthur White & Chris Voyce
Best quality cattle a good trade, second class steers and heifers still
difficult, Angus and Hereford steers and heifers harder to sell due to Blue
Tongue Area Restrictions, but several new faces around the ring keenly
bidding on the best sorts. Younger cattle similar to last week in price per
kg, but heifers to winter and finish dearer on week. Best stronger steers
wanted.
Brian Bennett’s good quality heifers wanted with his Limousin heifer (June
06) £480 and Saler (June 06) £455.
Roy Limbrick Limousin x steer (June 06) £505 and Angus steer (May 06)
£462 with his Limousin x heifer (May 06) £460.
Peter Baker sold Charolais x steer (Nov 06) at £400 and Angus steer (Oct 06)
£340. His Angus heifer (Oct 06) made £365.
H Kornstein, Elkstone sold Belgian Blue steer (Dec 05) at £618 and (Jan 06)
£560 and his Belgian blue heifer (Jan 06) £550.
F G Reade sold 30 cattle with Belgian blue heifers (Jan 06) to £520 and
Simmental x heifers (Feb 06) £398 with Limousin heifer (Oct 05) £505.
Messrs Watkins, Rockhampton sold 38 mainly Continental steers and heifers,
Charolais x steers £630 (June 06), Belgian Blue steers (April 06) £572,
Limousin x steer (April 06) £550, Simmental x steer (April 06) £580 and
£558 (May 06). Their Charolais x heifer (June 06) made £620 and Limousin
x heifer (April 06) £455.
Don Richardson sold some wonderful Bazadais steers to £700 (Nov 05) with
his heifers £630 (Jan 06) and Simmental x heifer (Feb 06) £610.
Tommy Green’s 10 strong cattle sold £782 for blonde steers (June 05) and
£605 for Belgian Blue (Sept 05).
David Honour sold Hereford x steers (Oct 05) to 3452 with their Limousin x
steers £562 (Aug 05) and Friesian steers (Oct 05) £462.
Brian Hillier’s Angus heifer (Sept 05) made £415.
Simon Webbs blonde steers (April 06) made £545.
James Bell sold Hereford x steer (April 06) £402 and Limousin x steer (Feb
06) £400. Simmental x steer (April 06) £390 and Simmental x steer (June 06)
£422.
John Bearman’s Hereford x steer (Oct 050 made £475 and Angus steer (Oct
05) £442.
P Evans Angus steers (Nov 05) made £520 and Blonde x steer (Feb 07) £582
with their Blonde heifers (Oct 05) £522.
George Smith sold Belgian Blue steers (Oct 05) £529 and Simmental x steer
(Sept 05) £588 with his Simmental x heifers (Sept 05) £510.
Mrs R Mills Segmental x heifers (July 06) made £322. J Hicks Simmental x
steers £530 (Aug 05) and Simmental x steer (Sept 05) £545.
John Spires Charolais x steer (Oct 06) £442 and Sept 06 £470, Grafton Farm
Charolais x steer (Aug 06) £425.
Messrs Emmerson Charolais x steer (Mar 06) £480 and Messrs A E Smith
Charolais x heifer (Aug 05) £560.
Messrs Hoddinott sold Friesian steer (Nov 05) at £340 and Limousin x heifers
(Oct 05) at £458.
R & B Kingston sold Friesian steers (June 06) at £312. Andrew Firth sold
Angus x steer (April 06) at £492 and Limousin x steer (May 06) at £480.
A total clearance saw 369 steers average £413 and 331 heifers £351, 6 bulls
average £240.
This was a record entry at Cirencester New Market with 152 calves the total
number of cattle and calves to change hands today was 867 head.
Organic three organic Friesian heifers from Mr J W Freeth made £360 (Mar
06).
Entries for coming week to Chris Voyce 01291 680068, Jon Pullin 01454
269486, Ben Baggott 07894 214150 or Arthur White 01453 832080.
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THURSDAY, 8th NOVEMBER 2007
298 PRIME LAMBS
10.00 am – Auctioneer: Chris Voyce
Overall Average – 80.0p/kg
A similar entry met an improved trade showing a few signs of improving.
Still the export buyers unable to buy and nationally supply is still out
stripping demand. The best medium weight lambs were the best trade
selling between 77 – 82p/kg topping at 83.5p/kg for 39.5kg from Mr H
King. Generally the light & handyweights were harder to sell with the
heavy weights topping at £44.80 for 47kg from M/s R Smith & Son.
Kgs
Vendor
£
p/kg
35.5
J M Bradley
26.00
73.2
38.5
A Goscombe
32.00
83.1
39.5
H King
33.00
83.5
40
R Richins
33.20
83.0
41.5
R Richins
33.80
81.4
42.5
H King
35.00
82.4
43.5
B J Ford & Son
33.20
76.3
47
R Smith & Son
44.80
95.3
179 CULL EWES
10.30 am – Auctioneer: Chris Voyce
Overall Average - £25.16
A pleasing entry sold to a firmer trade with the best Suffolk &
Continental ewes £30 - £38, Mules £25 - £30. Half meated ewes traded
between £22 - £26 with plainer sorts £15 - £20. Slaughter Rams sold to
£30.
368 STORE SHEEP
10.30 am – Auctioneer: Chris Voyce
The “Clear Up” Sale saw Suffolk x Theaves to £46 from Mr L Hall. The
stronger store lambs traded between £27 - £30, with the medium longer
keep lambs £22 - £26. A few small sorts traded generally between £18 £20. Suffolk Breeding rams sold to £175 from Miss P Robinson.
10.30 am – Auctioneer: Ben Baggott
A good entry of pigs forward for our first sale back after the events of the
summer. Still very little, if any export market which made trade
somewhat easier. Best fat sows traded generally between £40-£46
topping at £48 for regular Vendor Oakdean Partnership with boar pigs to
£42 from D Gibbs, Dauntsey. Lesser quality sows and boars between
£10 to £20. Some very nice white porkers from Mr Gibbs sold to £50,
with others from the same home at £42. A large number of black and
saddle back cross pigs were harder to sell. A good entry of store pigs
sold to a mixed trade topping at £18 for A J Park and £17 for E C
Saunders. A total of 14 vendors supported the market showing the need
for a live pig auction.
Supplementary Pig Sale – Thursday, 22nd November
Christmas Show & Sale – 6th December (incl new Fat Sow Class)
Next Monthly Sale on Thursday, 13th December
Please enter your pigs with Ben Baggott – 07894 214150
50 BEEF CATTLE
11.00 am – Auctioneer: Chris Voyce
Average: Steers 98.6 pkg, Heifers 100.9 pkg
A good show of cattle sold to another firm trade with the best cattle in
short supply selling over 120p/kg (4 times) topping at 129.5p/kg for a
Aberdeen Angus Steer from M/s B J Ford & Sons.
The medium commercial cattle traded generally between 100 – 110p/kg
with third quality or cattle lacking finish trading between 82 – 90p/kg.
MORE CATTLE NEEDED EACH WEEK
FOR ON FARM SELECTION PLEASE CONTACT BEN 07894 214150
Limousin
Charolais
116.0
124.5
W J Simmons
108.5
129.5
L & M Smith
B J Ford
115.5
119.0
113.0
B J Ford
F Nutland & Son
J Ponzo
107.5
R Gay
25 OVERAGE CATTLE
11.30 am - Auctioneer: Jon Pullin
A shorter entry of generally first class cattle on offer that were rewarded with
a good trade. Best and medium meated cows were wanted today and only a
few plain cows on offer. Top beef cow a Simmental from S & J Lambert
815kg at 78.5p, top Friesians from J I Jones & Sons, Down Hatherley 750 kg
@ 70p and 700 kg at the same price for C D & S Smith, Norton. Overage
steers topped at 95p for 655 kg Simmental from Edwin Draper.
Breed
Cows
Friesian
Continental
Hereford
Steers
Continental
Clean Heifers
Hereford
Angus
1st
2nd
3rd
Min
68
78.5
-
Max
79
78.5
-
Min
50
54.5
-
Max
60
54.5
-
Min
20
-
Max
35
-
80
95
55
55
-
-
71
89
71
89
60
58
60
58
-
-
VENDORS – IMPORTANT NOTICE
Entry Forms –This is a legal requirement to transport your cattle with
passports to market. Please ensure entry forms are completed, these can be
obtained either from the Market Office, Website or can be faxed.
TB Test Dates - Please could all Vendors please ensure they complete the
TB test date on their entry form, or alternatively place in pencil the TB test
date on the front of the passport. .
Named Sires – Please ensure if cattle are by a Registered Pedigree Hereford
or Angus Bull that this is noted either on the entry form or on the spine of the
passport. The full name is required, “named sire” is not sufficient and will be
classed as no registered sire.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
THURSDAY SALES
137 PIGS
Steers / Bulls
120.0 W J Simmons
123.5 L & M Smith
Simmental
Blonde
Belgian Blue
South Devon
Angus
Heifers
F Nutland & Son
Vendors can only consign livestock to market if they are from a low risk area.
At present Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire,
Herefordshire, Warwickshire & Monmouthshire are classed as Low risk
areas. Please not that we are holding “Red” Slaughter Markets on the 1 st &
3rd Thursdays of each Month & “Green” Store/Fat Markets on the 2 nd, 4th &
5th Thursdays of each month. (Exception to this will be December Sales
which will all be Green).
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CHRISTMAS DINNER DANCE 2007
Friday, 7th December
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3 Course Meal, Live Entertainment
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