Ashford Market Report – Tuesday 15th July 2025

Sheep Sales Reports

New Season Lambs – 1,371 Sold

Auctioneer: John Rossiter 07557 392903

Top price per kilo – 368p – G H Dean & Co, Kent.
Top price per head – £190.00 – C & J Georgetti & Sons, Kent.

A few less penned which certainly helped to boost the trade of the better finished sorts. Leaner grass-fed types were selling to a similar level this week in the £105-£120 price bracket which will be just ahead of the store price anticipations, in my opinion. Better lambs found a bigger premium today, as there was just less about, and as numbers around the country also tighten up. The two runs of the day that really stood out were from C & J Georgetti & Sons and G H Dean & Co with the former selling almost 250 lambs to average £172 head. What a run of lambs they were, and a real credit to the producers. G H Dean & Co sold a more Beltex based entry of handy weights which topped at 368p kg, closely followed by C A Worley Farming Ltd at 366p kg for her superbly shaped Beltex lambs.
Trade may just sharpen up a little in the coming weeks as numbers will tighten up.

31 – £95.00 (306p kg) – A & H Edmonds
32 – £105.00 (328p kg) – T Lyle & Partners
33 – £113.00 (342p kg) – E J Clough
34 – £120.00 (353p kg) – C Field
35 – £124.00 (354p kg) – N A Vincent
36 – £124.00 (344p kg) – A Clark
37 – £125.00 (338p kg) – K T D Axell
38 – £126.00 (332p kg) – W Pickering
39 – £139.00 (356p kg) – G H Dean & Co
40 – £147.00 (368p kg) – G H Dean & Co
41 – £150.00 (366p kg) – C A Worley Farming Ltd
42 – £147.00 (350p kg) – G H Dean & Co
43 – £145.00 (337p kg) – S T Phillips
44 – £160.00 (364p kg) – C A Worley Farming Ltd
45 – £164.00 (364p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
46 – £163.00 (354p kg) – L E Humphreys & Sons
47 – £169.50 (361p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
48 – £173.00 (360p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
49 – £176.50 (360p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
51 – £186.00 (365p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
52 – £186.00 (358p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
53 – £178.00 (336p kg) – L E Humphreys & Sons
54 – £190.00 (352p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
56 – £165.00 (295p kg) – G B Richards & Son                                   

Averages (p/kg) 

Standard 32.1 to 39 kgs – 318 – Top 354, Ave. 316.3
Medium 39.1 to 45.5 kgs – 637 – Top 368, Ave. 331.1
Heavy 45.6 to 52 kgs – 354 – Top 365, Ave. 349.2
Others 52.0 + – 48– Top 358, Ave. 338.4

Cull Sheep – 599 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07780133678

Top price ewe: £200.00 – N A Balcomb & Son, Kent. – Ave. £115.37

Another flying trade with large numbers of lean ewes in the pens and a continuing shortage of well fleshed ewes on the day. The best ewes regularly £140 – £170 to a top price of £200 from N A Balcomb & Son, followed by Texel crosses from A Pickford at £188. Medium sorts looking well sold with majority £110 – £130 and leaner grazing types £70 – £100 throughout. Only a very small few sold below the figures above.
Please inform me of any large consignments of ewes that you intend on selling with buyers present every week for all grades.

Top prices included:

Texels to £200 – N A Balcomb & Son, Texel cross to £188 – A Pickford, Suffolks to £182 – N A Balcomb & Son, Suffolk cross to £179 – S W Mount & Sons, Charollais to £175 – N A Balcomb & Son, Romneys to £145 – Groombridge Farms Ltd, Mules to £140 – Mrs J Hope.

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Cattle Sales Reports

Finished Cattle –  46 Sold

Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357.

A few less cattle this week, and a few more leaner grass fed types coming forward as grazing shrinks.
Fleshed yarded cattle holding their rates very positively with feeding men still keen to take those requiring a little more finish.
Best beef bred types still able to reach 400p with a smart Limousin steer from Colin Leggat at 400p, £2916. Limousin heifers to 390p, £2123 from William Alexander with the good cattle from our strong supporters generally 370-400p.
Well fleshed Limousin x Friesian cattle from Alan Down to 375p, 368p, 366p, £2509, £2481, £2363 with the best of his Hereford x Friesians to 360p £2049.
Natives saw Angus steers from WS Furnival to 373p £2235, heifers to 369p, £1916. Their Sussex heifers to 365p, £1968.

Top Steers

Leggat Farming Ltd – Limousin cross – 400p (£2916)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 392p (£2427)
W & P New T/A Moorhouse Farm – Limousin cross – 386p (£2602)
Leggat Farming Ltd – Limousin cross – 385p (£2672)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 380p (£2770)

Top Heifers

W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 390p (£2123)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 389p (£1943)
R F & E A Simmons – Limousin cross – 385p (£1711)
R F & E A Simmons – White Park cross – 381p (£1922)
W S Furnival Ltd – Sussex cross – 365p (£1968)

Average prices

Steers 200 to 550 kg – 2 – Top 369p – Ave. 347p
Steers 551 to 650 kg – 17 – Top 392p – Ave. 357p
Steers 651 kg + – 9 – Top 400p – Ave. 372p
Heifers 300 to 500 kg – 5 – Top 389p – Ave. 364p
Heifers 501 to 590 kg – 11 – Top 390p – Ave. 358p
Heifers 591 kg + – 2 – Top 330p – Ave. 323p

OTM Cattle and Cull Cows – 23 Sold

Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357.

A seasonal offering of cull cattle met continued strong demand with numbers remaining desperately short nationally, and demand from processors as firm as ever. Quality certainly more mixed as the dry weather takes hold but feeding men remain keen to buy.
No best sorts forward but some tidy commercial meat cows 240-275p. Feeding demand positive.
Sussex 273p, 267p, £1852, £1717 W J Hurley; Limousin 258p, £1519 J C Loveridge; Angus 256p, 244p, £1668, £1571 J C Loveridge; Charolais 253p £1477 A D Bentley.
All weights and qualities wanted from dairy sector.
Holstein Friesian 248p, £1695 Plurenden Ptnrs; Jersey 205p, 191p, 178p, £914, £895, £879 Hickson Bros
Stock Bull (1) Sussex 238p, £1528
Overage (5) All wanted.
OTM Hereford x Friesian steer 309p, £2098; 3+ Blue x Friesian heifer 273p, £1867; 5+ Sussex x steers 276p, 268p, 255p, £1873, £1860.

Beef Cows – 13 Sold – Top 273, Average 228.9
Dairy Cows – 4 Sold – Top 205, Average 189.5

Cattle Passports
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If details are incorrect return and advise BCMS or advise the auctioneers on market day without writing on the passport.

Store & Finished Pigs – 18 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07780133678

A small show in the pens today with very few finished, which topped at £170 from Richard Padfield, others £154 per head. Stores from Frogholt Farm Ltd to £45 per head and a cull sow from Kingswood to 30p pk and £81.
The best results are seen with well finished and better bred types 85 – 100kg live.
Please inform me of any pigs you intend on selling in the next sale on Tuesday 29^th July.  

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