Ashford Market Report – Tuesday 25th June 2024

Sheep Sales Reports

New Season Lambs – 1,429

Auctioneer: John Rossiter 07557 392903

Top price per kilo – 405p – J Watt
Top price per head – £186 – G H Dean & Co

A few more out nationally, and in Ashford, with just under 1,500 penned for the first time this season. A two tier trade has evolved within the lamb section now with a big difference between the grass finished lighter weights and the concentrate fed heavier weights with regularly a £30 head gap between. The grass lambs are generally trading from £110-£130 with the fed lambs more like £140-£160 and, at times, above this for heavy weights to a top price of £186 from G H Dean & Co. An overall good quality entry of lambs with some very smart continentals topping the day from Jamie Watt at 405p kg but several other pens selling towards £4 kg from Dylan Isaac, P & E Andreozzi and C A Worley Farming Ltd to name a few.

31 – £120.00 (387/kg) – Eastlands Farm
32 – £111.00 (347/kg) – Lovejoy Farm Partnership
33 – £111.00 (336/kg) – Lovejoy Farm Partnership
34 – £124.00 (365/kg) – D Isaac & Holly Chandler
35 – £120.00 (343/kg) – R Woods
36 – £135.00 (375/kg) – Eastlands Farm
37 – £140.00 (378/kg) – C A Worley Farming Ltd
38 – £147.00 (387/kg) – C A Worley Farming Ltd
39 – £149.00 (382/kg) – D Isaac & Holly Chandler
40 – £158.00 (395/kg) – D Isaac & Holly Chandler
41 – £160.00 (390/kg) – J Watt
42 – £170.00 (405/kg) – J Watt
43 – £166.00 (386/kg) – K & P M Sinden & Sons
44 – £169.00 (384/kg) – P & E Andreozzi
45 – £176.00 (391/kg) – K & P M Sinden & Sons
46 – £173.00 (376/kg) – M J Ashworth
47 – £173.00 (368/kg) – M J Ashworth
48 – £179.00 (373/kg) – M J Ashworth
49 – £186.00 (380/kg) – G H Dean & Co
51 – £184.00 (361/kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons

Averages (p/kg)

Light 25.6 to 32 kgs – 4 – Top 238, Average 222.2
Standard 32.1 to 39 kgs – 78 – Top 387, Average 349.4
Medium 39.1 to 45.5 kgs – 337 – Top 387, Average 331.4
Heavy 45.6 to 52 kgs – 838 – Top 405, Average 353.4
Over 52.1 kgs – 172 – Top 391, Average 360.3

Finished Hoggets – 136 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07712 246474

Just a small number of hoggets remaining to be penned each week with the majority now 2 tooths at this stage. The best £100 – £130 on most occasions with a top call on the day £170 from N C & C G Hedges.

Cull Sheep – 238 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07712 246474

Ewe: Top £160.00 – P & E Andreozzi – Ave £111.32

An increased number on the day with a good number of well fleshed ewes in the pens. The best ewes still regularly £120 – £145 and to a top price of £160 from P & E Andreozzi for strong Texel cross ewes. Medium sorts generally £85 – £110  with leaner grazing types £50 – £75 throughout with only very few sold below these figures. Trade remains at a good level for all grades so do not hesitate to get your ewes booked in with us.

Top prices included

Texel cross to £160, £150 – P & E Andreozzi, Charollais to £160 – D J Morphett, Suffolk cross to £146 – R M Vidler, Crossbred to £141 – M J Ashworth, Mules to £135 – M R Woodroofe

Ewes & Lambs – 36 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07712 246474

Only a few pens of couples this week with the best to £83 per life for Romney ewes with Suffolk lambs at foot. Please do inform me of any breeding sheep you are intending on selling in the coming weeks.

Cattle Sales Reports

Finished Cattle –  38 Sold

Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357

With numbers short as producers concentrate on hay & silage making, there was another sharp trade for all grades, with buyers recognising the tightness of supply of both well fleshed and finished stock and the leaner lightweights that need the extra coat of paint.
Best cattle up over 300p kg with M B Farms selling both Limousin steers and heifers to 313p, £2188 & £1707 but R F & E A Simmons were not far behind with heifers to 309p kg and steers to 300p.
Good beef bred cattle 275 – 290p kg with quite a bit more weight on offer generally.
Dairy bred Limousin from A J Down found a superb trade selling to 275p kg twice and grossing up to £1982, his Hereford x Friesian steers sold to 273p, £1608.
Fewer natives this week. Sussex to 278p kg, £1693 W S Furnival Ltd.

Top Steers

M B Farms – Limousin – 313p (£2188)
R F & E A Simmons – Limousin – 300p (£1662)
M B Farms – Limousin – 290p (£1983)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 286p (£1957)
W S Furnival Ltd – Sussex – 278p (£1693)

Top Heifers

M B Farms – Limousin – 313p (£1688)
R F & E A Simmons – Limousin cross – 309p (£1543)
M B Farms – British Blue cross – 300p (£1707)
G L Boulden & Sons – Limousin cross – 292p (£1545)
R F & E A Simmons – Limousin cross – 290p (£1607)

Average Prices

Steers 200 to 550Kg – 1 Sold – Top 268p – Av 268p
Steers 551 to 650kgg – 15 Sold – Top 300p – Av 268p
Steers 651kg + – 10 Sold – Top 313p – Av 268p
Heifers 300 to 500 kg – 1 Sold – Top 309p – Av 309p
Heifers 501 to 590 kg – 9 Sold – Top 313p – Av 278p
Heifers 591 kg + – 2 Sold – top 266p – Av 257p

OTM Cattle and Cull Cows – 17 Sold

Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357

Desperately short in a “hay making” week and but certainly no letup in the trade with a largely unglamorous entry selling well. Only the one Continental beef cow selling to 183p, £1223 from R F & E A Simmons whilst decent Sussex cows from Messrs. Kinnear & Co sold to 185p, £1208.
There is no danger of prices falling dramatically but there is a watershed in the trade early in July as the export market quietens with processors on the continent shutting down for the holiday period. If they are fit sell them now.
Overage (7) Sussex x Friesian OTM heifer 221p, £1235 with a run of Holstein steers173-218p kg topping at £1212.
Stock bulls (1) Good Shorthorn bull well sold at 155p kg, £1761.

Beef Cows – 7 Sold – Top 185, Average 159.4
Dairy Cows – 2 Sold – Top 134, Average 121.0

Store Cattle – 55 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07712 246474

An absolute flying trade which was kicked off with a herd dispersal on behalf of Messrs Gann & Brown, Whitstable consisting of mainly Angus cross cows with Angus calves at foot. The strongest of the cows and calves reached £1550 with majority of the others £1300 – £1450.
Store cattle remain to come forward on a weekly basis in small numbers however demand is high. A run of 10 month old Angus x Friesian from S Kilman saw the steers to £800 and the heifers to £700. Simmental bulls 14 months from M W Rix to £1380.
Please do inform us of any store or breeding cattle that you intend on selling in the coming weeks.   

Pigs – 45 Sold

Auctioneer: Tom Hamplett 07966 104532

Finished (31) – A fantastic trade for finished pigs today with some excellent quality on offer. Best pigs and heavier types particularly well received and sold to vendors benefit. Topping the trade today was a tremendous run of Pietrain from Snowfields Academy which topped at 240p pk or £186. A lovely run from P & R Marshall topped at 220p pk or £176, with weight certainly seeing the better rewards overall.
Cull (2) – A brisk trade for those on offer with tops of 68p pk for a 165 kg sow from Princess Christian Farm.
Stores (12) – A decent pen of 12 white boar pigs from P & R Marshall sold for £30 per head.

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