Ashford Market Report – Tuesday 26th August 2025

Sheep Sales Reports

New Season Lambs – 1,161Sold

Auctioneer: John Rossiter 07557 392903

Top price per kilo – 347p – K & P M Sinden & Sons, Kent. & T R Holt, East Sussex.
Top price per head – £200.00 – P N & C Burden, Kent.

A smaller entry of lambs which has been the case around the country over the past week, helping the trade to stabilise after the rapid drop we saw in the previous fortnight. The lambs on offer today were of high quality which in turn helped the averages to lift to just under 320p kg. Readers will be pleased to hear that Paul Burden, actually, managed to witness his ambition come into reality with a superb Charollais lamb topping the charts at £200. Heavy and fleshed lambs were the order of the day with several of these from 320p-340p kg from vendors such as K & P M Sinden, T R Holt, C & J Georgetti & Sons and G H Dean & Co. Reports suggest that wholesale trade is slowing and therefore buyers are finding it harder to sell the carcase stage of the supply chain. Even though we would all like the highest prices we can achieve, a level trade of 300-350p kg every week is a very favourable market level for the UK finished lamb price.

34 – £110.00 (324p kg) – C B Hope
35 – £119.00 (340p kg) – P A Reeve
36 – £117.00 (325p kg) – Lucketts Farm
37 – £119.00 (322p kg) – Brockhill Park College
38 – £126.00 (332p kg) – G H Dean & Co
39 – £131.50 (337p kg) – G H Dean & Co
40 – £130.00 (325p kg) – H & J Noakes
41 – £136.50 (333p kg) – G H Dean & Co
42 – £142.50 (339p kg) – G H Dean & Co
43 – £146.00 (340p kg) – K & P M Sinden & Sons
44 – £147.00 (334p kg) – H Rivers
45 – £155.00 (344p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
46 – £152.00 (330p kg) – M & D Prebble
47 – £163.00 (347p kg) – K & P M Sinden & Sons
48 – £162.00 (338p kg) – P N & C Burden
49 – £170.00 (347p kg) – T R Holt
50 – £166.00 (332p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
51 – £166.00 (325p kg) – P N & C Burden
52 – £174.00 (335p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
53 – £175.00 (330p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
54 – £176.00 (326p kg) – T R Holt
55 – £174.00 (316p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
57 – £181.00 (318p kg) – M L Wilson & Son Ltd
58 – £175.00 (302p kg) – Robert Woods
60 – £200.00 (333p kg) – P N & C Burden
62 – £185.00 (298p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
66 – £188.00 (285p kg) – P N & C Burden

Averages (p/kg) 

Standard 32.1 to 39 kgs – 169 – Top 340, Ave. 312.6
Medium 39.1 to 45.5 kgs – 498 – Top 344, Ave. 317.6
Heavy 45.6 to 52 kgs – 337 – Top 347, Ave. 325.0
Others 52.1 + – 149 – Top 335, Ave. 317.1

Cull Sheep – 567 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07780133678

Top price ewe: £202.00 – J Metianu & S Aspital, Kent. – Ave. £100.86

Good numbers forward again, particularly following a bank holiday Monday.
Mostly lean sorts in the pens reflecting the time of year, and the dry conditions everywhere. The best ewes very short this week, generally £150 – £170 and to a top price of £202 from J Metianu & S Aspital for strong Rouge ewes. Medium sorts £100 – £130 with leaner grazing types £60 – £90. Very few sold below these figures.
Please let me know if you have any large consignments of ewes to sell in the coming weeks with buyers present for all grades every week.

Top prices included:

Rouge to £202 – J Metianu & S Aspital, Crossbred to £194 – J Brindley, Suffolk cross to £176 – A J Down, Mules to £174 – L E Humphreys & Son, Texel cross to £168 – G H Dean & Co, Romneys to £140 – J R Lilley.

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Cattle Sales Reports

Finished Cattle –  38 Sold
Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357.

A good quality entry after the Bank Holiday met a firmer trade with supply still the critical factor, up and down the country, despite, again, many of the big firms taking money out of their deadweight prices knowing fully that they will have to step it up again as soon as kills increase as we get into the autumn period, and then again in the period preparing for Christmas.
Plenty of well fleshed yarded cattle, with a few leaner grass types as grazing disappears. All well sold and strongly competitive.
Best cattle in short supply, and generally 370-390p, topping with Limousin heifers from W Alexander (Shoreham) Ltd at 394p, £2282. Steers to 389p, £2428 for a Black & White Simmental from W S Furnival Ltd. Lean strong Wagyu x steers to 370p, £2254 Trenchmore Ltd.
Limousin x Friesian steers from A J Down to 376p, 375p (2) £2266 whilst his Hereford x Friesians sold to 362p, £2377. Hereford x Friesian steers to 370p, £2014 from P W&P Sim & Son.
A good mixture amongst the natives with a real range of weights, but finish throughout. Strong Angus steers from A C Hulme & Sons to 379p, 375p £2773, £2760 whilst at the other end of the size scale well finished Red Poll steers from Trenchmore Ltd sold to 368p, £1958. Angus x heifers from W S Furnival to 375p, £2076.

Top Steers

W S Furnival Ltd – Simmental cross – 389p (£2428)
W S Furnival Ltd – Limousin cross – 382p (£2556)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 382p (£2499)
A C Hulme & Sons – Aberdeen Angus cross – 379p (£2441)
A J Down – Limousin cross   – 376p (£2234)

Top Heifers

W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 394p (£2282)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 390p (£2298)
R F & E A Simmons – Limousin cross – 387p (£1971)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 380p (£2087)
W S Furnival Ltd – Aberdeen Angus cross – 375p (1910)

Average prices

Steers 200 to 550 kg – 6 – Top 374p – Ave. 361p
Steers 551 to 650 kg – 13 – Top 389p – Ave. 369p
Steers 651 kg + – 8 – Top 382p – Ave. 363p
Heifers 501 to 590 kg – 8 – Top 394p – Ave. 371p
Heifers 591 kg + – 3 – Top 370p – Ave. 350p

OTM Cattle and Cull Cows – 15 Sold

Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357.

A very small show following the Bank Holiday, with all the cows from the dairy sector, comprising 5 Channel Island cows and 5 Black & Whites. Trade at similar rates to of late with little flesh on offer. Stronger Holstein Friesian steakers up to 236p, £1743 from J W Boyd & Sons with Friesian types from the Plurenden Partnership to 235p, £1513. Jerseys to 160p, £726.
Stock Bulls (1) A lean Sussex bull at 180p, £1481.
Overage (4) Wanted. Limousin x heifers 3yo+ from R F & E A Simmons to 339p (2) £2133; OTM British Blue x Friesian steer 330p, £2142.

Dairy Cows – 10 Sold – Top 236, Average 159.4

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 – 2 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07780133678

Just a pair from Brockhill Park College topping at 140p per kg and £126 per head for 90kg finished boars.
Please inform me of pigs you have in a fortnight with more finished and stores/weaners wanted each week.

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