Ashford Market Report – Tuesday 7th October 2025

Sheep Sales Reports

New Season Lambs – 1,160 Sold

Auctioneer: John Rossiter 07557 392903

Top price per kilo – 390p – Miss M. Friend, Kent.
Top price per head – £200.00 – H G Tompsett & Sons, Kent.

A few less than last week and trade on a similar level, and consistent with recent weeks. The best prices are always achieved by the heaviest concentrate fed sheep and today was no exception with a top of £200 taken by H G Tompsett & Sons for a very heavy consignment. Others were often over £180 head from D J Morphett and Miss Amy Hedges, alongside Barleybrook Farm, S P Howland, and S King. Trade is a little up and down at the moment with, certainly, more lower priced lambs coming from the North that dilutes the trade for lighter sheep. Most of these are still £3 kg and upwards, and the overall average was 312p kg, some 10p above the national average for the day before.

33 – £112.50 (341p kg) – Langdon Farms
35 – £115.50 (330p kg) – G Husk
36 – £124.00 (344p kg) – R J Adams
37 – £122.50 (331p kg) – Langdon Farms
38 – £126.00 (332p kg) – G Husk
39 – £131.00 (336p kg) – Miss M. Friend
40 – £131.00 (328p kg) – Mrs C Wimble
41 – £149.00 (363p kg) – N C & C G Hedges
42 – £164.00 (390p kg) – Miss M. Friend
43 – £140.00 (326p kg) – K & P M Sinden & Sons
44 – £168.00 (282p kg) – N C & C G Hedges
45 – £160.00 (356p kg) – S King
46 – £154.50 (336p kg) – S King
47 – £155.00 (330p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
48 – £150.00 (313p kg) – Miss M. Friend
49 – £170.00 (347p kg) – S King
50 – £180.00 (360p kg) – N C & C G Hedges
51 – £178.00 (349p kg) – Miss M. Friend
52 – £175.00 (337p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
53 – £164.50 (310p kg) – Barleybrook Farm
54 – £171.00 (317p kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
56 – £186.00 (332p kg) – D J Morphett
57 – £180.00 (316p kg) – S King
58 – £176.00 (303p kg) – H J Hecks & Son
60 – £200.00 (333.p kg) – H G Tompsett & Sons
Averages (p/kg)

Standard 32.1 to 39 kgs – 116 – Top 344, Ave. 319.8
Medium 39.1 to 45.5 kgs – 593 – Top 390, Ave. 311.7
Heavy 45.6 to 52 kgs – 312   – Top 360, Ave.314.0
Others 52.1 + – 111 – Top 337, Ave. 307.7

Cull Sheep – 654 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07780133678

Top price: £210.00 – D J Morphett, Kent. – Ave. £109.25

Plenty of numbers forward with a strong trade for every grade. Leaner grazing types plentiful again but no shortage of customers and confidence.
The best fleshed ewes remain short with the majority £150 – £180 and to a top price of £195 from J Boomaars for Charollais crosses. Medium sorts £110 – £140 on most occasions with leaner grazing types £70 – £100 with only very few sold below this bracket.
We have customers present for all grades every week so please do not hesitate to get you ewes booked in while the going is good.

Top prices included:

Charollais cross to £195, £185 – J Boomaars, Romneys to £176 – G Homewood, Texel cross to £175 – S W Batch, Suffolk cross to £174 – S W Mount & Sons & Barleybrook Farm, Mules to £140 – S W Batch.

Cattle Sales Reports

Finished Cattle –  54 Sold
Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357.

Good numbers again but a very different complexion to the entry with very few best fleshed beef cattle; again, numbers of grass fed cattle of all breeds; and a considerable number of minority breeds from grass. All that said, there was no problem with the trade which stays at very similar levels to the last month.
Very best cattle can push through 400p with an outstanding Blonde heifer from Dan Mackelden Ltd selling to 405p, £2326; a well-shaped young Charolais bull from Highfields Park at 400p, £2637; and Limousin steers from W S Furnival and P W & P Sim & Son to 378p, £2624. Other good beef bred cattle generally 370-390p.
Not the flesh, in general, on the dairy bred cattle but quality indoor Limousin x Friesian steers from A J Down to 375p, £2324, Herefords to 351p, £2121.
Well fleshed Angus heifers from W S Furnival to 355p, £2056. Plenty of customers to bid for the leaner grass types in need of that extra finish whatever their age.
Close to 20 minority bred cattle in the fat section and all finding a strong trade throughout. Longhorn heifer from Gate Street Farm, Guildford to 338p, £1553 whilst grass fed Dexter heifers 24 mths sold to 272p, 270p, 264p, 260p (4) £830 with 13 averaging £830 from Stone Farms. Other Dexters to 254p (2) £976 from New Wood Farm.
Young bulls to 400p and 320p from Highfield Park £2652 & £2637; Limousin x Friesian to 340p, £2037 A J Down; and Sussex to 300p A Barr & Son.

Top Steers

W S Furnival Ltd – Limousin cross – 378p (£2624)
P W & P Sim & Son – Limousin cross – 378p (£2095)
A J Down – Limousin cross   – 375p (£2284)
W S Furnival Ltd – Simmental cross – 371p (£2519)
G L Boulden & Sons – Blonde D’Aquitaine – 369p (£2303)

Top Heifers

Dan Mackelden Ltd – Blonde D’Aquitaine – 405p (£2326)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 393p (£2061)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 385p (£2288)
G L Boulden & Sons – Limousin cross – 379p (£2271)
W S Furnival Ltd – Aberdeen Angus cross – 355p (£2056)

Average prices

Steers 200 to 550 kg – 4 – Top 338p – Ave. 332p
Steers 551 to 650 kg – 15 – Top 378p – Ave. 360p
Steers 651 kg + – 2 – Top 378p – Ave. 374p
Heifers 300 to 500 kg – 8 – Top 351p – Ave. 295p
Heifers 501 to 590 kg – 9 – Top 405p – Ave. 343p
Heifers 591 kg + – 13 – Top 385p – Ave. 300p

OTM Cattle and Cull Cows – 106 Sold

As good a show of cull cows as we have seen for many a year, and with the ring surrounded by customers looking to secure numbers of both slaughter and feeding cows we experienced a superb trade with the overall average for the beef cows, of all grades, coming to an impressive £1921 head.
Best cows were all over 300p with 20 over 320p selling to 388p (£2645) for Charolais cows from Bull Bridge Farm Partners, with other Charolais to £2896 (358p) from Highfields Park Farm.
Charolais 388p, 362p, 360p, 358p (2), 350p, £2645, £2500, £2404, £2358, £2282 Bull Bridge Farm  358p, £2896 Highfield Park, 263p, £2205 J & H Robinson, Lewes; Angus 352p, 338p, 336p, 335p (2) £2481, £2392, £2181, £2147, £2086 South Pickenham Estate, Swaffham, 334p, £2184 J & H Robinson; Limousin 350p, 344p, 336p, £2365, £2335, £2202 A & C Price, 330p, 310p, £2092, £2058 J & H Robinson; British Blue 316p, £1436 A & C Price, 270p, £1913 E W & R E Hanks; Simmental 310p, £2012 J & H Robinson; Sussex 300p, 272p, £2156, £1833 D Rusbridge, 300p, 272p, £1960, £1860 G A Innes, 291p, 276p, £2052, £1859 J & H Robinson, 265p, £1957 Brookside Nursery, 260p, 254p, £1752, £1698 River Green Farm; Lincoln Red 296p, £1950 N Morgan; Hereford 270p, 268p, 256p, £2560, £1913, £1840 E W & R E Hanks; Trad Hereford 250p, 246p, £1467, £1400 Grace Natural Foods; British White 253p, £1869.
Decent numbers of dairy culls, and there would be more if it were not for the box tickers at LaLa dairies insisting that cows go straight to their friends at the supermarket abattoirs preventing market forces from working and depriving many farms from benefitting from a wider audience. Time for members to write the rules!
Black and Whites with flesh regularly over 240p selling up to £2356 from Goddard & Son, and better shaped dry bagged cows pushed on to feed.
Holstein Friesian 266p, £1925 W F Farms, 258p, £2356 Goddard & Son, 250p, 248p, 244p, £2116, £1896, £1737 J Warnock & Sons, 246p, 244p, £1593, £1473 J W Boyd & Sons; Jersey 218p, 200p, 182p, £1120, £998, £853, 188p, 180p, 178p, £1116, £1056, £942 S E Lane & Ptnrs.
Stock Bulls (3) Remaining very strong. Angus 251p, £2543; Sussex 236p, £2591; Horned Longhorn 226p, £1432.

Beef Cows – 77 Sold – Top 388, Average 284.2
Dairy Cows – 23 Sold – Top 266, Average 216.5

Store & Breeding Cattle – 284 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07780133678

An improved quality entry in the pens with buyers forward in abundance for all levels of cattle and looking to fill their boots. To start we had Sussex bulls 17 mths from A Barr & Son to £1430, and then a run of young cattle from S Kilham, Steyning which saw dairy bred Simmental cross steers 11 mths to £950, with the heifers £880 and Angus steers 10 mths £890 from the same home. Smart Sussex cross steers 10 mths from High Chimney Farms to £1520. Longhorn steers 18 mths sold to £1340, the heifers to £980 from Gate street Farm, Guildford. Angus x Friesian steers 16 mths from F W Hamlyn & Son to £1730; and Angus cross steers 14 mths Angus x from V & C Smith to £1280 with their 15 mth heifers to £1340. A super run of Angus 10 – 12 mths from South Pickenham Estate saw plenty of interest around the ring with the steers topping at £1600 and the heifers topping at £1580. Most of the run £1300 – £1500 per head. Well put together Limousin steers 18 mths from J Hooker & Son to £2100 followed by a run of strong Limousin cross steers from E W & R E Hanks topping at £2450 with other pens to £2280 and £2220 all from the same run. Harder sorts from D J Cornforth saw Blue cross steers 17 mths to £1300 and Blue heifers 29 mths to £1410 followed by Follies Farm Partnership topping at £2250 for 29 mth Limousin steers with Hereford cross steers 26 mths from the same home to £1810. A run from Stone Farms saw Angus steers 26 mths top at £2000 and heifers from the same home to £1590.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact if you have store or breeding cattle to sell with the live market system proving to be the way forward and 400 plus expected for next week 14^th October.

Principal prices include:
Continentals:
Limousin cross steers 17 mths – £2450 – E W & R E Hanks
Limousin cross steers 29 mths – £2250 – Follies Farm Partnership
Limousin cross steers 19 mths – £2100 – J Hooker & Son
British Blue cross heifers 29 mths – £1410 – D J Cornforth
Limousin cross heifers 29 mths – £1370 – D J Cornforth
Simmental cross heifers 13 mths – £880 – S Kilham
Native:
Aberdeen Angus cross steers 26 mths – £2000 – Stone Farms
Hereford cross steers 28 mths – £1810 – Follies Farm Partnership
Aberdeen Angus x Friesian steers 17 mths – £1730 – F W Hamlyn & Son
Aberdeen Angus cross heifers 27 mths – £1590 – Stone Farms
Aberdeen Angus heifers 12 mths – £1580 – South Pickenham Estate
Shorthorn heifers 12 mths – £1400 – South Pickenham Estate

Store & Finished Pigs – 58 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07780133678

A good number forward this week with a large percentage of well fleshed heavy sorts in the pens.
Top call on the day went to High Barn Farm with smart 95kg gilts to 185p per kg. In close attendance was R Padfield & Son topping at £163 and £158 per head. Majority of the best types 150 – 180p per kg with only the lesser quality types sold below these figures.
Culls sows remain hard to shift with the best to 30p per kg.
Please inform me of any pigs you have in the next sale on Tuesday 21^st October.

Tuesday Livestock – 14th October 2025

Regular Weekly Market with a sale of Store and Breeding Cattle

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