Ashford Market Report – Tuesday 9th July 2024

Sheep Sales Reports

New Season Lambs – 1,449

Auctioneer: John Rossiter 07557 392903

Top price per kilo – 364p – Eastlands Farm
Top price per head – £165.00 – C & J Georgetti & Sons, J A Biddle & M J Ashworth

A few less forward this week with a bigger percentage of fed lambs and less of the lighter weighted grass finished types that have been pulling the averages back in recent weeks. Trade was pretty disappointing at the end of last week purely based on the numbers that came out to markets and today it certainly has recovered with an average returned similar to last Tuesday and almost bang on the £3 kg price mark, which is hopefully where we will see the trade stabilise for the next few weeks with leaner lambs tending to head for the store rings instead of finished. Best lambs topped this week at £165 hd from M J Ashworth, C & J Georgetti & Sons and J A Biddle with the price per kilo stakes topped at 364p kg from Eastlands Farms.

32 – £112.00 (350p/kg) – Eastlands Farm
33 – £120.00 (364p/kg) – Eastlands Farm
34 – £100.00 (294p/kg) – A & H Edmonds
35 – £100.00 (286p/kg) – Mrs R Vant & J Claringbould
36 – £100.00 (278p/kg) – A R Clough
37 – £116.00 (314p/kg) – S Wimble
38 – £114.00 (300p/kg) – S W Mount & Sons Ltd
39 – £129.00 (331p/kg) – K T D Axell
40 – £125.00 (313p/kg) – S Wimble
41 – £126.00 (307p/kg) – G H Dean & Co
42 – £132.00 (314p/kg) – G H Dean & Co
43 – £139.00 (323p/kg) – Link Bros
44 – £151.00 (343p/kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
45 – £144.50 (321p/kg) – G H Dean & Co
46 – £150.00 (326p/kg) – Miss Georgia Jackson
47 – £145.00 (309p/kg) – G B Richard & Son
48 – £165.00 (344p/kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
49 – £165.00 (337p/kg) – M J Ashworth
50 – £159.00 (318p/kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
51 – £162.00 (318p/kg) – C & J Georgetti & Sons
62 – £165.00 (266p/kg) – J A Biddle

Averages (p/kg)

Light 25.6 to 32 kgs – 297 – Top 364, Average 289.4
Standard 32.1 to 39 kgs – 928 – Top 373, Average 302.0
Medium 39.1 to 45.5 kgs – 208 – Top 344, Average 307.1
Heavy 45.6 to 52 kgs – 16 – Top 313, Average 308.3

Cull Sheep – 261 Sold

Auctioneer: James Cook-O’Connell 07712 246474

Ewe: Top £140.00 – J A Biddle – Ave £91.10

A good trade throughout with larger numbers of leaner grazing types forward as to be expected for the time of year with many of the early born fed lambs already sold. The best ewes regularly £110 – £130 and to a top price of £140 from J A Biddle for Continental ewes. Medium sorts £80 – £110 on most occasions with the leaner grazing types £50 – £80 throughout and only very few sold below these figures. We have a good number of regular buyers every week for all grades of ewes so do not hesitate to get your ewes booked in with us.

Top prices included

Continental to £140 – J A Biddle, Texel cross   to £136 – Mrs R Vant & J Claringbould, Charollais to £135 – Ross Farms, Suffolk cross         to £128 – M J Ashworth, Mules to £117 – Mrs J Hope, Romneys to £118 – T D L Bird.

Cattle Sales Reports

Finished Cattle –  33 Sold

Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357

A short entry but a real trade with prices noticeably firmer for all grades. Top end beef bred cattle up over 300p kg with Limousin cross steers to 309p from R F & E A Simmons, grossing up to £2091 from A J Thompson & Sons. Heifers shone to 306p kg, £2123 for Limousin cross from W Alexander (Shoreham).
Dairy bred cattle from Alan Down certainly sharper, carrying plenty of flesh Limousin x Friesian steers sold to 283p kg, £1907; Hereford x Friesian steers to 280p, £1733 and Friesian steers 265p, £1520. Hereford x Friesian heifers from R C & J L Pickering 270p, £1577.
Short of natives with Angus steers from W S Furnival Ltd selling to 281p, £1585; Angus heifers 283p, £1511.

Top Steers

R F & E A Simmons – Limousin cross – 309p   (£1620)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 304p (£1973)
R F & E A Simmons – Limousin cross – 286p (£1784)
A J Thompson & Sons – Limousin cross – 285p (£2091)
A J Down – Limousin cross   – 283p (£1907)

Top Heifers

W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 306p (£2123)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 303p (£1724)
W Alexander (Shoreham) – Limousin cross – 300p (£1423)
P N & C Burden – Limousin cross – 285p (£1807)
W S Furnival Ltd – Aberdeen Angus  – 283p (£1511)

Top Bulls

J C Loveridge – Charolais – 200p (£1300)
J C Loveridge – Aberdeen Angus cross – 178p (£905)

Average Prices

Steers 200 to 550kg – 1 Sold – Top 309p – Av 309p
Steers 551 to 650kg – 14 Sold – Top 304p – Av 274p
Steers 651kg + – 6 Sold – Top 285p – Av 277p
Heifers 300 to 500 kg – 2 Sold – Top 300p – Av 277p
Heifers 501 to 590 kg – 5 Sold – Top 303p – Av 278p
Heifers 591 kg + – 2 Sold – Top 306p – Av 295p

OTM Cattle and Cull Cows – 27 Sold

Auctioneer: Peter Kingwill 07795 200357

A small offering meeting another tremendous trade. Few beef cows on offer with tidy Limousin cross cows from R F & E A Simmons to 198p kg (£1412) Hereford x Friesian cow from P N & C Burden to 189p, £1329.
Dairy culls on fire with half meat cows generally 160-180p kg and generally £1000 – £1300 head.
British Friesian 177p (2), £1297, £1262 R & J Ledger; Holstein Friesian 177p, 175p, 174p, £1232, £1226, £1212 R C & J L Pickering.
Stock bulls (9). Another big turnout of non-working bulls meeting a continuing strong trade. Under 3 year old types up over 200p kg and older types generally 150-0180p kg. Limousin to 212p, 163p, £1844, £1745; Charolais to 200p, 199p, 161p, 148p, 136p, £1785, £1653, £1301, £1300; Angus to 178p, 165p, £1587.

Beef Cows – 10 Sold – Top 198, Average 167.0
Dairy Cows – 11 Sold – Top 177, Average 167.9

Store & Finished Pigs – 11 Sold

Auctioneer: Tom Hamplett 07966 104532

Finished (9) – Short supply with high demand, the best combination for a serious trade once more! A lovely entry today with heavy pigs from Brooker & Son topping the trade at 230p pk or £230. All pigs selling for over 200p pk with an average of 209p pk or £190. Weight very much most sought after however 85kg and 75kg pigs from C K Guest also well sought after with tops of 205p pk or £175.
Cull (2) – Two sows forward with tops of 40p pk from J Hodson averaging 35p pk.
This week marks my last sale of pigs as I move on to pastures new as of the end of next week. I would like to thank all vendors, buyers and Chris and Tracey Higgins for their assistance over the last few years with the pig section. Please direct all future pig enquires either to Peter Kingwill or the livestock office.

A polite request to all vendors to please pre enter all pigs on the Monday morning prior to a pig sale. This is to help us to help you by ensuring that buyers are kept up to date with entries.

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