Weekly Sales News – 27th September 2016

Top price per kilo – 200p – Mrs J Walker: Top price per head – £98 – Mrs J Walker

 Report on trade: A good sized entry for the time of year with just under 1500 lambs penned but a very mixed entry in terms of finish with several pens of lean lambs on offer as has been reported to be the case all over the country. Best meated sorts were sold to a distinct premium due to being in short supply and two super runs from RL Goodman and Sons and Mr T Masters were well rewarded on the day with top prices recorded in excess of £90 from both vendors. A smaller selection of export grade lambs were on offer but these still reached 190p per kg from Mr DC Foy for smart 39kg Beltex cross lambs.

Report on trade: A large entry this week in the pens but a large percentage of lean sorts on offer selling on at grazing prices of between £35 for the very leanest to £50 for the best Suffolk cross grazing sorts. Meated sorts were harder to sell this week as a result of the quieter period that usually takes place following the recent Muslim festival. These best ewes were selling in the region of £75.

Top prices included continental ewes to £78 from A Denning, Suffolk crosses to £73.50 from G Stokes and Romney Ewes to £62 from Mrs E Loder-Symonds

Report on trade: The largest entry of finished cattle for some time from regular consignors and also fresh faces helping by adding extra numbers of quality handy weight continental cattle to the numbers. Quality was generally very good with an increased number of those handy weight butcher type sorts on offer and the best attracting prices in excess of 220p per kg with a smart Limousin cross heifer topping the market at £1353 (240p) from M B Farms and Limousin steer topping at £1254 (227p) from Burden Bros. Regular vendor W S Furnival (Brookland) was well rewarded with their best making in the 220p to 228p bracket and grossing around £1200 while a British Blue cross heifer sold well at £1257 (236p) from S Marsh.

Native bred cattle as always were demand with a Sussex cross steer topping at £1123 (175p) from Langrish Farmers.

Several OTM cattle on offer grossing up to £1002 for a heavy weight Ayrshire steer from R W Jones & Son

Report on trade: Another great day in the cow ring with, to be honest, not the greatest show on offer but customers aplenty and confidence in all sectors bringing about another excellent trade. We were short of dairy culls this week surprisingly but more lean feeding culls from the non assured beef holdings taking on board the advice to let the feeders obtain the assurance during the fattening period.

Good meat cows made 130-140p in general with a few younger types pushing up to 160p and £1011 for a British Blue x Friesian from M W Goddard; Aberdeen Angus 150p from Llewellyn Farms and 133p K Loveridge; Charolais 142p (Non FA) R Stannard and 133p £1113 (Non FA) Dr & Mrs R J Wratten; Simmental 135p,134p £955 C & J Georgetti & Sons, 128p G Gregory and Sussex 128p,126p (Non FA) from D Martin and 123p £907 A & A Barr Farms.

Cattle were short of flesh amongst the dairy culls where young meat made to 140p from R Sternberg Farms and best heavies over 120p with plenty 90-110p.

A big show of cull bulls saw a Charolais to £1270, Aberdeen Angus to £1109, Sussex to £1049 and Limousin to £1031.

Report on trade: Another good entry of cattle with a high percentage of native breeds on offer this week. Again trade was firm throughout at similar levels to recent weeks with the majority of youngsters £400 to £600, best yearlings £700 to £900 and strong cattle to feed short term generally in excess of £1000.

If you have store cattle to sell please get them entered over the coming weeks. Buyers are keen to purchase and prices are competitive throughout.

In calf pedigree Hereford cows were the majority of the entry this week and made to £700.

Next Tuesdays sale includes 2 herd reuctions of cows, calves and in calf cows and heifers.

Report on trade: A disappointing sized entry for this weeks sale but prices achieved were still good and many more could have been sold. Regular buyers can handle good numbers of stock and demand for stock to rear is strong with the bef price and demand for store cattle remaining in a good place this autumn.

Headlines in the sale included

British Blue cross bulls to £390 at 6 weeks from W G & T A Manford

British Blue cross heifers to £295 (twice) at 7 & 8 weeks from H O Champneys Ltd

Blonde cross bulls to £305 at 7 weeks from W S Furnival Ltd

Blonde cross heifers to £272 at 8 weeks from W S Furnival Ltd

Aberdeen Angus cross bulls to £250 at 13 weeks from A & W J Hitchcock

British Friesian bulls to £80 at 6 weeks from R & J Ledger

Holstein bulls to £110 twice at 12 & 13 weeks from W S Furnival Ltd

Please keep your entries of calves coming. At our fortnightly sales we expect to have plenty of enquiries for all shapes, sizes and ages of stock. Thank you all for texts and messages with early notice of your entries for forthcoming sales – it does help.

Report on trade: In Summary the best pigs in the finished pens were an excellent trade but less money was available for the second quality. Cull prices remain strong but demand for stores was limited.

The best finished pigs made to 100 to 130p per kg with P W & P Sim’s best grossing £113 and Saddlebacks and crosses from East Sutton Park Prison making to 114p. Mr G Stokes sold good shaped pigs to 120p and £92 with the rest offered mainly 50 to 100p.

The entry of cull sows and boars saw 11make 50 to 56p with the heaviest grossing over £100 while good fleshed boars made 45 to 58p.

In the store pig pens £20 to £40 covered all the pigs offered with no real bit to the trade as can often be the case as winter gets closer

Regular supplies of pigs are required as demand has firmed in recent months. Please keep in touch with us here in Ashford if you have pigs to sell.

General news

Updated 27^th September 2016

Wanted – teaser ram for a Romney marsh farm. Ring 01303 873160 .

Wanted – grazing / mowing grass within 10 miles radius of  Charing. Ring 07714292024 or 07730496037.

For Sale – up to 70 acres of standing maize (estimated 20 tonne per acre crop) which was direct drilled and with good access in West Kent. Contact Elwyn Davies on 07710 803901 for details

Wanted – winter stock housing. Have you the buildings, the food and the time to have up to 200 beef cattle this winter in ideally a TB4 area? Enquiries will be treated in confidence. Please contact Peter Kingwill.

Grass keep available – 12 month grazings near Andover for smart shorn Romney ewe lambs third week Sept start. Will accept multiples of 200 but would prefer 600 as a lot. Contact Ted Sclater 07785793450 or 01264736420 to discuss.

Kent Herdsmans Club – For all details on Herdsman’s Club events contact Chairman Sandra Brown on 01233 502796 or Jo Masters 01580 240568. Meetings at the Conningbrook Hotel, Ashford.

Monday 20^th October 7.30pm – Dianne Quested from Mid Kent Training to give a talk about the training programmes and courses available.

Monday 14th November at 7.30pm – a talk by John Arthur Boyd about his travels around the UK and his book.

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Hobbs Parker Auctioneers and Car Auctions run over 200 auction sales every year

Our next Auction Sales are…….

Horse & Saddlery auction

Thursday 27^th October at  10am. Entries close on Friday 7^th October

Entries expected of riding ponies, event horses and youngstock

New & nearly new saddlery & tack, grooming kit, yard equipment, rugs, harness

Riding boots, show jackets, jodhpurs, body protectors, yard clothing & boots

Collective Machinery & Equipment auction

Friday 11^th November at  9.30am. Entries close on Friday 21^st October

New & newly near mowers & garden machinery

New tools, farm & agricultural equipment, timber plus large

Special Vehicle auction

Monday 9^th November from 10am

This auction of cars will include a special sales of 4 X 4, Diesel, sports and MPV vehicles.

Rural Property auction

Wednesday 23^rd November

Contact James Hickman on 01233 506223 for all details

Ashford Cattle Show and Sale of Christmas stock

Monday and Tuesday 28^th and 29^th November

Annual show of livestock, crops, carcases and much much more. All details from Julie Coney 07887 643002 or email ashfordcattleshow@gmail.co.uk

Full competition schedules will be available next week.

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Hobbs Parker and Ashford Livestock Market

We are the South East’s principal livestock market selling around 264,500 head of cattle, sheep and pigs in 2015.

Weekly sales throughout the year of all classes of stock, principally on Tuesdays, run by a fully professional team of auctioneers and support staff provide an unmatched level of service and commitment to the livestock farmer in the area. Come and see us on market day soon and bring your livestock for us to sell.