MARKET REPORT – SATURDAY 23rd MAY 2015
Forward: 163 Cattle comp: 35 Breeding Cattle, 128 Stirks and Weaned Calves; 49 Store, Breeding Sheep and Goats; 526 lots of Machinery; 611 Lots of Reclaim, Salvage, Stone & Timber; 299 Lots of Poultry, Waterfowl, Hatching Eggs and Equipment; Spring Sale of 223 Lots of Border Fine Art, China and Beswick.
Bull Stirks
Fries/Hols to £600 av £284; Charollais to £490; Simm to £630 av £540; Lim to £700 av £530; Blonde to £740 av £648; British Blue to £810 av £544; Angus to £600 av £490; Longhorn to £970.
Bullock Stirks
Fries/Hols to £550 av £418; Lincoln Red to £710 av £490; Simm to £595; Lim to £510 av £501; Blonde to £495; British Blue to £675; MRI to £445; Saler to £495 av £471; Highland to £460
Heifer Stirks
Fries/Hols to £210 av £150; Lincoln Red to £690 av £568; Simm to £540 av £465; Lim to £705 av £490; British Blue to £620 av £504; Angus to £460; Saler to £365; Highland to £580 av £425; Continental x to £800; Dexter x to £510.
Breeding Cattle
Belted Galloway Hfr with Angus Hfr Calf to £1000; Angus Cow with Angus Bull Calf to £960; Lim Cow with Lim Bull Calf to £1110, Vaynol x Cow incalf to £800, BSH Cow incalf to £650; Lim Cow incalf to £705, Hereford Cow r/w BSH to £665; Hereford with Simm Bull Calf to £1100.
Beechwood Longhorn Dispersal Sale
2006 Born Cows Incalf to £720; 2007 born Cows incalf to £750; 2007 Stock Bull to £1010.
Sheep & Goats
Suffolk x Hoggs with Singles to £110; Hebridean Ewe with Single to £38; Dorset Ewes Correct with Singles to £121; Jacob Ewe with Twins to £100; Nanny Goat with 3 lambs to £100; Nanny Goat with 2 lambs to £90; Boer Nanny Goat with Billy Kid to £78; Billy Goat to £80; Saanen Nanny to £116; Tog Nanny to £116, Yearling nanny to £62; Sheepdog Pups to £95.
MACHINERY
The May Agri-Trader Sale saw many lots in the £1000-£2000 price bracket with a top of £3500 for a West 1600 Dual Spreader sold from a local farm. This was then followed by a Pottinger Forage wagon which sold well for £2400 against a much lower reserve. Grass Rakes sold to £1,900 and £1,650 and a JD conventional baler made £1400. Of the 20 trailers offered 17 were sold.
The dispersal sales which formed part of the regular collective auction saw Mrs Margaret Watkinson offer 75 lots peaking at £1850 for an Isor Lloyds mobile sheep race and £1600 for a 10ft IW livestock Trailer. Further Dispersal sales are invited in future auctions. Enquiries to Richard Pringle 07970089539
POULTRY
£85 4 Welsummer Bantams; £70 Trio White Wyandotte; £70 Pr Balck Orpington; £65 2 Welsummer Silver Duck Wing; £62 3 Welsummer POL; £60 3 Partridge Wyandotte Bantams.
BORDER FINE ART
£490 £400 Blonde Aq Bull; £440 Arriving at Appleby Fair; £360 Hauling Out; £340 Gathering the strays; £300 Under the hammer Simmental; £300 A days work ditching; £270 Under the hammer Charollais, £270 Under the hammer Limousin; £230 At the vintage; £230 Blue Faced Leicester Ewe; £220 Galloway Bull; £210 Flat refusal; £210 Greater Flamingos; £200 Haybaling; £200 What am I bid – Blackface.