Feeding Bulls – remain a solid trade, average of £988 despite a steady finished price. A few 2018 Spring Calves beginning to show with a lot £800+ but price will be sensitive if exposed to large numbers. Late Autumn bulls £1000+ and the heavy bulls reflective of the consent finished price, the best £1200.

Feeding Cows – a better show of feeding cows which assisted in an increased average of £790 on the fortnight. Continentals carrying flesh £1000+ and the first cross lean continental suckler cows £700+. Two high quality cast bulls from an entry of 5 saw a British Blue at £1530 and a Limouisn at £1400

Stores – A very mixed show for quality when compared to normal, with over half the entry being Beef bred from dairy cows, dairy breeds or native breeds. Anything with strength sold away reasonable, with best smart retail quality types £1000 to £1200, and best suckler bred types around 10mo in the 8’s and 9’s. Natives found the usual god enquiry for Angus and Hereford, Bullocks to £1075, and HF Blks were to £890 from Duncan Holme.
Plainer younger heifers looking weathered from the recent rain continue to look less money than a month ago, although bullocks continue to attract better interest from the ringside.

Prices and Averages

Young Bulls Continental x average £978, Native average £943

Limousin x (Av £963)

£1215 £1165 IJ Pratt; £1190 £1180 W&A Lambert; £1190 J Baines; £1140 SD Bennett; £1120 DW&CJ Towler;  

Brit Blue x (Av £1083)

£1310 JM Townsend; £1230 J Baines; £1160 L Driver; £1030 £1010 Turner Farms;   

Ab Angus (Av £1102)

£1140 £1090x3 DW Barker;

Blonde (Av £1170)

£1170 J Baines;

Hereford (Av £785)

£800 £780x3 Whittle AG Ltd;

Top price pen of three or more bulls

(£15 Prize) 3 Lim x @ £1095 TH&K Wood

(£10 Prize) 3 AA x @ £1090 DW Barker

Beef Bred Feeding Cows av £790 Bulls av £1182

Store Bullocks – Continental x average £927, Native average £787

Charollais (Av £1016)

£;1205 £1130 £1100 £1095x2 £1080x2 JW Barker; £1090 J Lord;

Simmental x (Av £750)

£820 AJ&HC Clark; £680 M Kitching;

Limousin x (Av £933)

£1160 Newhouse Bros; £1160x3 C Nelson; £1160 £1105 J Lord; £1115 MG Thompson; £1110 JW Barker;

Blonde (Av £990)

£1050x2 £930x2 AB J & S Witt;

Ab Angus (Av £886)

£1075 £950x5 B&LN Dibb; £1010 R&K Gemmell; £990x2 D Pawson;

Saler x (Av £876)

£925x3 J&C Wright; £730 GC Pickup;

Brit Blue x (Av £860)

£1200 P&E Fox; £1100 £1090 £950 J Lord; £1045x2 E&MA Burrow; £975 R Naylor;  £940 T&A Hird;

Hereford (Av £726)

£885x2 Newhouse Bros;

B&W (Av £680)

£890x2 GD&JC Holme; £855x4 £710 R Naylor; £685x2 JF Metcalfe;

Top price pen of three or more bullocks

Store Heifers – Continental x average £864, Native average £735

Charollais x (Av £837)

£1090x2 £950x3 DW Sunderland; £1070x2 JE Gaunt; £925x2 Blue Hills; £950 J&A Smales;

Limousin x (Av £860)

£1210 E&M Townley; £1100 £1075x2 AD Morton; £1100 £1080 P&E Fox; £1090 K Sunderland; £1060 J Lord;   

Blonde (Av £918)

£980 £950x2 £930 JE Cowperthwaite; £925 Blue Hills Beef; £915x3 £880 AB J & S Witt;   

Ab Angus (Av £788)

£875x5 JR Metcalfe; £850 J&A Smales; £845x2 N&J Thwaite;

Brit Blue x (Av £878)

£1130 P&E Fox; £1090x4 £1060x3 BF Blezard; £1090 J Ashton; £1000 E&M Townley;  

Simmental (Av £831)

£8995 A Beresford; £800x2 Blue Hills Beef;

Hereford (Av £678)

£790 £720 £710£650 Blue Hills; £780 Newhouse Bros;  

Top price pen of three or more heifers

43 BEEF BREEDING CATTLE

BBx Cow due April to BB                                £1350

S.Devon Cow due Jan                                     £870

BBx Hfr with Lim Bull Calf                              £1400

BBx Cow with Lim x Bull                                 £1400

BBx Cow with Lim Hfr                                     £1280

Lim x Cow with AAx Hfr                                 £980

Lim x Cow with AA Str                                    £1340

S.Devon Cows with S.Devon Bulls              £1220

S.Devon Cows with S.Devon Hfr                 £1110