THE CATTLE MARKET
DUNSWELL
FATSTOCK AND FORTNIGHTLY STORE MARKET
Forward – 209 head of stock including 16 Cattle, 141 Sheep and 52 Pigs.
PIGS
Sows looking stronger again, regularly on the right side of 60p/kg which is something we’ve not seen for a while. Small show of pigs this week, with Bacon Pigs selling to 180p/kg from both Webb & Goddard, Cherry Burton, purchased by Parkin Family Butchers, Howden and also from C F Buckton & Son, Rise to Propa Meats, Roos. Heavy gilts slightly stronger again with some really big sorts about, demand for those is expected to dip next week with one of the main abattoirs used by the butchers closed for renovations, but then should be back to normal in a fortnight.
Bacon Gilts to 180p/kg and £196.20, average 180.0p/kg.
Heavy Gilts to 112p/kg and £175.50, average 90.5p/kg.
Cull Sows to 62.5p/kg and £187.27, average 58.8p/kg.
Cull Boar to 53p/kg and £148.40.
SHEEP
Sheep looking much better all round compared to a fortnight ago, with more bounce in the job as buyers make the move from hoggs to spring lambs, which now look needed to fill the gap left by dwindling hogg numbers. A good number of spring lambs forward this week, with quality right across the board, market topped for the second time in recent weeks by D W Kirby & Son, Rise for a lovely pen of 5 Texel X, purchased by Parkin Family Butchers at 359p/kg or £147 being last pen of the day, trade held steady throughout today. Hogg numbers are starting to reduce significantly now, with some vendors taking the opportunity to have a clear out, with a few sold as fat today that probably would have been stores a month ago, but that market has really started to dry up now and any left on farm are definitely best gone sooner rather than later.
Spring Lambs
Standards to 321p/kg and £125, average 320.5p/kg.
Mediums to 359p/kg and £156, average 329.1p/kg.
Heavies to 351p/kg and £165, average 328.7p/kg.
Rare Breed Lamb to 244p/kg and £100.
SQQ 328.0p/kg.
Prime Hoggs
Light Weight Hoggs to 250p/kg and £75, average 250.0p/kg.
Standards to 230p/kg and £85, average 206.4p/kg.
Mediums to 286p/kg and £126, average 282.6p/kg.
Heavies to 305p/kg and £148, average 277.7p/kg.
Over-Weights to 294p/kg and £161, average 277.9p/kg.
Overall Average 256.3p/kg.
Cull Ewes to £168, average £129.50.
CATTLE
A smaller show this week with most of the spring cattle now sold and many out to grazing for the summer meaning this isn’t necessarily unexpected. Those forward today were mainly short keep and there was plenty of demand for them, with the overall store cattle average sitting at £1,632 and only one clean beast all day under £1,600. In the calf ring, just a handful forward and all stirks rather than calves but a phenomenal trade, with Hereford Heifers from A Oxtoby & Son, Bishop Burton topping over £1,000 and bucket reared Angus bulls over £800 as well.
Store Cattle
Limousin Heifers to £1,750, average £1,745.
British Blue Steers to £1,700, average £1,700.
Limousin Steers to £1,690, average £1,508.
Continental Feeding Cows to £1,610, average £1,510.
Calves & Stirks
Hereford Heifers to £1,020, average £960.
Aberdeen Angus Bulls to £830, average £815.
10.30am Fat Pigs
Followed by Cull Pigs
Followed by Store Pigs
11.30am Fat Lambs
Followed by Cull Sheep
Followed by Store Sheep
Followed by Calves & Stirks
12noon Prime, Store & Cull Cattle
For more information:
Ralph Ward - 07980 864909
Philip Mortimer - 07968 614948
James Buckton - 07539 867249/ j.buckton@frankhillandson.co.uk
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