Ruthin store and breeding sale - April 7

RUTHIN Farmers' Auction reports sales of heifers to £1450; steers to £1500; calves to £420; stirks to £940; 24 OTMs to £2015.20 / 233ppk; store lambs to £86; ewes and lambs to £325; pet lambs to £22, and cows and calves to £1260.

Store cattle (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

An excellent entry of 230 store cattle forward met an excellent trade.

A ringside full of buyers and all cattle found a new home.

The usual mixed bag of cattle on offer with dairy x selling very well and sucklers selling well as always.

Heifers:
Top price of £1450 went to E Jones, Clegir Ganol for a 19 month Charolais.
20 month Lim £1245; 17 month Char £1245; 31 month Hol £1155; 26 month AA £1150; 18 month BB £1130; 25 month Her £1105; 24 month Sim £1100; 30 month Hol £1155; 22 month Blonde A £1095. 

Younger heifers: 15 month Char £1155; 15 month Saler £895; 10 month Charolais £1000; 14 month Lim £1110; Overall average £991.23.

Steers:

Top price of £1500 went to Dl & WE Morris, Penisar Waen for a 23 month Charolais.

17 month Char £1480; 20 month Char £1460; 25 month BB £1410; 24 month AA £1410; 22 month BB £1370; 14 month Lim £1300; 14 month Char £1295; 20 month Sim £1055; 15 month Her £1045; 31 month HF £1155; 19 month HFX £925.

Younger steers: 12 month Her £840; 8 month Char £1060; 11 month Her £1070; 10 month Lim £915; 9 month Saler £760; 10 month BB £890;

Overall average £1046.90.

If you have cattle to sell or would like to purchase, don’t hesitate to contact the auction.

OTMs (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

There were 24 barren cows forward and some exceptional barren cows making exceptional prices!

A top price of £2015 was a credit to Mr M Sivill, Plas Coch and well awarded for their quality.

A total of 24 forward with an average of 182.2ppk or £1232.00.

Some other barren cow prices as follows:

70 month Lim (755kg) 233ppk; 69 month Lim (735kg) 231ppk; 81 month BB (880kg) 229ppk; 165 month BRI (800kg) 223pppk; 51 month Lim (570kg) 214ppk; 108 month AA (780kg) 197ppk; 95 month Lim (680kg) 190ppk; 40 month BB (510kg) 188ppk; 93 month Lim (675kg) 186ppk; 49 month Her (785kg) 185ppk; 115 month Lim (700kg) 181ppk; 126 month Lim (655kg) 181ppk; 44 month AA (715kg) 178ppk; 36 month BSH (590kg) 174ppk; 112 month Lim (600kg) 167ppk; 43 month Her (560kg) 167ppk; Overall average 182.2ppk / £1232.

Cows and calves (auctioneer-Dafydd Parry):

The fortnightly breeding sale attracted plenty of interest.

Beef Shorthorn cow with a Herefod bull calf at foot sold to £1260.

The next breeding sale is on Thursday, April 21. Entries are now invited.

Calves (auctioneer-Dafydd Parry):

Trade was up on the week, especially for those second quality types.

Younger smaller calves met a premium.

Top price went to Edwards, Highgate selling a Lim bull to £420.
Others: BB bull £390; AA bull £320; BB heifer £595; Baz bull £280; Sim bull £355.

Smaller types: BB bull £250; BB heifers £195; AA bull £225; AA heifer £200.

A dairy sale will be held on Thursday, April 28.

Entries are invited for the catalogued sale and they close on April 21.

Weanlings (auctioneer-Dafydd Parry):

The proof is in the pudding!

Three new vendors took advantage of the firm trade witnessed at Ruthin.

Those grazing types looked particularly well sold with strong bulls also a firm trade.

Top price went to Martin Sivill, Plas Coch selling 9 month old Lim heifers to £920.

Others: 11 month Sim heifers £795; 10 month AA heifer £700; 6 month AA bulls £615; 5 month Hereford bulls £500; 8 month BF bulls £375.

More are required on a weekly basis.

Ewe and lamb couples (auctioneer-Paul Roberts):

A bigger show than anticipated with the bad weather, but still a very good trade especially on stronger lambed couples.

Younger couples expected next week, with another good show anticipated.

Top price of £325 went to C P Goulding, The Yews for Suffolk twins.

Singles: Average £125.81; Suffolk to £245; Beltex to £195; Mule to £172; Welsh to £155; Lleyn to £80.

Doubles: Average £198.47; Suffolk to £325; Texel to £322; Mules to £235; Welsh to £182; Lleyn to £210; Tal y Bont to £200; Easycare to £78; Overall Average £177.90.

Pet lambs:

A total of 61 Cade lambs forward, with a 100 per cent clearance, from £3 to £22.

Store Lambs (auctioneer-Elfor Morris):

Lleyn to £74; Aberfield to £86; Cheviot to £50; Texel to £55; Welsh to £48; Overall average £61.06.

READ MORE: Last week's market prices

Ruthin primestock sale - April 8
RUTHIN Farmers' Auction reports sales of 782 prime hoggets to £130 / 300ppk and 234 ewes to £200.

Prime hoggs (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

A total of 782 prime hoggets were forward with the trade holding firm and an SQQ of 265.2ppk.

Some 230 of the mediums were the best trade on the day, averaging 276.7ppk.

Top priced:

47kg at £130 by R & E Williams & Son, Hendre, Betws GG; 50kg at £129 by R & E Williams & Son, Hendre, Betws GG; 44.5kg at £128 by RC & GR Evans, Fron, Moelfre.

Top priced per kilo:

38kg at 300ppk by E Edwards, Jocelyn Terrace; 41kg at 295ppk by JM Davies & Sons, Abbey Farm; 39kg at 294.9ppk by RC & GR Evans, Fron, Moelfre.

Super Lights to 228ppk, av 228ppk; Lights to 271.9ppk, av 254.6ppk; Standards to 300ppk, av 259.7ppk; Mediums to 295.1ppk, av 276.7ppk; Heavies to 276.6ppk, av 253.8ppk; Overweights to 234.3ppk, av 224.2ppk; SQQ 265.5ppk; Overall average 261.6ppk.

Another good Friday show and trade with more required weekly.

Cull ewes (auctioneer-Paul Roberts):

Top price of the day went to Mr HM & IL Roberts, Waen Rhydd, seeing £200 for a Texel ewe.

Crossbred to £164; Bluefaced Leicester to £170; Suffolk to £188; Tal y Bont to £116; Badgerfaced to £78; Mule to £128; Lleyn to £90; Scotch to £70; Beulah to £54; Half Bred to £128; Welsh to £95.

Ruthin primestock sale - April 5

RUTHIN Farmers' Auction reports sales of 300 Prime Lambs to £310 / 775ppk; 2066 prime hoggets to £146 / 368.8ppk; 502 ewes to £228; 1 prime steer to £1785 (300ppk) and 1 OTM to £880.60 (129.5ppk).

Prime lambs (auctioneer-Elfor Morris):

A super show of 300 spring lambs forward for the Easter show and sale with a blistering trade - 366ppk!

Champion pair of lambs exhibited by C Tomlinson, Agden Dairy Farm achieving £310 each and purchased by Tom Hughes, Rhydelian, Sir Fon.

Top priced:

Lights (31kg) £114 by J P Williams,Bron Eyarth; Standards (35kg) £265 by C Tomlinson, Agden Dairy Farm; Mediums (40kg) £310 by C Tomlinson, Agden Dairy Farm; Heavies (46kg) £205 by G J Walton & Partner, Llyn Tro Farm. 

Top priced per kilo:

Lights 367.7ppk by J P Williams, Bron Eyarth; Standards 757.1ppk by C Tomlinson, Agden Dairy Farm; Mediums 775ppk by C Tomlinson, Agden Dairy Farm; Heavies 445.7pk by G J Walton & Partner, Llyn Tro Farm.
Lights to 367.7pppk, av 367.7ppk; Standards to 757.1ppk, av 371.1ppk; Mediums to 775ppk, av 358.8ppk; Heavies to 445.7ppk, av 358.3ppk; Overall average 366.9ppk; SQQ 367ppk.

Prime hoggets (auctioneer-Elfor Morris):

A total of 2066 hoggs to an overall average of 272ppk and an SQQ of 282ppk.

Standard weight hoggs averaged 35.9kg and leading the way at 289ppk, closely followed by medium weight hoggs at 280ppk.

Heavy and overweight hoggs between £125-£131.

Champion pen of hoggs exhibited by DJ & MJ Hughes, Ty Cerrig (38.5kg) and sold to Field Fresh for £142.

The auction's gratitude as always to the vendors for exhibiting such good stock, the buyers for their support and to the judge Glyn Morris.

Top priced:
Lights (31kg) £90 by J D Pierce, Bryn Deunydd; Standards (38.5kg) £142 by DJ & MJ Hughes & Son, Ty Cerrig, Prion; Mediums (44kg) £140 by Mrs C Evans, Tan Gaer; Heavies (47kg) £146 by Mrs C Evans, Tan Gaer; Overweights (64.5kg) £144 by F R Jones, Graig Farm.

Top priced per kilo:
Lights 296.2ppk by J Yaxley, Carrog Ucha; Standards 368.8ppk by DJ & MJ Hughes & Son, Ty Cerrig, Prion; Mediums 337.5ppk by J D Pierce, Bryn Deunydd; Heavies 310.6ppk by Mrs C Evans, Tan Gaer; Overweights 248.6ppk by DL & LE Davies, Ty Bach y Ffordd.

Lights to 296.2ppk, av 277.5ppk; Standards to 368.8ppk, av 289.1ppk; Mediums to 337.5ppk, av 280.2ppk; Heavies to 310.6ppk, av 259.7ppk; Overweights to 248.6ppk, av 228.4ppk; Overall average 272ppk; SQQ 282ppk.

Cull ewes (auctioneer-Paul Roberts):

A total of 502 ewes and rams forward with an overall average of £108.04.

Top price ewes: £228 by DJ & MJ Hughes, Ty Cerrig; Top price ram: £182 by T H Roberts, Bachymbyd.

A brisk trade again on all sections.

Ewes: Mules to £168; Crossbred to £183; Beltex to £228; Texel to £194; Charollais to £218; Dorset to £172; Welsh to £98.

Rams: Welsh rams to £128; Charollais ram to £182; Suffolk ram to £182.

Prime cattle (auctioneer-Dafydd Parry):

22 month BB steer weighing 595kg from Dion Hughes, Ty Cerrig, achieved 300ppk(£1785).

OTMs: 61 month BF weighing 680kg from C Parry, Sychdyn achieved 129.5ppk(880.60).