Ruthin primestock sale - June 3

RUTHIN Farmers' Auction reports sales of 463 prime lambs to £150 / 391.9ppk; 383 prime hoggets to £166 / 276.4ppk; 351 ewes to £160 and 93 store pigs to £150.

Prime lambs (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

Entries are now increasing with 462 prime lambs forward on the day and a very good trade with an SQQ of 335.2ppk.

Mediums were the favourites averaging 340.7ppk, but only 49 in the entry.

Top priced per kilo:

37kg at 391.9ppk by R Owen, Tai Ucha; 34kg at 379.4ppk by B J Evans, Hafod Dafydd; 37kg at 378ppk by G W Jones, Nant Erw Haidd.

Top priced:

48kg at £150 by G W Jones, Nant Erw Haidd; 43kg at £150 by G L Jones, Maes Annod; 43kg at £150 by D Morris, Ty Coch; Overall average 334.6ppk.

Prime hoggs (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

Unexpectedly, another cracking June entry of 383 prime hoggets!

An excellent trade and an SQQ of 247.7ppk. 

Top priced:

74kg at £166 by G W Jones, Nant Erw Haidd; 56kg at £130 by G Williams, Ty Newydd Pennant; 47kg at £129 by M Williams & Son, Criccin.

Top priced per kilo:

44.5kg at 276.4ppk by D H Jones, Clywedog; 45kg at 275.6ppk by G W Jones, Nant Erw Haidd; 47kg at 274.5ppk by M Williams & Son, Criccin; Overall average 246.8ppk. 

More are required weekly.

Cull ewes (auctioneer-Paul Roberts):

Top price of the day was achieved by P Jones, 55 Maes Glyndwr at £160 for a Texel ram.

Texel to £160; Herdwick to £94; Welsh to £94; Speckled to £94; Mule to £130; Cheviot to £107; Crossbred to £138; Halfbred to £134; Tal y Bont to £108; Lleyn to £84; Overall average £92.84.

Store pigs (auctioneer-Elfor Morris):

A total of 93 store pigs forward to a much improved trade.

Pure Welsh store gilts back up to £120-£130 with J P Williams of Prysgol Farm, Caeathro hitting the top of the trade at £140.

Saddle back gilts correct for breeding from N Jones, Y Gaer, Welshpool achieving £75.

Pietrain breeding/stock boar from R G Thomas, Y Wern going on to work at £150, others from the same stable from £60 to £100.

Weaners from £12 to £65, consignments of boars are still not flavour of the month but pens of gilts were a flying trade from £30 to £60 for the best.

The next sale is on Friday, July 1.

Please notify of entries beforehand.

SEE: Last week's market prices

 

Ruthin store and breeding sale - June 2

RUTHIN Farmers' Auction reports sales of seven bulls to 3500gns; 74 heifers to £1580; 26 steers to £1570; 50 calves to £550; 17 stirks to £730; 12 OTMs to £1907.50 / 236ppk; 23 cows & calves to £1750 and 238 ewes & lambs to £238.

Store cattle (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

An excellent entry for the beginning of June with 129 store cattle forward and an excellent trade.

Heifers topping at £1580 for a 25 month Charolais from JK & E Roberts, Frwynos.

A bit of everything on offer as usual with plenty of bulling heifers in the show selling very, very well.

Some other prices: 24 month Lim £1195; 24 month BB £1140; 19 month BB £1050.

Younger heifers:

14 month Lim £1365; 13 month Saler £1080; Overall average £930.63.

Steers:

Steers topped at £1570 for a 25 month Lim from JK & E Roberts, Frwynos.

Fewer in numbers, but trade holding firm with prices as follows.

19 month AA £1200; 20 month Sim £960.

Younger steers:

15 month Char £1295; 14 month Lim £1165; 11 month Lim £900; 13 month WB £710; Overall average £1047.31. 

More cattle are required weekly.

OTMs (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

Trade as strong as ever with 12 forward and topping at 236ppk from R J Roberts, Dysefin for a 121 month Lim cow weighing 760kg.

121 month Lim-760kg-236ppk; 84 month BB-640kg-218ppk; 32 month BB-560kg-218ppk; 191 month Lim-675kg-216ppk; 32 month AA-560kg-216ppk; 32 BB-510kg-209ppk; 55 month WB-815kg-208ppk; 103 month BB-570kg-188ppk; 72 month Char-1090kg-175ppk; 79 month Lim-625kg-170ppk; 38 month AA-525kg-165ppk; 182 month BF-620kg-160ppk; Overall average 198ppk.

Calves (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

A total of 50 calves forward with some cracking suckler bred calves amongst them. Frantic bidding ringside saw the best of these, a 21 day old Lim bull from W H Edwards & Co, Highgate, achieving £550 with a Lim heifer calf from the same holding topping at £535.

A Lim bull from I W Edwards & Son, Bryn yr Orsedd at 4 weeks old found a new home at £425.

Reared 3 month old Lims out of dairy topping the others at £540 and £500 from Edmunds Bros, Pool Park, an unprecedented trade.

R D Jones & Co, Tal y Cafn ended up selling a BB 2-and-a-half month bull to £475.

Younger calves were just as keenly sought after with regular vendors M W Roberts & Co,Bodynys rewarded with £360 for BB bull calves, plenty from £280 to £340 with BB heifer calves from I Jones, Hendrerwydd Farm topping the sale at £270.

Others: Lim heifer calf to £535; BB bull calf to £475; BB heifers calf to £290; Baz bull calf to £290; Hereford bull calf to £210; Hereford heifer calf to £150; AA bull calf to £270; AA heifer calf to £210.

Weanlings (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

Top price goes to Deian Williams, Hendre selling 12 month Lim heifers to £730.

Others:

9 month Char heifers to £665; 11 month Flekiev bullocks to £595; 10 month BB heifers to £595; 12 month Hereford bullocks to £550; 11 month Norwegian Red to £430.

More are required on a weekly basis.

Ewe & lamb couples (auctioneer-Paul Roberts):

A total of 238 couples forward.

Couples still selling very well.

Top price of £272 went to G & E Roberts, Rhyd yr Efail with Texel twins.
Singles (180): Average £148.73 / £74.36 a life; Texel to £235; Mules to £172; Lleyn to £130; Welsh to £140; Crossbred to £198; Speckled to £115.

Doubles (58): Average £156.07 / £52.63 a life; Texel to £272; Mules to £152; Lleyn to £165; Welsh to £180; Crossbred to £158; Cheviot to £205; Speckled to £162; Overall Average £150.52.

Cows & calves (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

A good entry of 23 cows and calves forward met a buoyant trade with a ringside full of buyers.

Tomos Davies had 9 first calvers forward with some quality calve at foot selling to £1780.

Baz 2nd calver with a Lim heifer calf at foot to £1300; BB 3rd calver with a bull calf at foot to £1350; Lim 4th calver with a Lim heifer calf at foot to £1600; Lim 5th calver with  a Lim heifer calf at foot to £1480.

Bulls (auctioneer-Rich Lloyd):

Seven breeding bulls were forward on the day and all found a new home by the evening.

2 yr old Lim from T P Williams & Co, Pen Isa 3500gns; 2 yr old Lim from C M Edwards, Bryn Rodyn 3050gns; 2 yr od Lim from R G Whitley, Spon Farm 3000gns; 2 yr old Lim from C M Edwards, Bryn Rodyn 2550gns; 5 yr od Sim from Davies & Rogers, Penrhos 1690gns; 2 yr old Her from Sian Jones, Bryn Tirion 1460gns.

The next breeding sale of on June 16.

Cows & calves, in calvers, bulling heifers and breeding bulls required.

 

St Asaph livestock sale - May 28

FORWARD on the day were 98 store lambs, cull ewes & rams, and couples.

Old season store lambs (37) sold to £129/head or 272.50p/kg. Average – 221.90p/kg.

Cull ewes and rams (3) sold to £120/head. Average - £96.66/head.

Couples (58) sold to £89.33/life. Average - £75.55/life.

Old season store lambs: Overall average – 221.90p/kg.

Lights sold to 200p/kg or £55/head. Average - 200p/kg.

Standards sold to 224p/kg or £85/head. Average - 223.54p/kg.

Mediums sold to 272.50p/kg or £109/head. Average – 272.50p/kg.

Overweights sold to 215p/kg or £129/head. Average – 191.56p/kg.

Cull ewes and rams:

Top price (Ewes) - £120/head.

Top price (Rams) - £50/head.

Ewe and lamb couples:

Texel Doubles to £268 and Singles to £170.

Mules Doubles to £255 and Singles to £175.

Beulah Doubles to £225; X Bred Singles to £172.

Welsh Doubles to £136 and Singles to £98.

Overall Average - £75.27/life.