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7^th February 2022 Trade Talk - Richard Haigh, Selby Auction Mart Prime cattle trade started the year well. January can be unpredictable, with the first week or two usually seeing firm demand as depleted stocks over the festive period are replenished. Prices have been good, although bull trade fluctuated. One week saw averages a little “easier”, but they rallied again as the month progressed. The... Read the full article

21^st January 2022 Trade Talk - Harvey Pile, Auctioneer for Stags at South Molton, Honiton and Tavistock Livestock Markets South Molton, Honiton and Tavistock livestock markets continue to see a buoyant trade for all sheep classes sold. Store lambs in particular have been a pleasure to sell, perhaps fashionable and considered a more flexible option requiring less capital investment when compared to breeding stock and cattle. Whilst store lamb... Read the full article

13^th December 2021 Trade Talk from Alastair J Brown FdSc FLAA, Senior Auctioneer, Bletsoes, Thrapston Fatstock shows thrive in the live market It is that time of year when most auctioneers hold their annual Christmas Fatstock Show and Sales, to show the best of our stock to include cattle, sheep and pigs. Every year it proves what power the live weight marketing system has, with local butchers, wholesalers and even some... Read the full article

6^th December 2021 Trade Talk - Tom Brooksbank, Auctioneer, Norton and Brooksbank At last an upturn in dairy fortunes ? We have sold over 1200 dairy cattle in November by auction and a vintage tractor, older than your correspondent, for £7000. Variety is the spice of life and we saw Pro-Cross cattle sell up to £2,200 in front of a tremendous crowd of 200+ for the Smith family in Staffordshire and over... Read the full article

29^th November 2021 Keeping markets open for business during the global pandemic a key highlight in career of Chris Dodds, LAA executive secretary and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient A popular and well-deserved recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Livestock Auctioneers’ Association (LAA) executive secretary Chris Dodds has done more than anyone over the last 20 months to keep livestock markets open for business despite the dual challenges of Brexit and a global pandemic. Having helped position... Read the full article

22^nd November 2021 LAA launches new safety initiative MartSafe for members The Livestock Auctioneers’ Association (LAA) has launched MartSafe, a new initiative providing practical advice, guidance and training on health and safety for auctioneers and livestock auction market personnel across England and Wales, in collaboration with professional health and safety consultants, Safety Sanctuary Limited. The... Read the full article

19^th November 2021 Trade Talk - Charlie Coleman, Auctioneer/Fieldsman, Symonds & Sampson LLP, Frome Market Here at Frome market TB is a huge part of our business, with monthly sales of barren cows, store and fat cattle and private sales forming a substantial part of our throughput. At the time of writing, we are preparing for our first dedicated TB Restricted Orange calf and stirk market, being the first one in the south, which... Read the full article

15^th November 2021 Trade Talk - Russell Steer - Kivells - Exeter Livestock Centre Heading into the unknown Since my last piece for the Farmers Weekly’s trade talk back in July where I asked if the current price trends were the new normal, it would appear this new normal is very hard to follow, particularly in sheep marketing! Almost two years since the bar was set at an unprecedentedly high level,... Read the full article

8^th November 2021 Trade Talk - Chris Voyce – Voyce Pullin Markets Ltd - Cirencester Market The Autumn store cattle sales are now in full flow following on from a busy breeding sheep season. The trade of the last 12 months has seen the dearest prices on record with the best beef cattle returning around £1800 and above. The stronger store cattle trading with us at Cirencester this week to over £1500 & the better... Read the full article

1^st November 2021 James B Griffiths BSc (Hons) MRICS - Auctioneer, J Bradburne Price & Co A week of high prices!! October has certainly been a very busy month for us between both markets at Mold & Llanrwst. As well as the regular busy weekly sales, we have also seen additional sales of Breeding Sheep and Store cattle at our Llanrwst Market. Last week we saw some stunning prices. Our Monday, primestock sale... Read the full article

18^th October 2021 Trade Talk - Glyn Lucas - Senior Dairy Auctioneer, Harrison & Hetherington Our company and our dairy industry is all about the people we serve and interact with daily and what an amazing business to be involved in. I often think how fortunate we are to work in an industry that provides the world with such wholesome and nutritious food products. Thank you to everyone who continues to give us... Read the full article

27^th August 2021 Trade Talk - Robert Venner MRICS FAAV FLAA, Partner, Greenslade Taylor Hunt, Sedgemoor Auction Centre The store cattle trade at Sedgemoor in 2021 has been phenomenal. We saw averages in the eight hundreds through 2020, rising well into the nine hundreds as soon as we turned the year. The averages have been over £1000/head for the last two months, to a peak of £1061.24 on Saturday 24th July. We have never seen a trade like... Read the full article

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