The Livestock Auctioneers' Association Limited (LAA)

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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

23^rd August 2021 Trade Talk - Bradley Towell – Prime cattle auctioneer McCartneys Worcester & Ludlow markets At the time of writing (week commencing 9th August 2021), prime cattle trade appears to have reached another level. The past week has seen heifers topping at 296ppk and £1972, steers hitting 293ppk and £1978 and prime bulls achieving 280ppk and £2102. Whilst it is not unheard of for a top-grade butchers heifer, typically... Read the full article

16^th August 2021 Trade Talk - Peter Huntley, Auctioneer & Manager, Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions Ltd Operating Cutcombe and Blackmoor Gate markets on the uplands of Exmoor, we are gearing up for the Autumn flush of breeding and store stock, with our main sales starting at the end of this month and into September. Being one of the few uplands areas in the South West, we, in common with much of the North of the country,... Read the full article

9^th August 2021 Trade Talk - Robert Addison FRICS FLAA, Managing Director, Hexham and Northern Marts I am writing this with the Olympic competition in full swing with gold, silver and bronze medals being the just rewards for all the endeavours of the worthy recipients. On a slightly smaller scale we have just held our Summer Young Handlers show for Prime sheep at our Hexham and Scots Gap centres the prizes are rosettes... Read the full article

2^nd August 2021 New research by The Prince’s Countryside Fund highlights the importance of auction marts for the social, health, and wellbeing of their visitors Launched at an event with HRH The Prince of Wales last week (21st July), a new report commissioned by The Prince’s Countryside Fund, and carried out by Dr Caroline Nye, Professor Matt Lobley and Professor Michael Winter from the University of Exeter, highlights how auction marts tackle social isolation and improve the health... Read the full article

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