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17^th June 2016 Trade Talk by Graham Ellis With Colchester being the only weekly livestock market operating in the Eastern Counties, 2016 has seen a very disappointing beef trade. But at least the live auction system is supporting producers, enabling cattle to be sold with competition. We have no weight limits and grading is by the eye of the beast... Read the full article

2^nd June 2016 Russell Jeanes - Auctioneer We’ve been discussing with our landlords for more than 10 years about the relocation of our market to a new site to the north of the town. The new plans have now been drawn up and are on our website - www.louthmarket.co.uk. We have operated the market in partnership with other local businesses for decades and expect this... Read the full article

26^th May 2016 Trade Talk by Alastair Brown at Thrapston Market Sales at both our marts in Thrapston and Stratford-Upon-Avon have painted a similar picture, with prices for store cattle performing well when compared to finished prices. Store cattle numbers at Thrapston have been averaging approximately 200 - 250 every Saturday this year which commonly now starts to tail off as we get... Read the full article

20^th May 2016 Trade Talk - Stephen Dennis In the North West the first week in May sees the start of the premier sales for hoggs with lambs at foot. The first of the Bentham Sales held last Wednesday is highly regarded as offering top quality annual consignments and looking back at the 2015 sale results I was reminded how expensive they were. Mule hoggs with singles... Read the full article

12^th May 2016 Trade Talk - Robert Meadmore At the time of writing, like everyone else, Mid Wales eagerly awaits the appearance of some spring warmth, with a lot of the stock we process depending on a plentiful supply of grass. Traditionally spring is a quieter time for our three centres, Hay-on-Wye, Builth Wells and Rhayader, with weekly entries of hoggetts between... Read the full article

6^th May 2016 Trade Talk by Tim Webster Market Manager & Head of Cattle - Melton Mowbray Market With the April sunshine the store cattle have been out in abundance. We have held a couple of catalogue sales, combined with the British Bazadaise Cattle Society sale, seeing 6-700 head weekly. Prices have been strong with several animals fetching in excess of £1,000,... Read the full article

28^th April 2016 Trade Talk - Rhys Davies Our last sale of suckler bred store cattle included a number of organic cattle. Twelve months ago, cattle topped at £1,445 for an organic Charolais cross steer. The top price at this year's sale was £1,210 for a smart 590kg Limousin cross steer. Welsh Black steers topped at £1,400 12 months ago, whilst this year, the top... Read the full article

14^th April 2016 Farmers Weekly - Trade Talk April 2016 I once read a piece about financial economists who have to have an opinion and make predictions on their chosen subject simply because that is their job and people ask them. If people didn’t ask them they wouldn’t need to have an opinion. Well, we as livestock auctioneers are in the same boat, we think about past events,... Read the full article

5^th April 2016 Store cattle - too expensive or not? Another highly successful sale of 1,000 store cattle at our March Fair was again met with a chorus of buyers complimenting the vendors for the quality of cattle on show - but unanimous in their concern that they were too expensive to face the finished market. With the average trade back on the previous month by around... Read the full article

22^nd March 2016 Trade Talk March 2016 The first few months of 2016 have seen challenges thrown as us as Auctioneers and Farmers in terms of beef values, they are approx 15-20pkg liveweight lower than the year previous. The lower retail demand, a lower milk price putting many Dairy cows into the Cast sale rings, and with 2014 Spring born steers and heifers coming... Read the full article

14^th March 2016 Trade Talk By Jonny Dymond BSc (Hons) FLAA By Jonny Dymond BSc (Hons) FLAA Beeston Castle & Chelford Auctions, Cheshire Rearing calves at Beeston & Chelford have been selling on a very buoyant trade, when you consider the drops seen in the finished value. They are not at the dizzy heights of pre-Christmas and the £400 calf is a rarer occurrence, but Continental... Read the full article

9^th March 2016 Trade Talk - March 2016 Libby Bell Auctioneer and MD Barnard Castle and Teesdale Farmers Auction Mart Co. LTD As we approach spring yet again the focus is on the weather and lambing time. With scans locally showing a lot of lambs the priority is of course on getting them here in one piece. By the beginning of May (a little later here than other... Read the full article

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