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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

29^th February 2016 Farmers Weekly Trade Talk We are very busy at Ashford Cattle Market, deep in the South East of England, closer to Calais than to Parliament Square, but still populated in the region by enough sheep to allow us to offer in excess of 5000 sheep every Tuesday at this time of the year. 3000 finished hoggets, 1500 store tegs, 650 cull ewes and even 36... Read the full article

22^nd February 2016 Mart Report - Colin Smith Another year has passed with last year's extreme cast ewe trade a distant memory. Overfat types have been harder to sell all year and when values decreased during speaning time it encouraged farmers to take advantage of plentiful grazing and hold back from selling, expecting the usual buoyant trade over the Christmas period... Read the full article

8^th February 2016 Trade Talk January 2016 Prime cattle numbers at Selby have been good in the first few weeks of 2016. Comparing the trade with this time last year the prices for clean cattle have seen steers similar or slightly back with heifers 10-12p/kg back on average with some better sorts more discounted than that. Best shaped continental cross heifers 480-550kg... Read the full article

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