HOLSWORTHY

MARKET REPORT

Wednesday 5 August 2020

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Gates open 6am

SALE TIMES

09:45 am - Draft Ewes followed by Finished Lambs

10:30 am - Store Lambs

09.45 am - Calves and Stirks

11:00 am - Store Cattle followed by Finished & OTM Cattle

11:00 am – Dairy Cattle

Fantastic line up of Dairy cattle today saw a top call of £2,500 for a freshly calved 2nd calver sold by

Steven Harris & family of Bodmin with calves topping at a massive £2,000!

Holsworthy Livestock Market, New Market Road, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7FA

01409 253275

976 LAMBS

Good entry and considering the Qurbani Festival is over the

lamb trade has held steady in line with the National trade.

Overall average of 211.1. Top per kilo on the day was 225p

for a smart pen of 44.4kg £100 from Mr & Mrs ST Tucker

of Hatherleigh followed by 2 vendors at 222p, Peter Hobbs

of Wrasford 44kg £97.50 and Malcolm & Graham Piper

44.4kg £98.50. Still several pens around £100 to a top of

£105 sold by Edward Bellamy of Coxtor, Tavistock followed

by Messrs Stephens of Burnscott who realized £103.

227 STORE LAMBS

More on offer but the trade was still flying. Top of the day was £76 from Craig Saunders of Liskeard.

442 DRAFT EWES & RAMS

Over 440 ewes on offer very much sought after with an overall average of £67.68. The big ewes still saw several

pens over £85 to a top of £97 from Mr Bucknell of Holsworthy, a lot of other pens in the £90’s. Mules topped at

£87.50 from Malcolm Gribble of West Rowden and Hill bred ewes to £69.

237 BREEDING EWES

A shortage of breeding ewes has resulted in a flying trade and a lot more could

have been sold. Top of the day was £165 for a pen of Suffolk x 2T from Paul Berry

of Barnstaple. Texel x 2T from Richard Grigg of Treneglos topped at £145 and

NC mule 2T from J Allin of Hartland realized £143. Flock age ewes realized £115.

*** AUTUMN / WINTER GRASS KEEP ***

We have a number of Sheep farmers looking to secure grass keep for lambs /

hoggs and ewes either short term or long term for Autumn / Winter 2020 / 21.

We also have a client urgently looking for grass keep for approx. 500 well-bred

store lambs. All lambs are drenched and ready to go to grass now!

For further information please contact James Morrish 07814 010133

WEIGHT TOP AVERAGE

LAMBS Per

head

P/Kg

TLW

Per

head

P/Kg

TLW

32.1-39 75 197 75 197

39.1-45.5 100 225 93 211.8

45.6-52 105 214 99 203.9

Overall 105 225 96.40 211.1

EWES

Light 80.40 66

Heavy 97 91

Rams 96 82

976 LAMBS, 442 DRAFT EWES & RAMS

09.45 am

Auctioneer: Steve Prouse 07767 895366

GRASS KEEP

ST NEOT

65 acres

* well fenced, mains

water and attention.

STANDING

WHOLECROP

UMBERLEIGH /

CHITTLEHAMPTON

Oats undersown

with Grass

* Approx. 20 acres of

oats undersown with

grass. Good clean,

heavy crop, ready

mid/late August.

STANDING

WHOLECROP

KILKHAMPTON

Spring Barley

* Approx. 19 acres of

Spring Barley

wholecrop

Another massive day which saw a big number

of buyers present joined by new buyers from

Cornwall and Mid Devon.

Overall top call of the day was £605 given for a smart Angus steer stirk in from Messrs Ovens of Camelford, North

Cornwall. Trade of the day went to The Horton family of Plymouth who saw the best of their run of 30 stirks hit a

massive £555 for 4-5mth Angus stirks going off to their new home in Penzance, West Cornwall. The Horton family

also topped the heifer stirk section with their best trio at £520. A massive entry of baby calves saw Graham & Judith

Quance top the day at £440 for a cracking Limousin bull with Rob Veale of Beaworthy close up at £420 with others

at £410 (x2), £400 & £395 from the same good farm. Geoff Endercott saw his best of 8 hit £412 for a wonderful

Blue bull going off to its new home near Torrington. The best of the baby Angus (26 days) came in from Messrs

Clarke of Winkleigh and reached £185 with Andy Hutton topping the Blonde calves at £150. Herefords saw plenty

of interest with Messrs Collins Partnership of Winscott at £310 going off to the edge of Exmoor. Charolais babies

topped at £370 for Ann Jose & family of Launceston and the best of the Monbeliarde bulls reached £335 on behalf

of the Quance family. In the baby heifer pens both Rob Veal and Messrs Collins Partnership hit £310 with Ian Balsdon

of Hatherleigh selling Charolais heifers to £290, Messrs Jose at £270 and Mike Greenaway of Tetcott at £268. Angus

heifers saw the best at £170 for Messrs Furze and Brian Thomas of South Molton at £130 with plenty £115-£120.

A big entry of Holstein bulls saw 5 active buyers pushing the best to £270 on behalf of Rachel Poole with 6 others

from the same farm between £150-£185. Most of the baby Holsteins (under 42 days) ranged between £45-£100

with very little less than £40.

One consignment of TB restricted calves this week saw the best at £73 with the majority at £54-£56. We continue

to collect TB restricted calves at Holsworthy Market every Monday morning if you have calves for this service,

please book them in on 07814 010133 / 01409 253275.

It is tremendous that we have such good numbers in the calf pens with just shy of 1000 calves over the last 3 weeks.

We are pleased to hear the very positive comments coming from our vendors and will continue to do our very

best to ensure things conintue in a positive way in the calf pens for the future. As always, thank you to our vendors,

purchasers and of course our staff.

BREED BULLS HEIFERS

CALVES No Top Ave No Top Ave

A. Angus 10 185 108.30 16 170 79.25

Friesian 61 270 76.03 - - -

D.Shorthorn 1 165 165 - - -

Charolais 5 370 321.60 6 290 253

Limousin 23 440 279.52 18 310 197.72

British Blue 56 420 282.02 - - -

Welsh Black - - - 1 160 160

Hereford 9 310 201.89 - - -

Montbeliarde 1 335 335 - - -

Blonde A 2 150 122.50 - - -

334 CALVES & STIRKS – 09.45 am

Auctioneer: James Morrish 07814 010133

A huge entry for August saw another good strong trade. A wonderful consignment of 45 well-presented single suckled British Blue and Limousin steers and heifers 12-

24mths saw British Blues rise to £1245 with other Blue heifers at £1185. Younger 16mth British Blue steers saw a

top call of £1105 with other 9-12mth Blue and Limousin from the same farm at £850+. Stronger feeding cattle in

short supply this week with Charolais from Mr T Hervin at £1180 and single suckled Charolais from Mr L Grills of

Hartland at £1160. Native steers again sold well with Herefords to £1030 again from Mr Hervin of Umberleigh with

other 18mth Hereford steers form Mr R Vanstone of Sutcombe selling to £990 for 5 and Aberdeen Angus topping

at £960 for Messrs Hervin again. A much larger entry of younger 15-17mth Holstein x continentals saw a similar

strong trade to last week with both steers and heifers £800+. Another flying trade for those young continentals

8mth British Blues from Messrs Veale of Halwill saw 4 to £710, others from the same farm at £670 whilst 7mth

dairy x Blues from Messrs Pomeroy hit £670 (3) and others at £650 (4). Young dairy x Blue heifers from Messrs

Hopper of Launcells sold to £535 with 9mth Angus from the same farm at £580 and heifers to £525. Several Holstein

steers sold well with Messrs Bowden of Highampton reaching £895 for 3, Messrs James of Halwill sold to £890 with

plenty of younger grazing type £670-£750.

5 COWS & CALVES - A run of 1st calving heifers with Aberdeen Angus May

born calves at foot from Messrs Heard of Pancrasweek saw young cows &

calves to £1280, other Limousins to £1220, A. Angus to £1190. More required.

FINISHED CATTLE – A small entry of non Farm Assured cattle this week

saw a top call of 193.5p £1354 for an Aberdeen Angus steer from Messrs

Petherick of Eastacombe with a British Blue heifer from the same farm at £1138.

OTM WEIGHING COWS - A short entry saw a top call of 138p for a heavy

Aberdeen Angus cow from Mr M Satchell of Week St Mary realizing £1032.

Holstein cows from 105-110p.

GRAZING COWS - Beef cows topped at £790 for 2 Limousins from Messrs Crocker & Bellamy of Tavistock and

Herefords from the same farm to £650. Out of parlour Holsteins from Messrs Turner of Torrington to £570 (2).

375 STORE CATTLE – 11 am

Auctioneer: David Kivell 07899 960272

Cows to £2,500

Heifers to £2,300

In-calf Heifers to £1,800

Yearlings to £1,900

Calves to £2,000

Bulls to £2,600

An outstanding quality entry provided plenty of choice to our

buyers. Some exceptional top quality animals met a flying

trade topping at £2,500 for ‘Racewood Uno Prudence GP83’,

a freshly calved second calver sold by Steven Harris and family

of Bodmin. George and Shirley Parsons of the Roose herd of

Cornwall topped the heifer section at £2,300 for ‘Roose Muriel 333’ who was yielding an impressive 38 Kgs. This

was closely followed by another pedigree Cornish herd with ‘Whitsand 327 Tamper Candy’, a fresh calved heifer

sold at £2,100 on behalf of Peter Blake and family of Torpoint. George and Shirley Parsons sold another fresh heifer

at £2,050. Alan Parsons and family from Congdon’s Shop saw a consignment from their continuing herd dispersal

top at £2,000 for a freshly calved heifer. Middle of the road type heifers could have been bought sensibly on the

trade and the sale included a wide selection of qualities. Milky type cows had a strong trade throughout the sale,

with third calvers topping at £1,700 on behalf of the Parson family from Congdon’s Shop. Fourth calvers sold to

£1,450 and fifth calvers £1,350. Dry cows were in strong demand with Ivor Barkwill selling a ‘Langaford’ cow, due

with her second, at £1,520.

A super entry of in-calf heifers had an unbelievable trade with three outstanding heifers from Edward Gay of

Riddlecombe topping the section at £1,800 and averaging £1,756. Kevin Waldon saw his in-calf heifers top at £1,580.

Roger Semmens and family from Penzance sold British Friesian type in-calf heifers to £1,600. An outstanding run

of heifers due January and February from Steve and Kat Pomeroy met strong bidding topping at £1,180.

A large entry of commercial bulling heifers saw a very solid and consistent trade topping at £760 on behalf of Peter

Bromell of Buckland Brewer.

Rob and Mike Wade and family from the pedigree ‘Loford’ herd had a consignment of choice heifers which topped

at £2,000 for a three month old ‘Loford Sprite Roxy’ calf with ten generations VG/EX. ‘Loford Lighthouse Lila Z’,

a March born calf, sold at £1,200 with a served heifer ‘Loford Lighthouse Divine’ with six generations of straight EX

breeding selling at £1,600. The Cornish renowned herd of Willsbro also had a strong consignment of yearlings

forward with a strong trade topping at £1,900 for two

heifers ‘Willsbro Country Sara 190’ and ‘Willsbro

Samaritan Lila B’.

A super looking Holstein bull, ‘Racewood Ren’, from

the Renate cow family sold at £1,350 on behalf of

Steven Harris. An outstanding Hereford bull from Mr

& Mrs Robert Anguish from Camborne attracted great

interest and spirited bidding eventually selling at

£2,600.

More freshly calved and close to calving cows and

heifers are required to meet demand. Please give one

of the dairy team a call if you have stock to sell.

Forthcoming Dairy Sales:

Fri 7th Aug - Exeter Dairy Sale – 170 Dairy Cattle to inc: 2

Freshly Calved Cows & Hfrs; 19 Organic in-calf Hfrs & 21

Organic Hfrs running with the bull, ‘44 Brown Swiss’, ‘Norwegina

Red’ and British Friesian X Bulling & Yearling Hfrs. Followed by

Dispersal Sale of 84 Pedigree Holsteins from the ‘Washstone’

herd on behalf of Messrs. PJ Caunter & Son.

Wed 12th Aug - Holsworthy, Dispersal of 150 NMR recorded

Holstein Friesian & Ayrs crossbred cows, Hfrs & Sept/Oct in

calf Hfrs to ‘Poldark Red HF’ on behalf of Chapel Farm Newquay.

Fri 14th Aug - Exeter, Dairy Sale.

Mon 17th Aug - On Farm Dispersal Sale on behalf of Messrs

MS Manuells & Son of Manor Farm, St Austells, PL26 7TQ, of

170 NMR recorded dairy cows & in-calf heifers.

Wed 19th Aug – Holsworthy Mid -Month Dairy Sale, entries

invited.

DAIRY CATTLE Top Ave

In Milk Heifers (1st Quality) £2300 £2070

In Milk Heifers (2nd Quality) £1600 £1333

2nd Calvers £2500 £1613

3rd to 5th Calvers £1700 £1377

Dry Cows £1520 £1420

In-calf Heifers due 2020 £1800 £1506

In-calf Heifers due after Jan 2021 £1180 £1099

Served Heifer £1600 £1600

Bulling Heifers £760 £733

Yearlings £1900 £634

Calves £2000 £476

Bulls £2600 £1975

DAIRY CATTLE - 11.00 am

Auctioneer: Mark Bromell - 07966 430001

Mark Davis - 07773 371774

Lot 105 sold for £1200

FORTHCOMING MACHINERY SALES

SATURDAY 15th AUGUST - HOLSWORTHY SMALLHOLDERS SALE (NON VAT)

TO INCLUDE PIG, POULTRY, GOAT & PET FOOD SALES

Entries include; Ford 4610, Massey Ferguson 35 c/w loader, Kioti DK5010

tractor, Indespension trailer c/w 6ft lockable container & Scandi mixer, 6ft JCB

grading bucket, 7 sections of drag harrows, grass seeding box, perry loader,

corrogated sheets, sheep dip, McConnel PA93 hedge trimmer, 110cc quad

bike, Sheep hurdles, Hi lift jack, Roller for a quad, Plastic sheep trough etc. DELIVERY – WEDNESDAY > FRIDAY 2 - 4:30pm ONLY (week prior)

MONDAY 31st AUGUST - 10:30AM

COMPLETE DISPERSAL OF FARM MACHINERY (HAVING SOLD THE DAIRY HERD)

Highworthy Farm, Higher Clovelly, Bideford On behalf of J&S Davey & Partners

Entries include; 2018 (68) Massey Ferguson 5712 c/w MF FL.4121 loader, 2019 (19) MF, JD Gator, slurry tanker,

Krone grass tedder, John Deere 331 mower, Tanco bale squeeze, crop sprayer, Amazone fertilizer spreader, Keenan

Mech fibre 350 diet feeder, 10ft livestock trailer, Bateman cattle crush, cake silo, Sowesco cake bin, Albutt shear

grab, hedge trimmer, hydraulic drags, pallet forks, grain bucket, Wydale calf feeders, Qty hurdles & gates, Qty plastic

calf hutches, barrier feeder trailer, 400 square bales (4 string) barn stored 2019 hay & qty of Barley straw.

SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER – HOLSWORTHY MONTHLY MACHINERY

VAT & NON VAT MACHINERY ONLY (combined for this month only) *** NO LIVESTOCK - Rare & Native Breed Sale Saturday 12th September ***

SATURDAY 19th SEPTEMBER - 10:30am

THE CLOVELLY COLLECTIVE AUCTION OF MACHINERY & IMPLEMENTS

Seckington Dairies, Higher Clovelly, Bideford by kind permission of Messrs LJ Goaman & Sons.

Entries include; Taarup Siloking diet feeder 22m3 duo cross conveyors, Siloking 28m3, 2014 McConnel PA55E

hedge trimmer, Kverneland 6m air drill, 2011 Kverneland 3900kg Accord spreader, Abbey 7cb muck spreader, Kuhn

Primor straw blower, Vaderstad 5m nz cultivator, 28ft Marshall bale trailer, 35tn log splitter (brand new), 12ft Ifor

Williams cattle trailer, 8ft roller, flat 8 grab, electric roller mill, cattle creep feeder, grain auger, 10ft roller.

SATURDAY 26th SEPTEMBER - 10:30am

DISPERSAL SALE OF TRACTORS & FARM MACHINERY

Wooda Farm, St Veep, Lostwithiel, Cornwall On behalf of Messrs Hoskin

Entries inc; 2017 (67) New Holland T6-145 c/w Quicke Q55 loader, 2009 (09) New Holland T6030, 2007 (07)

New Holland TL100A c/w Trima loader, 2004 (04) New Holland TL90 c/w MX75U loader, Massey Ferguson 135,

Massey Ferguson 35X, Ford 3000, 1972 (L reg) Landrover Defender, Trailers - Marshall 11tn mono grain, Griffiths

8tn mono grain, 2x Norton 6tn mono grain, Staines 27ft bale c/w lades, Staines 26ft bale c/w lades, 2x Ifor Williams

12ft cattle, 2016 Bomford Kestrel EVOS hedge trimmer, Stoll R460DS rake, Kuhn mower/conditioner FC283G11,

Fella 450D hydro tedder, Bertoud progress 12m sprayer, Lely centre liner SX spinner, 2x Strimech auger bucket,

Lucas Castor trailed straw shredder, Teagle Tomahawk straw shredder, Amazone 3m power harrow, Lely Accord

4m air drill, Marstig hydraulic cambridge rollers, 24ft cambridge rollers, Kverneland VD85 5F rev plough, 3x Twose

ballast rollers, SKH crumbler, Veelik crimper 700mm rollers, AS Marston 103yd rotaspreader, Rolland RD roll twin

105 rear dis dung spreader, 8ft Teagle topper, Bateman foot trimming crush, Bateman cattle weigh crush system

c/w hurdles, sheep race c/w foot bath & shedding gate, turnover crate, lamb weighers, Lister shearers. For further information or entries for any of the above please contact Holsworthy Market

Call: 01409 253275 / Email: machinery@kivells.com / Entry forms at www.kivells.com