North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 2nd July 2014
Weekly report & newsletter
BUCKETS OF KNOWLEDGE Landlord and Tenant Within our team, we deal with many tenancy issues, including rent reviews, notice to quit and succession, which is an extremely complicated process. If you are a landlord or a tenant and have any concerns with regards to your tenancy please do not hesitate to contact the office.
FINDING YOU PASTURES NEW
Forthcoming Sales NWA Lancaster
FOR SALE BY INFORMAL TENDER
Monday 7th July
STABLES AND LAND AT COLTON, ULVERSTON
9am – Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep. 10.30am – Prime Bulls & Prime Cattle
Utility Companies Recently, we have seen an increase in the number of utility companies such as National Grid (gas and electric), UU and BT wanting access to land. It is important that proper terms are agreed beforehand and so, if you have been approached by any companies and have any concerns, please let us know. Usually, our fees are paid by the acquiring authority
Friday 11th July – weekly sale Extending to 7.00 acres/2.97 hectares or thereabouts and including 2 stable blocks, separate tackroom and yard with external hay storage.
10.15am – 100 Cast Cows & OTM Clean Cattle 10.15am – 60 Rearing Calves & Stirks 11.15am - STORE & BREEDING CATTLE
Environmental Stewardship Our team is busy with ELS and HLS schemes at present. With a variety of options to suit all land and farming practices if you are interested in putting your farm in a scheme or if you are in an existing scheme which is due for renewal and you would like us to help please just ring the office.
(catalogue entries close 2pm Monday 7th July)
Closing date for tenders – 3.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 29th July, 2014
Monday 21st 11.15am - Monthly Sale of Pedigree & Commercial Dairy Cattle (entries close Friday 11th July)
FOR SALE BY INFORMAL TENDER grazing/mowing rights over 20.94 acres/8.47 hectares of land at
NWA J36
PRIORY PARK FARM, PRIORY ROAD/COAST ROAD BARDSEA, NEAR ULVERSTON NWA Architectural is a new building design and planning service offered through NWA Professional and Property to all auction mart clients and the public at large. It is intended to offer a drop-in service for advice and enquiries on auction days Initial site visits for works and instructions are free of charge and can be arranged through Greg, Gillian or other NWA staff. Also, a planning update is proposed quarterly in this newsletter covering changes to and the complexities of planning policy as they apply for agriculture, domestic and commercial buildings.
Tuesday 8th July 10.30 - Monthly Sale of Pigs 1.45pm – Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep
On instructions from D.H. Bowes, Esq., Available from 17th July, 2014 to 31st March, 2015. Closing date for tenders – 3.00 p.m. on Monday, 14th July, 2014
Thursday 10th July – fortnightly sale 10.15am – 60 Rearing Calves & Stirks 10.30am – 60 Cast Cows, OTM & Prime Cattle 11am – Newly Calved Dairy Cows & Heifers £50 Genus voucher will be awarded to the vendor of the highest priced dairy animal sold at J36 each month
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(catalogue entries close Thursday 3rd July)
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NWA J36 - Thursday 26th June - Fortnightly Sale Fortnightly Sale of Rearing Calves & Stirks, Dairy Cattle, Store Cattle, Cast/Feeding Cows, OTM & Clean Cattle. The sale of Cast / Feeding Cows, OTM & Prime Cattle saw a market average of 118p/kg for an entry of predominantly dairy cows. Beef cows sold to 129.5p/kg for Limousin x from D & B Walker and £826 for BRB x from JG & PH Thompson. Dairy cows peaked at 127.5p/kg from RJ & KR Wilkinson and £1050 from KJ Knight. Prime cattle sold to 164.5p/kg / £1114 for Limousin x steers and heifers from TS & SM Park. A strong entry again of 87 calves and stirks forward at J36 saw calves sell to a continued strong trade with old and new faces around the ring today keen to purchase all types of calves. The sale topper today was a suckler bred seven week old Limousin Bull calf from Ian Little of Helm Croft selling for £510. A consignment of British Blue calves from JW & TE Sharp of Flodder Hall saw Bulls sell to £425 and heifers to £420 and £395. Best sorts of Beef bull calves sold over the £300 with good heifers into the late £200’s. Black and whites sold to a stronger trade with a lot forward best sorts sold into the late eighties with growing calves in the sixties. There was a good backing of stirk buyers around the ring today with dairy bred British Blue bulls from Mrs H Ellison of Low Greaves selling to £550 and Limousins to £470 from Ian Little of Helm Croft. Black and white bull stirks at five months old sold to £260 from B Butterfield & Son of Moss House Farm. Cows with Calves at Foot sold to £1450, £1380 from R & RM Dent with buyers keen to secure replacement stock. Yearling store heifers reached £730 for Limousin x from JH Barker with younger types £600 / £640. Another good entry of dairy cattle including several new vendors attracted a crowd of competitive buyers, again with new purchasers ringside. The sale peaked at £2200 for a Galastar Bluesky sired heifer from WH & JM Robinson with W & CW Dent selling a Shottle sired heifer at £1980 and E & K Bland selling a Homeland Goldfinger heifer also at £1980. An entry of cows saw fresh fourth calved cows sell to £1220. Next fortnightly sale will be held on Thursday 10th July (entries for catalogue close Thursday 3rd July)
Top Prices CAST COWS - Fr: 127.5p/kg High Foulshaw Farm; 124.5p/kg Little Guards, Ackenthwaite, Lane Ends. Lim: 129.5p/kg Chapples Farm. BB: 127.5p/kg Poppy Farm; 124.5p/kg Howe Farm. AA: 119.5p/kg Milton Mill. OTM HEIFERS- Lim: 159.5p/kg Millom Castle. Fr: 127.5p/kg High Foulshaw. OTM BULLOKS – Lim: 164.5p/kg (twice) & 159.5p/kg Millom Castle. BULL CALVES – Lim: £510 Helm Croft; £370 & £300 Barrowfield; £295 Beck House; £210 Lupton Hall. BRB: £425 Flodder Hall; £360 Monk Foss; £310 Hagg Farm; £260 Ravens Lodge; £250 Monk Foss. Hfd: £175 Birkland Barrow. Sim: £240 Swarthmoor Hall. AA: £160 & £130 Wyke Farm; £150 Moss House Farm. Shorthorn: £80 School House. Fr: £92 & £90 Beck NWA J36 Side; £70 & £68 Strickland Hill; £68 Natland Park; £62 Lupton Hall. HEIFER CALVES – Lim: £320 & £230 Monk Foss; £260 & £250 Spout House; £195 Swarthmoor Summer Calf Show Hall; £145 Halforth Farm. Hfd: £225 Birkland Barrow; £135 Moss House Farm. AA: £410 Monk Foss; £355 Birkland Barrow. BRB: £420 & £395 Flodder Hall; £350 Hagg Farm. Thursday 26th July STIRKS – Fr: £220 Low Greaves; £260 Moss House Farm. Lim: £470 Helm Croft. BRB: £550 Low Greaves. N/C DAIRY HEIFERS - £2200 Dove House; £1980 Greenriggs, Cotegill; £1820 & £1780 Tills Farm; Please see the website for £1750 Cotegill Farm. more details N/C DAIRY COWS - £1220 & £1080 Clawthorpe Lodge
NWA LANCASTER - Friday 27th June - Weekly Sale Store Cattle A larger show of 155 store cattle forward at Lancaster today sold to a stronger trade with the quality of cattle on show better. The trade topped at £1380 from R Escolme of Ivy Barn selling a named sired Hereford steer. Best sorts easier to sell with plenty of big steers regularly selling over £1100. Heifers topped at £1200 for Herefords from AJ & D Knowles of Windy Hill. Buyers continue to look for animals batched in large groups with a trio of Angus steers from Joe Davies at Weavers Farm. Black and whites sold to a slightly brighter trade. Congratulations to Brian Wood of Middle Ridge Farm for winning the prize draw of a £15 lunch voucher for lotting four or more cattle together. OTM and Cast Cattle A plainer entry of OTM cattle forward today lead to a slightly easier trade with a good entry of 71 forward. The trade topped at 154.5ppk for a cast Fleckvieh heifer from Norbreck Genetics with Cast cows topping at 149.5 for a Limousin from AR Edmondson of Hawkswell. Beef bred cattle reguarly exceeded 135ppk with good dairy cows selling between 117ppk and 130ppk and plainer sort over a pound with overall average for cast cows 111ppk. Calves A good number of calves forward this morning, made up of mainly black and whites with continental calves short of buyers requirements. Black and White calves sold to a top of £130 from regular vendor David Wallbank. Best sorts sold in excess of £100 with good well fleshed calves £48-£85. Topping trade was Phillip Halhead of Cockerham, selling a 38day Blue Bull to £380. A 7 week Simmental from D & A Travis. Limousins sold to £315 for bulls from CR & A Baxter, New Brows Farm, Limousin heifers from the same home sold to £365 with British Blue Heifers selling to £360 again from David Wallbank. Congratulations once again to Phillip Halhead of Norbreck Farm, winning the monthly calf competition sponsored by Dugdale Nutrition, receiving 6 bags of feed. This monthly competition is open to all calves under 42days and awarded to the highest price calf of the month.
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NWA LANCASTER - Friday 27th June Continued Top Prices STORE BULLOCKS – HE - £1380 £1190 Ivy Barn; £1260 Bensons Farm; £1160 Windy Hill Farm; £1000 Cock Hall Farm; £860 Sandhole Farm. LIM - £1370 £1080 Millom Castle; £1230 Bensons Farm; £1220 Old Woodhouse; £1140 Old Woodhouse; £1130 Cragg Farm. CH £1320 Old Woodhouse. BRB - £1250 Parkside Farm; £1230 £1140 Pasture House Farm; £980 Cock Hall Farm. SIM - £1280 Bensons Farm; £1190 Cragg Farm. AA - £1200 £1180 Weavers Farm; £1140 Underhelm Farm; £1140 Parkside Farm; £1080 Millom Castle; £1060 Cock Hall Farm. MO - £960 Old Woodhouse. BB - £910 £770 Mount Murray. SHO - £860 Sandhole Farm. HF - £810 Spital Farm; £800 £640 Springfield Farm; £600 Middle Ridge Farm. BS - £730 Cock Hall Farm. STORE HEIFERS – HE - £1200 Windy Hill Farm. AA - £1080 Underhelm Farm; £980 Low Levens; £980 Brow Foot Farm; £960 Jolley Fold Farm; £940 Cropper Farm. LIM - £1060 Millom Castle; £1010 Cockrigg Farm; £970 £940 Cropper Farm; £960 Jolley Fold Farm; £920 Prospect Farm. SIM - £980 Village Farm; £960 Jolley Fold Farm; £780 Sandhole Farm. SHO - £980 Lundholme Farm. BRB - £940 Cropper Farm; £610 Muffys Platt Farm. BB - £890 Mount Murray. CAST COWS – LIM – 149.5 Hawkswell Farm; 137.5 New House Farm; 134.5 124.5 Mount Murray; 119.5 Mosergh Farm; 117.5 Scroggs Farm. AA – 141.5 Parkside Farm; 119.5 109.5 Mount Murray. CH – 124.5 Mount Murray. HF – 124.5 Holmes Farm; 121.5 Cote Farm; 121.5 Gibraltar Farm; 121.5 Boon Town Farm; 119.5 Cocker House Farm; 117.5 High Gateside; 117.5 OxenGeneral Farm Worker forth Green Farm. BB – 124.5 Scroggs Farm. SIM – 121.5 Mount Murray. HE – 119.5 114.5 Mount MurRequired ray; 114.5 Blenkett Farm; 101.5 Corney Hill Farm. GA – 109.5 Blenkett Farm. CAST HEIFERS – LIM – 144.5 Norbreck Farm; 144.5 Hawkswell Farm; 137.5 Sykes Farm; 109.5 For a dairy farm in North Mosergh Farm. BRB – 144.5 Ivy Farm. HF – 137.5 131.5 High Snab; 121.5 117.5 New Brows Farm; 114.5 Arnside Tower Farm. Lancashire, part time, full CAST/PRIME BULLS & BULLOCKS – AA – 104.5 Mount Murray. time and self employed BULL CALF – BRB - £380 £322 Norbreck Farm; £235 North Farm. SIM – £335 Manor Farm. LIM - £315 considered. Must have a full New Brows Farm; £145 Cotestones Farm. HF - £130 Tills Farm; £120 Ancliffe Hall Farm. driving license. Duties will HEIFER CALF – LIM - £365 £342 New Brows Farm. BRB - £360 Tills Farm; £200 North Farm. AA - £200 include stock and Norbreck Farm. HF - £5 Gibsons Farm. tractor work BULL STIRK – BRB - £370 Gateside Farm. SIM - £340 Gateside Farm. For more info contact HEIFER STIRK – BRB - £405 Gateside Farm. 07774 768199 STR STIRK – AA - £360 Newhouse Farm.
NWA LANCASTER - Monday 30th June - Prime Stock Strong Trade at Lancaster Continues for Spring Lambs 1202 Prime Lambs to £113& 235.0p/kg Prime Lamb The trade continues to hold strong at Lancaster for prime lambs with the overall average of 215ppk. There was another strong entry of just over 1200 lambs forward. As Weights Top Av. Standard 32 ½ -39 235.0 216.0 always plenty of good well fleshed lambs on offer which were good to sell with a few pens of Medium 39 ½ -45 ½ 233.0 216.0 plainer lambs forward just pulling the sale average back. It was lambs full of meat that buyers Heavy 46 - 51 ½ 222.0 206.5 were looking for today with leaner lambs being penalised. The trade topped at £113 for a couple of 51kg lambs from JH Gardner of Moss Cottage. Lambs sold to a top of 235ppk for a pen of 10 Charollais x lambs from David Whitaker of Stirzakers Farm selling to £91.50. This was closely followed by Malcolm Lund at 234ppk with Andrew Clarkson and Mark Townley at 233ppk. Suffolk Lambs sold to £95 from TE Kidd of Booth Hall with plenty of pens of best sorts of Suffolk’s selling over £90. Mules starting to come forward now with 37kg lambs from JS & S Atkinson of Sykes Farm selling to £77.
Cast Sheep The trade for cast sheep was better than expected considering the start of Ramadan. There were less numbers forward, however all types selling to a similar trade. Cast sheep sold to a top price of £116 for a Texel ewe from Stephen Hill of The Dell with cast Tups selling to £114 from David & Linda Dickinson of 14 Prime Bulls to 180.5p/kg, £1319.46 Top Av. Bay View. Best sorts of continental ewes sold into the £90’s with others in the £80’s. Mule ewes sold Class Prime 180.5 167.2 regularly in the £70’s, topping at £98/head from J Lamb, Old Glasson. Others
151.5 130.2
Prime Bulls There was another entry in the double figures of bulls today in Lancaster with a mixture of types forward. Bulls sold to a top price of 180.5ppk or £1319 for a Limousin Bull from JM & AG Swarbrick of Bensons Farm with British Blue bulls from S & BM Lawrence & Son of Northwoods Farm selling to 177.5ppk. Beef bred bulls sold to an average 162ppk with a show of Holsteins bulls selling to 118.5ppk averaging 117.5ppk.
Top Prices Prime Lambs – SUFFOLK - £95 £88 Booth Hall; £94 Blackleach House Farm; £94 New Parkside Farm; £94 Old Glasson Farm; £93 £86 Tunstall Hall; £93 North Farm. MULE - £77.50 Sykes Farm; £72 Highfield Farm. CHAROLLAIS - £84 £83 Jacksons Farm; £82.50 Stirzakers Farm; £79 Hazelslack Tower Farm; £77.50 Springfield Farm; £76 Goodshaw Farm. TEXEL - £113 £98 Moss Cottage; £99 £97 Mearsbeck Farm; £98 Burrow Heights Farm; £98 Far Highfield; £95 Moss Side Farm; £94.50 Lower Castle O Trim. Prime Hoggs – MULE - £59 Cockerham Hall. TEXEL - £74 £59 Cockerham Hall. HERDWICK - £67 £64 Lee End Farm. Cast Sheep – SUFFOLK - £90 £48 Burrow Heights; £81 Cockerham Hall. MULE - £114 Bay View; £98 £76 Conder Green Farm; £78 The Dell; £77 Highfield Farm; £77 Far Highfield; £75 Wyre Farm. TEXEL £116 The Dell; £98 Conder Green Farm; £94 Burrow Heights Farm; £85 Cock Hall Farm; £82 Lundholme Farm; £80 Moss Side Farm. Prime Bulls – HF – 118.50p/kg 117.50p/kg Low Audlands; 117.50p/kg Calcalds Farm. LIM – 180.50p/ kg 169.50p/kg Bensons Farm; 162.50p/kg Northwoods Farm. SIM – 151.50p/kg Village Farm. BRB – 117.50p/kg 166.50p/kg Northwoods Farm; 169.50p/kg Calcalds Farm. MO - 155.50p/kg 151.50p/kg Lane House; 143.50p/kg Village Farm.
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NFU TB Meeting Monday 7th July 7.30pm In The Function Suite at J36 Rural Auction Centre To discuss TB in your area With speakers from NFU AHVLA TB Eradication Advisory Group
NWA J36 Crooklands - Tuesday 1st July North West Auctions held their weekly sale of prime stock at J36 on Tuesday. A huge show of 1955 Prime Lambs to £99 & 238.5p/kg some 2300 prime lambs and cast sheep were put before the usual ringside of buyers. Lambs Weights Top Av. topped at £99 per head for Texel x’s from J & J Postlethwaite of Bramaskew and the top price Standard 32 ½ -39 238.5 200.6 per kilo was 238.5p/kg for a cracking pen of Beltex x lambs from Richard Morphet of Halton. Medium 39 ½ -45 ½ 209.8 197.0 Heavy 46 - 51 ½ 212.8 200.0 Also worthy of a mention was a pair of Pure Zwartable lambs from young Dan Crowe of Witherslack which sold for £93 per head to Andrew Atkinson. With bigger numbers of lambs on the market throughout the country, trade was easier on the week but we still managed to hold onto a very respectable overall average of 198.35p/kg with all classes and weights of lambs being sought after. A much smaller show of cast sheep were forward and even though the Muslim festival of Ramadan has begun, cast sheep met an outstanding trade topping at £120 for a pair of Cheviot rams from John Handley of Whinfell. Continental ewes regularly £95 to £110. Mules to £92 with plenty £75 - £85 per head. Once again Horned ewes met a strong trade with Rough Fell ewes £79 and Swaledales to £75.
Top Prices PRIME LAMBS – Suffolk: £96 Overthwaite; £95 Birks Farm; £94 Mansrigg Hall; £90.50 Hill Park; £90 Lane Ends. Mule: £76 Strickland Hill; £74 Cooper House, Borrans Farm; £73 High Borrowbridge, Long Streets. Char: £90 Longwell, Trees Farm, Gibraltar Farm; £88 Low Brundrigg; £87 Floraire. Chev: £85 Green Head. Texel: £99 Bramaskew; £94 Mansrigg Hall; £89.50 Ackenthwaite; £89 Swallowmire, Birks Farm; £88 The Dell; £87.50 Underley Hall. Jacob: £70 Farleton House. Zwartable: £93 Birks Farm; £80 Bowston Hall. Beltex: £93 Far Highfield: £90 Holme Field; £84 Stubb Farm; £83 Farleton House. CAST SHEEP – Texel: £114 (ram) Birks Farm; £110 Trees Farm; £105 Greaves Farm; £100 Howriggs; £98 Red Lodge; £95 Birks Farm; £94 Underley Hall. Suffolk: £100 Wreay Syke. Masham: £84 The Coach House; £70 Orphan Crag. Mule: £92 Haveriggs Farm; £89 Hollins Farm; £87 Moss Head; £86 Scargill Farm; £83 Underley Hall, Birks Farm. Swaledale: £75 Strickland Hill; £55 Orphan Crag; £54 Longwell; £50 Borrans Farm. Rough Fell: £79 Orphan Crag; £77 Howriggs; £62 High Green; £60 SwalNWA Lancaster lowmire. Horned: £73 Botton Hall. Char: £64 Borrans Farm. Cheviot: £120 (ram) School House; £90 Orphan Crag; £74 Underley Hall. Leicester: £116 (ram) Friday 25th July Warth Sutton; £112 (ram) Audlands Park; £104 Scargill Farm.
Farm to Farm Trading 20-30 In-calf Pedigree Holstein Friesian Heifers due July-September Contact Matthew Probert on 07760 557932
Opening sale of Breeding Sheep Focus Farm launch meeting: Flock Health Topics
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Pure Simmental Bull 3yrs old See website for photos Contact Richard Gardiner on 07713 787510 Summer Grazing Flookburgh Area Contact Richard Gardiner on 07713 787510 Winter Cattle Housing Cubicles or loose housed Contact Richard Gardiner on 07713 787510 Angus Bull 5yrs old
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