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This past week it felt much more like spring thankfully, where the stock certainly enjoyed soaking up the weekend sunshine.The lighter nights are a blessing, enabling us to catch up on jobs.




The batch of Suffolk lambs that were born at Christmas seem to have lost their edge and gone backwards a little, which isn’t surprising given recent weather conditions. We’ve dosed and drenched them to prevent any coccidial infections, so hopefully they’ll bounce back over the next few weeks. 


Pedigree cattle met a steady but consistent trade across the breeds at Carlisle, with a Whitebred Shorthorn bull from J.R.F Pattinson leading the way at 5,000gns. Uppermill Shorthorns from Northern Ireland had the top priced Beef Shorthorns, taking 4,500gns for a female and 4,000gns for a bull. Beef breeding cattle on the same day were a good trade, with a top price of £3,000 for a Limousin cross heifer and calf.

New season lambs have been making good money at the Easter shows, although with it still being early there are not too many numbers about. Hoggs are still a great trade so we will see if that continues after the holiday.
Sales coming up this week
  • Friday March 30 – Halls will be holding it's Kidderminster machinery sale at Stanklyn Lane, DY10 4AR 
  • Saturday March 31 – Pateley Bridge will be holding an Easter prize show and sale of store cattle at Sawley and District Farmers Auction Mart  
  • Tuesday April 3  – Wright Marshall and CCM will be hosting an on-farm dairy dispersal sale comprising the entire Spellowhill herd of pedigree and unregistered Holstein Friesians on behalf of R.C. and P.A. Graham at Lazenby Moor Farm, HG5 0QN
  • Tuesday April 3 – Bagshaws will be holding a grass eating auction at Bakewell Market 
More snow for us at the weekend with some serious blizzards which made feeding the outside stock somewhat of a challenge. The poor folk lambing outside in these conditions have really been up against it. That wind was just raw and you’re heart goes out to those newborn lambs huddled up sheltering against the walls. It feels a long way from spring yet the clocks go forward at the weekend and it’s Easter next week.




I’m currently sporting a black eye where I had an altercation with our barn door late the other evening. The situation was not helped by two loose lambs, a wind tunnel and two buckets of water. Needless to say, the air was as blue the colour my eye is turning!!

The Blue day at Newark on Saturday attracted a packed ringside. British Blues sold to 5,000gns twice at for bulls from Gail Ellis, Cornwall, and Kevin Watret, Annan.



On the same day the first part of the dispersal of commercial cattle from the Baldwin family, Newark, saw cows and calves sell to £3,000 and cross-bred heifers to £2,800.

Hogg trade is still on fire as numbers get tighter. There are more new season lambs about now and the price has seen the usual pre-Easter jump in price. 

The Bowberhill dispersal of pedigree Holsteins at Carlisle topped at 7,200gns and elsewhere dairy trade seem good for the quality cattle in spite of milk price woes.

Sales coming up this week
  • Friday, March 23– Harrison and Hetherington will be holding a rescheduled sale to include 88 pedigree Beef Shorthorn cattle on behalf of the Beef Shorthorn society.  Also being sold on this day: Whitebred Shorthorns, Galloways, Blondes, Herefords and Simmentals at Borderway Mart 
  • Saturday, March 24 –Richard Turner will be holding a dispersal sale of farm machinery and equipment on behalf of Messrs W.R. amd C. Nelson at Bentham Auction Mart 
  • Monday, March 26 – Wharfedale Farmers will be holding a spring primestock show with classes for cattle, spring lambs and pigs at Wharfedale Farmers Mart 
  • Tuesday, March 27 – Leek Auctions will be holding a dairy dispersal sale of the entire 130-head herd of Norwegian Red and Fleckvieh cross cattle on behalf of I. Ball at Leek Auctions
Enjoy the rest of your week.

Steph

It's felt a little bit more like spring this week which the ewes and lambs, who are outside, have been grateful for.
Lambing is still in full swing with a mix of Beltex and Texels. There's about 40 left to go, and a few promising lambs on the ground.


We opened up the shed where the sow and piglets are housed, enabling them to run in and out. The piglets have been cavorting everywhere having great fun and getting braver and braver with their explorations.......very cheeky too!

Plenty of records broken this week in the auction marts. A new record of £8,000 set at Leyburn's spring spectacular for a Limousin cross heifer from Garrowby Estate Farms,York,  selling to the judge Donald Morrison, Sutherland.




New store cattle records have also been set at Bentham and Kirkby Stephen with trade particularly higher for younger show potential cattle.
Prime cattle prices are holding up as are cull cows. Hoggs are still a roaring trade and cull ewes have also had a lift this week.

Sales coming up this week
  • Friday, March 16 – Harrison and Hetherington will be hosting a dispersal sale of 210 pedigree Holsteins on behalf of the Bowberhill herd, the current Border and Lakeland champion herd at Borderway Mart
  • Saturday, March 17 – Wright Marshall will be holding an on-farm dispersal sale of tractors, machinery, equipment and building materials at Grange Farm, SY13 4RA
  • Saturday, March 17 – Newark Livestock Market will be hosting the British Blue Spring Society sale of 76 pedigree males and females at Newark Cattle Livestock Market
  • Monday, March 19  – Darlington Mart will be holding their mid-March extravaganza show and sale of  600 store sheep and 150 young bulls many with show potential, at Darlington Farmers Auction Mart


Enjoy your week,

Steph
Well, what a week of weather we had. The snow was unbelievable for many and our neighbours were saying they hadn’t experienced this amount of snow for decades. Despite suffering major losses of stock, many farmers were out burning up diesel clearing roads to help free up access to communities that were cut off with the snow  There was a tremendous community effort.



Our pet pigmy nanny goat Doris took badly over the weekend, which was a problem as the vet was unable to reach us with the snow. We bundled her up in the pickup and braved the roads to meet the vet on a petrol station car park. He suspected some sort of gut reaction which had triggered a vitamin B deficiency which then could have possibly caused the nervous disease CCN.



Appropriate drugs were given and we battled home and got her settled and under a heat lamp. After all that, the blummin' thing died within the hour! I very much doubt she’ll be missed by anything other than me on the farm, as she really ruled the roost and bullied and dunted everything in sight, dogs, geese, stock tups, the lot! Her kid, Kitty, doesn’t appear to be affected by the loss and seems happy enough playing with the Suffolk lambs. I’ll keep my eye out for a mate for her, as apparently goats do get lonely.
Many sales were postponed last week with the bad weather. Most pedigree sales have now been rescheduled, check out Auction Finder and this week’s Farmers Guardian to get up to speed.

The majority of the marts are back to normal this week although numbers are short in some places as people struggle with the aftermath of the snow.

Prime cattle and hogg trade have been strong, hogg prices in particular have soared this week, no doubt helped by the lack of numbers.

Sales coming up this week
  • Friday March 9 – BJP Marts will be holding its 'Famous Monthly Sale' of weaned calves, organic cattle and pigs suckler cows and stock bulls at Carmarthen Livestock Centre 
  • Saturday March 10 – Newark will be holding the English Premier Show and Sale of bulls and females on behalf of the Lincoln Red Cattle Society, the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, the British Simmental Cattle Society and The Salers Cattle Society at Newark Cattle Livestock Market
  • Saturday March 10  – Graham Watkins will be holding its bi-annual collective sale of agricultural tractors, machinery and equipment at Heath House Farm ST13 7DQ
  • Tuesday March 13 – Leek Auctions will be holding a dispersal sale of 54 Holstein Friesians on behalf of Blaze Farm Partners at Leek Auctions
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