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Good grief what a wet and miserable week it’s been. It’s been a constant downpour. The fields are waterlogged and the stock look bedraggled and fed up. The ducks are the only ones happy along with a new mum who turned up with her four new chicks, no idea where she’d been nesting.
It was a great day for Stuart Currie at the Marts The Heart sale of Beef Shorthorns at Skipton where he had a number of the leading prices for heifers including setting a new breed centre record of 11,000gns for Beautry Shuna Liesel.

In-lamb ewe sales are now underway and at the Dark Diamonds Suffolk sale at Carlise top price of 7000gns was for a shearling ewe from Andrew Wilson's Castleisle flock, Co Donegal.

Charolais bulls topped at 7,000gns at Welshpool for Maerdy Norseman from Esmor Evans and Limousins sold to 6,200gns at Brecon for Braydonside Norman from Owen Comer.

Breeding cattle seem to be a good trade selling to £3600 at Kirkby Stephen for a British Blue sired heifer with calf.

Prime cattle and sheep prices are a few pence more for the best quality with anything else still more difficult to sell but the strong store lamb trade continues with Darlington seeing a top price of £84.50 on Monday.
Sales coming up this week
  • Thursday, 15 November – Penrith will be holding their Marts the Heart sponsored Lake District stock judging evening at Penrith Mart
  • Friday, 16 November – Hexham will be holding their weekly sale of store cattle which will also include the annual second Bellingham sale of spring-born suckled calves and a suckler cow herd dispersal from Mr R. P. Ridley at Hexham Mart 
  • Saturday, 17 November – North West Auctions will be holding an on-farm dispersal sale of machinery, livestock equipment and implements on behalf of J.A. and V.M. Lamb at Conder Green, LA2 0AN
  • Saturday, 17 November - Selby will be holding a sale of 180 cattle of all classes at Selby Auction Mart 
  • Tuesday, 20 November – Greenslade Taylor Hunt will be holding their November collective sale of 183 dairy cattle at Sedgemoor Auction Centre 
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I've included two of our latest jobs on www.jobsinagriculture.com I think you might be interested in. Why not register your CV today? 
Sector Board Members 
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is looking for new members to join its boards.

The roles are an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of AHDB against a backdrop of Brexit, global price volatility, technological innovation and changing habits of British shoppers.
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Herdsperson/Farm Worker
Dartmoor farming enterprise are looking to recruit a herdsperson/ farmworker on full or part time/ flexible basis.
Work includes looking after a herd of pedigree Belted Galloway cattle and a pedigree sheep flock. The successful applicant needs to be self- motivated and be able to work independently and demonstrate good husbandry skills.
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Might see you at Penrith on Thursday,

Steph
Let's just say we've had better weeks! The sheep have been scanned and none of the six Suffolk embryos took, was it the heat? Then my Shorthorn show heifer calved. It was a massive calf so we decided to have a caesarean which put pay to future showing. Then after all that the blumin' calf didn't make it. Fed up was putting it mildly! On a positive we've had another three cows calve with no bother. As the saying goes..where there's livestock there's deadstock. 
Breeding sheep sales are coming to an end, winter fairs are well underway and the Christmas fatstock shows are just around the corner which may help the prime trade as butchers and processors look to build up stocks for the festive season.

Prime lamb averages are up by a few pence and the better quality lambs are still selling well. Not much improvement in the cattle trade but hopefully this will change if demand increases. Store lambs remain a flying trade with some markets reporting the best trade seen all year as buyers feel in a slightly better place to fill their stock requirement.

Salers sold to 9,000gns twice at the Marts The Heart sale at Castle Douglas for bulls, Harestone Lamborgini from the Barclays, Insch, and Drumaglee Legend from Patrick Boyd, Tiree

Suckled calves sold to £3000 at Middleton in Teesdale on Tuesday and £2,700 at Kirkby Stephen on Monday where there were plenty of buyers. Calves with show potential were no doubt driving the top prices, and while the better grown bigger calves sold well, smaller calves were a more difficult trade. 
Sales coming up this week
  • Thursday, November 8 – Thame Farmers will be holding a dispersal of contents of agricultural engineers store on behalf of A G Ford & others atNearton End Farm, MK17 0SL
  • Friday, November 9 – Clitheroe Auction will be holding their annual second 'Old Fair' sale of 1500 sheep at Clitheroe Auction Mart 
  • Saturday, November 10 – McCartneys will be holding the autumn show and sale of 60 pedigree Limousin cattle at Brecon Market
  • Monday, November 12 – Clee Tompkinson Francis will be holding a sale of 300 weaned calves at Sennybridge Market 
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Here's some of the latest jobs on www.jobsinagriculture.com that I thought you might be interested in. 
 
Livestock Technical Manager
We are seeking a highly motivated Livestock Technical Manager to join our team with a background particularly in dairy, cattle and sheep production but pig and poultry experience is advantageous.
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Dairy Sales
Manager
Responsible for development of sales of the Farm Animal Division’s nutritional and health products which will be sold directly to farmers through a network of Area Sales Managers. 
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Until next week,

Steph
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