Thu, 31st Oct 2024
YORK AUCTION CENTRE
STORE MARKET
THURSDAY 8th August 2024
York Auction Centre had 40 head of stock through the market including 31 store cattle and 10 calves.
TOP PRICES
Calves sold to £620 for a Hereford Bull Calf from Q A Brook.
Heifers sold to £1470 for a British Blue from H W Colley & Son LTD.
Steers sold to £1400 for a Limousin X from W B & A Kilby & Son.
Not as hot a day but a red-hot trade today!
York calf ring once again left vendors absolutely delighted with trade, a superb consignment of strong calves still on the bucket from local vendor D V Lee sold to tops of £475 for a Limousin bull with no cont x bulls today under £410, all to mart supporters J Bailey & son. Lim x Heifers sold to £435 to J&B Swift, but trade of the day had to be a super, 4-week-old Friesian bull calf also from D V Lee which sold to £260! To local mart supporter R A Suddaby. Hereford bull stirks from Quentin Brook sold to £620 twice to Paul Nesom.
*Entered for next Thursday- 24x named sire AAX bull and heifer calves 3-6 months out of lim x and Charolais x cows from J H Elvidge and Limousin x fresh calves from A Burgess*
In the store ring, all cattle looked an absolutely tremendous trade, and many more could have been sold! W B & A Kilby topped todays trade with a shapely suckler bred Limousin which sold to £1400, and ted Lazenby was just behind, selling a trio of lovely Hereford steers to £1395/ head and slightly smaller suckler bred steers from Ben Lupton sold to £1305/ head. Heifers sold to £1470 for a strong BRB x heifer and the Kilby family weren’t far behind again selling lim heifers to £1450. Smaller grazing cattle were still good to sell with A & G M Grant selling a pair of LIM X heifers to £1100 and a nice BRB X heifer from C T Bramley sold to £965.
Cattle of all grades required every week! Store & breeding sheep sale Thursday the 29th at 1pm, call James for entries!
PRINCIPAL PRICES
Heifers
AA - £800 F Atkinson & Son.
BRB - £1470, £1420 H W Colley & Son LTD; £1350, £965 C T Bramley & Son; £905 F Atkinson & Son.
LIM X - £1450, £1320 w b & a Kilby & Son; £1205 Firthfield Farm LTD; £1100, £990 A & G M Grant.
SIM X - £860, £785, £685 G E Metcalfe.
Steers
AA - £905 F Atkinson & Son.
BRB - £860 F Atkinson & Son.
HE - £1395 E Lazenby.
LIM X - £1400, £1395, £1295 W B & A Kilby & Son; £1305 Firthfield Farm LTD.
SIM X - £845 F & I E Todd.
TO ENTER YOUR STOCK AT YORK AUCTION CENTRE LIVESTOCK MARKET
CALL:
CATTLE
Edward Stephenson (Auctioneer) - 07801 685663
James Kilner (Auctioneer & Fieldsman) – 07984 400902
PIGS
Rod Cordingley (Auctioneer) – 07801 685660
SHEEP
Stephen Burley (Auctioneer) - 07736 081785
James Kilner (Auctioneer & Fieldsman) – 07984 400902