Sun, 01st Sep 2024
YORK AUCTION CENTRE
STORE MARKET
THURSDAY 29th August 2024
York Auction Centre had 314 head of stock through the market including 38 store cattle and 23 calves and 253 sheep.
TOP PRICES
Calves sold to £680 for a Holstein Friesian Bull Calf from A & A Wake.
Heifers sold to £1080 for a British Blue from R Midgley.
Steers sold to £1365 for a British Blue from E Lazenby.
Bulls sold to £1480 for a Limousin X from Edgar Bros.
Just a small show of cattle today but trade looked as hot as ever! Fresh calves sold to £432 for a superb lim x bull from H L & T E Smith, heifers sold to £350, and A British Friesian bull sold to £315! Possibly one of the dearest fresh black and whites to be sold here! Slightly smaller lim x bulls sold to £400 twice from A Burgess, Hereford bull stirks from G W& M Singleton sold to £512/ head, and A & A Wake topped the stirks at £680 for a shorthorn x and a Montbéliard x sold to the same price.
In the store ring, James Edgar topped the day over all selling a pair of super home bred Limousin bulls to £1480, with nothing in the consignment under £1300 all going to the same local buyer Andrew Johnson. Other feeding bulls from J Sykes sold to £1160/ head for her suckler bred Herefords, and J R Richardson sold two nice packets of bulls to £880/ head for BRBx and £775/ head for his Herefords. Ted Lazenby topped the steers selling a trio of BRBx steers to £1365/ head and R Midgley topped the heifers with a pair of BRBx which sold to £1080/ head, Colin Crossley wasn’t far behind with his Simmental x heifer which sold to £1060. Smaller cattle were as good to sell as ever with I Mitchell selling lim x heifers to £1030 or 314ppkg, and plenty other similar cattle sold from £880-£980.
The first store and breeding sheep sale of the season saw 253 head penned, with something for every pocket! Billy Beevers topped the breeding sheep at £250 for his super beltex shearling, and the store lambs were topped by R A Suddaby at £129/ head, Thank you to the Suddaby family for choosing us to disperse the lambs, 111 lambs averaged just short of £110 a head, all well-bred lambs and well presented, they were a pleasure to have here at York. Short keep lambs regularly sold from £116/ head to £129/ head from Chris Craven & R A Suddaby, beltex x lambs from Vale engineering sold to £114/ head and £113/ head, and molly Cavell sold long term lambs to £64/ head. A few cheap and cheerful sorts just pulled the average back to £92.48 across the board but 75% of lambs sold from £108 or better. Thank you to all who supported the sale! Lambs from Garrowby farms and H & B Beevers already entered for a fortnights time!
PRINCIPAL PRICES
Heifers
BRB - £1080 R Midgley.
LIM X - £1030, £980, £890, £860 I Mitchell; £880 E R Lazenby.
SIM X - £1060 C & S Crossley.
Steers
AA - £990 C & S Crossley.
BRB - £1365 E Lazenby.
Bulls
AA - £755 R & E B Drake.
BRB - £880 J R Richardson.
HE - £1160, £1145 J Sykes; £775 J R Richardson.
LIM X - £1480, £1460, £1300 Edgar Bros; £755 R & E B Drake.
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