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Ruthin Farmers Auction

Store & Breeding Sale Report

Thursday, September 30

106 Heifers to £1400

148 Steers to £1540

78 Calves to £410

42 Stirks to £800

24 OTMs to £1174.80 - 178ppk

1279 Store Lambs to £98

1038 Store Ewes to £158

155 Rams to 720gns

1776 Ewe Lambs to £134

2 Cows & Calves to £1190

60 Dairy Cattle to £1910

Store Cattle

Quality street today with Hughes & Griffiths, Gwerni topping with heifers @£1400 and Mr Taylor, Gogor Ganol topping with a steer @£1540.

Some of today’s top prices-

Heifers (106)

Top Prices

27 month Lim-£1400-Hughes & Griffiths, Gwerni

17 month Lim £1380-E T Taylor, Gogor Ganol

27 month Lim £1375-Hughes & Griffiths, Gwerni

Few other prices..

15 month Lim-£1370

27 month British Blue-£1350

12 month Lim-£1180

17 month Charolais-£1300

18 month Hereford £1060

Steers (148)

Top Prices

25 month Lim £1540-E T Taylor, Gogor Ganol

17 month Lim £1450-E T Taylor, Gogor Ganol

12 month Charolais £1370-JG & IML Evans, Ty Cerrig

Few other prices…

17 month Charolais £1300

22 month British Blue £1200

17 month Welsh Black £1165

18 month Hereford |£1030

22 month Holstein Friesian £905

OTMs

134 month British Blue weighing 660kg- 178ppk

42 month Lim weighing 600kg- 175ppk

42 month Aberdeen Angus weighing 660kg- 155ppk

110 month British Blue weighing 760kg - 152ppk

196 month Aberdeen Angus weighing 680kg-152ppk

44 month British Blue weighing 600kg-150 ppk

37 month Holstein Friesian weighing 555kg- 149ppk

107 month Welsh Black weighing 730kg- 144ppk

112 month Welsh Black cow weighing 680kg-140pk

90 month Welsh Black cow weighing 680kg-140ppk

137 month Lim weighing 680kg-139ppk

79 month British Friesian weighing 600kg-134ppk

125 month British Friesian weighing 710kg-134 ppk

108 month British Blue weighing 580kg-132ppk

36 month Lim weighing 510kg-128ppk

52 month Lim weighing 585kg-124ppk

Calves

Top prices

J G Jones, Rhydwen Farm ,£410 for a British Blue bull calf.

HM & IL Roberts, Waen Rhydd, £405 with a Lim bull calf.

Gwaenynog Farms Ltd, £400 with a British Blue bull calf.

Younger calves

Blue bulls to £250

Blue heifers to £200

Angus bulls to £190

Angus heifers to £150

Holstein Friesian to £80

More Calves required next week please!

Weanlings

Top price achieved today by L Williams & Son, Hendre, £800 for a Lim heifer.

Also achieving £750 for a 5 month British Blue heifer.

Other prices

11 month Lim heifer, £750

12 month British Blue heifer £650

12 month Aberdeen Angus heifer £675

12 month Aberdeen Angus bull £610

7 month Hereford bull £540

4 month British Friesian £475

Remember the catalogued sale of suckler bred weanling calves on Saturday 9th of

October. Entry forms available online or in the market office.

Dairy Cattle

Monthly dairy sale as per usual attracted plenty of interest with buyers from near and far.

Freshly calved

1st calver from D T Jones, Bryn Rhydd,£1910.

1st calver from D T Jones, Bryn Rhydd,£1760

3rd calver form Lisk Brothers, Hafodol Ucha, £1840.

Bulling Heifers

Bulling heifers selling to £700

In calf heifers

Holstein Friesians in calf to a Simmental bull calving Nov/Dec selling to £1540.

British Friesian in calf to an Aberdeen Angus bull, calving February onwards selling to £1020.

NEXT SALE 28TH NOVEMBER ENTRIES INVITED.

Store Lambs

Auctioneer Elfor Morris 07867977705

1280 store lambs with trade stronger again on the week, strongest tup lambs to £90, ewe lambs to £91.50, Suffolk and Crossbred ram lambs to £88, Charollais to £85.

Longer term lambs also a better trade with more buyers present despite the rain!!

Top price of £98 went to I W Williams, Pennant Isa for Texel lambs.

Breeding Ewe Lambs

Auctioneer Elfor Morris 07867977705

Terrific show of 1780 breeding ewe lambs forward today with trade as good as ever on the strongest types .Consistent consignments from £115 to £130s. Running types anywhere from £80 to £110, overall average of £97.

Top price of the day went to I H Morris & Son, Penrhewl achieving £134 with Texel ewe lambs.

Mule to £128

Crossbred to £120

Suffolk to £96

Cheviots to £82

Beulah to £92

Frontera to £122

Diolch/Thank you

Breeding Ewes

Auctioneer Paul Roberts 0787977702

1034 breeding ewes forward with a slightly harder trade all round.

Lleyn 2 tooth to £132

Mule 2 tooth to £120

Texel 2 tooth to £132

Beulah 2 t to £118

Cheviot 2 tooth to £115

Aberfield 2 tooth to £112

Texel full mouth to £158

Charollais full mouth to £140

Tal y Bont full mouth to £82

Welsh Mountain full mouth to £68

Blue Texel 2 year old to £148

Breeding Rams

Top price

Texel 2 tooth 720gns from Idris Morris, Y Fachell.

Texel 2 tooth 720gns from Elen Williams ,Bryn Bod.

Texel 2 tooth 700gns from Esmore Evans, Monfa

Other prices

Beltex 2 tooth 620gns from DP Roberts, Penbrynlwyn.

Beltex yearling 600gns from Tirion Griffiths, Ty Isa

Charollais 2 tooth 3680gns from Endaf Jones, Carreg Coediog

Suffolk ram lamb 350gns from M E Jones, Crud yr Awel.

Cheviot 2 tooth 380gns from Edaf Jones, Carreg Coediog.

Bluefaced Leiceter x Texel 520gns from PA & JP Smith, Plas Llanychan

Cows and Calves

Auctioneer Dafydd Parry 07780924460

92 month British Blue cow with a British Blue heifer calf at foot £1190

23 month British Blue cow with a Charolais bull calf at foot £1060

Breeding sale next week.

Ruthin Farmers Auction

Prime Stock Report

Friday, October 1

838 Prime Lambs to £120- 245.2ppk

285 Ewes to £128

195 Store Pigs to £96

Prime Lambs

838 prime lambs today and a pleasing trade with an SQQ of 224ppk and overall average of 223.5ppk

Top price

52kg @£120 - C Ellis & Son, Bodhyfryd

51kg @ £118 -Alan & Anna Williams, Caenog

49kg @ £116 - Alan & Anna Williams, Caenog

Top price per kilo

42kg @ 245ppk -TE & FFM Edwards, Pen y Bryniau

45kg @ 244.4ppk - Alan & Anna Williams, Caenog

38kg @ 243.4ppk -B J Evans, Hafod Dafydd

Cull Ewes

285 ewes and rams sold with an overall average of £46.52

Aberfield ewes to £100

Texel to £92

Crossbred to £82

Beltex to £92

Zwarbles to £84

Welsh to £52

Mules to £77

Ewes to £100 av £45.74

Rams to £128 av £101