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EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

MARKET REPORT

January 2018

Friday 5th Store Stock Market


Matford Park Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8FD

01392 251261 [email protected] www.kivells.com

Steers to £1350 Heifers to £1145

2018 kicked off with a red hot store cattle trade here at Exeter with all breeds and ages in tremendous demand. Top call

of the day came in the way of a single South Devon (33m), being the best of an outstanding run of top quality forward

steers from Paul Caunter of Kingsbridge which made £1350, close behind were a couple of grand Limousin steers

(averaging 29m) and off the same farm at £1340 and a trio of Charolais and Simmental bullocks of a similar age which

drew £1305 apiece. Next in line was Terry Phillips, Tedburn who sold expensive looking pairs of cracking Limousin steers

(18m) to £1290 whilst slightly older South Devon Bullocks (21m) again looked a very decent price at £1220 for Jonathan

Musgrave of Yealmpton also Charolais steers (25m) saw £1180 for David Withers of Whimple. Derek Pyle, Clyst Honiton

sold his best Limousin steers (25m) for £1135 and Blues of the same age for £1070. Well covered Blonde cattle (27m)

from David Drew of Lapford topped the heifers section with pairs selling to £1145, £1050 and £1030 with South Devon

females (21m) to £1060 for Jonathan Musgrave. Blue heifers rose to £985 and £965 for John Northam down from Staple

Cross (30m) and Derek Pyle (27m) respectively. Three young Blonde heifers from Martin Curtis, Plymouth ran to £840

a head.

Just a small entry of youngstock to kick the year off with a couple of Limousin steers (8m) looking a decent price a £595

apiece for the Winzer family, Loddiswell also young, hairy Charolais steers (6m) to £530 for C Mortimore, Chagford

and heifers (7m) out of the same trailer to £545.

Another short entry of calves sold to a flying trade

and many more could have been sold to

advantage! Top of the day was £460 for a cracking

Limousin x bull from Paul Hendy of Aveton

Gifford. Other Limousins to £320 for Michael Pyle

of Broadhembury and £290 for Kim Davey of

Lewdown. British Blue bulls topped at £400 &

£385 for Chris Creeper & Connie Baldock of

Axminster, £360 for James Baker of Aylesbeare

and £335 for Andrew Peters of Talaton. Charolais

bulls topped at £325 & £295 for Messrs RH & MJ

Hurford of Axminster and £300 for Michael

Holmes of Umberleigh. Aberdeen Angus bulls

sold to £295 & £285 for Messrs SG Brimacombe & Sons of Crediton with others to £270 for Phil Grabham of Whimple.

Young Hereford bulls sold well to £252 for Duncan & Sally Maynard of Awliscombe with others to £245 for Stuart

Middleton of Cullompton. Heifers topped at £325 for a Limousin x heifer from Paul Hendy who also sold a British Blue

heifer at £275. Other Blue heifers to £270 (x2) for Messrs SG Brimacombe & Sons and Chris Creeper & Connie Baldock.

Only two Friesians forward which sold to £72 & £58 for Messrs RH & MJ Hurford.

CALVES - 10.15 am

Auctioneer: - Mark Davis – 07773371774

CALVES Bulls Heifers

Breed TOP AVE TOP AVE

British Blue 7 400 325 11 275 216

Limousin 9 460 274 7 325 191

Charolais 4 325 293 3 245 201

Simmental 2 235 187

Hereford 4 252 240 1 140 140

Aberdeen Angus 5 295 226 7 260 191

Norwegian Red 1 55 55

Holstein / Friesian 2 72 65

135 STORE CATTLE & STIRKS – 10AM Auctioneer: Simon Alford 07789 980203

28 SUCKLED CALVES & STIRKS – 11.30AM Auctioneer: Ian Caunter 07813 068935

65 CALVES – 10.15AM Auctioneer: Mark Davis 07773 371774

FRIDAY 19TH JANUARY 2018

SPECIAL JANUARY

CATALOGUED SALE OF

SUCKLED CALVES For entries and further information please contact

Robert Armstrong 07791 484290

or the Market Office 01392 251261

A sizable offering saw all 19 lambs sell well and to £35 for David & Adrian Cole of Bradninch, to £32 (x3) for Alison

Burrow of Payhembury, £30 (x4) & £28 for Keith & Christine Morish of Cheriton Bishop and £26 for Steven Middleton

of Cullompton whilst all others were from £16 to £22 to level at £25.

1601 Store Hoggs were another strong trade selling to £85 for a trio of strong Suffolk Charollais crosses from Michaela

Elliott of Ashburton as more forward hoggs sold at £81.50, £80.50 & £78.50 for Temuka Ltd of Meshaw, £80 for IJ Rowe

of Whiddon Down and £79 for Dennis Tapp of Rackenford. Numerous pens of short keep hoggs trading from £75 to

£78.50 with mediums keenly sought after too from £60 to £74 whilst long term hoggs were more variable on the week

from £40 to £59 depending on quality. Overall average was back around £5 from last week’s flyer at £62.80.

Michaela Elliott of Ashburton topped the grazers selling a young Charollais Ram at £103, Dorset ewes from FA & CJ

Elsworthy of Witheridge made £75 and D Biss of Chard achieved £68 of theirs.

What a difference a week makes! Couples were a much firmer trade reaching £192 for doubles from both Dave Lockyer

of Burlescombe and John Vooght of Dunsford who had other Dorset doubles at £190 as well as singles with the same

comments at £146 (£73/life). This was only eclipsed by Dave Lockyer’s strong single lambs on young Dorset ewes that

made £158 (£79/life). RS & JM Summers of Meshaw saw the best of their Suffolk cross outfits hit £180 for doubles and

£134 & £132 for singles as Mick Branton of Dunsford sold his best double at £172.

1730 SHEEP – 11AM

Auctioneer: Russell Steer 07788 318701

19 ORPHAN LAMBS

1601 STORE LAMBS

38 GRAZING EWES & RAMS

29 EWES & 43 LAMBS (72 LIVES)

EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE - FRIDAY 12TH JANUARY

COLLECTIVE FODDER SALE Entries to date include Haylage:- 65 Round, 50x 4 String Rectangular. Straw:- 8x 12

tonne loads of Quadrant wheat straw on the lorry, 30 Round barley, 100 Round wheat,

100 conventional spring barley, 17 Quadrant winter barley. Silage:- 507 Round.

Hay:- 230 Conventional, 108 7ft long rectangular bales, 60 Round, 60 Mini Hesston,

50 4 string rectangular bales

Catalogues available from www.kivells.com

For further information please contact Ian Caunter 07813 068 935 or the office 01392 252262

Further information from Russell Steer 07788 318701 or 01392 251261 and www.kivells.com

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Well, what a wash out the last few weeks of 2017 turned out to be! The home farm certainly had

some trackways washed away and fields flooded over the festive period, which I’m sure was also

the case for many of you reading this too. As I write this month’s Rural Reflection it looks as though

more stormy weather is forecast but here’s hoping for a calm and dry spell soon, particularly as

many of you will now have started lambing.

I begin with some very welcome news from the Rural Payments Agency in that 84% of Basic

Payment Scheme payments were made before Christmas to some 71,000 farmers. For those of

you who have not yet received your payment the RPA should have been in touch by email or letter

by the end of December to either advise that you may be paid before the end of December or that

you definitely won’t be paid by the end of December. For those receiving an email or letter stating

the latter, the RPA will be in touch again by the end of January if you have still not been paid to

give more specific information on the progress of your claim. There will also no doubt be some of

you who are still in the midst of trying to resolve payment queries for the 2016 or even 2015

payment years. With the RPA’s current focus being to make 2017 BPS payments, the number of

staff dealing with post payment adjustments has duly decreased, however we have been advised

that activity on this front will increase again towards the end of January. Acting as BPS agents for

numerous farming clients across the south west we are regularly in contact with the RPA and so if

you have any queries regarding your payment, for either this year or previous years, please do be

in touch and we will do all we can to assist.

The Woodland Creation Grant application window has now opened and if you are looking to apply

applications must be submitted by Friday 16th February. These grants are worth up to £6,800 per

hectare with the option to apply for ten-year annual maintenance payments as well. However, it

is important to note that land that is entered into a woodland creation agreement is viewed as

non-agricultural from the outset of the agreement (even if the land has not yet been planted) and

therefore it becomes ineligible for the Basic Payment Scheme payment, unless it was used to claim

the Single Payment Scheme payment in 2008. If you are interested in applying or would like any

more information please do contact your local Kivells Rural Professional office.

For those of you who applied for Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements or Water Capital

Grants last September, you will no doubt still be waiting to hear from Natural England as to

Rural Reflection January 2018

whether you will be offered an agreement or a grant for 2018. A combination of being short

staffed and receiving a much higher than anticipated number of applications has led to a

frustratingly slow response from Natural England. To that end, Natural England have recently

advised that they are still in the process of reviewing applications and they hope to be in touch

with all applicants either with an agreement offer or an update on the status of their application

by the end of January, so in the meantime we continue to wait! All agreements will be back dated

and will still have start dates of 1st January 2018 despite the fact that agreement offers will not be

made until after this point.

We have now started our 2017/18 season of fodder sales across our auction centres with a strong

trade seen for straw in particular, which will be pleasing news for the arable farmers amongst you,

although not so much for those of you farming livestock and having to use the stuff! We have

further sales at Exeter on 12th January, 9th February and 2nd March, and at Holsworthy on 10th January

and 14th February so if you are looking to either buy or sell please do be in touch.

Until next time…...

Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year

On Behalf of the Kivells Rural Professional Team

Caroline Squire

Exeter Office

The Kivells Rural Professional Team

David Kivell 01409 253275 [email protected]

Mark Bromell 01409 253275 [email protected]

Mark Bunt 01579 324927 [email protected]

Tom Rattray 01566 776886 [email protected]

Lisabeth Miller 01409253 275 [email protected]

Claire Bellew 01392 252262 [email protected]

Ian Caunter 01392 252262 [email protected]

Caroline Squire 01392 252262 [email protected]

MONDAY 8th JANUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Prime Stock Market

FRIDAY 12th JANUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Sale of Dairy Cattle, Fortnightly Pig Sale, Special January Sale of In-Lamb

Ewes & Fodder Sale




Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Annual January Catalogued Sale of Suckled Calves

MONDAY 22nd JANUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE



Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Organic Cattle & Sheep, Sale of Dairy Cattle & Monthly Sale

of Beef Breeding Cattle plus Fortnightly Pig Sale



FRIDAY 2nd FEBRUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Native Breed Cattle

MONDAY 5th FEBRUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE


FRIDAY 9th FEBRUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Store Stock Market to inc St Valentine’s Fair of Store Cattle, Special February Sale of In-Lamb Ewes,

Ewe Lambs and Couples, Sale of Dairy Cattle & Fortnightly Pig Sale


Weekly Prime Stock Market to inc Special Sale of Spring Lamb

WEDNESDAY 14th FEBRUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Monthly Machinery & Implement Sale

FRIDAY 16th FEBRUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Catalogued Sale of Beef Breeding Stock



TUESDAY 20th FEBRUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Monthly TB Restricted (Orange) Market

FRIDAY 23rd FEBRUARY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Organic Cattle & Sheep, Sale of Dairy Catle & Fortnightly

Pig Sale



FRIDAY 2nd MARCH - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Monthly Sale of Native Breed Cattle & Fodder Sale

MONDAY 5th MARCH - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE


TUESDAY 6th MARCH - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Horse & Equine Sale

FRIDAY 9th MARCH - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE

Weekly Store Stock Market to inc Sale of Dairy & Fortnightly Pig Sale

FORTHCOMING SALES


Matford Park Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8FD

01392 251261 [email protected] www.kivells.com

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