Simmental cattle were again firmly to the fore in the top prices and sections of the sale of 264 breeding cattle held at Aberdeen & Northern Marts Thainstone Centre, on Tuesday 26th April.
Leading the strong Simmental sired entries, and heading the heifer with heifer calf section, was a Simmental cross with Limousin cross calf at foot at £3,100 from regular consignors George and Charles Gordon, Lost Farm, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.
The Cow with Bull Calf section sold to £2,500 for a Simmental cross with Limousin cross calf from Knowehead, Kildrummy. Cows with Heifer Calves sold to £2,150 (twice) including a Simmental with Limousin cross calf from Knowehead.
Danny Leslie presenting Craig Malone with the Perpetual Challenge Trophy for the Champion Simmental Sired heifer & Steven Eddie of East Coast Viners
In the annual show and sale of heifers with calves at foot, kindly sponsored by East Coast Viners and judged by David Barclay, Tullo of Garvock, Laurencekirk, the Overall Reserve Champion and winner of the Perpetual Challenge Trophy for the Champion Simmental Sired heifer went to Craig Malone, Pitcairn Farm , with a Simmental cross with Limousin cross bull calf realising £2,800 to the judge.
Rockytop Leo
In the show of breeding bulls the top price Simmental was Rockytop Leo which made 4000gns for Gary & Angela Christie, Birchfield, Glass, Huntly. September 2020 born Rockytop Leo is fully homebred being sired by Rockytop I’m Yer Man, and out of Rockytop Tinka’s Geneva.
Overall, the sale averaged £2,316.02 and with other leading Simmental prices including:
Heifer with Bull Calf: SimX – Ardhuncart Farms, Auchtygall £2,900, Lost Farm £2,850, South Blachrie, Lost Farm, Auchtygall, Pitcairn £2,800, Fairburn, Lost Farm £2,750. Heifer with Heifer Calf: SimX – Auchmaliddie Mains £2,850, Ardhuncart Farms, Lost Farm £2,750, Lost Farm £2,600. Cows 2nd Calvers with Heifer Calf: Sim – Upper Ashalloch £2,250. Cow with Bull Calf: Sim – Nether Kirkton £2,250, Knowehead £2,150; SimX – Knowehead £2,200, Nether Kirkton £2,080, £2,020, £2,000. Cow with Heifer Calf: SimX – Nether Kirkton £2,000, £1,980, Knowehead £1,950. Show and Sale of Commercial Beef Breeding Cattle Judging Sponsored by East Coast Viners Judge – David Barclay, Tullo of Garvock, Laurencekirk Class 1 Simmental Sired Heifer with Male Calf 1st – C Malone, Pitcairn Farm, Cardenden £2,800 2nd – C & G Gordon, Lost Farm, Strathdon £2,600 Class 2 Simmental Sired Heifer with Female Calf 1st – H & K Brown, Auchmaliddie Mains, Maud £2,850 2nd – Ardhuncart Farms, Ardhuncart, Kildrummy £2,900 3rd – I & M Keith, Auchtygall, Peterhead £2,900
We are delighted to report that the January 2021 born pedigree Simmental heifer, Overhill House Mary, from Richard McCulloch, Overhill House, West Lothian, sold for a cracking £4000 at Caledonian Marts, Stirling, last Saturday, with all proceeds going to two charities helping children and refugees from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Heading to Ayrshire, Overhill House Mary, sired by Aultmore Goliath, and out of Islavale Caitlin, was purchased by Messrs Smith, Low Bow Hill Farm, Newmilns.
With some outstanding and varied lots forward from farmers and local businesses, the auction held by Caledonian Marts saw all funds raised going to UNICEF’s campaign to Help Protect Children in Ukraine, and for Central Plains Group, a regenerative farming business with operations in Ukraine who are raising funds to help refugees streaming into Western Ukraine from Kiev and East Ukraine.
Again well done to Richard McCulloch for putting this quality heifer forward for such a worthy auction, and a big thank you is extended to the Smiths for their purchase. We’ll be keeping an eye on Overhill House Mary and trust that she goes on to breed well at her new home.
Playing a little bit of catch up but see the first of two market briefs reports, firstly up to the 6th April, of the Simmental breed topping commercial sales, across all classes of stock, at livestock markets around the country. Look out for a further Simmental market briefs round up coming soon.
In the sale of cull cows, heifers and bulls at Brockholes Arms Auction Mart on 6th April, Preston, the cow section was topped by Ron Loftus with a Simx to 197p/kg. At the same sale S Phoenix had another Simx cow at 180p/kg.
At Market Drayton’s store cattle sale on 6th April, steers sold to £1,340.00 for 588kg Simmentals from D. & A. Swift & Son On 6th April at Frome’s sale of prime cattle, a good show of heifers saw Messrs LJ Curry’s outstanding Simmentals roar to a huge £1707 top gross price or 229.50p/kg and £1638 or 227.50p/kg.
At Dumfries on 6th April, prime cattle were topped per head £1569.80 by a Sim from East Langate. On 5th April, Holmfirth Market’s OTM trade was topped at 203p/kg (Avg 158.03p/kg) for a Simmental (£1898) from ID & R Jones sold to JB Eastwood & Sons.
In a small sale of prime cattle on 5th April, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd saw Prime bullocks average 232.0p and sell to 232.0p per kg and £1,682.00 gross twice for 725kg Simmental crosses both from Balnageith, Forres.
At Ayr’s breeding cattle sale on 5th April, in-calf cows were topped by Simmental X’s at £1400 and £1350 from Turnberry Lodge. Bulls sold to 2200gns for a Simmental off Messrs Drummond, Skeoch.
Sedgemoor’s sale of barren cows and cull stock bulls on 4th April saw a centre record for a cull bull of £1896.60 and paid for a Simmental from BJ Stephens & Sons, Weston Super Mare. At the same sale, a ‘feeding’ Simmental made 191.5ppk from FA Kingcott & Son, Clevedon. In the sucklers a ‘feeding’ Simmental rose to £1,426.68 from FA Kingcott & Son. Monday 4th April, Simmental bulls were ‘doing the business’ at Carlisle’s primestock sale. A shapey Skerrington Iceman son from Jim & Patricia Goldie, Newbie Mains Farm, Annan, Dumfriesshire weighed in at 891kgs and sold for £2392.94 and 268.5ppkg. Meant for breeding the bull was sold through the prime ring due to injury and went on to realise a tremendous trade.
C & D Auction Marts held their fornightly sale of store cattle in Dumfries on Monday 4th April 2022. Bullocks averaged 239.3p/kg to 305.9p/kg and sold to a top of £1655 for a Simmental from RB Oliphant, Shawfield. The same seller also sold Simm bullocks at £1555, £1465, & £1280.
At Sedgemoor’s store cattle sale on 2nd April, Simmental steers featured in the top prices when peaking at £1650 for JR Westcott & Son, Willand. Dairy bred steers saw a tremendous trade to £1270 for a fleshed Fleckvieh from A Baker, Meare.
At United Auctions April Show & Sale at Huntly, OTMs sold to average 171.2p per kg selling to a record £1920 or 201.1p per kg for a SimX from Pitgaveny, Farms, Elgin.
In a sale of mainly dairy bred stirks, and suckled calves at Exeter on 1st April, Joe Maule across from Okehampton showed a cracking run of well farmed stirks topping at £780 for 10-month-old Simmental crosses (10m).
On 31st March, Thainstone witnessed a phenomenal trade with a new achievement of 16 cows and bulls, including Simmentals, surpassing the £2,000 bracket. Beef Finished Cows sold to £2250 including one from Drumfober, Laurencekirk. Beef Feeding Cows sold to £1450 for a Sim from Drumneachie, Birse. Bulls top prices included a Sim at £1890 from Mains of Cowie, Stonehaven. On the same day, a sale on behalf of Orkney consignors saw prime cattle (30-48 Months) sell to £1,408.35 gross and 229p per kg for a 615kg Simmental heifer from Glebe Farm. The Glebe, Grimbister.
At Truro Livestock Market’s store cattle sale on 30th March the 1 year old heifer section was led by a Simmental x at £905 for Mr L Vague of Baldhu, Truro.
At Ayr on 29th March, clean cattle sold to a top price per kg of 229.5p for a Simmental Heifer off Drumjargon.
At Lanark’s sale of store cattle on March 29th, 301 bullocks were topped at £1425 by a Sim x from Parklea. Sim Bullocks from Overcairn also featured in the top prices pence per kilo when selling at 250p.
Darlington Farmers Auction Mart held their weekly sale of Cast Cattle, Store & Breeding Stock on Monday 28th March 2022. In the cast cows, the top gross valued cow was a hefty Simmental from C & E Gaskin of Marwood at an impressive £1613.
At Worcester Store Market Sale on 26th March, store steers sold to a remarkable 366ppkg for 11month old suckler bred steers from R M Phillips 7 Partners!!
In a sale of calves at Exeter on 25th March, young Simmental bulls featured in the top prices when selling to £375 & £345 for Messrs WJ & J Snell & Son of South Molton.
At Ludlow on Friday 25th March, some very good young, fit, suckled type feeding bulls saw Simmental X Bulls sell to £1225 x2 & £1200.
At Ayr’s store cattle sale on 24th March, the top price per kilo was 284.7 for Simmental bullocks from Figgitoch.
At Oswestry’s store cattle sale on 23rd March, the top price per kilo of two or more steers 13m and over went to Llangedwyn Home Farm with a bunch of 19mo Simmentals weighing 460kg and making 267.4p/kg.
At Frome’s prime cattle sale on 23rd March, EM Horn & Sons, Swanmore, exceptional Simmental raced to 229.50p/kg or £1445, with others from Waddon Farm Ltd selling to 215.50p/kg.
At Dungannon Farmer’s Mart on 23rd March steer prices peaked at £1600 for a 695kg Sim (230.00) presented by A Robinson.
At Anglesey’s Gaerwen Auction Centre store cattle sale on 22nd March, the heifer trade was topped at £1250 for Simmentals from E Jones, Cott Farm, and followed by further Simmentals at £1210 from M Roberts, Glascoed Hall.
Simmental that set a market record for a cull bull of £1896.60 at Sedgemoor today, Monday 4th April.
Simmental bulls were also ‘doing the business’ at Carlisle’s primestock sale. A shapey Skerrington Iceman son from Jim & Patricia Goldie, Newbie Mains Farm, Annan, Dumfriesshire weighed in at 891kgs and sold for £2392.94 and 268.5ppkg. Meant for breeding the bull was sold through the prime ring due to injury and went on to realise a tremendous trade.
See the latest market briefs here of the Simmental breed topping commercial sales, across all classes of stock, at livestock markets around the country.
At Selby Market’s store cattle sale on Saturday 19th March, the trade for bulls was led by a ten and a half month Simmental X at £1330 from WJ Hollingsworth, Midhope. In the steers, Simm steers from RD Green sold to £1320, with further Simm steers at £1280 from Simons Bros.
At UA’s sale of store and OTM cattle at Huntly on 17th March, OTMs sold to 195.1p per kg for a 810kg SimX from Corskie, Garmouth. Top gross was £1710 for an 895kg Sim also from Corskie, Garmouth.
In a sale of stirks and rearing calves at Hallworthy Market, a seven month old Simmental steer made £605 for regular consignor Toby Dance.
At Stirling on 16th March, United Auctions sold 1679 store cattle and young bulls, 157 cast cows, bulls and out of spec cattle and 62 rearing cattle. Heifers (750) sold to £1570 for a 760kg SimX from Fernie Mill.
At Skipton’s show and sale on 16th March, the section of breeding cattle was topped at £2200 for a pedigree Simmental heifer with her Simmental bull calf at foot from David Loftus of Singleton on the Fylde Coast.
On Monday 14th March at Rugby Farmers Mart sale, the top gross for prime bulls was £1584 to C H Evans for a Simmental. Hexham & Northern Marts sale of store cattle on 11th March saw the 17-22 months section topped by Simmental x steers at £1660 from £1660 Dunns Houses who sold further steers to £1560. Simmental x steers from Satley Farm sold to £1550 & £1430.
At NWAs sale of Calves, OTM, and Store cattle on 11th March, Lancaster continues to boast a strong trade for store cattle, as short keep cattle continue to be a strong trade. Simmental steers led the way selling to £1560, with others to £1420 from EJ Burrow, Milnthorpe.
At a sale of cast cows and bulls at Aberdeen & Northern Marts Thainstone sale centre on 10th March, Beef Feeding Cows (70) averaged £1,224.73 (+£33.73) and sold to £1,430 for a 784kg Simmental Cross from Strathmore, Coull. Boning Cows (39) averaged £847.82 (+£11.57) and sold to £1,060 for a 626kg Simmental Cross from Overhill, Whitecairns. Dairy Cows (12) averaged £977.50 (+£141.25) and sold to £1,310 for a 714kg Fleckvieh Cross from Flotterston House.
A flying trade for prime bulls at Darlington Mart on 9th March saw the top Simmental price being £2300 for a ‘super Simmental’ from G & A Christie, Mid Town of Glass, Aberdeenshire.
In the store cattle sale at Hallworthy on 10th March, the ‘Cows and Fats’ section was topped by A R Martin of Liskeard with a Simmental x Cow to £1170.
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd, sold 717 store cattle, 43 adult head of breeding cattle and 61 OTM cattle on 9th March. Avoch. Heifers (314) averaged 236.4p per kg and sold to £1,400 gross for a 625kg Simmental cross from Hatton Cottage, Dallas. Simmental steers were to the fore in a sale of prime cattle at Frome Market on 9th March. Two ‘corking’ Simmentals from EM Horn of Southampton soared to 229.50p/kg and 225.50p/kg or £1589 and £1491.
On Wednesday 9th March Harrison & Hetherington had 1247 cattle forward at their weekly sale at Carlisle comprising of 500 Store Cattle, 247 store bulls and weanlings, and 500 calves. Featuring in the top prices, Simmentals cross steers from Messrs Wigham, Cold Shields, Haltwhistle sold to £1560.
At Malton on 8th March, Simmentals featured in the top prices when a 595kg Sim X from W & L Thompson topped at 291.50ppk (£1734.43).
In H&H’s sale of prime bulls at Carlisle on 7th March, Messrs Currie, Pinclanty Farm, Girvan made their debut selling in Borderway a worthwhile journey selling the top priced Simmental to £2341.28 weighing 1007kg. Messrs Gwynne, Castlewigg, Newton Stewart to £2268 for their 1024kg Simmental.
In a sale at Market Drayton on 7th March, younger stock bulls sold to 185p (£1,217.30) for a Simmental from Mr Darren Young, Balterley. In a sale of 370 weanlings, continental bulls sold to £450 for 3.5 month Simmentals from Benbow Bros, Market Drayton. Simmentals were in high demand with 4 month models selling to £540 for H.&C. Bloxham & Co, Stafford. The continental heifers followed the same vein as the steers with size and weight being the call. Top price went to Simmental heifers from D.&A. Warrington, Uttoxeter at £650 with 3 to 5 months models selling at £450 to £500.
At Exeter’s sale of prime cattle on 7th March, well finished heifers of note included a cracking Simmental from Andrew and George Palk of Paignton which grossed £1369 (572kg x 240ppk).
At Huntly on 5th March, United Auctions sold 1205 cattle. 522 bullocks sold to average 248.6pp and selling to a top gross of £1580 for a SimX from Mains, Huntly. 683 Heifers sold to average 237.4p per kg and selling to a top gross of £1580 for a SimX from Nether Kirkton, Barthel Chapel.
Thainstone’s sale of adult breeding cattle on 4th March saw In Calf Heifers sell to £1,600 for a Simmental cross from Lochiepots, Elgin. In Calf Cows (85) sold to £1,720 for a Simmental cross from Lochiepots.
Exeter hosted a spring show and sale of continental store cattle on 4th March. Having placed second in the pre-sale judging, Andrew and George Palk saw bunches of ‘glorious Simmental heifers’ (18m) sell to £1320 and £1270. In a sale of calves on the same day, the decent quality sold well and topped at £380 twice for two smart 8 week old Simmental bulls from Malcolm Pring & Family of Broadclyst.
On 4th March, Penrith & District Farmers’ Mart LLP held their fortnightly sale of 130 Rearing Calves and Stirks. An extended ringside of buyers was forward to a much larger entry of youngstock, with demand across the board proving to be much sharper, and some strong prices were achieved throughout the sale. Topping the sale at £1000 was an eleven-month-old Simmental cross bullock from Mr J Harrison, Penny Hill Park, Penrith, bought by Mr J Linsley.
At a sale at Thainstone on 3rd March for Orkney consignors, prime Cattle (30-48 Months) Sold to £1,431.65 gross and 209p per kg for a 685kg Simmental Heifer from D P Nicholson & Co, Quoys, South Ronaldsay. Ata general sale of prime cattle on the same day, 30 to 36 Month sold to a top gross of £1775.06 for a 818kg Simmental from Overton of Bruxie, Maud. Heifers (13) averaged 213p and sold to 235p per kg for 630kg Clashendamer, Fordyce, and £1,573.80 gross for a 732kg Simmental from Ardhuncart, Kildrummy.
On 2nd March United Auctions sold 2135 store cattle, 159 cast cows, bulls and out of spec cattle at Stirling. Beef Cows and Bulls (132) averaged 171.73p to 220.60p per kg for a SimX from Kirkton of Lundie.
In a small sale of prime cattle at Frome on 2nd March, the OTM’s on offer were led at 210.50p/kg or £1376 for Messrs BK & A Garrett’s Simmental heifer. Leading the bulls, a senior Simmental bull sold to an impressive 129.50p/kg or £1451 from Scott Shergold.
At Thainstone on 25th February, Aberdeen and Northern Marts sold 1,502 Store Cattle and Young Bulls incorporating BVD Virus Free and Vaccinated Bulling Heifers. Heifers (555) averaged 245.7p and sold to £1,600 gross (twice) firstly for a pen of four 582kg Simmental crosses from Thurdistoft, Castletown also for a pen of four 680kg Simmental crosses from Drumneachie, Birse. Bulls sold to 237.8p per kg for a pair of 410kg Simmental crosses from Wairds Farm, Dyce.
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