Weekly Report and Newsletter - 14th October 2022 J36 Rural Auction Centre: October Online Machinery Sale, Friday 7th October to Monday 10th October 2022. The monthly collective sale of Tractors, Vehicles, Farm Machinery and Equipment saw over 1200 lots offered for sale with purchases from as far a field as Ireland and Poland once again actively sourcing stock. Over 40 Tractors and Vehicles were entered catering for the vintage enthusiasts to the modern mechanice. The sale peaked at £20,00 for a JCB Loadall, direct from a local farm with a New Holland 8340 achieving £10,300. Other tractors included a John Deere 2850 selling at £10,00, MF165 £5500, Case 1494 c/w loader £4950, Deutz DX605 £4100, Leyland245 £1950, Ferguson35 £1650. Plant machinery sold to £6200 for a 4T tracked digger with another achieving £4800. A 2T mini digger sold for £3400. A John Deere Gator sold at £4500 and a Honda ATV £1000. A wide variety of trailers sold to £3500 for a Frazer dropside trailer, a 12ft IW cattle trailer sold for £2800, 30ft bale trailer £2600, IW plant trailer £2500, IW calf trailer £2400, GE 12ft livestock trailer £2400. Livestock equipment sold to £3800 for 37 calf pens, £2400 IAE cattle foot trimming crush, 18ft sheep race £780, cattle crush £520, 21 cow mats £480, cattle feed hopper £480, lamb creep feeder £390. Other items of interest included a shepherd’s hut selling at £3050, Kuhn straw chopper £2500, malgar 1300 tanker £2100, ATV topper £1850, logic weed weeper £1750, power harrow £1050, Bamford hedge cutter £100, haybob £980, Dowdeswell plough £950, flemming topper £830. The next sale will include a major stock reduction sale of genuine Ifor Williams parts and trailers on behalf of Tony Sharp Trailers.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep, Monday 10th October 2022. Prime Lambs Lancaster Auction had an increased entry of just shy of 800 prime lambs forward today with the trade slightly easier than expected with reports nationwide of larger numbers of lambs in markets. Heavy weight lambs were a shade easier this morning, peaking at £131 for Texels from AG Butler, Hambleton followed by £130 from DR Preston, Caton, £129 from S&J Cornthwaite, Brookhouse and £125 from TR Prickett, Hutton Roof with plenty more pens in the early one twenties. Handy weighted lambs today seemed a sharper trade with better quality ones in more demand and selling to a peak of 290p/kg from TR Prickett, Hutton Roof followed by 285p/kg from Kevin Purtill, Wigan.