HOLSWORTHY MARKET REPORT Wednesday 13 January 2021 EVERY WEDNESDAY Gates open 6am SALE TIMES 09:45 am - Draft Ewes followed by Finished Lambs 10:30 am - Store Lambs 09.45 am - Calves and Stirks 11:00 am - Store Cattle followed by Finished & OTM Cattle 11:00 am - Dairy Cattle A really busy day at Holsworthy with over 1,400 head of stock sold. Top call in the cattle lines was £1245 from PS & KM Warren of Virginstowe whilst in the sheep pens an electric trade saw a top of £152 from Danny Norman of Dolton with every sheep in the market averaging £104. Holsworthy Livestock Market, New Market Road, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7FA 01409 253275
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HOLSWORTHY
MARKET REPORT
Wednesday 13 January 2021
EVERY WEDNESDAY
Gates open 6am
SALE TIMES
09:45 am - Draft Ewes followed by Finished Lambs
10:30 am - Store Lambs
09.45 am - Calves and Stirks
11:00 am - Store Cattle followed by Finished & OTM Cattle
11:00 am - Dairy Cattle
A really busy day at Holsworthy with over 1,400 head of stock sold.
Top call in the cattle lines was £1245 from PS & KM Warren of Virginstowe
whilst in the sheep pens an electric trade saw a top of £152
from Danny Norman of Dolton with every sheep in the market averaging £104.
Holsworthy Livestock Market, New Market Road, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7FA
01409 253275
Another strong trade in every section of sheep today with every sheep in the market (draft ewes, hoggs and store
hoggs) averaging £104 a head never seen before in January.
The finished hoggs met a very fast trade up around 20p a
kilo in a week £9 to £10 a head in front of other livestock
centres in the South West. Several pens over 265p to a
top of 271p for a pen of 44kgs £120 from D Beak of
Scadgehill, Bude followed by the Stephens Family of
Burscott, Holsworthy 270p £114 42kgs. Pen after pen
realised over £125 to a top of £130 for 2 pens from Anthony Barriball of Clawton.
DRAFT EWES
A flying trade from start to finish with an overall average of £94.25
well in front of other centres in the South West. The ewes were up
£11 to £12 a head. Suffolk x ewes topped at £118.50 from Mr F
Batten of Lifton. Texel x ewes from Bob Cowell of Helston topped
at £115.50, Mules saw several pens over £95 to a top of £102.50
from Richard Pillman of Bude.
204 STORE HOGGS
Not many large framed Hoggs on offer today but a very fast trade was met. Top on the day was £103.50 from Max Allin of Jewells Farm.
WEIGHT TOP AVERAGE
LAMBS Per
head
P/Kg
TLW
Per
head
P/Kg
TLW
32.1-39 89.50 242 87.2 235.4
39.1-45.5 120 271 110.70 256.2
45.6-52 127 264 120 252.9
52+ 130 225 128.20 221
Overall 130 271 114.50 255.4
EWES
Light 104 93
Heavy 118.25 112
Rams 90 84
648 HOGGS & 293 DRAFT EWES & RAMS
09.45 am
Auctioneer: Steve Prouse 07767 895366
A quality entry of calves today which was
part of the 530 sold since Christmas, sold
to a very strong trade with the best strong
Blues topping at £450 on behalf of Eddie &
James Weeks of Hartland going off to their
new home in Gloucestershire. John & Mark
Elliot saw a fantastic trade for their
consignment of 12 Blue & Limousin calves
(12 weeks) to a top call of £440, £415 and
£405. The very best of the under 42 day old calves saw a high of
£380 for a Blue from Rob Veale going off to Dartmoor with the
best from Messrs Petherick & Son of Kilkhampton reaching £372.
Angus calves today were in real demand with loyal vendor Alan
Pomeroy of Bradworthy topping at £280 with 14 day olds from
Mike Braunton of Bodmin at £208. Limousin bull calves saw the
very best to £320 for the pick of a smart line up from the
Nancekivell family of Herdacott and going off to Trequite on the
edge of Bodmin at £320. Other smart baby Limousins came in
from DJ & WR Oke of Bradford and raced away to £310 going
off to Lynton on Exmoor with the best of the Herefords at £230
for Messrs Andrews of Liskeard in South Cornwall with Raymond
Quinn of St Kew at £222 and £220. Messrs G.G Smale & Son of St Stephens near Launceston pushed on well
to £355 and £305 whilst the best of the Holstein bulls reached £195 for John Tallamy & Family of Bradworthy,
£182 for Atway Farm, £152 for John Elliot with best baby Black & White bulls at £115 for Kevin Parsons of
Jacobstow in North Cornwall and £108 for Grenville and Jackie Heal of Torrington.
In the heifer pens Messrs Petherick topped at £375 for Blue heifers gong off to Herdwicke Farm with John
Elliot at £310 and Messrs Cobbledick of Sutcombe at £305 going home to Manaccan in West Cornwall. Best
Charolais heifers reached £305 for Mellisa & David Headon of North Tawton with plenty of buyers keen to
purchase heifers today.
Top 10 Beef Bulls Av £402.30
Top 10 Beef Heifers Av £302.50
Top 10 Holstein Bulls Av £136.40
All Calves Sold Today Av £202.70
BREED BULLS HEIFERS
No Top Ave No Top Ave
A. Angus 7 280 184.57 5 210 145
Friesian 27 195 65.89 - - -
Hereford x 5 230 216.80 6 140 122.67
Limousin x 14 320 236.79 7 250 177.14
British Blue 61 440 261.92 41 375 201.02
Simmental x 2 355 330 4 172 172
189 BABY CALVES – 09.45 am
Auctioneer: James Morrish 07814 010133
A good number of quality cattle saw most of those fleshier
Continental & Natives over £1000. Top price was £1245 for a 22mth
Charolais steer from Messrs PS & KM Warren of Virginstowe with
another from the same farm £1225. A cracking bunch of 27mth
Hereford x steers from Messrs N&B Trewin of Abbotsham shot to
£1220, 22mth British Blues from Messrs Smallridge of Parkham to
£1220 (3), Limousins from the same farm £1215. Several
consignments of 17-22mth British Blues saw another excellent trade
with most steers £1000-£1085 and more needed. The stronger
Continental heifers with flesh sold well, Messrs RGA Wood of
Thornbury topped with 2 18mth heifers £1160
with others at £1150. Limousin heifers from
Messrs PS & KM Warren rose to £1070 with
plenty of others at £1000. Large framed Danish
Red steers from Messrs N&B Trewin of
Abbotsham sold to £1025 with others at £975.
Friesians topped at £1115 for a steer from
Messrs Wade of Bradworthy with plenty of
others at £900+.
Young cattle in short supply. A good run of
single suckled Limousins 7-9mths from Mr G Rose of Highampton £855, 12mth crossbred Hereford heifers
from Mrs R Charman of Clawton £655, British Blue steers 10-11mth from Messrs Weeks of Hartland sold to
£665.
Top price was 118p for a Limousin cow from Messrs Ruby of
Saltash realising £795.
257 STORE CATTLE – 11 am
Auctioneer: David Kivell 07899 960272
WEIGHING COWS
Auctioneer: David Kivell 07899 960272
FORTHCOMING DAIRY SALES
JANUARY
Wednesday 20th January - Holsworthy Livestock Market Mid-Month Dairy Sale of approx. 50. Entries to date include freshly calved Cows and Heifers, In Calf Heifers
and a consignment of Organic In Calf, Served and Maiden Heifers.
Wednesday 29th January - Exeter Livestock Centre
Sale of Dairy Cattle to include Freshly Calved Cows & Heifers from regular vendors followed by the second
Sale of 100 In Milk & Dry Holstein Friesian Cows & Heifers to disperse the Dairy herd on behalf of
Messrs Dallyns Dairy Ltd of Collacott Farm, Mudiford, Barnstaple, Devon.
Here we go! 2020 has passed and we look forward to a brighter and less restricted 2021. I appreciate January will be extremely difficult for many but there is plenty to be positive about going forward. Finally the UK has struck a deal with Europe in which praise has to be given to our Prime Minster. From what I hear and understand the deal is progressive for the UK and importantly for our farmers we can continue to trade with Europe without any export tariffs. This coupled with the additional cheaper and less complicated Covid-19 Vaccine which begins its role out today, is a huge mile stone in the fight against Covid-19. Let’s hope that by Easter we will be back to some normality.
With regards to professional matters a large proportion of Basic Payment Scheme claimants should now have received their Basic Payment Scheme payments. As always please please please, check these amounts. Look in detail at the Claim Statement that arrived in the post and compare the figures on the Claim Statement to the Basic Payment Scheme Application you submitted back in the Spring. If you have any queries, give your Kivells office a call and we can input the data and confirm your payments are correct. If indeed they are incorrect a payment query form needs to be submitted to the RPA as soon as possible.
Staying with the Basic Payment and as Claire Quick mentioned in our December Rural Reflection we are about to see significant changes with the Basic Payment Scheme. The final payment year is to be 2027, with reductions starting in 2021. The table below sets out the cuts for the next four scheme years (see below).
Going forward the Agricultural Bill sees the phasing out of the Basic Payment Scheme, Delink of Direct Payments (BPS) and the introduction of the New Environmental Management Scheme. DEFRA have outlined the key changes with the main aspects being;
Payments to be delinked from land in 2024.
Possible exit scheme with lump sum payments equivalent to remaining BPS payments to farmers who leave the sector.
Cross compliance to remain until 2024, when it will then be replaced.
Alterations to the inspections regime including ‘greater communication rather than instant penalties’.
Money taken away from BPS to be reinvested in other schemes for farmers
On other matters, the Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship continues to prove to be a positive scheme. Businesses throughout the South West have come to the conclusion that the Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship allows for additional income relating to land parcel options, with the other significant benefit being the vast amount of capital works available (in many cases being livestock fencing).
It is worth mentioning that the Countryside Stewardship Scheme will continue to be available with the last new applications being accepted in 2023. Anyone that has a Countryside Stewardship Agreement that starts after January 2021, who gets offered a new Environmental Land Management Scheme, will be able to withdraw and transfer to the new scheme with no penalty. Therefore anyone considering applying for a new Countryside Stewardship agreement in 2021, it is worth looking to see what options are out there. I hasten to add as a firm we have put together some wonderful Countryside Stewardship agreements that have provided significant additional incomes but also large capital investment that has improved farm infrastructure considerably.
2020 saw a massive year for Kivells and the farm and land market with 2020 proving one of our best years (for transactional activity) in a decade both in terms of farms launched and farms sold. Going forward 2021 in shaping up to follow suit with a
Payment banding % BPS Reduction for the band
2021 2022 2023 2024
Up to £30,000 5% 20% 35% 50%
£30,000-£50,000 10% 25% 40% 55%
£50,000-£150,000 20% 35% 50% 65%
Over £150,000 25% 40% 55% 70%
number of farms scheduled to hit the open market. With continued outside investment and a great serge for property in the West Country we remain confident that the land and farms market remains buoyant for 2021. As ever, if you require a confidential discussion on any aspects of purchasing or selling, please contact your local Kivells office.
Utility companies remain busy with various ongoing projects throughout the South West which often means land and farming businesses witnessing damages to land. Although not advised by the incoming utility company, we as agents are here to ensure you are fairly compensated for all costs created from the required works. Whether it’s a cost for the loss of Winter Wheat in the ground or your time spent on the phone dealing with problems which has arisen from the works whereby quite frankly you have other, more important matters that require your attention. The incoming utilities are often of the opinion a few grass seeds will put matters right. When you sit down and work out the costs it is often well in excess. Please get in contact with us if you have a utility company ‘Knocking on the door’ looking to enter your property. Negotiations and your concerns need to be ironed out from day one.
Finally, the Kivells machinery sales team both here at Exeter and Holsworthy have reported an exceptional 2020 with onsite sales being conducted throughout the South West often under very difficult circumstances relating to Covid-19. One of the highlights of the year being the Retirement Sale of Dayment & Skelton Agricultural Engineers with over 1100 lots going under the hammer. 2021 is looking to follow suit combined with our busy collection sales at both Holsworthy and Exeter. If you require information and advice on the sale of machinery whether online, onsite or at our collective sales please contact the machinery sales team. We will be pleased to offer confidential advice ensuring strong prices coupled with a well organised, safe and professional sale.
As I finished this month’s Rural Reflection the BBC news app has just pinged to inform me that Boris will be addressing the nation at 8pm tonight. Please remain safe and I wish you all the very best for 2021.
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