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FARMWEEK
FARMWEEK
MAY 31 2018
RATHFRILAND CATTLE
264 head through the ring
on Friday with 98 weanlings
selling in one of the best
trades to date, i.e. 280k @
£830 or 296p/k, 288k @ £830
or 288p/k, 264k @ £734 or
278p/k.
In the suckler section £1370
was paid with fat cows to
£1200 for 680k Lim from
Ballynahinch, £1145 for 690k
Sim from Rathfriland etc.
Store heifers sold to £1100
for 534k Ch from Rathfriland.
A 462k BB from Brackney
West sold at £1080.
There wasn’t as many
continentals this week in the
bullock section. A 640k Sh
topped the sale at £1245.
Dropped calves cleared up
to £390 for Lim bulls from
Seaforde. Hereford heifers
from Warrenpoint sold to
£360.
DROPPED CALVES Seaforde farmer: Lim bull
£390. Warrenpoint farmer:
Her heifers £360. Ballynafern
farmer: AA bull £345.
Banbridge farmer: Pen of
strong Hol bulls £340 each,
AA bulls £335 and Her bulls
£305. Castlevennon farmer:
AA bull £335. Hillsborough
farmer: BB £305, £300, £290,
£280 and £275. Dechoment
farmer: Ch £300.
WEANLINGS - Begney
farmer: 606k @ £1090.
Ballybrannon farmer:
504k @ £1070, 460k @ £970.
Ballyroney farmer: 484k @
£880. Katesbridge farmer:
382k @ £840. Banbridge
farmer: 280k @ £830, 288k
@ £830, 326k @ £820, 300k @
£800, 264k @ £735.
HEIFERS - Rathfriland
farmer: 534k @ £1100, 504k
@ £1025. Brackney West
farmer:462k @ £1080, 498k @
£1060. Dromore farmer: 502k
@ £1050, 546k @ £1050, 544k
@ £960. Dromara farmer:
530k @ £1005.
FAT COWS - Ballynahinch
farmer: 680k @ £1200.
Rathfriland farmer: 690k @
£1145, 660k @ £1110, 628k @
£925. Brackney West farmer:
648k @ £965. Aughnahooey
farmer: 700k @ £960, 702k
SATURDAY JOB: 15 year old Colm McCaughey, Trillick, a
member of the yardstaff, checking entries at the Clogher Valley
Livestock Mart Saturday cattle sale.
@ £910. Ballymartin farmer:
618k @ £950. Attical farmer:
530k @ £770.
BULLOCKS - Kilkeel farmer:
642k Sh @ £1235. Ballymartin
farmer: 488k @ £1050.
Ballynaskeagh farmer: 502k
@ £1040. Dromara farmer:
518k @ £1025, 520k @ £1025.
Rostrevor farmer: 460k @
£965. Ballinaskeagh farmer:
534k @ £1000, 518k @ £950.
Gransha farmer: 448k @
£925, 462k @ £870, 404k @
£790, 374k @ £770. Rostrevor
farmer: 404k @ £830, 440k @
£860.
POMEROY CATTLE
Full yard of stock sold
to high demand. Bullocks
to £1150/500kg, heifers
£1360/690kg.
BULLOCKS - Seamus &
James Nugent £1150/500kg,
Plunkett Begley £1135/530kg,
Shane Lagan £965/440kg,
Michael Fox £960/370kg,
Patrick McCallan £895/390kg,
£870/380kg, George Mitchell
£820/410kg, £760/380kg,
Michael Fox £720/300kg,
Kyle Rainey £705/400kg,
Ian Brownlee £700/310kg,
£680/300kg, Alan Roulston
£700/280kg,
B & B Heagney £690/290kg,
Kyle Rainey £690/330kg,
£655/360kg, Darren McLaren
£675/300kg, Kevin McCullagh
£660/250kg, Michael Fox
£630/290kg, Kevin McCullagh
£625/230kg, B & B Heagney
£620/280kg, £585/230kg.
HEIFERS - Barry Hutton
£1360/690kg, Dominic &
John McCullagh £1160/730kg,
Plunkett Begley £1120/470kg,
£1100/460kg, £1085/460kg,
Alan Roulston £965/460kg,
£645/470kg, Caolan Molloy
£885/390kg, Patrick Fox
£865/460kg, Michael Wylie
£860/360kg,
Alan Roulston £850/440kg,
£850/440kg, Kieran & Chris
Girvan £840, George Mitchell
£815/410kg, Michael Wylie
£810/380kg, Michael Wylie
£790/330kg, Caolan Molloy
£750/350kg, Michael Wylie
£750/420kg, Michael Wylie
£730/330kg, James Nugent
£700/300kg.
DRAPERSTOWN CATTLE
Prices hit a high on Friday.
Bullocks to £1500/690kg,
heifers to £1435/720kg,
weanlings up to £1140, cows
and calves £2400 and fat
cows £1443/740kg.
BULLOCKS - Margaret
Maxwell £1500/690kg,
£1410/630kg, £1345/620kg,
Glen Cuddy £1430/590kg,
J Morrison £1360/620kg,
£1300/620kg, £1285/600kg,
Wilbert McLenaghan
£1255/610kg, Cochrane
Boyle £1240/580kg, Patrick
Owens £1220/520kg, Glenn
Cuddy £1185/530kg, Wilbert
McLenaghan £165/560kg,
£1130/560kg, £1100/560kg,
£1095/560kg,
Robert Dundee
£1160/600kg,£1155/560kg,
£1150/610kg, Phelim Diamond
£1155/540kg, £1150/520kg,
£1125/480kg,£1090/500kg,
Glenn Cuddy £1150/580kg,
Cochrane Boyle £995/510kg.
HEIFERS - Ronald Cahoon
£1435/720kg, £1235/610kg,
Aurara Farms £1240/580kg,
£1200/570kg, £1160/540kg,
£1135/550kg, £1125/580kg,
£1110/580kg, Glen Cuddy
£1240/580kg, £1215/530kg,
Donald Fleming £1185/590kg,
£1110/530kg, Laurance
Canning £1170/560kg,
Paul Slean £1105/540kg,
£1100/540kg,
Glenn Cuddy £1090/490kg,
£1080/470kg, £1060/490kg,
Aurara Famrs £1090/560kg,
Paul Slean £1070/520kg,
£1040/530kg, Donald Fleming
£1060/540kg, Laurance
Canning £1035/480kg,
Thomas Cairns £1025/460kg,
E Biggar £945/440kg, Charles
Loughran £930/380kg.
WEANLINGS MALE Daniel Gormley £1020/460kg,
£1010/390kg, PJ OKane
£1010/470kg, E Biggar
£935/460kg, £900/440kg,
Joe McWilliams £930/480kg,
Martin OKane £905/400kg,
Nigel Fields £900/380kg,
P Mullan £890/350kg, S
Moore £890/390kg, R Cleary
£890/380kg, £885/380kg,
£870/400kg, Martin Doyle
£890/430kg, £885/440kg,
Daniel Gormley £880/370kg,
£880/340kg, Martin Doyle
£870/400kg.
WEANLINGS FEMALE Damien McEldowney £1140,
£1090, James McVeigh
£955/390kg, £945/380kg,
£935/420kg, £870/440kg,
W Florence £925, £845/
Daniel Gormley £865/420kg,
Sean ONeill £855/430kg,
Paul Downey £845/360kg,P
Mullan £840/280kg, Patrick
McGarvey £835/340kg, W
Florance £830,
COWS & CALVES - Joseph
Dickson £2400, £2050,
£2000, £1920, £1800, £1800,
£1950,£1800, £1800, £1800,
£1720, £1700, £1700, £1720,
£1620, £1600, £1480, £1620,
£1400, Michael McGlade
£2100, £1900, £1800, £1400,
S & G Cooke £1520, £1500,
£1400, £1420, £1300, David
Hempton £1420, Mervyn
Murphy £1340, Ralph
Pickering £1300, W, Patterson
£1610, £1500, £1480, £1450,
£1300, £1300, £1300, £1270,
£1220, £1210.
FAT COWS - Martin
Lagan £1443/740kg, Gareth
McKelvey £1434/880kg,
David & Clive McAdoo
£1365.10/730kg, B Hempton
£1341.90/710kg, Patrick
McCann £1224/680kg,
Andrew Fleming
£1199.90/710kg, £1185/790kg,
Nigel Jordan £1168.20/660kg,
£1155/700kg, Gareth
McKelvey £1145.60/640kg,
John Gourley £1137.60/720kg.
BALLYMENA CATTLE
32 dairy cattle on offer on
Friday met better demand
selling to £1900 for a calved
cow from Mervyn Smyth,
Cloughmills.
DAIRY STOCK - Mervyn
Smyth, Cloughmills
calved cow £1900, A Hoey,
Glenwherry calved cow
£1710, Thomas Carlisle,
Dundrod calved cow £1660,
AG Smyth, Dungiven spg cow
£1570, A Hoey calved cow
£1560, AG Smyth, Dungiven
calved cow £1500, Mervyn
Smith calved cow £1480, AG
Smyth, calved cow £1420,
Thomas Carlisle, calved cow
£1420,
DW Graham, Clough
calved hfr £1410, T & J
Mackey, Ballynure calved
cow £1400, Mervyn Smyth
calved cow £1300, AG Smyth
calved cow £120, G Wallace,
Broughshane calved hfr
£1280, Mervyn Smyth
calved cow £1120, A Hoey,
Glenwherry calved hfr £1100.
50 lots in the suckler ring
sold well to £1700 for a Here
cow with heifer calf, a batch
of Blue bred maiden heifers
sold to £1250.
SUCKLERS - J Sawyers,
Aughnacloy Here cow hfr
calf £1700, Lim cow & hfr calf
£1700, local farmer BB cow &
hfr calf £1610, J Sawyers Lim
cow & bull calf £1600, Ian
Davidson, Larne Sim cow &
hfr calf £1590,
J Sawyers Sim cow &
bull calf £1560, Joe Steede,
Cullybackey Sim cow &
hfr calf £1510, WJ Patton,
Cloughmills Lim cow & bull
calf £1500, J Sawyers Lim
cow & bull calf £1500, A
Heron, Broughshane SHB
cow & bull calf £1460.
CALVES - 164 lots in ring 3
sold well to £420 for a Here
bull (4 months), younger
bulls to £390 for a Sim (2
weeks).
Heifer calves to £385 for a
BB (4 months), younger lots
to £325 for a Char (1 month).
Beef bred bull calves sold
to:- WJ Bond, Eglinton Here
£420, M Park, Ballymena Sim
£390, Greenmount College
BB £390, local farmer Sim
£385, WJ Bond Here £365,
Greenmount College Here
£350, TJ Turtle, Broughshane
Here £350, FC Patterson,
Broughshane Here £345, WJ
Bond Here £345, RLA & D
Irvine, Dundrod AA £335,
Greenmount College Here
£335, WJ Bond, Eglinton Here
£335.
Heifer calves sold to:Greenmount College BB
£385, BB £380, James
White, Comber Sim £375,
P Brown, Clough Fr £350,
Fr £335, local farmer Char
£325, Greenmount College
BB £325, BB £315, P Brown,
Clough £300, Greenmount
College Here £300, A Beggs,
Kilwaughter (2) BB £285,
Samuel Herbison, Ballymena
St £280, Greenmount College
(3) £280.
Friesian bull calves sold
to:- Greenmount College
£220, (2) £170, James Gibson,
Aughafatten (4) £155, JT
Reid, Ballymoney £155, Denis
Boyd, Straid £150, A Magee
Snr, Kilwaughter (4) £105,
RLA & D Irvine, Dundrod
£85, M Park, Ballymena £85.
