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www.kivells.comEXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREMARKET REPORTJune 2013Friday 14 th Store MarketExeter Livestock Centre, Matford Park Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8FD01392 251261 livestock@kivells.com www.kivells.com

266 STORE CATTLE & STIRKS -10AMAuctioneer’s: Alan Webber 07967 718048 Simon Alford 07789 980203Steers to £1205 Heifers to £1005 Bulls to £1280 In-Calvers to £1200An increased entry on the week and double the number sold at the market to the corresponding week last year. Thepopularity of Exeter is certainly rising as week by week new vendors are supporting the centre and benefiting from thehighly competitive trading levels. The overall average price per head of £750 today reflected the shortage of qualitystrong cattle forward and a higher percentage of mid-grade types. A well framed 28 month old Simmental, the propertyof Dawn Saunders of Ideford, achieved the top price of the day at £1205 while an entry of well-bred British Blue &Limousin cattle for John Squire of South Tawton saw groups of 18/19 month old steers selling to £1040, £1005 & £100etc. Another run of ten quality Limousin & South Devon x’s from Martin Perryman of Chagford were well rewarded with16/17 month old steers to £1010. An entry of 47 grazing type cattle from Maurice & Jonathan Grose of Helston createdinterest with 16/17 month old British Blue bullocks selling to £940 with younger groups to £810 & £770. Heifers of asimilar age sold in bunches to £800, £780 & £760. Limousin steers off the same farm to £800 and heifers to £820 with15/17 month Friesian steers to £710. A further entry of 21 cattle from Henry Turpin of Roborough saw his best 18month old Charolais steers to £1000, £985 etc. Few heifers strong enough to break the £1000 mark with the best sellingto £1005 for a very shapely British Blue from Ivor Taylor of Okehampton. Apair of double muscled 13/14 month oldfemales of the same breed made £840 apiece for WD & SJ Hosegood of Zeal Monachorum. Pedigree Limousin in-calfcows from Quiney & Spears to £1200 and a 29 month old Saler bull for May Farming Partnership realised £1280. A smallentry of organic heifers from Clinton Devon Estates sold to £940 for 18 month Charolais’ and £930 for similar agedAberdeen Angus’.Help Us to Help You!Vendors are kindly asked to please pre-enter stock so potential purchasers may be informed of numbers forward, please contactSimon Alford 07789 980203, Robert Armstrong 07791 484290 or the Market Office 01392 251261 for entries and furtherinformation. Vendors are also reminded that all Cattle Entry Forms must include a TB Test Date.102 CALVES - 10.30AMAuctioneer: Mark Davis 07773 371774A super entry of calves sold to a cracking trade again with apacked ring of buyers present. Top of the day was £385 for athree week old British Blue bull for Messrs GJ & CA Mock ofUmberleigh and the same vendor sold other Blues to £370.Other British Blue bulls sold to £380 for Mr GN Baily ofColyton & £360 for David Snell of Cullompton. YoungSimmental bulls sold to £360 for Mrs Starr of Dunkeswelland Medium Charolais bulls sold to a strong trade to £330for Stuart Pike and £320 for David Snell both of Cullompton.The best of the Natives sold to £295 for Aberdeen Angusbulls from Russell Risdon of Camelford who sold a strongrun of Angus calves with others to £285 and saw animmense trade for some two week old smaller types atCALVES - 10.30 amAuctioneer: Mark Davis – 07773 371774CALVES Bulls HeifersBREED TOP AVE TOP AVEBritish Blue 9 385 282 2 300 294Limousin 2 290 165 3 270 259Charolais 7 330 273 2 255 238Blonde D’Aquitaine 3 250 222 2 230 213Simmental 1 360 360Devon 2 255 239Hereford 1 295 295 1 24 24Aberdeen Angus 14 295 163 18 255 180Holstein / Friesian 33 245 75Ayrshire 2 45 41£255. The same vendor sold Angus heifer calves to £255 & £240. Hereford bulls sold to £290 for Frank Pike ofCullompton. Devon Bulls sold to £255 & £222 for Messrs RMS & SCJ Paine of Tiverton. Continental Heifers a decenttrade with the best to £300 for a British Blue for Mr GN Baily of Colyton. Others sold to £288 for David Snell. LimousinHeifers sold to £270 & £260 for Mrs Starr. 32 Holstein Friesians sold to a strong trade with the best reared sorts to£245 for Russell Risdon. Young 4 week old British Friesians sold well to £165 for Mr GN Baily and £135 for ClintonDevon Farms. Others sold to £130 twice for Messrs GJ & CA Mock and £125 for Andy Reed of Cullompton. Strongersorts were generally £70-£90 and plainer calves a touch stronger between £50-£60.Thanks to all vendors for their support and please keep the calves coming and take advantage of this very strongtrade!! More calves required every week to satisfy the strong demand!64 STIRKS - 11.30AMAuctioneer: Simon Alford 07789 980203A packed ring saw yet another good entry of Stirks meet a fast trade throughout. Top call of the day was £680 given fortwo 10 month suckler bred Limousin x steers from James Williams of Yelverton, The same vendor also had shapelyheifers of a similar age to £575. Slightly older 12 month old Simmental x Steers from Stuart Winzer of Totnes reached£650, yearling Charolais x heifers from Clinton Devon Estates made to £565 and 9 month old Welsh Black steers fromRoger Winsor of Princetown made to £505. Robert Harding of Exmouth saw his best 9 month Friesian sorts to £450, asdid Fred Palmer of Totnes with his the best 7-10 month steers together with bunches of lesser quality sorts makingbetween £320 and £340.Cattle vendors are reminded where pedigree native breed bulls have been used, please provide the registered pedigree name of thesire by writing the pedigree name clearly on the entry form.

2436 SHEEP - 11AMAuctioneer: Russell Steer 07788 3187011976 BREEDING EWES & SHEARLINGSThe early breeding sale of ewes & shearlings sold to a very large crowd ofpotential buyers who were, as expected, selective and cautious with theirbuying. The largest selection of commercial breeding sheep so far thisyear saw sheep travelling to Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire,Norfolk, Hereford, Cheshire and as far north as Lanarkshire. The salestarted with the older ewes reaching a top of £138 for 4T age Charollais’from Trevor Marks of Kingsbridge while Kerry Roberts of Bradninchreached £125 with Dorsets of the same age and his FM’s achieved £118twice. Dennis, Hazel & Barry Mildon of Exeter reached £108 with theirbest two pens of FM Dorsets, and FE Tucker of Tiverton reached £104with similar ewes. Plenty of pens of good farming sheep looking value formoney, selling around the £100 mark. The few continental shearlings on offer reached £125 again for Charollais’ fromTrevor Marks and £120 on behalf of CJ & AW Greenslade of Calverleigh and Brian Webber of Cullompton with twopens of Texel x Mules. North Country Mules were selective too, with two pens from Tony Dallyn of Barnstaple reaching£138 and another at £125. A shorter entry of Suffolk x shearlings than catalogued worked into a very fiery and pleasingtrade. Roy Coker of Honiton reached £133 with a further two pens at £131 and another pair at £128. Messrs HalwellFarm of Kingsbridge reached £127, £125 (x2) and £120. Martin & Diane Sizmur of Okehhampton sold 74 good shearlingsfor £126 apiece, Andrew Cock of Ashburton reached £124 of his and Dart Vale & South Pool Hunt reached £116 (x2) &£114 (x3). The annual show & sale of Poll Dorset x Mule shearlings, kindly sponsored by the Dorset Sheep Society, sawSteve Webber of Umberleigh take the first prize rosette, £50 prize money and top price of £130, he sold another pen at£130, a further four pens at £120 and three at £118, well done and congratulationsSteve. John Simons of Chard was awarded second prize and £30 prize money withhis best that realised £125, with others at £121, £118 (x3) and £116. HenryJohnson of Bridport secured third prize and £20 and later sold for £126, £124, £122& £118 (x2). Also worthy of a mention were four pens from David Elworthy ofUmberleigh at £120 (x2), £118 & £112. Among the pure Poll Dorset shearlings, MJ& DM Lake of South Molton reached £130, £124 (x2), £122 & £118 (x3). AC & ERHammett of Umberleigh reached £125, as did Terry & Jean Tall of Modbury, oftheir best pens. £122 was achieved by both Steve Webber and Henry Johnson,£120 from MH, CB & PM Ayre of Crediton, with Mark Kimber of Okehampton at£118. Overall clearance of 79% was very pleasing for this early sale.86 STOCK RAMSA good selection of rams sold to a large crowd of buyers from across the Southwest. Patrick Toop of Yelverton took thetop spot with a Suffolk shearling at £500, while MA Smith of Cullompton sold another Suffolk shearling at £380. RichardBerry of Exeter sold a 4T Charollais at £400 and Suffolk x Charollais rams at £370 & £310. £380 & £360 was achieved byHarold Keast of Crediton, again with Charollais shearlings and B Watts of Ashburton sold his 4T Charollais at £320 andshearlings at £300. A large entry of Dorset rams topped at £390 & £380 for ram lambs from from Colin & Tom Clarke ofCrediton who also sold shearlings at £340 & £300 as well as a 4T at £300. Rob Hole of Sherborne opened the sale with aram lamb at £340, matched by another lamb from Mark Hayman of Sidmouth and two shearlings from Andrew Palk ofPaignton. Andrew & Chris Kingdon of Newquay made the trip up to sell Beltex shearlings at £270 & £260. Over 50%clearance was achieved and shearlings averaged £310. Overall average including some older second quality rams going tokill was £262.330 COUPLES (147 EWES & 183 LAMBS)A good entry, late in the season, met with lots of interest resulting in a solid trade. Mule hoggs with lambs from RundleWeldhen of Newquay topped the section and reached £178 for a hogg double with pens of singles at £164, £162 & £160(x2). Similar hogg singles from Martin Chatfield of Cheriton Bishop made £158 & £155. Messrs JL Burrough & Son ofChard reached £158 with FM doubles and £152 of 4T singles (x2) and £145 of 6T singles. NJ Williams of Ottery St Marysaw £160 an outfit for 15 flock age Dorset doubles and both Brian Clothier of Stoneaston & Phil Caunter of Totnes made£150 of their best doubles. Average of £135.87 an outfit or £60.14 per life.44 GRAZERS & HOGGSTop of £88 for a young wether from Robert Partridge of Teignmouth, £78 from JL Burrough & Son of Chard and SMosam of Ashburton, with £74 from both Brian Webber of Cullompton and John Down of Taunton. A wide selection ofbreeds including Soya’s, Dorper’s, Jacob’s and Kerry Hill’s helped towards an average of £68.31.

Calf Collection Service AvailableDo you want to send your calves to market but don’t have time or you don’t have your own transport?All parts of Mid & East Devon covered and any other areas considered if a large number.Call now for a reliable and friendly service, for more information or to book your Calves in Contact Kevin on 07803 582620THIS FRIDAY 21 ST JUNE 2013EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE22 Hereford x Bulling Heifers, 18 months old, off one East Devon Farm.Further details from Robert Armstrong 07791 484290Whatever the weather, make sure you mark out Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 July in your diary to attend theLivestock Event, held at The NEC, Birmingham.This year’s event, featuring over 450 exhibitors, will enable all livestock farmers to gain the latest technical andfinancial advice and make more timely business decisions, all in one place on one day. Unique features include:• Mixer Wagon Demos • Feed Science Forums• Hoof Trimming Demos • Farm Health Planning Seminars• Forage Field Feature • Business Debates• Farm Security Feature • Careers in AgricultureRABDF supported by the Livestock Auctioneers Association, is offering free coach travel from a number ofdeparture points at auction marts across the country.Travel from Exeter:The coach will depart from Exeter Livestock Centre on Wednesday 3 rd at 6am to arrive at the NEC at 8:45am.Please arrive 15 minutes before departure. The Coach will leave the event at 6pm to arrive back at Exeter for8:45pm.To take advantage of the offer, simply purchase an admission ticket for £20 in advance on line, (the same asgate price) – visit www.livestockevent.co.uk/book-tickets/coach-ticketsEXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREFor further information and entries please contact 01392 251261,Simon Alford – 07789 980203, Alan Webber – 07967 718048or Robert Armstrong – 07791 484290

RACE FOR LIFE – HERE COME THE GIRLS!On Sunday 30 th June 2013 we will be taking part in theRace for Life raising money for Cancer Research UK.If you would like to pledge your support, sponsorshipforms are in the Market Office. Thank youUseful Contact NumbersAuctioneers & Fieldsmen:Simon Alford - 07789 980203Robert Armstrong - 07791 484290Mark Davis - 07773 371774James Morrish - 07814 010133Russell Steer - 07788 318701Alan Webber - 07967 718048Livestock Markets:Exeter Market Office - 01392 251261Holsworthy Market - 01409 253275Hallworthy Market - 01840 261261Liskeard Market - 01579 346938Rural Professional DepartmentDid you know that as well as our regular livestock auctions we also have on site specialists who canhelp and advise you on;• Valuations for a variety of purposes• Single Payment Scheme and Entitlement trading• ELS, OELS, UELS, HLS• Property agency and management• Contract farming arrangements• Landlord and Tenant matters on agricultural and residential property• Grazing/cropping licences• Compulsory Purchase and other compensation schemes• Rural planning and development• Rural diversification• Renewable energy• Telecommunications masts• Arbitration and dispute resolutionIf you have any property concerns or would like to discuss your business’splans for the future please call in to our on-site professional officeMonday to Friday or contact Lizzie Burton on 01392 252262 orlizzie.burton@kivells.com or Alan Webber on 07967 718048

FORTHCOMING SALESFRIDAY 21st JUNE - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market Plus 1st Sale of Store Lambs and Fortnightly Pig SaleMONDAY 24th JUNE - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketFRIDAY 28th JUNE - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market Plus Suckler Cows & Calves, In Calf Cows, Breeding Bulls, Organic & Breeding Cattle& Sheep and Collective Straw SaleMONDAY 1st JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketFRIDAY 5th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market Plus Sale of Accredited & Non Accredited Stock Rams & Fortnightly PigsMONDAY 8th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketTUESDAY 9th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREMonthly Horse & Tack SaleFRIDAY 12th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market Plus Monthly Dairy Show & SaleMONDAY 15th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketTUESDAY 16th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRE41st Annual Great July Fair Show & Sale of Breeding Ewes & Rams to include MV & non MV rams on behalf ofthe West Country Suffolk Sheep AssociationFRIDAY 19th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market and Fortnightly Pig SaleMONDAY 22nd JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketTUESDAY 23rd JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTRESale of TB Restricted Prime, Cull & Store CattleFRIDAY 26th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market Plus Suckler Cows & Calves, In Calf Cows, Breeding Bulls, Organic & Breeding Cattle& SheepMONDAY 29th JULY - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketFRIDAY 2nd AUGUST - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market Plus Sale of Accredited & Non Accredited Stock Rams & Fortnightly PigsMONDAY 5th AUGUST - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketFRIDAY 9th AUGUST - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Store Stock Market Plus 1st Devon & Cornwall Longwool Sale & Monthly Dairy Show & SaleMONDAY 12th AUGUST - EXETER LIVESTOCK CENTREWeekly Prime Stock MarketExeter Livestock Centre, Matford Park Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8FD01392 251261 livestock@kivells.com www.kivells.com