Frome Market, Standerwick, Frome, Somerset BA11 2QB

Tel: 01373 830 033 Fax: 01373 831 201 Email: info@fromelivestock.com Website: www.fromelivestock.com

Auctioneers: Cooper & Tanner and Symonds & Sampson

Sale Reports & Information for the week ending

30TH DECEMBER 2020

467 HEAD SOLD

PRIME CATTLE to 201.50p/kg CULL COWS to 137.50p/kg PRIME LAMBS to 233p/kg CALVES to £400 STORE STEERS to £955 STORE HEIFERS to £800

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COVID 19 REGULATIONS

Under guidance from the LAA (Livestock Auctioneers Association)

NEW GOVERNMENT RULES FACE MASKS ARE NOW MANDATORY IN LIVESTOCK

MARKETS THIS IS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.

We wish to remind everyone that the market is open for buyers to attend Please bring your own

face coverings.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Potential buyers must pre-register their interest, please contact Trevor Rowland:

07968 480401.

Avoiding queues in the market office:

Please do not request a print out of your sales this will be emailed to you at the end of

the market day.

NO ONLOOKING ALLOWED

NO SOCIAL VISITS

GENUINE VENDORS ONLY

The sale documentation MUST be collected by the Auctioneers or Staff from the

Vendors when they arrive at the unloading bays – Vendors MUST NOT take the

paperwork to the market office themselves. Please ensure your mobile number is on

your entry form.

FROME LIVESTOCK WEEKLY SALES WEDNESDAYS: Dairy, Prime cattle, Cull cows, Prime lambs/Hoggets, Store sheep, Ewes & Lambs, Cull ewes & rams, Calves, Pigs fortnightly (6th January), Reared calves/Stirks fortnightly (6th January STARTS APPROX. 11.30AM). FRIDAYS: Store cattle plus Cows & Calves Please can we urge all Buyers attending sales to use hand washing/sanitation facilities provided.

Rest assured we are following and adhering to ALL government and medical advice and under

those current guidelines, there is no reason for us to cancel or postpone sales at this time. But we

ask that you ALL remember the simple rule and take social distancing seriously.

Market Gates Open at 6.30 am – Please get your stock to market EARLY

BUYERS

Only 1 buyer permitted per family is allowed in sales ring. At the conclusion of the sale

buyers MUST enter the Sales Office in a way that does not result in too many entering at any one

time.

Many thanks for bearing with us over this difficult period

WEDNESDAY 30th DECEMBER 2020

TOTAL HEAD SOLD: 279

PRIME CATTLE (12) to 201.50p/kg or £1218 CULL COWS (13) Beef to 124.50p/kg Dairy to 137.50p/kg Starts 11.30am AUCTIONEER: MARK NORTHCOTT 07798 645274 Another totally insufficient holiday entry to satisfy the continuing strong demand for both cull and prime and many more are urgently needed. Beef met a cracking trade with Norridge Farms Simmental x heifers topping at 201.50p/kg with another at 198.50p/kg. Fleckvieh heifers to 194.50p/kg from RTJ Voizey & Partners and Friesians to 156.50p/kg from FJ Lessey & Son. Steers to 197.50p/kg from A Filkins, Angus x Herefords to 188.50p/kg from JR Griffin & Son. Fleckvieh to 180.50p/kg from FJ Lessey & Son and Friesians to 178.50p/kg from the same home. Cull Dairy cows to 137.50p/kg and £1032 for Brown Swiss from SH Lawrence & Sons. Beef cows to 124.50p/kg for Angus from Ham Farm Partners. Overage heifers to 140.50p/kg for Angus x from Ham Farm Partners and White Park heifers to 140.50p/kg from M Franklin.

CHRISTMAS OPENING TIMES

No Market Friday 25th December

Full Market Wednesday 30th December –

Including store cattle (No pigs)

No Market Friday 1st January 2021.

Full Wednesday Market 6th January

Including Stirks & Pigs.

SHEEP (201) Starts 10.30am AUCTIONEER: ROSS WHITCOMBE 07815 985 737 PRIME LAMBS (201) Max 233p/kg £109.50 A smaller type of lambs forward today which sold to another flying trade. Best lambs to 233p/kg from BA & CM Godwin & Sons and £109.50 from Keevil Farm Partnership. Light lambs to 226p/kg and £88 from Tom & Charlotte Wheeler. Handy weights to 233p/kg and £100 from Brian Godwin & family. Heavier types to 231p/kg and £109.50 from Keevil Farm Partnership.

NO. WEIGHT

(KG) MAX

(P/KG) VENDOR

MAX (£)

VENDOR

16 32.1-39 226.00 T & C Wheeler, Rode

88.00 T & C Wheeler, Rode

62 39.1-45.5 233.00 BA & CM Godwin & Sons, Bath

100.00 BA & CM Godwin & Sons, Bath

123 45.6-52 231.00 Keevil Farm Prtnrs, Bath

109.50 Keevil Farm Prtnrs, Bath

May I wish you a Happy New Year and thankyou all for your continued support throughout this challenging year! Sheep numbers continued to grow here at Frome and as a result we have a large contingent of buyers all looking to source sheep from Frome ensuring a strong competitive trade week in week out.

Vendors please make sure all sheep are tagged correctly, thank you. Any undeclared ram store lambs will be subject to a 25% deduction if found by the buyer after the auction. To prevent this please declare all ram lambs when booking them in.

ARE YOU UNDER TB RESTRICTION? We hold regular Restricted Orange Sales for Cull Cows, Prime and Store Cattle

Restricted Orange Sales 2021 Dates:

MONDAY 18TH JANUARY MONDAY 22ND FEBRUARY

MONDAY 22ND MARCH Cattle must be licenced to these sales

please call the Market Office on 01373 830033 for more information

Entries for catalogue by the Wednesday prior to sale please

Licences must be obtained from animal health

at least one week before the sale. Applying for a licence has now changed;

an application form (TB204) must be completed and either emailed to CSC.Tblicensing@apha.gis.gov.uk or

posted to APHA, Polwhele, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 9AD

Future Pigs Sale Dates Wednesday 6th January Wednesday 13th January Wednesday 27th January

Future Stirk Sale Dates Wednesday 6th January Wednesday 20th January Wednesday 3rd February

NEXT FORTNIGHTLY PIG SALE:

WEDNESDAY 6TH JANUARY 10.15am

Please contact the Auctioneer Will Wallis 07833 453 482

with your entries in advance

NEXT SALE OF REARED CALVES:

WEDNESDAY 6th JANUARY THEN FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER

APPROX. 11.30AM Please contact

Charlie Coleman 07494 588013 Mark Ferrett 07702 264502 Tom Rogers 07384 462288

with your entries in advance

CALVES (53) Starts 09.30am AUCTIONEERS: TIM HECTOR 07818 056 049 CHARLIE COLEMAN: 07494 588 013 A light entry consisting of quality but not quantity met a ring full of new and old buyers keen to source calves.

CONTINENTAL BULLS TO £400/HEIFERS TO £225 A stand on trade again with buyers keen to source calves topping at £400 from Tom & Em Voizey for a cracking Blue bull, with others to £300 from Wardour Farms and the Jackson family, with 3 others over £275. Heifers a very bright trade topping at £225 again from JT Jackson & Sons, with others to £220 and nearly all forward £175+.

NATIVE BULLS TO £330/NATIVE HEIFERS TO £175 Rip-roaring trade yet again with Angus bulls to £330 and heifers to £175 for some proper sorts from Somers Farm Partnership. All bulls cruising over £120 with most £170. HeiferS from £90 - £120 for Angus. Very few Herefords with a strong bull to £220 from the Jackson family with heifers to £132 from Foremore Ltd.

FRIESIAN TO £78 FLECKVIEH TO £290 Friesians a very good trade for goods here topping at £78 from RP Sainsbury & Sons Ltd making the trip from Badminton, with smaller types £35 – £40. Regular quality Fleckviehs from the Voizey family saw best bulls to £290. My thanks to both vendors & purchasers alike and I wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year!

PLEASE BE AWARE CALVES/STIRKS OVER 41DAYS COMING TO MARKET NEED TO HAVE A TB TEST DATE. PLEASE PUT THIS ON YOUR ENTRY FORM. ** PLEASE TRY TO GET YOUR CALVES TO MARKET EARLY**

THIS WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED NEW SALE TIME 9.30AM START

The winner of the £25 for the top price Native Sired heifer under 41 days sponsored by Howard & Sons – Kubota, was an Angus to £175 from Somers Farm Partnership. Next week the £25 sponsored prize will be for the top price any breed male/female. Howard & Sons: New Kubota dealers in Wiltshire & Somerset.

Tel: 01380 723986

FRIDAY 18th DECEMBER 2020 TOTAL STORE CATTLE SOLD: 188

SALE TIME: 10.30AM AUCTIONEERS: TREVOR ROWLAND 07968 480 401 LESTER WILLIAMS 07778 646 031 CHARLIE COLEMAN 07494 588 013 ROSS WHITCOMBE 07815 985 737

STEERS TO £955 HEIFERS TO £800 A small Christmas entry of cattle producing a continued fast trade. Thank you from the Store cattle auctioneers for everyone’s support throughout 2020 and we wish you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

ORGANIC Less numbers of Organic forward today but trade very strong. Super Charolais from Greys Organics saw premium prices with 8mo well grown steers to £1015. Heifers from the same home to £605. Dairy x seeing plenty of demand. Cracking Blue x Dairy x from Tynings Farms 13mo topped at £860 and heifers to £655. Speckled Park forward steers were wanted to £965 closely followed by their heifers to £960. Senior breeding Hereford bulls sold well to £1200.

FEEDING BULLS A good trade today, 16 – 18mo prices over £800 - £860 were easily achieved.

CONTINENTAL A super trade for all Continentals mainly younger types today and demand very strong throughout. Well presented single suckled Charolais from the Taylor family, IOW, saw their 8mo steers to £885 & £800. Their heifers to £710. 8 – 9mo Limousin steers from Chris Bailward to £665 closely followed by VW Newton’s heifer to 8mo to a marvellous £652. 15 – 16mo Blue x steers from regular vendor TC Cox sold well to £940. Blue x heifer for winter feeding topped at £800. Strong Fleckvieh steers from Suddon Grange Ltd easily sold to £955.

Future Organic Store Cattle

Sale Dates

Friday 22nd January

Friday 19th February

Friday 19th March

Candlemas Sales 2021

Friday 5th February

Friday 12th February

Entries now being taken

ANGUS & HEREFORD Very few Native here not those met a flying trade. Best quality 15mo Angus steers from MJ Bendall & Partners sold exceptionally well to £850 also topping the Herefords with 14mo steers to £785 and their Hereford heifers to £710 for 15mo sorts. A super run from the Cox family of Puddletown saw Angus heifers 15mo to £620 with their Angus steers to £700. Suddon Grange Ltd met good support seeing stocky Angus steers to £600 and heifers to £490.

YOUNG STEERS YOUNG HEIFERS

BREED £/

HEAD AGE VENDOR BREED

£/ HEAD

AGE VENDOR

Blue 940 16mo TC Cox, Puddletown Hereford 768 17mo Suddon Grange Farm Ltd, Wincanton

Charolais 885 8mo EU & FT Taylor Ltd, Bembridge

Charolais 710 8mo EU & FT Taylor Ltd, Bembridge

Angus 840 15mo MJ Bendall & Prntrs, Bath

Limousin 652 14mo DJ Newton, Frome

Simmental 835 15mo RJ Dacombe, Wimborne

Simmental 645 16mo RJ Dacombe, Wimborne

Hereford 785 14mo MJ Bendall & Prtnrs, Bath

Blue 642 17mo TC Cox, Puddletown

Shorthorn 695 7mo Abbey Batch, Romsey

Angus 620 15mo TC Cox, Puddletown

Limousin 665 10mo RJ & CJ Bailward, Templecombe

FRIESIAN A solid entry of Friesians which sold to another flying trade. Best to £908 from

MJ Bendall & Partners who had others to £785 and £755. Best heifers to £785

from TC Cox. Younger types to £740 from DR & MD Brown. Best Fleckvieh

types to £955 from Suddon Grange Ltd.

FORWARD STEERS FORWARD HEIFERS

BREED £/

HEAD AGE VENDOR BREED

£/ HEAD

AGE VENDOR

Fleckvieh 955 24mo Suddon Grange Farm Ltd, Wincanton

Blue 800 26mo GP Spiller, Yeovil

Friesian 908 21mo MJ Bendall & Prtnrs, Bath

Friesian 785 23mo TC Cox, Puddletown

Angus 600 19mo Stock Estate Prtnrs, Sturminster Newton

Danish 510 21mo Suddon Grange Farm Ltd, Wincanton

Simmental 595 20mo Suddon Grange Farm Ltd, Wincanton

Angus 490 19mo Stock Estate Prtnrs, Sturminster Newton

Chaplain’s Weekly News 23rd December

Chaplain’s Prayer for the week

God of glory, lift up our gaze from our animals,

their husbandry and all the daily cares of our

farming life to see the tiny shining presence of

your new born Son. We pray that his light will fill

our lives with Comfort and Joy this Christmas.

Do not fear

Contributed by Deacon Alison McCauley, Melton Mowbray. (edited for this news)

This year seems to have sped by as we have been constantly

looking to the future, waiting and wondering when we can see

our family again, when we can travel, when we can hug our

loved ones, when we can be vaccinated against this dreadful

virus. It has been a year of fear and anxiety. Our farmers, not only

have dealt with all this but also had to process the ramifications

of Brexit and keep an eye on the constant

unpredictable weather.A reading in Advent

is taken from Luke’s Gospel ‘ –Do not fear ’the

Angel Gabriel said to Mary. Wonderful,

obedient Mary. Mary who was ‘deeply

troubled’, ‘confused and disturbed ’and

‘thoroughly shaken’.Those are words that

could apply to any of us at some time over

these last few months. The phrases ‘do not be

afraid’, ‘fear not ’and other similar phrases appear in the Bible

365 times. It’s good to think that God tells us not to be afraid,

once for every day of the year. These phrases are usually

followed by the assurance of God’s almighty power and

reassurance of his constant presence in our lives. Try this little

reminder: fill in the blank with your own worry, take it to God and

leave it there, knowing he hears you even when we can’t hear

him. ‘When I’m afraid of…, I will trust in you O Lord. ’Prayers don’t

need to be long. He hears them all. Amen.Fr Clive Sabbatical

He will be away until the end of March.Revd. Ronnie Crossman

from Beckington will be standing for him her Email is

ronniecrossman65@outlook.com

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