Auctions

General Sale Saturday 21st March – General Sale Catalogue 21st March

Our Country Market Auctions are welcoming and friendly offering a wide range of prime livestock for buyers and sellers.  We secure excellent rates and provide an excellent venue for deadstock, buyers and sellers.  The Stanfords auctions are more than just the sales, we are a hub for the agricultural and livestock communities, bringing together the best from around the region.

Our Livestock Market dates back to 1900 and we are immensely proud to be the only weekly Livestock Auction in operation in East Anglia. Our weekly auction, held on a Tuesday, provides clients with the opportunity to source primestock from farmers located in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Cattle and sheep are purchased by butchers, wholesalers and other buyers who appreciate the quality primestock, efficient service and bustling atmosphere that the Stanfords Weekly Livestock Market provides.

Weekly auctions of prime and cull stock every Tuesday with Store sales on the last Tuesday of each month.

To enter stock please ring Steven Ellis on 07446 100931 or 01206 842156.

Latest Livestock Market Report

148 Cattle included 58 prime cattle 5 OTM and 85 farmers stores. Prime cattle a firm trade for all despite falling dead weight quotations. Again, M B Farms showing 4 excellent Limousins with heifers to 427pkg (£2997.54) and 418pkg (£2959.44) with steers to 418pkg (£3034.68) topping the price per head and another at 414pkg (£2968.38). Pauline Byam Limousin steers to 408pkg and to 399pkg with Geoff Freeman to 400pkg.  R M Vant to 407pkg for Limousin heifers with another at 398pkg with W G Vant & Sons to 394pkg. Super run of 7 Limousin heifers from Drivers Farms to 410pkg from 405pkg, 404pkg, 403pkg, 402pkg (2) and another at 396pkg. Gary Hubert to 394pkg, 390pkg for heifers. General run of cattle 350pkg to 386pkg from numerous vendors, only 3 cattle below 346pkg and these Holstein steers from 300pkg to 322pkg (£2431.06 per head). AA steers to 371pkg from Tony Evans, BSH steers to 368pkg from J W Chamley & Sons. Longhorn heifers to 355pkg from A Heath & Sons.

504 Sheep and 8 Goats a trade in line with the previous week, 52kg plus hoggets in good numbers. Top per head this week Lawford Hall Partnership to £200with T J Kent to £195, £190 (2) and Shadwell Estates to £190 (2) with M & J Taylor also to £190. P & M Richards to £192 and to 402pkg for T J Kent and Richard Criddle. James Coe to 394pkg with Lawford Hall Partnership 394pkg, 393pkg etc. Medium hoggs to £189 from James Coe, T J Kent to £185, £184 etc with Richard Criddle to £185 and M & J Taylor to £184 and 428pkg from T J Kent. James Coe to 420pkg, 419pkg. Standard hoggs very short £162, £160 from Richard Criddle, Andrew Green to £161 etc. M & J Taylor to £155 and to 435pkg from Andrew Green. A better number of NSL with lambs from 35kg to 57.5kg forward and topping at £202 a head from H J Thurston & Co Ltd with Trevor Stocking to £200 as was Richard Criddle. Medium lambs to £190 a head from T Stocking also at £186, £185 as was Richard Criddle and 448pkg from T Stocking, 441pkg, 440pkg as was H G Thurston. Standard lambs to £174 from A Green, Tom Hanmer to £172 etc and to 469pkg from Tom with Andrew Green to 464pkg (2) etc.

54 EWES to average £156.59 with quality less than recent weeks but another strong trade. Texel X ewes to £205, Charollais ewes to £180, Half Bred ewes to £180, Kent ewes to £185, Llyen ewes to £160, NC Mules to £167, Polled Dorset ewes to £187, Hebridean ewes to £86, small Welsh ewes to £42, all included in average.

Fur and Feather sale commences 9.45 followed by Plants, Bikes followed by yard sale commences at 10am and timber from 11.00.

Goods Accepted Thursday May 9am – 3pm, Friday 9am – 3pm, Saturday morning between 7.00 and 8.30. Fur and feather lots accepted for sale between 7.00 and 9 am on Saturday mornings

The gates will be open from 7.00am on the morning of the sale.

If you have any enquiries please contact Steven Ellis on 01206842156 and he will be happy to discuss them with you.

Ad-hoc Farm Machinery Sales

We have hosted and produced a range of farm machinery sales so if you would like to know more on this please contact Steven Ellis on 07446 100931 or 01206 842156.