HALLWORTHY MARKET REPORT

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1 HALLWORTHY MARKET REPORT THURSDAY 19th APRIL 2018 EVERY THURSDAY Gates Open 6.30am SALE TIMES 09:45 am Draft Ewes followed by Prime, Store Hoggs & Breeding Sheep followed Tested & Untested Prime & OTM Cattle 11:00 am Store Cattle & Stirk NAMED SIRES Store cattle and calf purchasers are continually requesting the names of sires of Angus, South Devon and Hereford cattle. Please supply this information by writing it on the passport, it reflects in the sale price. Hallworthy Stockyard, Hallworthy, Camelford, Cornwall, PL32 9SH Tel: Fax: Website:

2 233 Draft Ewes Smaller entry met an easier trade in line with other entries in the South West. Selling to a top of 111 for a pen of Texel s from Messrs G T Grigg & Son, Trevean, Trengune. Suffolk x topped at from J J Bowden, Outer Retallick, Winnards Perch. Mules to Fat Hoggs Hogg trade nationally has taken a drop over the past week, but the trade for the well fleshed Hoggs is still very strong for this time of year. Top per Kilo 251p for a pen of 48kgs from Eddie Cowling, Higher SHEEP AUCTIONEER STEVE PROUSE Weight Top Average Per Head Per kg Per Head Per kg Over all Crannow, St Gennys. Mr J Small, Tregoose Farm, St Columb had a smart pen of Charolaise x 51.2kgs which realised 235p Even though the trade was back, there were still 13 pens over 122 to a top of 127 from 2 Vendors, W J Harris & Son and Mr C Hart, North Petherwin. 67 Store Hoggs Smaller entry met a strong trade, top being from 2 vendors. Couples 57E & 84L Similar entry saw the strongest trade met by young sappy lambs. Singles topped at 144 for a Charolaise x from Nigel Taylor, St Wenn. Hill Bred couples met a strong trade with Cheviot x FM Singles to 85 and the Doubles realised 120, both sold by D Hosken, Trezibbett. New Season Lambs More on offer met a firm trade over all average of in line with the rest of the country. More lambs needed please to fill buyers order. Top per kilo being 260p for a pen of Polled Dorset 44 kgs from Wallace and Adrian Facey, Treneath Farm, Liskeard, which was also top per head on the day at WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR MARKET PRICES ED TO YOU? Please let us have your address or call the Market Office on or us on hallworthy@kivells.com

3 STORE CATTLE AUCTIONEER RICHARD DENNIS Store Cattle A great day at Hallworthy, sun on our backs saw 390 Cattle through the ring to a packed audience, ready to fill their orders. Top call today saw Mr G Cowling of Wadbridge, with a run of Charolaise x Steers, his first bunch of 3 to Mrs A Brooks of Bude closely followed with an outstanding run of South Devon & Aberdeen Angus x South Devon Steers and Heifers, first her Aberdeen Angus x realising R T Crabb of Tresparratt saw his run of Limousin & Blond x top out at 1145, for a pair of Black Steers. Mr W P D Robinson finished this suckler section with a 13 month Limousin Steer to Dairy x Steers were headed with a bunch of British Blue x Steers from R C Andrews of Trurelfoot, Liskeard, a well fleshed bunch at months fetching C G Distin of St Breward seeing their best to 1060, again with British Blue x Steers. Top of the Heifers section went to Mrs A Brooks of Bude, this with a pure bred South Devon Heifer away to 1110, her next best a pair of Aberdeen Angus x to 990. Mr R C Andrew of Liskeard saw the top of his run of Heifers at 910, for a bunch of 6 British Blue Heifers away for Suckler Breeding. Friesians from Linnick Farm Partnership of South Petherwin, saw their best to 850, with Mr R Tilley of Penzance, seeing his best away at 805. Breeding A run of very classy Heifers from Mr W Harper of North Tamerton, saw his first production sale of Black Pure Bred Limousin & x Bred South Devons, sell well today, with the majority away for suckler breeding Heifers from months. Top of this section was a group of 3 Black Heifers at 960, away to join a suckler herd in Helston, with a second bunch at 950 x3 and his third to 920. Mr I Wickett of Kilkampton saw his best of a run of Pedigree Simmental Bulling Heifers away to a new herd at 1030 for a forward pair of cream and white Heifers.

4 Cows & Calves A part dispersal of x Bred Cows with Hereford x Calves at foot for the Parnell Family of Lewannick, saw their top at 1320, for a Limousin x Cow with Hereford Steer Calf, with their next a Limousin x Cow with a black Hereford Steer Calf. Mr J S R Cobbledick of South Petherwin, saw his best away to 1310 for Red Limousin Cow with Hereford Heifer Calf at foot. Fats and Cows Mr R J Gabriel of Launceston headed this section with South Devon x Cow at 690 kilo to 126 ppkilo with a second to 117 ppkilo. A prime heifer from the same home realised 179ppkilo.

5 Need an additional house on the farm? Want to maximise capital when selling agricultural buildings? Permitted development rights mean it is even easier to attain planning permission to convert an agricultural building to a dwelling! Pop into your local Kivells Rural Professional Office for advice and information or call Holsworthy Exeter Launceston Liskeard Vacancy at the Holsworthy Livestock Market Receptionist (maternity cover) SELL YOUR SURPLUS ENTITLEMENTS WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE 2018 DEADLINE! TRADING WINDOW NOW OPEN! The role: Kivells are looking for a full time Market Receptionist to cover a period of maternity leave at the busy Holsworthy Livestock Market. The successful candidate will work on reception together with undertaking administration for the agricultural department. Likely duties will include assisting clients both face to face and by telephone, supporting the cattle auctioneer, preparing catalogues for sale, market reports and advertising. The candidate: will be bright, cheerful, willing to help and quick to learn. The successful candidate will possess excellent customer service skills, be organised, computer literate and be able to work on their own. A background knowledge in agriculture is an advantage. This is an interesting and varied role requiring a candidate with a strong work ethic and the ability to adapt. Please contact:- Caroline Squire on (opt 2) Or caroline.squire@kivells.com Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8.45am to 5.00pm. Additional hours for some Saturday sales will also be required. To apply for this role, please wendy.johnson@kivells.com or call for an application form. Alternatively please visit Closing date for applications to be received: Friday 27 th April 2018

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7 Rural Reflection April 2018 What a wash out March turned out to be! Heavy, enduring rainfall throughout March combined with even more snowfall has resulted in the ground now being heavily saturated with a somewhat lacklustre covering of grass, far from ideal for turning out stock. Fingers crossed spring will finally spring upon us this month so that the spring crops can be sown, fertiliser can be spread and stock can be turned out of the sheds. The Basic Payment Scheme application window opened in the middle of March and all of the Kivells Rural Professional team are now busy completing applications for farmers across the West Country, and will no doubt be keeping busy with the same up until the 15 th May deadline. As a team we have found a lot of re-mapping has occurred as a result of a wide scale remapping exercise undertaken by the RPA in the second half of 2017, meaning there are some mapping errors in the form of incorrect field boundaries and fields being incorrectly split or amalgamated. If you have any issues with mapping that you require help with please do be in touch with your local Kivells Rural Professional office and we will do all that we can to help. If you have not yet received your 2017 BPS payment, bridging payments worth up to 75% of the estimated 2017 claim value were due to be made on 4 th April, with the monies expected to arrive in bank accounts on 6 th April. For any claimants in this situation the RPA should have contacted you by either or letter at the end of March. If you require any assistance with previous years payments please do contact your local office. In some cases we are still trying to rectify mispayments to clients for the 2016 and even the 2015 scheme years, to which in a lot of instances the RPA are only just responding to query forms submitted many months ago. As of 6 th April 2018, some fundamental changes to Permitted Development Rights have come into force, which will no doubt be of interest to many of you. The first main change is that under agricultural permitted development rights the maximum size limit for the erection of a new agricultural building is now 1000m 2 on large farms (previously the size limit was 465m 2 ), as ministers have recognised that larger buildings are often required in order for farmers to be able to adopt the latest innovations in farming practices. The size limit of 465m 2 will remain for small farms, however the exact definition of what is a small farm and what is a large farm for the purpose of these rights as yet remains to be seen. The Class Q Permitted Development Rights (conversion of agricultural buildings to residential dwellings) have also changed slightly since 6 th April. Previously, the conversion of agricultural buildings to residential dwellings was limited to a maximum of three residential units per agricultural holding with a maximum of 450m 2 floor area. This has now been altered to allow conversion of up to 465m 2 of floor space and up to a maximum of five residential units, with the following

8 allowed for: 3 larger homes with a combined maximum floor space of 465m 2 A maximum of 5 smaller homes with each unit being no more than 100m 2 in floor area Or a mixture of large and small homes, (together totalling no more than 5 homes), of which a maximum of 3 can be large homes These alterations certainly offer good opportunities for those who are looking to erect new agricultural buildings and for those with an existing large complex of agricultural buildings that are ripe for Class Q conversion. Kivells have a wealth of experience dealing with planning applications and so if you have a project in mind, whether large or small, please do contact us; we would be more than happy to assist. The hedgerow and boundary grant is currently open for applications, whereby you can apply for up to 10,000 as a stand-alone capital grant for works including hedgerow laying, gapping up and dry stone wall restoration. If any such works are required across the farm this grant is certainly worth applying for as the money is there and needs to be spent by someone! The deadline for submitting an application is 30 th April, which is now speedily approaching, and if you require any assistance in completing an application please do be in touch with the Kivells team. Until next time... On Behalf of the Kivells Rural Professional Team Caroline Squire Exeter Office The Kivells Rural Professional Team David Kivell david.kivell@kivells.com Lisabeth Miller lisabeth.miller@kivells.com Mark Bromell mark.bromell@kivells.com Claire Bellew claire.bellew@kivells.com Mark Bunt mark.bunt@kivells.com Ian Caunter ian.caunter@kivells.com Tom Rattray thomas.rattray@kivells.com Caroline Squire caroline.squire@kivells.com