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LATEST NEWS AND INFORMATION

IMPLEMENTATION OF FOOD CHAIN INFORMATION FOR CATTLE, SHEEP AND GOATS ON 1st JANUARY 2010

As you may be aware new legislative requirements come into force as from 1st January 2010 for Food Chain Information (FCI) for cattle, sheep and goats. The implementation of FCI for cattle, sheep and goats completes the introduction of FCI for all food animal species - from this date FCI must be provided for all animals consigned to the market.  This means that an FCI declaration must be signed by the producer and this must accompany the animals to the Market/Slaughterhouse.

CATTLE - We have amended our Cattle Entry form to include the declaration for any Cattle which you bring into the Market.

SHEEP & GOATS - In respect of Sheep & Goats DEFRA are to include the declaration within the AML1 form which already has to accompany animals when moved but until these are available we have produced a declaration which will have to be completed as well as the current AML1 forms.

Completion of the FCI Declarations are a requirement by LAW and we ask for your co-operation in completing them as animals which do not have a declaration cannot be accepted by the slaughterhouses.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.

FARM WASTE RECYCLING IN 2010

Next collections at Kendal Auction - All Wednesdays - 3 March; 19 May, 18 August, 17 November 2010

Next collectioSn at Lancaster Auction - Wednesday 20 January and Wednesday 19 May 2010

Arrangements have been made with Solway Recycling and Farm Plastics Recycling to hold quarterly collections of waste plastics at both our Kendal and Lancaster sites, with special discount rates for our customers. Contact Rodney Coward on 07717 548966 or e-mail rodney@nwauctions.co.uk for general advice, what to bring, how to bring it and what happens once you get here.  It's all very easy.

Click here to download further information (pdf file).

Plans for the Relocation of Kendal Auction Mart have now been submitted

Please support our application to build our customers a new auction facility by telling South Lakeland District Council how important this move is for us all, not just for now but the generations to come.  Click here to be taken to South Lakeland District Council planning website and our application, then scroll down to 'comment'.  Many thanks.

 

Enquiries to K L Black, L & K Group Plc, The Auction Mart, Appleby Road, Kendal, LA9 6ES. 

Tel 01539 816212 e-mail katieblack@landkgroup.co.uk

North West Auctions are pleased to welcome Matthew Probert to the Livestock team following the completion of his degree at Harper Adams.

Having been born and raised on a beef farm near Abergavenny, South Wales Matthew has an in-built passion for farming and livestock which will be clear for everyone to see. Previously Matthew has worked as a junior auctioneer and land agent on both Exmoor and in Essex, gaining experience in both store and primestock sales together with machinery and farm dispersals.

Matthew will be seen on sale days at both Lancaster & Kendal and will be pleased to meet everyone so don't be afraid to introduce yourselves.

He can be contacted on 07760 557932.

Outside of agriculture Matthew's sporting talents stretch to rugby, which he hopes to continue playing once settled.

Susan Loftus has been elected President of the Lancashire Agricultural Valuers’ Association at their AGM held at Slaidburn Village Hall on 29th January 2009. Susan has been a member of the LAVA since she qualified as a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers’ in 1999.  In the same year she was awarded the Ted Potter Prize, for most outstanding probationer in Lancashire that year. She first joined MB Hodgson & Son in 1996 dealing with milk quota sales and leasing, valuations and tenancy matters. In July 1999, she moved to JH Walter in Lincolnshire, where she was involved in the sale, purchase and valuation of rural property and Landlord and Tenant issues. She rejoined MB Hodgson & Son in 2005 working from the Kendal office dealing with valuations and sales of rural property and land, providing advice on the Single Payment Scheme, Tenancy matters, Planning appraisals and applications and compulsory purchase and compensation schemes.  

We congratulate Susan on her appointment. 

Susan can be contacted on 01539 816214 or by email: susan@mbhodgson.co.uk

 

ENTITLEMENTS TRADING

 

M B Hodgson & Son have Entitlement Units available for sale.

For more information on Entitlement units available please contact

Susan Loftus at Kendal on 01539 816214

If you are a farmer who has sold land without the Entitlements or given up rented land you may have surplus Entitlements to sell.

If you are a farmer who has purchased or rented in land without Entitlements you may require additional Entitlements in order to make a SP5 claim on that land for 2009.

Contact Susan Loftus on 01539 816214 or email here

1818 AUCTIONEERS LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

We are pleased to announce that 1818 auctioneers @ Kendal Auction Rooms, our sister trading company has re-launched its website, click here to see the new look website

NEW SMS TEXT SERVICE

Tell us your mobile phone number and we can now text you with immediate information relating to sales and collections and important news.  Simply e-mail our team below or ring us today to ensure we have your correct details.  Thank you.

ALL CUSTOMERS/VISITORS ENTERING THE MARKETS MUST ADHERE TO THE STRICT BIO-SECURITY REGIME IN PLACE. 

Kendal Auction operates as a 'Green' market, calves for sale at 12.00 noon, with prime lambs at 1.45pm followed by cast sheep.  Stock returning home or to another holding will then subject that holding to a 6-day standstill.  Lancaster Auction will now also operate as a 'Green' market to allow customers to return stock to home or another holding.   Stock entering the markets must not be from a holding which has received stock in the previous six days.

Customers can contact our livestock team as follows;

AUCTION MARTS GET EMERGENCY DEFIBRILLATOR UNITS

Staff at Kendal and Lancaster Auction Marts have been trained in the emergency use of AED units.  The units have been supplied by the local ambulance service and are funded by the National Lottery and British Heart Foundation.  Staff at both sites attended training sessions in the use of the AED's and administration of CPR. These units will only shock a patient in suspected cardiac arrest (VF) cases if necessary, they cannot shock a patient with any form of regular or irregular pulse and are designed to give a patient the best possible chance of survival when suffering a cardiac arrest.  3000 of these AED units are being installed around the country in places where people gather, such as shopping centres, town halls, auction marts and gyms.

Gillian Ellis and Jackie Stephens of
Kendal Auction with AED (defibrillator) unit
A further AED is located at Lancaster Auction

KENDAL CALF COLLECTIONS

Please contact the office on 01539 720603 for latest information

PLANNING APPLICATION APPROVED FOR KENDAL AUCTION

Planners have approved the application for a residential development on the whole of the Auction Mart site on Appleby Road, Kendal, subject to a small number of conditions to be approved by the SLDC Officers.  Full consent should be received during 2009.

The development put forward with Miller Homes will eventually see 107 homes built on the 4-acre site, 50% of which will be affordable, once the Auction Mart has moved to a new, improved site near to J36 of the M6 motorway at Crooklands, close to the Westmorland County Agricultual Show site.  Plans for the new auction mart and agricultural-related units are also expected to get council approval during 2009.