LATEST NEWS AND INFORMATION

Download our latest newsletter for reports, information, forthcoming farmers' meetings and contacts

FARM WASTE RECYCLING

Next collection at Kendal Auction - Wednesday 20 August 2008, just arrive between 11.00 am & 2.00 pm

(further collection 26 November 2008)

Next collection at Lancaster Auction - Wednesday 22 October 2008 (note, no collection in August)

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).

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

KENDAL AUCTION ROOMS LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

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

NEW NITRATE VULNERABLE ZONE PROPOSALS - ARE YOU AFFECTED?

Click here for maps to see if you are affected by the new proposals.

If you are affected, or know someone who may have land in the affected areas, Rodney Coward of our North West Auctions Farm Advisory Services department has recently held some farmers meetings in association with ADAS to discuss the proposals.  If you were unable to attend these meetings or wish to find out more about the proposals and how they will affect you please contact Rodney, details below.

Rodney Coward tel direct line 01539 816213 or mobile 07717 548966 or e-mail rodney@nwauctions.co.uk

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;

The livestock team at Kendal and Lancaster Auction Marts wish to thank customers for their loyalty, patience and continued support during last year's Foot and Mouth outbreak.  It was a difficult time for everyone connected with livestock and agriculture and we are very appreciative of all the support we have received.

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.

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 (see Gateway below).

SUPPORT FOR GATEWAY PROJECT GROWS

As the ambitious plans for the development of the site of the Westmorland County Show and adjacent land into a combined Rural Resource Centre and a Showfield Centre go to South Lakeland District Council for approval, many organisations - including Cumbria Tourist Board, English Nature and British Waterways - have given their support and advice to the Steering Group.

Gateway will provide a desperately-needed boost for the local economy, particularly tourism and agriculture, as well as a new, state-of-the-art home for the Kendal Auction Mart and Salerooms. When not in use as a livestock auction mart, the pennage will be removed to provide an indoor exhibition and sports venue for local, regional and national events. It will also make room for affordable housing in the centre of Kendal, on the site of the Kendal mart.

If you would like more information about the South Lakeland Gateway Project and its progress, please email us.