No April Fools at Annual Grass Auction

Well the old adage that when cattle are dear, grass is cheap, certainly did not hold true at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s Annual Grass Auction at Sedgemoor Auction Centre on Tuesday 1^st April and the vendors that entered their grass into the sale certainly were no April Fools!

The 1400 acres forward at the sale sold to a full room, even with numerous bidders on the online Marteye system and competion for the grass in the region was fierce.

The sale commenced with the Taunton and Bridgwater area sale which saw prices to £261/acre for grass at Blagdon Hill, £184/acre for grass at Creech St Michael and £177/acre for grass at West Monkton. The Langport and Central Somerset area sale saw prices to £325/acre for grass at Othery and £291/acre for grass at Burrowbridge and the Highbridge and North Somerset District sale saw prices to £213/acre at Tarnock, £191/acre at East Huntspill and £182/acre at Mark.

The overall average per acre for the sale at £110/acre was slightly down on last year, but this was solely due to the quaility of grass on offer, with the majority of lots sold at both this and last years sales commanding stronger prices this year.