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After a brilliant year in 2021 for the Stags Auctioneers’ Online and On Site Sales team, 2022 looks to carry on with the same successes, demonstrated recently after the closure of the first online timed auction of 2022, which took place from the 20th-30th January.
The sale consisted of a range of tractors and trailers, farm machinery, vehicles, livestock and general equipment to name a few, as well as being sold in conjunction with our first sale of fodder. A new addition to the online bidding platform saw the successful sale of 100 in-lamb ewes also. In total, 860 lots were offered to the online platform of bidders which, as usual, attracted plenty of interest and keen bidding from across the nation with 95,000 views to the catalogue, 9,000 bids placed and 1,216 registered bidders to this specific sale alone.
The first star sale was the 2015 Deutz Fahr 6140.4 Agrotron tractor with just 2,805 hours on the clock and fitted with an as new 2021 MX loader. The tractor topped the sale with a price of £39,250, being sold locally to a farmer in Cornwall. The next best price achieved in the sale was the 2006 JCB 3170 Plus Smoothshift Fastrac consigned by a poultry farmer from East Devon which sold after the auction, achieving £25,000 and finding a new home with a gentleman from Somerset. In fact, the same vendor consigned a second JCB Fastrac in the sale, this being 11 years older than the last but also achieved a superb price of £14,200 and was seen to be popular by bidders. Another notable price was the 2008 Merlo Farmer P36.10 Plus Telehandler, which was presented in its working clothes and entered late into the auction but still sold well to achieve £14,250 and finding a new home with a farmer in Yorkshire who had not viewed the item prior.
Away from the tractors and telehandlers, other notable prices made in the sale included the aged but very well-kept 1994 JCB 3CX Site Master 4WD Digger, which went under the virtual hammer for £12,750 before going home to a buyer in the North of England. Another popular entry being the 2018 John Deere XUV 865M 4WD Gator which proved to be sought after by many bidders, reached £12,250 whilst a late entry 2002 Takeuchi 4.7T TB145 Excavator was the next best price reached at £11,750. Other diggers sold to £6,750 for a 2005 Volvo EC15B 1.5T Mini Digger with only 2,068 hours on the clock.
Stags Auctioneers were pleased to offer the first listing of 100 in-lamb North Country Mule ewes for the first sale of the year, which sold well to achieve a price of £202 per life. It is hoped that the success of livestock in this sale will see more vendors opt to market their livestock through this platform in future sales also.
