Published: 12/01/2023 By Greg Ridout
Ahead of an already busy 2023, Greg Ridout & Paul Heard, Partners and Auctioneers within our Agricultural Sales Department reflect on the most notable moments in their 2022 calendar.Farm Dispersal Sale Highlights:
- Top price Lot: John Deere 6130R at £80,300
- The largest Lot sold: John Deere 7450 Forager or Bateman RB35 Sprayer
- The oldest tractor sold: 1939 Case Model C
- Most peculiar lots sold: Either the mobile sauna attached to a dung spreader chassis or 300+ lots of Cacti & Succulent Plants!
- Most fun lots sold: Off-Road Mini’s or Eagle 500 Racing Hovercraft
- Biggest lot offered: Grimme Varitron potato harvester
- Acres of Standing Straw Sold: 11,084 acres
- Largest number of items in an auction: 949 for Tetra Pak who were relocating their manufacturing business to Poland.
- Biggest attendance: Bearley Farm Tintinhull.
- Dispersal Auction area: Garden Nursery at Saltash, Farm Dispersals on Dartmoor and Exmoor and across to King Worthy, Hampshire
- Auction entries from Liskeard to Abingdon
- Largest auction revenue: £1.2m
- Most phone calls: The Series 1 Field Marshall at Middle Watchcombe. (We have never received so many calls about a single lot!)
- Furthest buyer: Northern and Southern Ireland to Thurso, Scotland.
- Highest number of bidders: Phil Bennett’s dispersal of his contracting equipment near Sherborne – a credit to the quality of the machinery offered .
- Most Specialist Sale: Dillington Farm's auction of specialist potato growing, harvesting and grading equipment.