STANDING CROP FOR LET
58.45 Acres/ 23.65 Hectares of Standing Crop Maize Near Burton in Kendal, Carnforth
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J36 Rural Auction Centre: September Online Machinery Sale.
The popular sale of machinery saw keen interest in well maintained and seasoned items.
The sale saw a top price of £10400 for a Land Rover Defender 90 direct from a local farm. Tractors sold to £6400 for a Massey Ferguson 699 4WD. A Same 95 4WD achieving £6100, and a Marshall 602 2WD selling at £3400. Other items of interest included a Kuhn Bale Wrapper achieving £4500, a Yanmar Mini Digger making £3900, a High Tip Bucket at £2900, Amazone Fert Spreader which made £2250. A Redrock slurry tanker achieved £2200, a Pasture Topper at £1550, a Post Knocker at £1500, a Towable Compressor at £1250, and an Ifor Williams trailer made £1200.
The next collective sale is 6th to the 9th October with delivery being 2nd and 3rd October.
On Farm Sales
P Mason, Burton In Kendal- Saturday 23rd September
PF Lee, Over Wyresdale- Saturday 30th September
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep, Monday 28th August 2023.
Prime Lambs
All well finished and meated lambs achieving maximum prices this morning at Lancaster Mart, with under finished lambs hard to place. The sale peaked at £144 for a tremendous Beltex lamb from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe with Texel lambs selling to £138 from JS Horner, Ingleton. Many pens of well bred heavy lambs were regularly selling at £130 plus, with medium type well finished Continental bred lambs selling at £108 to £112. Suffolk lambs saw a top of £120 from JS Horner, Ingleton. A ring full of Masham lambs sold to £104.50 from S&J France, Over Wyresdale. An overall market average of 245p/kg was achieved for 500 lambs sold.
Prime Lamb Top Prices: Beltex: £144 Bensons Farm, £138 Deep Clough, £126, £124 Ingleborough Park, £122 Botton Hall Farm, £121 Ingleborough Park. Texel: £138, £135 Ingleborough Park, £130 Bensons Farm, £125 Calderside Farm, £124 Breworth Fold Farm, £122 Bensons Farm. Suffolk: £120 Ingleborough Park, £104.40 Low Bendrigg Farm, £103 Lower Core. Continental: £115 Haversham House Farm, £105, £102.50 Burrow Heights Farm, £102 Kays Farm. Dutch
Spotted: £114, £106 Conway Close. Masham: £104.50 Kays Farm. Hamsphire: £100 Potters Hill Farm. Mule: £91 School Lane, £91 Burrow Heights Farm.
Cast Sheep
All ewes sold to a strong trade with Dutch Spotted selling to a top of £149 from KP Dagger, Garstang who sold other pens to £148. Texel sold to £144 from JS Horner, Ingleton with many pens of strong Continental ewes selling at £120 to £130. No real power in the Mule ewe section, with the best selling to £100 from T Longton & Son, Quernmore and D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe. Hill ewes saw Dalesbreds sell to £76 from T&D Wright, Wray with Swaledales selling to £69 from T Longton & Son, Quernmore.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Dutch Spotted: £149, £148, £108 Conway Close. Texel: £144 Ingleborough Park, £138, £136 Oak Aveune, £132 Ingleborough Park, £128 Oak Aveune, £116 Ingleborough Park. Beltex: £134 Oak Aveune. Mule: £100 Rooten Brook, £100 Bensons Farm. Teeswater: £95 Middle Lee Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep, Tuesday 29th August 2023.
Prime Lambs
As seen nationally, well meated lambs continue to sell a premium with other less finished lambs meeting less demand with some looking better suited for the store lamb market, an overall market average was achieved of 251p/kg with 1400 sold.
• Texels sold to £156 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe
• Beltexs to £150 from R Braithwaite, Low Bentham
• Suffolks to £146 from DE & SM Moorhouse, Natland
• Charollais to £144 from TE JS & SA Carruthers, Underbarrow
• Dutch Spotted to £127 from C & B Haslam, Grange over Sands
• Lleyns to £124 from E Dodgson, Kendal
• Dorset to £144 from S Proctor, Selside
North West Auctions were proud to host Belting Beltex, kindly supported by the North West Beltex Club.
The rosettes were awarded as follows:
1st R Braithwaite with 2 Beltex weighing 43kg selling to £150
2nd MA & JA Winn with 2 Beltex weighing 45kg selling to £135
3rd PJ & ES Rogerson with 2 Beltex weighing 42kg selling to £130
Prime Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £156 Ackenthwaite Farm, £144 Red Scar Farm, £143 Lane Ends Farm, £143 Upp Hall, £142 Catshaw Hall Farm, £141 Spital Farm. Beltex: £150 Hill Top Farm, £146 Hill Park, £135 High Underbrow, £134, £132, £131 Templand Farm. Suffolk: £146 High House Farm, £139 Akenthwaite Farm, £135 Lane Ends Farm, £133
Station Hotel Farm, £130 High House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £127 Glenfield, £119 Curlew Rock. Continental: £128
Church Style Farm, £120 Arklid Farm. Lleyn: £124 Spital Farm. Dorset: £114 High Biggarsbank, £106.50, £95 Warth
Sutton Farm. Leicester: £112 Thorn Cottage. Mule: £96, £90 Longwell, £90 Low Newton Farm.
Cast Sheep
611 local farmer ewes forward with a large proportion of the sale being lighter weight hill ewes as to be expected for this time of year. The heavy best ewes were in short supply selling to a top of £161 for a Texel x from HR & HV Knowles, Docker with other at £145 for Texel x from PJ & SE Rogerson, Appleby and £144 from A & B Fell, Millom. Others generally selling £130-£140. Heavy mules sold to £123 from M & M Carr, Carnforth with others at
£119 from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale and £115 from DJ Thompson, Old Hutton. Other stronger pens of Mules generally £100-110, medium types £88-£100 with the keenest interest in those suitable for further feeding which were generally £75-£85. Hill bred ewes sold to £92 for Rough Fells from S Crawford, Staveley with Lleyns selling to £86 from JA & R Geldard & Sons, Levens. Cheviot to £83 from HR & KA Hodgson, Barbon. Swaledales to £71 from ST & SE Allen, Tebay. Swaledales saw the stronger end from £55-£65 with medium types £38-£50 with the smallest and leanest generally £25-£35.
Cull rams sold to £190 for Charollais from JA & A Geldard & Sons, Levens who sold others at £170. Medium texels selling to £130 from Braestead Farms, Patterdale with others generally £110-£125.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £161 Low Barns Farm, £145 Mason Gill, £144 Hodgsons Green Farm, £135 Hill Park, £130 Sproat Ghyll, £129 Mason Gill. Charollais: £138, £136 Crosscrake Farm. Suffolk: £127 High House Farm. Mule: £123 Alby Wood, £119 Catshaw Farm, £115 East Ridding, £110 Hawkrigg Farm, £108 Hill Park, £106 High House Farm.
Continental: £119 Hill Park, £107 Low Stangerthwaite, £97 Gaskell House, £97 Sella Farm. Zwartble: £119 Catshaw Hall Farm, £109 Crosscrake Farm. Cheviot Mule: £114 Borrans Farm, £113 Yak Leaf, £109 Howriggs, £108 (2) High House Farm. Cheviot: £106 Hill Park. Jacob: £101 The Bungalow. Rough Fell: £92 Seedhowe Cottages.
Cast Rams Top Prices: Charollais: £190, £170, £130 Low Foulshaw Farm. Texel: £130, £123 Braesteads.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Fortnightly Sale of Calves, Stirks, OTM Cattle, Beef Breeding and Store Cattle, Thursday 31st August 2023.
Rearing and Weaned Calves
119 rearing calves were forward with new and additional buyers in attendance ensuring a fast and competitive trade throughout. Bull calves sold to a top price of £600 for a British Blue x from W&S Airey, Whittington who sold others at £560, with Limousin x selling at £535 from W Stamper, Chipping. Younger bull calves sold to £400 for 6 week old British Blue x from JW&TE Sharp Ltd, Lyth and TK Robinson & Son, Old Hutton. Younger beef bull calves were generally £240 to £280. Native sired bulls sold to £430 for strong Aberdeen Angus x from W&S Airey, Whittington, with others selling to £340 from A Pickthall, New Hutton and Hereford x to £330 from W Stamper, Chipping. Younger native sired bull calves were generally £170 to £220. Dairy bulls sold to £175 at eight week old for a British Friesian from B&JM Crowe, Witherslack with three week old Montbeliardes to £150 from Colby Farms, Appleby and Dairy Shorthorns to £140 from JR Handley, Whinfell.
Heifer calves sold to £535 for a British Blue x from W Stamper, Chipping with others at £460 from W&S Airey, Whittington with younger heifers calves at £360 from B&JM Crowe, Witherslack. Other Continental heifers were generally £270 to £320. Native heifers peaked at £390 for an Aberdeen Angus x from W&S Airey, Whittington with Hereford x selling at £260 from W Stamper, Chipping and the very youngest £120 to £170.
50 weaned calves and stirks saw British Blue x heifers sell to £800 from JR Pye, Stalmine with others at £730 form H Morgan, Stalmine and £610 from Shuttleworth & Brown, Sedbergh. Native sired heifers sold to £540 from MW&PA Rollason, Meathop with a ring full of Aberdeen Angus x from D Jordan, Cockfield achieving £505. Steer stirks sold to £825 for a Charolais x form C Greenwood, Crompton with British Blue x selling at £800 from JR Pye, Stalmine with other Continentals generally £620 to £700. A three month old suckler bred Charolais x steer from R&BJ Cleasby, Broughton in Furness achieved £600.
Bull stirks sold to £645 for a Limousin x from M Gibson, Sedbergh with Stabilisers selling at £640 from M Allen, Carnforth and Holstein Friesians to £300 from AK&BM Robinson & Son, Arkholme.
Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £535 Coldcotes Farm, £460 West Hall, £360 Birks Farm, £335 Hagg Farm, £310 Craketrees, £310 Borrans Farm. Angus: £390 West Hall, £170 Borrans Farm, £145 Colby Laithes. Hereford: £260 Coldcotes Farm, £165 Birks Farm, £130 Wraysholme Tower.
Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £600 West Hall, £560 West Hall, £420 West Hall, £400 Flodder Hall, £400 Greaves Farm. Limousin: £535 Coldcotes Farm. Angus: £430 West Hall, £340 Borrans Farm, £215 Colby Laithes, £205 Colby Laithes. Hereford: £330 Coldcotes Farm, £150 Wraysholme Tower. Shorthorn: £170 Far Audlands. Montbeliarde: £150 Colby Laithes, £130 Colby Laithes. Dairy Shorthorn: £140 Craketrees.
Steer Stirk Top Prices: Charolais: £825 Top Greenhill Farm, £675 Top Greenhill Farm, £665 Top Greenhill Farm, £655
Kendal House Farm, £620 Top Greenhill Farm, £600 Lower Hawthwaite. British Blue: £800 Hatters Farm, £730 West Lynn, £535 Kendal House Farm. Limousin: £605 West Lodge. Hereford: £480 West Lodge. Dairy Shorthorn: £470 Mouse Syke. Angus: £460 Kendal House Farm. Shorthorn: £460 Mouse Syke. Friesian: £280 Mouse Syke.
Bull Stirk Top Prices: British Blue: £800 Back Lane, £730 West Lynn, £610 Shaw Paddock, £565 West Lodge, £480
Kendal House Farm. Angus: £540 Kendal House Farm, £505 West View Farm, £280 Kitchlow Farm. Charolais: £510
Kendal House Farm, £450 Lower Hawthwaite. Hereford: £475 Kitchlow Farm, £330 West Lodge. Limousin: £430 West Lodge. Friesian: £270 Bellart Howe.
Beef Breeding
A seasonal entry of beef breeding cattle saw British Blue x cows with Limousin x calves at foot sell to £1550 from A Hodgson & Son, Ambleside. A Limousin x heifer with young Limousin x heifer calf at foot from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe achieved £1400.
Store Cattle
Ever increasing interest in store cattle at J36, with new buyer and seller in attendance every sale. This sale, steers sold to £1510 for a British Blue x from P Iveson, Orton who sold others at £1470. Other British Blue x steers sold to £1500 from MA&JA Winn, Burneside and £1490 from GR Park & Sons, Whinfell. Limousin x steers sold to £1440 from TW Nelson & Son, Stainton who sold other at £1430. Other stronger steers were regularly £1300 to £1400, to include native sired steers achieving £1360 for a Hereford x from B&JI Williams, Ravenstonedale and Aberdeen Angus selling at £1320 from H Morgan, Stalmine. Dairy bred steers sold to £1255 for Montbeliardes from JE Wightman, Lupton. An entry of ten month old Blonde x from MJ Whitworth, Bolton Le Sand sold to £1200, with others at £1170.
Heifers sold to £1400 for a British Blue x from MA&JA Winn, Burneside. Limousin x selling to £1340 from JE Wightman, Lupton who also sold Aberdeen Angus x at £1290. British Blue x heifers from TW Nelson & Son, Stainton sold to £1290, with other stronger heifers generally £1200 to £1280. Ten month old Blonde x heifers from MJ Whitworth, Bolton Le Sand sold to £1030.
Store Bullocks Top Prices: British Blue: £1510 Street, £1500 High Underbarrow Farm, £1490 Low Deepslack, £1470 Street, £1360 Street, £1030 Borwick Lodge Farm. Limousin: £1440 Cockrigg Farm, £1430 Cockrigg Farm, £1390
Ackenthwaite Farm, £1380 High Underbrow Farm, £1320 Westfield Farm, £1290 Street. Hereford: £1360
Adamthwaite, £1115 Westfield Farm, £1020 Adamthwaite, £950 Bellart Howe. Angus: £1320 West Lynn, £1200
Crabtree Farm, £1160 Mireside Farm, £1120 Tarnside Farm, £950 Bradley Farm. Charolais: £1280 Dawson Fold.
Montbeliarde: £1255 Crabtree Farm, £1090 Crabtree Farm. Blonde: £1200 Mount Pleasant Farm, £1170 Mount Pleasant Farm. Friesian: £1160 Tarnside Farm. Galloway: £1030 Yore House. Simmental: £850 Borwick Lodge Farm.
Store Heifer Top Prices: British Blue: £1400 High Underbarrow Farm, £1290 Cockrigg Farm, £1280 High Underbarrow Farm, £1260 Tarnside Farm, £1120 Bouthwaite Farm. Limousin: £1340 Crabtree Farm, £1160 Cockrigg Farm, £1120
Low Deepslack, £1065 Bradley Farm, £940 Borwick Lodge Farm. Angus: £1290 Crabtree Farm, £1280 Crabtree Farm, £1230 Tarnside Farm, £1160 Crabtree Farm, £1110 Bouthwaite Farm. Charolais: £1100 Tarnside Farm, £1050 Dawson Fold. Blonde: £1030 Mount Pleasant Farm.
Store Bull Top Prices: Angus: £900 Capplerigg, £780 Capplerigg. Hereford: £750 Pedgecroft. Limousin: £620 Pedgecroft.
OTM Cattle
Cull cows saw another increase in trade, with an overall averaged of 154p/kg for an entry of predominately dairy cows. Young dairy cows sold to a top of 194.5p/kg for a Holstein Friesian from KE Robinson, Farleton. Parlour type cows sold to 164.5p/kg from Strickland Hill Farm, Witherslack and 159.5p/kg from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe. Other dairy cows were generally 135p/kg to 150p/kg. Top grossing dairy cow was from KE Robinson, Farleton achieving £1344.
Beef cows sold to 194.5p/kg for a Limousin x from RHM&S Boyren, Colton. Well finished Stabilisers from A Dixon & Son, Selside were regularly selling at 180p/kg to 190p/kg. Other beef cows were keenly bid for, those suitable for finished were generally 160p/kg to 180p/kg. Top grossing beef cow was a Limousin from AG Riley, Neither Kellet achieving £1602.
OTM heifers sold to 219.5p/kg and £1082 for an Aberdeen Angus x from S&M Cooper, Leece.
OTM steers sold to 247.5p/kg and £1624 for an Aberdeen Angus x from JW Robinson & Son, Farleton who sold others at 224p/kg to 235p/kg.
OTM Cow Top Prices: British Blue: 247.50 Green Close, 237.50 Green Close, 229.50 Green Close. Angus: 229.50 Green Close, 174.50 Yealand Manor, 154.50 Sandham Farm. Friesian: 194.50 Kiln Hall, 164.50 Strickland Hill, 159.50
Ackenthwaite Farm, 149.50 Strickland Hill, 144.50 Scales Park Farm. Limousin: 194.50 Hill Park, 184.50 Hall Farm, 179.50 Westfield Farm, 177.50 Hall Farm. Stabiliser: 189.50 Kit Cragg, 187.50 Kit Cragg, 184.50 Yealand Manor, 184.50 Kit Cragg, 179.50 Kit Cragg. Hereford: 174.50 The Bungalow. Normande: 129.50 Ninezergh.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 219.50 Tarnside Farm, 154.50 Sandham Farm. Limousin: 214.50 Tarnside Farm.
Friesian: 164.50 Ackenthwaite Farm, 144.50 Ackenthwaite Farm. Stabiliser: 129.50 Yealand Manor.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Lads Night Out, Thursday 31st August 2023.
802 rams selling to all parts of the UK.
• Suffolk Shearling to £1100 from AR Edmondson & JH Towers & Sons
• Suffolk Lambs to £1200 from TA Blair
• Charollais Shearlings to £700 from Messrs Wales
• Charollais Lambs to £450 from RJ & J Towers
• Texel Shearlings to £1550 from J Woodburn & Partners
• Cross Bred Shearlings to £1350 ST Birkett & Son
Ram Lamb Top Prices: Suffolk: £1200 Thornfleet, £500 Greenfields, £480 Greenfield, £450 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £400 Baileys Hill Farm. Charollais: £450 Greenlands Farm, £400 Smithy Wood Farm. Dutch Spotted: £450 Conway
Close, £450 Rigg Head Farm. Texel: £350 Ashstead, £300 Ashstead. Beltex: £300 Greenland Farm.
Shearling Ram Top Prices: Texel: £1550 Mansrigg Hall, £1450 Fowrass Farm, £1350 Plumpton Cottage, £1300
Mansrigg Hall, £1300 Crumhaughill Farm. Beltex: £1350 Hall Croft Barn, £1100 Tercrosset Farm, £1050 Low Foulshaw Farm, £1000 Low Foulshaw Farm, £1000 Thackwood, £850 Tercrosset Farm. Suffolk: £1100 Tunstall Hall, £1100
Hawkswell Farm, £1000 Hawkswell Farm, £1000 Tunstall Hall, £1000 Hawkswell Farm, £950 Tunstall Hall.
Charollais: £750 Hope House Farm, £700 Hope House Farm, £700 Thackwood, £650 Hope House Farm, £600 Thankwood. £600 Thackwood, £550 Greenland Farm. Dutch Spotted: £500 Conway Close.
Aged Ram Top Prices: Texel: £1200 Grassgill Lodge, £450 Beckside Farm House. Suffolk: £400 Meadow View.
NWA J36 LADS NIGHT OUT SHOW
SPONSORS- THE MILKING PARLOUR, I’ANSON, WESTMORLAND VETERINARY GROUP, PETER HORN MOBILE SHEEP DIPPING, MB NUTRITION LTD, & SHAP FELL GARAGE
TEXEL JUDGE- DAVID HILL
CLASS 1- TEXEL SHEARLING
1st Lot 560 from A&HC Smith- £1300
2nd Lot 462 from WJ & VJ Case- £1050
3rd Lot 461 from WJ & VJ Case- £1350
CLASS 2- TEXEL LAMB
1st Lot 358 from T Wilson- £300
2nd Lot 420 from P Heterick- £550
3rd Lot 359 from T Wilson- £350
BELTEX JUDGE- CLYDE DENT
CLASS 3- BELTEX SHEARLING
1st Lot 151 from TC Whiteford- £1100
2nd Lot 16 from ST Birkett & Son- £1350
3rd Lot 294 from SJ Buckley
CLASS 4- BELTEX X SHEARLING
1st Lot 233 from G Sowerby- £1100
2nd Lot 144 from H Taylor & Partners- £700
3rd Lot 238 from S Sowerby- £1200
SUFFOLK JUDGE- ANDREW FELL
CLASS 5- SUFFOLK SHEARLING
1st Lot 681 from JH Towers & Son- £1100
2nd Lot 656 from J & C Airey- £550
3rd Lot 701 from NW Hornby- £800
CLASS 6- SUFFOLK LAMB
1st Lot 677 from TA Blair- £1200
2nd Lot 665 from AV Bailey- £400
3rd Lot 707 from G & K Richmond
