Newsletter 07.06.2024

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Report and Newsletter - 7th June 2023

Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 3rd June 2024.

Prime Lambs

Numbers increased in the spring lamb section, trade holding it’s own with an average of 401p/kg achieved. Sale top at £195 for Texel from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with other pens selling to £192 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. With plenty of pens regularly £185-£190. Lighter lambs with plenty of meat sold to plenty of demand, with a ring full of 41kg Texel x lambs selling to £178 from KA Purtill, Wigan.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Bensons Farm, £192 Cock Hall Farm, £190, £187 Arna Wood Farm, £185 Potters Hill Farm, £184 Cock Hall Farm. Dorset: £169, £168 Conrery Hill Farm. Suffolk: £166 Potters Hill Farm, £163, £156 Hudsbrook Farm.

Prime Hoggs

150 hoggs forward with trade being slightly up on the week. Once again well meated and fed hoggs easy to cash in. Texels sold to £169 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle who sold Suffolks to £157 with Cheviot to £153 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. With large pens of grass-fed Cheviots at 37kg selling to £120 from Barker Farms, Cockerham.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £169, £147 Marsh Lane Farm, £139 Throstle Grove Farm, £132 The Dingle, £129 Rooten Brook, £129 Adamsons Farm. Suffolk: £157 (x2) Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £153, £139 Adamsons Farm, £120 Hillam House Farm, £117 Lower Lingart Farm, £106 Hillam House Farm, £104 Adamsons Farm. Continental: £128.50, £120 Throstle Grove Farm, £115 Hillam House Farm. Swaledale: £115, £110 Rooten Brook. Herdwick: £111 School Lane.

Cast Sheep

More ewes forward selling to a sharper trade, with an overall average of £149 per head. Texels sold to £202 from KA Purtill, Wigan who sold first cross Texel to £192. Mules sold to £190 from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with other pens selling £182 from J Burr, Quernmore. All mules forward averaging £144. Cheviot ewes selling to £172 from A Thornton, Woodplumpton. All types of ewes needed next week.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £202, £192, £180 Oak Aveune, £174 Lundholme Farm, £174 Oak Aveune, £172 Humblescough Farm. Mule: £190 Humblescough Farm, £182, £170 Little Fell, £166 Marsh Lane Farm, £160 Adamsons Farm, £158 Little Fell. Suffolk: £178 Adamsons Farm, £120 Haversham House Farm. Cheviot: £172 Adamsons Farm. Masham: £148 Lundholme Farm. Teeswater: £145 Middle Lee Farm.Dutch Spotted: £106 Shorefields.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Little Fell. Teeswater: £138 Middle Lee Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Sheep with lambs at selling to a flying trade, with a run of broken mouth Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs selling twice to £255, with other pens to £252 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale.

Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £255 (x2), £252, £248, £235 Cragg Farm.

J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th June 2024.

Prime Lambs

470 spring lambs were forward, with all weights selling to a strong trade and an overall averaged of 396p/kg or £172 a head, with lambs ranging from 30kg to 62kg.

- Texel sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Charollais sold to £207 from EJ&P Burrow, Storth.

- Suffolks sold to £200 from E Needham, Stainton.

- Beltex sold to £198 from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.

- Dorsets sold to £193 from M Waller, Killington.

- Hampshire sold to £190 from IL Dixon, Carnforth.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £207 (x2), £203 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £198, £194 Ackenthwaite Farm, £193 Beckside Barn. Suffolk: £200 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £193, £189 Ackenthwaite Farm, £186 Stubbins Farm, £186 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £181 Ackenthwaite Farm. Continental: £191, £175 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £190 Cantfield Hall. Dorset: £177 Beckside Barn. Charollais: £185, £158, £149 Redbank Farm. Beltex: £177 Stubbins Farm, £160 Angerton Hall Farm, £157 Stubb Farm. Rough Fell: £100 Archer Hill.

Prime Hoggs

500 hoggs were forward, once again well meated and fed hoggs met plenty of demand, with leaner types a lot less on the week. Beltexs sold to £228 from A Fare, Preston with Texels to £226 from the same home. Suffolks sold to £200 from AJ Cardwell, Pilling. Mules sold to £194 from WJ Livesley, Inskip. SFB sold to £186 from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine, with Cheviots to £180 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. All meted hoggs will be in keen demand for next week’s sale.

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £228, £226, £210, £198 (x2) Norcross, £196 Steel Croft. Suffolk: £200 Rose Haven, £192, £184 Walker House Farm, £174, £152 Braeslacks. Scotch Blackface: £186 Cardwell Farm, £153 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £136, £124 Cardwell Farms, £120 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Continental: £180, £170 Norcross, £164, £148, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £126, £112 New Hall, £104 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £102 New Hall. Beltex: £178 Norcross. Mule: £172 Walker House Farm, £167 Helm Croft, £142 Walker House Farm, £138 Helm Croft, £98 New Hall, £90 Crabtree Farm. Cheviot: £171 Walker House Farm, £168 Dawson Fold, £156 Rose Haven, £156, £148 (x2) Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Herdwick: £158 Paddock Cottage, £137, £120, £114 Meadowbank Farm. Masham: £150 Walker House Farm. Swaledale: £149 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £108 Lands Farm, £108 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £95 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £90 Higher Salter, £89 Troughton Hall. Horned: £135, £132 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Gritstone: £129 New Hall. Jacob: £105 New Hall.

Cast Sheep

Those who presented sheep were truly rewarded with an overall market average of £141.45. Best heavy and pure ewes regularly £200+. Topping at £280 for Texel from R Wilson and then £270 from A Fare. Heavy first cross ewes regularly £170-£195, mediums £150-£165, with the best of the smaller end £120-£140. Best heavy mules sold to £186 with others regularly £155-£170 with mediums £130-£145. Pure hill ewes sold to £186 for Cheviots, £158 for Gritstones, Swaledale to £130, Herdwicks to £108. Medium hill ewes generally £80-£100 with leaner and smaller sorts £50-£70. Cull Rams sold to £270 with other stronger end £200-£250, hill bred rams £120-£150.

Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Lowfield Cottage, £270 Norcross, £218 Thrimby Hall (x2), £218 Lowfield Cottage, £215 Crabtree Farm. Beltex: £206 Norcross, £170 Lane Ends Farm, £166 Norcross, £150 Thrimby Hall. Charollais: £196 Oak Aveune, £190, £182, £162 Lane Ends Farm, £165 High Hallbeck, £130 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £110 Lane Ends Farm. Dorset: £192, £174, £168 Beckside Barn, £134 Near Scholes Farm. Continental: £190 Lowfield Cottage, £182 Lane Ends Farm, £172 Bensons Farm, £166 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £164, £162 Howriggs. Cheviot: £186 Oak Aveune, £176 Thrimby Hall, £172 Steel Croft, £160 Thrimby Hall, £156 Oak Aveune, £146 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Hampshire: £186, £160 Cantsfield Hall. Mule: £186 Steel Croft, £164 Ackenthwaite Farm, £164 Oak Fold, £160 Long Green Head, £160 (x2) Bensons Farm. Leicester: £180 Murthwaite, £168 White House. Suffolk: £180, £172 Oak Aveune, £170 Deansbiggin, £168 (x2) Near Scholes Farm, £160 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Gritstone: £158 Inverbervie. Zwartble: £150 Lowfield Cottage, £140 Broadhead. Cheviot Mule: £150 Walker House Farm, £148 Howriggs. Masham: £144 Near Scholes Farm. Swaledale: £130 White House, £116 Holme House Farm, £106 Troughton Hall, £100 Bridge End Farm, £100 White House. Lleyn: £115 Rocklands Farm. Rough Fell: £108 High Green Farm, £100 Archer Hill. Herdwick: £108, £84 Meadowbank Farm. Horned: £98 Higher Salter, £96 Long Green Head. Dalesbred: £98 Guest Ford. Goat: £84 Broadhead.

Cast Ram Top Prices: Charollais: £270 Inverbervie, £248 Walker House Farm. Texel: £198 Howriggs, £162 Larkrigg. Gritstone: £154 Inverbervie. Dalesbred: £120 Holme House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £112 Rocklands. Swaledale: £110 Troughton Hall, £90 Holme House Farm.

Sheep with Lambs at Foot

The dearest trade seen all season, with some outfits £30 to £50 up on the week. A ring full of aged Texdal ewes with Beltex cross lambs from CR Alderson & Son, Kirkby Stephen sold to £370. Beltex cross ewes suckling twin lambs from JM&NJ Stickland, Whinfell sold to £350, who sold Mule ewes with Texel twins to £305. Broken mouthed Herdwicks with single lambs sold to £138 from Kirkby & Longworth, Broughton in Furness.

Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £195 Hill Farm.

Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £305 The Borrans.

Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £370 Aisgill Farm, £350, £290 The Borrans, £260 Aisgill Farm. Continental: £315 The Borrans, £250, £230 High Greenside. Mule: £295 Aisgill Farm, £285 High Greenside, £265, £240 The Borrans. Teeswater: £180 Chapel Island View. Herdwick: £148, £138 Sella Farm.

Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 7th June 2024.

Calves & Weanlings

A few more rearing calves were forward with 65 through the ring, with these selling to an increased ringside of buyers ensuring a fierce trade throughout. Top price of the day was £625 for a British Blue bull calf from JP&C Robson, Garstang with this good home selling others at £590 and £585. A quality show of British Blue bulls were forward, which saw all of the strongest end £500 plus. Limousin bull calves topped at £560 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with others from this home at £500. A handful of younger bull calves were forward with a three week old Simmental making £290 and Aberdeen Angus sold to £285 at the same age. A handful of dairy bulls sold to a top of £80 for a twenty day old Friesian from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.

A quality show of heifer calves were forward, with a keen interest in heifers for future suckler replacements. These sold to a top of £430 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Charolais’s sold to £410 from JH Towers & Son, Tunstall, with three week old Limousins and month old Aberdeen Angus at £240.

The weekly sale of weaned and reared calves continues to grow in popularity, with another entry in excessing forty at today’s sale. British Blue cross heifers sold to £760 from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others generally £680 to £720. Younger native and continental heifers were £550 to £600. Steers sold to £670 for British Blue cross again from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh with others £600 to £650 and native steers £520 to £600.

The best of the bulls sold to £700 for a five month old British Blue cross from WG Farms, Cockerham with others £650 to £680 and younger bulls £550 to £600.

Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £760, £720 (x2), £680, £670, £660 Poplar Grove Farm. Hereford: £580, £570 (x3), £520 (x2) Sellerely Farm. Angus: £420 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £300 Boldens Farm, £240 Tills Farm, £210 Tunstall Hall, £200 Wyre Bank, £195 Rose Farm. Charolais: £410 Tunstall Hall. Limousin: £350 Tunstall Hall, £290 Rose Farm, £230, £130 Tunstall Hall.

Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £670, £650 (x2) Poplar Grove Farm. Angus: £560 (x3), £510 Cuerdale Hall Farm. Hereford: £470 Sellerley Farm.

Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £700 Lathwaite Farm, £670 Boldens Farm, £660 Lathwaite Farm, £660 Boldens Farm, £660, £650 Lathwaite Farm. Limousin: £560, £500, £330 Tunstall Hall. Angus: £430 Lathwaite Farm, £365 Roe Farm, £340 Lathwaite Farm, £310 Tunstall Hall, £285, £275 Wyre Bank. Simmental: £290 Hartrigg. Friesian: £200 Lathwaite Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Store Cattle

Another store trade which had to be seen to be believed, with buyers keen to secure cattle to keep the sheds full. The strongest steers sold to £1770 for Aberdeen Angus cross from G Sagar & Son, Caton with other Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £1760 and £1690, Herefords to £1680 and Limousin cross to £1540. Stronger steers were regularly £1450 to £1600, with the younger end steers for grazing and finishing £1180 to £1300.

Heifers sold to £1540 for an Aberdeen Angus cross again from G Sagar & Son, Caton with British Blue cross and Simmental cross at £1500. Other stronger heifers were £1350 to £1480, with grazing type heifers £1000 to £1200.

Store Bullocks Top Prices: Angus: £1770 New Parkside Farm, £1760 Fairfield, £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1430 Snub Snape Farm, £1400 Lynwood. Hereford: £1680 New Parkside Farm. Limousin: £1540 £1500 Lodge Farm, £1260 Pennine Way, £1060 Fell End Farm. Fleck: £1450 Thornton Barn Farm, £1130 Sunderland Brows Farm. Friesian: £1440 Scale House Farm, £1380 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1240 Hall Farm. British Blue: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1280 Thornton Barn Farm, £1270 Hall Bank, £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Charolais: £1400 Windy Hill Farm, £1360 Newhouse Farm. Shorthorn: £840 Sproat Ghyll. Norwegian Red: £740 Sunderland Brows Farm.

Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1540 New Parkside Farm, £1400 Snub Snape Farm, £1370 Sandy Dean, £1310 Pennine Way, £1210 Gaskell House. British Blue: £1500 Oak Fold, £1480 High Snab, £1470 Sandy Dean, £1410 Windy Hill Farm, £1410 Hare Field House, £1390 Pennine Way. Simental: £1500 High Snab. Charolais: £1290 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1260 £1240 Oak Fold, £1220 Hall Bank, £1200 Hatters Farm, £1060 Oak Fold, £980 Fell End Farm. Shorthorn: £810 Sproat Ghyll.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an extremely competitive trade, with all sold averaged 180p/kg, well ahead of other local centres. Beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg for a Limousin cross, with another at £1480. Other medium feeding type beef cows were regularly 190p/kg to 215p/kg or £1200 to £1400. Dairy cows sold to 214.5p/kg and £1593, with other better end cows 180p/kg to 195p/kg and £1250 to £1400.

OTM beef heifers sold to 257p/kg and £1686 for an Aberdeen Angus cross, with others 220p/kg to 240p/kg and £1400 to £1550. Dairy heifers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1541, with others generally 185p/kg to 210p/kg and £1000 to £1200.

OTM beef steers sold to 216.5p/kg and £1704 for an Aberdeen Angus cross.

OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 229.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 221.50 Hill Park, 217.50 Ouzelthorn Farm, 217.50 Riddings. British Blue: 219.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Friesian: 214.50 Priory Farm, 204.50 Boundary House, 204.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 197.50 Green Dragon Farm, 194.50 Cocker House Farm, 191.50 Moss House Farm. Fleckvieh: 197.50 Holme Head. Continental: 197.50 Hartrigg. Angus: 197.50 Mount Pleasant Farm. Blonde: 194.50, 139.50 Beaumont Grange Farm. Norwegian Red: 181.50 Holme Head. Simmental: 179.50 Todgill Farm. Hereford: 169.50 Riddings. Charolais: 167.50 Low Dubbs Farm. Montbeliarde: 167.50 Wood Nook Farm. Shorthorn: 149.50 Low Dubbs Farm.

OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 257.50 Tills Farm, 244.50 Richmond Hall. Friesian: 237.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 234.50, 231.50 Richmond Hall, 224.50 Derby Lodge Farm, 219.50 Higher Broadwood Farm, 214.50 Richmond Hall. Hereford: 229.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 224.50 Todgill Farm. Limousin: 199.50 Mill House Farm.

Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 261.50 Tills Farm. Limousin: 249.50 High Snab.

Cast Bull Top Prices: Friesian: 179.50 Crook Farm.

Next Week's Upcoming Sales

Monday 10th Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep 11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot

Tuesday 11th J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs

11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep

Wednesday 12th J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection

Thursday 13th J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves

10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle

11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle

Friday 14th Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle

11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks

J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection