Lancaster Auction Mart: Hill Fair Day, Saturday 1st October 2022.
The Lancaster hill fair show and sale was deemed a great success with a busy bustling ring throughout the sale with a bit of variety on offer with buyers to suit. The pre-sale show was judge by Trevor Sharp, Kendal who we thank for his time and expertise.
The sale commenced with breeding sheep and gimmer shearlings. The sale peaked at £165 for Mule Gimmer shearlings from M & YS Barker, Halton with cheviot mules selling to £150 from AJ Cardwell, Stalmine. Mule gimmer lambs saw plenty of demand and a strong trade throughout the sale selling to an overall market average of £105.61. The sale peaked at £132 for the first prize pen from A & L Huddleston, Wray with the second prize pen from the same home selling to £118. The third prize pen was awarded to T Ayrton & Son, Over Wyresdale selling to £118. The sale mainly made up of running lambs saw them selling over £100 regularly away. Texel gimmer lambs sold to £115 from B & M Salter, Chipping.
A buoyant trade throughout the sale for breeding rams saw the 1st prize shearling tup sell to the top price of the day of £700 for a Texel from T & CM Kelsall & Son, Chipping, whom enjoyed a successful day selling others to £580 and £480. Selling Texel shearlings to £480 was Daniel Pye, Abbeystead, Hazel Carter, Ellel and from PF Lee, Over Wyresdale. There were plenty more selling in the early four hundreds. B & M Slater, Chipping won the tup lamb class with a Texel selling to £380 with others from the same home selling to the same price.
There was an entry of just over 400 store lambs forward mainly consisting of longer term lambs selling very much in line with the current trade. Leading the way was a run of Texel x cheviot lambs from SE & J Gorst, Littledale selling to £82.50, £80.50 and £80. Strong lambs regularly sold in the mid-seventies with longer term lambs mid to late sixties.
Breeding Ewes Top Prices: Mule: £135 Halton Park Farm.
Gimmer Shearling Top Prices: Mule: £165 Halton Park Farm, £128 Gatehouse Farm, £128 Fell End Farm. Cheviot: £150, £145 Moss Side Farm, £125 Gatehouse Farm, £110 Moss Side Farm, £110 Gatehouse Farm.
Gimmer Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £132 Overhouses, £118 Yates Farm, £118 Overhouses, £112 Holme House Farm, £110 Catshaw Hall Farm. Texel: £115 Daub Hall Farm.
Aged Ram Top Prices: Texel: £400, £380 Castle Mill Farm, £350 Parkside Farm, £300 Castle Mill Farm. Charollais: £350 Brown Brook. Leicester: £300 Cragg End.
Shearling Ram Top Prices: Texel: £700, £580 Brown Brook, £480 Marl House, £480 Brown Brook, £480 Cragg End, £480 Lower Swainhead Farm. Charollais: £400 Gate House Farm.
Ram Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £380 Daub Hall Farm, £350 Lower Swainhead Farm, £300 Holly Farm Bungalow, £280, £220 Lower Swainhead Farm.
Store Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £82.50, £80.50, £80 Cragg Farm, £77 Marl House, £75 Wyre Farm, £75 Marl House. Beltex: £74 Marl House. Suffolk: £74, £59 Fell End Farm. Mule: £69 Fell End Farm, £65 Longstripes Farm, £64 Fell End Farm, £64, £60 Wyresdale Park, £59 Fell End Farm. Charollais: £56 Longstripes Farm. Cheviot: £52 Longstripes Farm.
Show Results
Pen of 10 Gimmer Lambs
1st A&L Huddleston, Overhouses
2nd A&L Huddleston Overhouses
3rd T Ayrton & Son, Yates Farm
Shearling Ram
1st T&CM Kelsall & Sons, Brown Brook
2nd PD Pye, MArl House
3rd GR&A Foy, Parkside Farm
Ram Lamb
1st B&M Slater, Daub Hall Farm
2nd PF Lee, Lower Swainhead Farm
3rd Daives & Wearing, Holly Farm
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep, Monday 3rd October
2022 Prime Lambs
600 lambs were forward with all selling to a sharper trade than the previous week, with an overall average of 232p/kg achieved. Beltex lambs saw a massive premium today at Lancaster with the best selling to 314p/kg or £135 from JS Horner, Ingleton with KA Purtill, Wigan selling his best Beltex x lambs to 300p/kg. Once again weight paid handsomely at Lancaster with a top
price of £140 from Mindy Binney, Nateby with 50kg plus lambs regularly selling at the £125-£130 mark. More Mules coming forward this morning with buyers keen to purchase the well meated. A pen of 24 from TA&RM Dawson, Quernmore sold to a top of £116 with other Mules selling to £115 from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale who also sold Swaledale lambs to £108.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £140 Fowlers Farm, £128 Beaumont Gate, £126 Hazel Brae, £125 Hall Croft Barn, £125 Beckside. Beltex: £135 Ingleborough Park, £130 Pedder Grove, £130 Inglebrough Park, £129 Knowsley Farm, £122 Castle Mill Farm. £122 Beckside. Suffolk: £127 £118 Beaumont Gate, £110 Low Moor Head Farm, £109 Beaumont Gate, £108 Walnut Tree Cottage, £105 Knowsley Farm. Mule: £116 Lower Brow Top, £115 Catshaw Hall farm, £114.50 Beckside, £110 Catshaw Hall Farm, £107 Oakhead. Continental: £110 Catshaw Hall Farm, £95 Fowlers Farm. Swaledale:£108 Catshaw Hall Farm. Dorset: £105.50 Corney Hill Farm. Cheviot: £105 Moss House Farm. Charollais: £100 Burns Farm.
Cast Sheep
All cast sheep sold to their full value with more needed to satisfy the demand from buyers. Texel ewes sold to £132 from P Rossall, Scorton with Suffolks selling to £127 from J&L Howarth, Cockerham. Many of the best continental bred ewes were regularly selling at the £110-£120 mark. Dorset ewes sold to a top of £118 from MJ&LC Lund, Quernmore. Leicesters sold to £116 from T Ayrton & Sons, Abbeystead. Mule ewes selling to £89 from RI&O Wilson, Scothforth with cheviots selling to £79 from TR Prickett, Hutton Roof.
Cast Sheep Top Prices: Texel: £132 Salisbury Farm, £122 Ingleborough Park, £120 Knowsley Farm, £118 Salisbury Farm, £117 Corney Hill Farm. Suffolk: £127 Harestones House. Dorset: £118 Corney Hill. Leicester: £116 Yates Farm. Cheviot: £79 Hutton Roof Hall. Herdwick: £50 Castle O Trim.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Annual Show and Sale of Bluefaced Leicester Females and Males, Monday 3rd October 2022.
North West Auction was proud to host it annual show and sale of Bluefaced Leicetsers with a record catalogued entry of 365 Females and Rams. The sale continues to go from strength to strength gathering a great reputation amongst vendors and purchasers a like. The pre-sale show was kindly sponsored by Carrs Billington, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and Wadland Finance. The judging was in the hands of Wilf Buckle, Kirkby Stephen who we thank for his time and expertise. The championship rosette was awarded to James Taylor of the Lunesdale flock with Mistyburn N006 whom was sired by Yore House P001 Maverick went onto sell for £2,000. Standing second to him in the aged ram class also from James was Lunesdale Legacy M032 sired by Midlock G034 went onto sell for £2000. A wonderful class of tup lambs saw in the mid-twenties forward with the quality on offer being the best seen to date and credit going to our vendors. The first prize tup lamb was awarded to JC & E Pedley & Sons of the Yore House flock that went onto be awarded the reserve championship. This powerful tup lamb Yore House R018 was sired by Midlock Commander P001 and went onto sell for £1,500. The female class was won by T Ladds of the Benson Flock with Black Edge L025 that went onto sell for £620.
The commenced with the breeding females that saw the largest entry to date for this sale. The sale peaked at £900 for a Black Edge gimmer shearling from Mycock and Bright, Derbyshire. This was followed by £720 from JC & E Pedley & Sons of the Yore House flock with a gimmer shearling Yore House P039 sired by Dawyck N025. The sale included the flock reduction on behalf of T Ladds of the Benson Flock sold Emmetts L049 to £620 with Benson Knott gimmer shearlings twice selling to £520.
A busy ringside of buyers throughout the afternoon and evening saw a strong trade throughout the sale. Leading the way was the pen of tup lambs from the Highberries flock of Neil and Mary Marston, Cockermouth. There pen peaked at £4500 for the third prize lamb Highberries R022 sired by Carry House M009. This was followed by £2,400 for Highberries R015 whom was sired by Highberries M001. The next call was £4,000 for the pen leader from WM Reed & Sons, of the West biggins flock who have enjoyed great success with there mule gimmers this autumn sold West Biggins R008 sired by the renowned Highberries H002 with the mother being a Greenhow ewe. At £3000 was the ram lamb Barwick R005 from JH Pedley with a long powerful lamb which was sired by Lakethwaite P001. Also achieving £3000 was the pen leader from W & D Lawson of the Gragareth flock with a bonny modern lamb sired by the flocks new stock tup West Biggins N001. The consignment from the Carry House flock from RD Archer & Son peaked at £2300 with Carry House R016 sired by Carry House P001. A strong consignment of tups from J Wight & Sons of the Midlock flock saw tup lambs sell to £2200 with Midlock R029 sired by Rididngs P002 whom was the sire of there second lamb selling to £2000 with Midlock R030. The Midlock flock topped the shearling section selling to £2000 with Midlock P005 sired by Riddings M001. At £2000 was the top price from WC Porter & Son of the Riddings flock sired by there homebred Riddings N023. The consignment of aged rams from T Ladds of the Benson Knott peaked at £2000 for Oakhouse N002 with Carry House M011 selling to £1800 from the same home.
The trade saw plenty of good quality shearling and ram lambs regularly selling in excess of the one-thousandpound mark.
Diamond Delights show and sale of individual Bluefaced Leicester females is on Saturday 28th January 2023. Entries for this sale close Friday 6th January 2023. For more information please contact Ian Atkinson on 07766521472.
Female Top Prices:
Gimmer Lamb Top Prices: £420, £400 Shitlington Hall, £320 Laund Farm, £280 Shitlington Hall, £250, £200 Laud Farm.
Gimmer Shearling Top Prices: £900 Blake Edge Farm, £720 Yore House, £520 Benson Hall, £450 Lodge Cottage, £420 Bridgeside.
Ewe Top Prices: £620, £480, £450 Benson Hall, £300, £240 Corner Cottage.
Male Top Prices:
Ram Lamb Top Prices: £4500 Millstone Moor, £4000 Lands Farm, £3000 Parr Bank, £3000 Oak Tree Farm, £2400 Millstone Moor, £2300 Carry House, £2250 Millstone Moor.
Shearling Ram Top Prices: £2000 Midlock Farm, £1600 Yoad Pot, £1400 Greaves Farm, £1400 Midlock Farm, £1300 Hartley Castle, £1300 Low Newton Farm.
Aged Ram Top Prices: £2000 Bradfleyfield, £2000 Benson Hall, £1800 Benson Hall, £1200 Sunningdale, £1000 Bowderdale Head.
Show Results:
Class 1 - Female
1st – Lot 30 – Black Edge 4154/L025 - T Ladds, Benson Hall - £620
2nd – Lot 36 – Yore House 790/P039 - JC&E Pedley, Yore House - £720
3rd – Lot 43 – Laund 399/R028 - CM&J Stott & Son, Laund Farm - £250
Class 2 – Aged Ram
1st – Lot 274 – Mistyburn 4691/N006 - J Taylor, Bradley Farm - £2000
2nd – Lot 273 – Lunesdale 963/M032 - J Taylor, Bradley Farm - £2000
3rd – Lot 333 – Hewgill 980/L030 - Mycock & Bright, Blake Edge Farm - £700
Class 3 – Shearling Ram
1st – Lot 166 – Neither Newton 3229/P001- RI Dixon, Low Newton - £1300
2nd – Lot 144 – Hartley Castle 4720/P002 - A Dixon, Hartley Castle - 1300
3rd – Lot 192 – Selside 2982/P003 - TA & JA Dixon, Yoad Pot - £1600
Class 4 – Ram Lamb
1st – Lot 326 – Yore House 790/R018 - JC&E Pedley, Yore House - £1500
2nd – Lot 292 – Shitlington 2857/R020 - MW & CM Ridley, Shitlington Hall - £1100
3rd – Lot 129 – Highberries 3425/R022 - NC Marston, Millstone Moor - £4500
Champion – Lot 274 – Mistyburn 4691/N006 - J Taylor, Bradley Farm - £2000 Reserve Champion – Lot 326 - Yore House 790/R018- JC&E Pedley, Yore House - £1500
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep, Tuesday 4th October 2022.
Prime Lambs
The weekly sale of prime lambs at J36 had a slightly smaller entry of 1000 prime lambs forward selling to a sharper trade. The overall market average was 227p/kg with heavy weight lambs averaging 234p/kg. heavy weights continue to add up best selling to a top of £145 from A Park, Millom, with Texel’s. This was followed other heavy weight Texel’s too £144 from TE, JS & SA Carruthers, Underbarrow, £143 from TMW & M Hodgson, Ulverston and £140 from JN & DJ Bowes, Crook. This was followed by heavy weight lambs regularly selling in the one hundred and twenties and thirties. Handy weighted lambs sold to more demand today with better types selling in the region of 250p/kg mark.
A larger number of upland lambs coming forward onto the market now saw heavy weight cheviot cross lambs selling to £116 from HR & KA Hodgson, Barbon. Mules sold to £104 from TMW & M Hodgson, Ulverston followed by plenty well finished pens in the mid forty kilos selling between £102 and £103.
Prime Lamb Top Prices: Texel - £14 High Marshside, £144 Red Scar Farm, £143 Arklid Farm, £140 Low Brundrigg, £138 Birks Farm. Suffolk - £134 Swallowmire Farm, £133 Cracalt Farm, £126 Station Hotel Farm, £124, £123 Lane Ends Farm. Continental - £133, £124, £123, £122 Howriggs, £123 Bowers Farm. Hampshire - £124 Benson Hall. Cheviot£116 Howriggs, £104 Cooper House. Charollais - £112 Barrowfield, £102 Cooper House. Mule - £104 Arklid Farm, £103 Nook Farm, £103 Yoad Pot, £103 Low Hall Farm, £102 Bramaskew. Dorset - £100 Drovers Way.
Cast Sheep
650 cast sheep forward were forward with the trade similar to the previous weeks. Texel ewes sold twice to a top £134 from HP Armitage, Preston Patrick and K Little & D McClure, Cartmel with Suffolks selling to £128 from S Proctor, Selside. Strong continental ewes full of meat were regularly selling in the £115-£120 mark with Teeswaters selling to £118 from DE&J Waine, Longsleddale. Mule ewes were a little sharper on the week topping at £110 from JT Proctor, Flookburgh with a pen of fourteen selling to £104 from R&E Ladds, Kendal. Hill ewes sold to a top of £104 for Lonks from WP Brewer & Sons, Bleasdale. A pen of Cheviots from HR&KA Hodgson, Barbon achieved £86 with others selling to £85 from WP Brewer & Sons, Bleasdale. Rough Fells sold to a top of £77 from GL&GM Ibbertson, Roeburndale West.
More cast rams forward with a sharp trade for all types. A top of £156 for a Teeswater from DE&J Waine, Longsleddale. Dutch Spotted sold to £140 from D Dixon, Grayrigg with a pen of Lonk tups selling to £116 from WP Brewer & Sons, Bleasdale.
Cast Sheep Top Prices: Texel - £134 Preston Patrick Hall, £134 Wood Broughton Barn, £128 Tranthwaite Hall, £128 Ashtree Cottage. Mule - £133 Mint View, £110 Mireside Farm, £104 Benson Hall, £104 Longfield Manor. Suffolk - £128 Low Shaw Farm, £112 High Biggarsbank, £84 Great House Farm, £82 Bramaskew. Beltex - £120 Drovers Way. Teeswater - £118 Murthwaite. Horned - £104 Lower Core. Charollais - £100, £94 Dunningwell Farm. Cheviot - £86 Howriggs, £85 Lower Core. Dorset - £84 High Biggarsbank. Rough Fell - £77 Higher Salter, £74 Flakebridge, £72 High Woodend. Swaledale - £64 Strickland Hill.
Cast Ram Top Prices: Teeswater - £156 Murthwaite. Dutch Spotted - £140 Grayrigg Foot. Suffolk - £128 Station Hotel Farm, £128 Cracalt Farm. Horned - £116 Lower Core. Texel - £112 Crosscrake Farm. Swaledale - £100 Overthwaite Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Second Sale of Gimmer Lambs followed by Fortnightly Sale of Store Lambs, Thursday 6th October 2022.
Store Lambs
The fortnightly sale of store lambs at J36 saw short keep quality lambs very short in supply and more desperately needed as fresh and returning faces ringside looking for this specification of lambs. They regularly sound in excess of the eighty-pound mark peaking with the consignment of Beltex cross lambs from JA Chapman, Kendal. This was followed by Texel lambs to £91.50 from MJ & LC Lund, Quernmore with plenty of lambs selling well into eighties. Suffolks sold to £86 from J Scott & Co, Cark in Cartmel. Mules sold to a top of £82.50 from JA & CA Gibson, Selside with shortage of strongest mule lambs about.
Majority of lambs forward today medium to long term lambs with more interest ring side as purchsers now getting the opportunity of winter keep in the near future but still a shortage of southern travelled buyers with the ongoing drought in the south.
Store Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £105, £94 North Lodge, £91.50 Corney Hill Farm, £87.50 Crabtree Farm, £87 Carlton House, £83 Low Hundhowe. Suffolk: £86 Middle Kirkby Farm, £81.50 Sunny Brow, £80.50 Gowan Bank Farm, £78
High Borrowbridge, £77 Mislet Farm, £74 Cragg House Farm. Continental: £85 High Biggarsbank, £81.50 High Wardses Farm, £79 High Biggarsbank, £78.50 Scroggs Farm, £74 High Wardses Farm. Charolais: £83.50 Barn Hey. Mule: £82.50 Longwell, £77.50 Ashstead, £76 Stable Harvey, £74 Longwell, £74 High Borrowbridge, £74 Middle Sadghyll. Leicester: £78 High Carlingill.
Gimmer Lambs
The second sale of gimmer lambs at North west auctions saw the entry of mules consisting of running lambs. A few of our usual southern buyers headed north despite their continued concerns of the drought and shortage of winter keep affecting the confidence. Mules peaked at £110 for a pen of bonny runners from RI Dixon, Low Newton followed by £105 from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale. Bonny runners often sold between ninety to one hundred with smaller and plainer types selling in the seventies and eighties.
Texel cross Llyen gimmer lambs from P Knowles, Kendal sold to £128 with Llyen Mule runners from the same home selling to £105. Other leading prices for Texel x gimmer lambs was £120 from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale.
Next sale of breeding sheep at North West Auctions is the Lakeland Fair end of season sale of all classes of breeding sheep and rams. A sale well worth entering and we look forward to receiving your entry by Friday 7th October 2022.
Gimmer Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £128 Cragg Farm, £120 Catshaw Hall Farm, £113 Far Cappleside Farm, £110 Cragg Farm, £100 Far Cappleside Farm, £100 Steel Croft. Mule: £110 Low Newton Farm, £105 Cragg Farm, £105 Catshaw Hall Farm, £100 Botton Hall Farm, £100 Thorn Cottage, £98 Middle Sadghyll. Dutch Spotted: £104, £101 Grayrigg Foot. Cheviot Mule: £89, £80 Thorn Cottage, £80 Ashstead.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Calves, OTM's and Store Cattle. Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle, Friday 7th October 2022.
Dairy Cattle
Phoenix Fleur Flame Red flew to the top of the prices at North West Auctions Lancaster.
This much-admired heifer, from AE&A Swale, Blackburn bred from four generations of excellent cows and currently giving 32 litres attracted keen ringside and phone interest and sold for a final bid of £3500. A trio of heifers from B&B Swann, Chorley sold to £2300 with a pair from J&A Jollys, Cabus selling to £2200.
New calved cows sold to £1820 for a third calver from Messrs France Bros, Littledale. A pair of montbeliarde heifers from V&S Fitzell, Preston sold to £1600.
All new calved heifers today averaged £2168.
Calves & Weanlings
The weekly sale of calves and weanlings had an entry in the mid-sixties with a brighter trade then anticipated and fresh faces ringside looking to purchase. The ever increasing cost of feed and milk powder now playing on purchaser’s minds but good to have plenty of eager bidders and a good buzz about the place. The sale peaked at £420 for an Aberdeen Angus weanling from TA & M Crook, Hoghton. Some good runs of British Blue bulls in the market sold to a top of £335 from Wallbank Farms, Over Wyresdale. This was followed by £320 and £300 from T & CM Kelsall & Son, Chipping whoms heifers sold to £265. Charolais bull calves peaked at £300 from GJ & G Billington, Garstang. Plenty of beef bull and heifer calves at a month plus sold in the early to mid-two hundreds.
Very Young beef calves often sold around the one hundred mark. A run of five - six week old Black and White bull calves from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale sold to £95, £90 and £85.
Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £265, £245 Brown Brook, £180 North Farm, £120 Brades Farm. Angus: £235 Higher Shuttlingfields Farm, £155 Brown Brook, £145 Knowsley Farm. Limousin: £220 Myerscough House. Simmental: £210 Knowsley Farm.
Bull Calves Top Prices: Angus: £420, £270 Higher Shuttlingfields Farm, £240 Knowsley Farm, £175 Bolton Fold Farm. British Blue: £335 Tills Farm, £320, £300 Brown Brook, £270 Tills Farm, £270 Brown Brook, £230 North Farm. Charolais: £300 Myerscough House, £230 Bolton Fold Farm. Limousin: £180 Myerscough House.
Store Cattle
A slightly smaller entry of 224 forward today saw the large short keep cattle continue to be in big demand and selling to a continued strong trade. Longer term keep cattle continue to be well bid for at Lancaster with buyers cautious of the expensive upcoming winter.
Taking the top spot at £1760 was a heavy weight well fleshed short keep British Blue bullock from JF&HE Caton, Cowan Bridge. This was followed by a pen of three twenty-month-old Charolais bullocks selling to £1650 from RH Dodgson, Burton in Lonsdale. British Blue bullocks sold to £1570 from JD&GM Bracken, Catterall and £1550 from J Prest & Son, Bay Horse. Aberdeen Angus bullocks sold to £1540 from L Parsons, & Sons, Levens followed by £1500 from JF&HE Caton. Dairy bullocks peaked at £1540 for Montbeliardes from BL&D Banks, Pilling whom sold others to £1450. Black and White bullocks peaked at £1350 from J Prest & son, Bay Horse. Plenty of pens of strong bullocks sold between £1400-£1500.
The heifer trade peaked at £1500 from J&H Bland & Son, Levens for a British Blue. Aberdeen Angus heifers sold to £1380 from L Parsons, & Son, Levens.
Store Bullock Top Prices: British Blue: £1760 Long Streets Farm, £1570 Greenlands Farm, £1550 Upper Foxholes Farm, £1450 North Farm, £1430 Moss House Farm, £1400 Stubb Place Farm. Charolais: £1650 Kilburn House, £1320 Ninezergh. Angus: £1540 Low Levens, £1500 Long Streets Farm, £1480 Little Town Farm, £1450 Shaws Farm, £1400 North Farm, £1390 Fellside Farm. Montbeliarde: £1540, £1450 Squires Gate Farm, £1120 Upper Foxholes Farm, £1110 Hatters Farm. Shorthorn: £1460 Long Streets Farm. Limousin: £1390 Upper Foxholes Farm, £1370 Stubb Place Farm, £1360 North Farm, £1110 Bradley Farm. Friesian: £1300 Upper Foxholes, £1250 Low Deepslack, £1230 Grizdale, £1160 Upper Foxholes Farm, £1130 Lane Head Farm. Hereford: £1280 Church Street. Meuse-Rhine-Issel: £1230 Ninezergh, £1140, £1100 Littlewood Hall Farm. Norwegian Red: £1230 Ninezergh.
Store Heifers Top Prices: British Blue: £1500 Ninezergh, £1360 Greenlands Farm, £1340 Buck Bank Farm, £1270 Pasture House Farm, £1140 Wood Nook Farm, £1090 Sandvilla. Angus: £1380 Low Levens, £1270, £1250 Ellers Farm, £1140 Steadbank, £1090 Buck Bank Farm, £1030 Holmes Farm. Friesian: £1260 Sunnyside Farm. Hereford: £1180
Ellers Farm. Simmental: £1090 Springfield House. Limousin: £1060, £1040 Ninezergh, £1000 Little Crimbles. Charollais: £1000 Little Crimbles.
OTM Cattle
Lancaster’s weekly sale of OTM cattle and cast cows had a slightly smaller entry of 112 forward which sold to an overall market average of 160p/kg. A consignment of OTM Limousins from M&RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe led the way selling steers to 249.5p/kg or £1474 and heifers to 244.5p/kg or £1332. OTM beef cows sold to 219.5p/kg and 211.5p/kg from M Allen, Yealand with this consignment peaking at £1523. Salers from the same home sold to £1439. Limousin beef cows sold to 207.5p/kg or £1678 from T&S Blades, Arkholme with other Limousin to 207.5p/kg or £1390 from M&L Preece, Kirkby Lonsdale whom sold Limousin cows to £1402. Plenty more beef cows sold between £1400-£1500.
Black and Whites saw OTM heifers sold to 207.5p/kg or £1251 from RC Billington & Son, Claughton on Brock. The best fleshed dairy cows sold between 190-200p/kg. They peaked at £1637 from BF Blezard, Ribchester with others to £1457 from MS&G Mason, Kirkby Lonsdale followed by £1440 from M&E Forshaw & Son, Longridge. Plenty of good quality cows selling between £1300 and £1400.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Angus: 219.50, 211.50, 204.50 Yealand Manor, 204.50 Outfield, 194.50 Barking House Barn, 189.50 Moss House Farm. Limousin: 207.50 Hill Top Farm, 207.50 High House Farm, 204.50 Longlands, 197.50 High House Farm, 184.50 Yealand Manor, 179.50 Boundary House. Friesian: 197.50, 191.50 Spital Farm, 191.50 Hothersall Hall Farm, 189.50 Docker Hall, 189.50 Hothersall Hall Farm. Saler: 197.50 Yealand Manor.British Blue: 194.50 Stoneybank Philpin Farm, 194.50, 177.50 Hill Top Farm, 144.50 Stoneybank Philpin Farm, 114.50 Winder, 114.50 Stoneybank Philpin Farm. Hereford: 184.50 Holmfields. Continental: 179.50 Hawkin Hall. Simmental: 174.50 Littlewood Hall Farm, 169.50, 164.50 Longlands. Shorthorn: 159.50 Boundary House. Ayrshire: 151.50, 107.50 Rose Farm. Fleckvieh: 111.50 Hawkin Hall.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Limousin: 244.50 Station Hotel Farm.Friesian: 207.50 Stubbins Farm, 197.50 Ackenthwaite Farm, 194.50 Kirkwood Lodge Farm, 189.50 Ackenthwaite Farm, 189.50 Abbotson Farm, 184.50 Kirkwood Lodge Farm.
Cast Steer Top Prices: Limousin: 249.50, 234.50 Station Hotel Farm. Friesian: 197.50 Tills Farm.
Cast Bull Top Prices: Limousin: 187.50 Sellerley Farm.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Monday 10th
Lancaster: 10.30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs and Cast Sheep.
12noon Fortnightly Sale of Store Lambs.
J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes.
Tuesday 11th
J36: 10:30am Sale of all classes of Pigs.
1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs and Cast Sheep.
Thursday 13th
J36: 10am Autumn Show of Calves under 56 Days, followed by Sale of Calves and Stirks.
10:15am Sale of OTM and Cast Cattle.
11am Autumn Show and Sale of Suckled Calves followed by Sale of Store Cattle.
Friday 14th
Lancaster: 10:15am Sale of Calves and OTM and Cast Cattle.
11.15am Sale of Store Cattle.