Lancaster Auction Mart: Hill Fair Day. Saturday 5th October 2024.
Lancaster Hill Fair Day saw a large crowd of buyers keen to secure all classes and types of breeding sheep. North Country Mule shearling sold to £240 on several occasions from M&YS Barker, Halton. Llyne Mule shearlings sold to £215 from J Duerden, Dalton in Furness with other shearlings regularly £175 to £190. Texel cross two to three crop ewes sold to £190, with other two crop Texel cross £185. Ewes were generally £140 to £165.
Mule Gimmer lambs sold to £175 for the first prize pen from RG&H Preece, Roeburndale with this price also achieved from JW Cornall & Sons, Bleasdale. Stronger pens of Mule gimmer lambs were £140 to £160, with running type lambs £110 to £125. All gimmer lambs sold averaged £148.
Breeding rams sold to a top of £800 for a Texel shearling from H Carter, Ellel with others at £780 from T&CM Kelsall, Chipping. Texel shearlings were regularly £500 to £750. Texel ram lambs sold to £400 from B&M Slater, Chipping.
The sale concluded with store lambs, which sold to a top of £113 for Texel cross lambs from PJ&SM Woodhouse, Forton. A ring full of Texel cross Cheviots from SE&J Gorst, Littledale achieved £105. Mule sold to a top of £86 with Mashams at £82. Smaller long keep lambs were £65 to £78, depending on breed and quality.
The pre sale show was kindly and expertly judged by Miss N Johnson, Bay Horse who awarded prizes as followed:
CLASS 1- 10 GIMMER LAMBS
1st RG & H Preece, Thornbush Farm- £175
2nd A & L Huddleston, Overhouses- £160
3rd T & H Drinkall, Calderside Farm
CLASS 2- SHEARLING RAM
1st H Carter, Cragg End- £650
2nd T & CM Kelsall & Sons, Brown Brook- £520
3rd H Carter, Cragg End- £800
CLASS 3- RAM LAMB
1st J Davies, Holly Farm
2nd J Davies, Holly Farm- £320
3rd B & M Slater, Daub Hall Farm- £380
Breeding Ewe Top Prices: Texel: £190 Stephens Way, £185 Yew Tree Close, £165 Longstripes Farm, £165
Yew Tree Close. Cheviot: £150 Faitte, £140 Killerwick Grange. Leicester: £150 Faitte. Mule: £145 Sunny Brow Farm. Gimmer Shearling Top Prices: Mule: £240 (x2) Halton Park Farm, £195, £190 (x3) Longstripes Farm. Lleyn: £215, £200 Killerwick Grange. Cheviot: £190 Longstripes Farm. Texel: £190 Stephens Way, £120 Longstripes Farm. Badger Face: £145, £95 Askew Hill. Scotch Blackface: £110 (x2) Halton Park Farm.
Gimmer Lambs Top Prices: Mule: £175 Higher Fair Snape Farm, £175 Thornbush Farm, £168, £165 Higher Fair Snape Farm, £160 Overhouses, £125 The Hawthorns. Dutch Spotted: £125 Overhouses. Texel: £88 Longstripes Farm, £85 Stephens Way. Store Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £113 The Martins, £105 Cragg Farm, £86, £80 The Martins, £75, £67 Longstripes Farm. Cheviot: £90 Cragg Farm. Mule: £86 Fell End Farm, £80 Longstripes Farm, £79 Fell End Farm, £75 Longstripes Farm. Masham: £82 (x2) Fell End Farm. Scotch Blackface: £51 Longstripes Farm. Cheviot: £51 Longstripes Farm.
Aged Ram Top Prices: Cheviot: £260 (x2) Lonstripes Farm. Lleyn: £200 Annasghyll. Leicester: £210 Killerwick Grange, £130 Thornbush Farm.
Ram Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £400, £380 Daub Hall Farm, £320 Holly Farm, £140 Askew Hill. Shearling Ram Top Prices: Texel: £800 Cragg End, £780, £680 Brown Brook, £650 Cragg End, £520, £500 Brown Brook.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep. Monday 7th October 2024. Prime Lambs
Once again, another rise in numbers saw 829 lambs at the popular Monday morning sale, with hard fed lambs continuing to see the best returns, with out of spec and under finished lambs a more selective trade, with several pens at realisation. Sellers are encouraged to treat their lambs to hard feed, to ensure maximum returns.
The best pure and three quarter bred lambs, having been of fed, were rewarded with premium price selling to a top of 340p/kg was a Texel from KA Purtill, Wigan. Beltex cross to 331p/kg, 324p/kg, 322p/kg from PJ&ES Rogerson, Appleby with others at 321p/kg from WS Burrow, Silverdale, 315p/kg TR Prickett, Hutton Roof, 313p/kg J Twigge, Lindal and 312p/kg JE Harrison, Winmarleigh. Other pens were regularly 295p/kg to 310p/kg. Well finished first cross lambs were generally 285p/kg to 305p/kg, depending on weight and quality. The best grass finished lambs were 275p/kg to 280p/kg, with more commercial sorts 250p/kg to 270p/kg.
Todays sale peaked at £152 for heavy weight Texels from JR&J Gorst, Quernmore and E&R Cranshaw, Brindle. Other heavy weight lambs were generally £140 to £148. The best standards weight lambs £128 to £135, with light weights £110 to £118.
Hill bred lambs coming forward in greater number, accounting for 35% of todays sale. North County Mules selling to £128 and 276p/kg, Cheviot Mules to £135 and 292p/kg, Cheviots to £135 and 276p/kg. The first Swaledales of the season sold to £110.50 and 251p/kg.
Todays sale achieved a market SQQ of 277p/kg for all sold, with lambs ranging from 26kg to 84kg. Vendors are encouraged to draw lambs on finish and not solely on weight, to ensure maximum returns, vendors are advised to strongly consider feeding lambs, as grass quality diminishes.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £152 Appletree Farm, £152 Marsh Lane Farm, £150 Walnut Tree Cottage, £148 Botton Hall Farm, £148 Low Moor Head, £146 Botton Hall Farm. Beltex: £151, £149, £146 Mason Gill, £144 Holmelands, £135 Corless Mill, £135 Gibraltar Farm. Suffolk: £149 Park Farm Barn, £147, £144 North Farm, £138 Park Farm Barn, £137 Maddison Aveune, £124 Mill House Farm. Leicester: £135 Ouzelthorn Farm. Cheviot: £135 Park Farm Barn, £125, £118, £116 Marshaw Farm. Charollais: £129 Holmelands, £117 Oak Aveune, £109 Mill House Farm.Zwartble: £128 North Farm, £120 Birch House Cottage. Mule: £128 Calderside Farm, £124 Meadow Court, £121.50 Overthwaite Farm, £117 Park Farm Barn, £115 Botton Hall Farm, £110 Highfield Farm. Continental: £118, £113, £105 Wellington Crag Farm. Cheviot Mule: £114 School Lane. Masham: £112.50 Kays Farm. Swaledale: £110.50, £108, £101.50 Marshaw Farm, £97 Appletree Farm.
Cast Sheep
Another fast trade for all classes of ewes with 126 forward averaged £98.81. The strongest ewes sold to £210 for Texels form A Birchall, Dolphinholme with other better strong continentals £170 to £195. The best first cross sold to £150 for Suffolk cross, with others £128 to £140. Heaviest Mules sold to £137 from E&R Cranshaw, Brindle with other at £133 and a ring full at £130 from J Pinder & Son, Newton who also sold Lonk ewes to £123. Other hill ewes sold to £134 for Cheviots, Swaledale to £111, Dalesbred to £91, Herdwicks to £80 and Welsh to £64. Keep these ewes coming, with 200 plus required every week to fulfil buyer requirements.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £210 Corless Mill, £197 Holmelands, £176 Holmelands, £152 Corless Mill, £150 Cock Hall Farm, £149 Lower Highfield. Suffolk: £150 Meadow Court, £133 Oak Avenue, £94 Meadow Court. Mule: £137 Marsh Lane Farm, £133 Lower Highfield, £130 Boarsden Farm, £129 Lower Highfield, £119 Meadow Court, £114 Marsh Lane Farm. Cheviot: £134 Oak Avenue, £107 School Lane, £96 Oak Avenue. Horned: £123 Boarsden Farm, £71 Meadow Court, £68 Meadow Court. Leicester: £102 Ouzelthorne. Dalesbred: £91 Kays Farm, £80 Kays Farm. Herdwick: £80 Holmelands. Swaledale: £58 Ouzelthorne, £52 Holmelands, £52 Appletree Farm, £48 Low Moor Head Farm. Cast Ram Top Prices: Swaledale: £111 Overthwaite Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Annual Show & Sale of Bluefaced Leicester Rams & Females, Monday 7th October 2024.
New centre record of £7000 at J36 The popular annual show and sale of BFL rams and females saw averages up across the board. The £7000 sale topper was the much admired West Biggins T13 from WM Reed & Sons, Lands Farm. Sired by Highberries H2 and out of a Carry House Jackpot Dam this ram found its new home with S & T Fawcett, Fold House. Two ram lambs reached £3000, firstly for the pre sale show champion Cottage T13 from J Bell, Birniehall Farm, this boy goes to join the Castle Hill flock with P & A Fell, Ulverston. The second ram lamb to reach £3000 was the 2nd prize Maqueston T4 from A Brown, Thornhill who also sold to South Cumbria this time going home with AR Edmondson, Hawkswell. H Huddleston, Carnforth reached £2800 for Snab Green T9, he sold to Paul Hallam, High Birkwith. Two lambs at £2000, firstly Otterburn Lodge T8 from JA & R Caton, Otterburn selling to RG & H Preece, Thornbush Farm. Also at £2000 was Carry House T54 from RD Archer & Son, Hexham with this lamb selling to County Durham with HW & MA Alderson, Howgill Grange. Shearling rams received a huge level of interest, selling to £2200 twice, firstly for Red Way S2 from L White, Derbyshire with this home selling Red Way S1 to £1800 both going home with J Handley, Gunnerfleet. The second shearling to reach £2200 was Lakeland Valley S1 from R Lawrence, Greaves which sold to NR & CS Hodgson, Ravenstonedale. D Sharp, Flodder Halls consignment reached £2000 for Flodder Hall S3 bought by TLB & J Knowles, High Borrowbridge. £1800 was paid for Midlock S74 from J Wight & Son, Biggar, winner of the shearling class & reserve champion in the pre sale show this ram sold to S Dugdale Ltd, Tilberthwaite.
Aged rams to £1500 for M39 Hewgill from AR Edmondson, Hawkswell, this 2 shear selling to SJ & C Handley, Thornton Hall. Next at £1300 was the Midlock bred 3 shear from CM & J Stott, Laund Farm selling to S Dugdale, Tilberthwaite. The sale commenced with all classes of females, which saw buyers keen to secure additional stock to expand flock bloodline. Gimmer shearlings sold to a top of £450 for a Black Edge, Midlock J3 sired shearling from Messrs Mycock & Bright, Buxton, who sold other shearlings at £380 twice and £350. The consignment of shearlings from RT Parker of the Bleasdale flock sold to £300 on two occasions. Gimmer lambs sold to £250 from the Long Garth flock consigned by R&LM Berry, Cartmel Fell who also sold a two crop Lunesdale P38 ewe at £350.
Averages
RL £983.14 increase on the year of £240
SR £913.04 increase on the year of £316
AR £818. 75 increase on the year of £279
SHOW RESULTS
Kindly Judged by Mr H & Mrs A Drinkall, Over Wyresdale
CLASS 1- FEMALE
1st Lot 17 from Mycock & Bright, Blake Edge Farm
2nd Lot 284 from R Berry, Long Garth
3rd Lot 12 from R Berry, Long Garth
CLASS 2- AGED RAM
1st Lot 193 from AR Edmondson, Hawkswell Farm
2nd Lot 148 from CM&J Stott, Laund Farm
3rd Lot 92 from B Wilson & Sons, Ashstead
CLASS 3- SHEARLING RAM
1st Lot 73 from J Wight & Sons, Midlock Farm
2nd Lot 220 from RI Dixon, Low Newton
3rd Lot 37 S&H Boyren, Hill Park
CLASS 4- RAM LAMB
1st Lot 94 from J Bell, Birniehall Farm
2nd Lot 181 from A Brown, Macqueston
3rd Lot 177 from MR Thornborrow & Sons, Easter Dawyck Farm
CHAMPION- Lot 94 from J Bell, Birniehall Farm
RESERVE CHAMPION- Lot 73 from J Wight & Sons, Midlock Farm
BFL Gimmer Lamb Top Prices: £250 Long Garth, £250 Long Garth, £200 Blake Edge Farm.
BFL Gimmer Shearling Top Prices: £450 Blake Edge Farm, £380 Blake Edge Farm, £380 Blake Edge Farm, £300 x2 Blake Edge Farm.
BFL Ewe Top Prices: £350 Long Garth, £200 Long Garth, £200 Long Garth.
BFL Tup Lamb Top Prices: £7000 Lands Farm, £3000 Macqueston, £3000 Birniehall Farm, £2800 Otterburn Lodge Farm, £2000 Carry House.
BFL Shearling Tup Top Prices: £2200 Postern Farm, £2200 Greaves Farm, £2000 Flodder Hall, £1800 Postern Farm, £1800 Midlock Farm, £1500 Brown Edge.
BFL Aged Tup Top Prices: £1500 Hawkswell Farm, £1300 Laund Farm, £750 Arklid Farm, £750 Flodder Hall.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Pigs, Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 8th October 2024.
Pigs
116 pigs forward today, with trade again selective for prime pigs. The best end gilts still well sought after selling to £220 for a trio of 100kg well finished sorts from D Nicholson, Cockermouth. Cull cows sold to £165 from regularly supporter J McEwan, Dumfries. Store and weaners continue to sell well with a pen of seven from Belmont Farm achieving £92 while fourteen weaners from SP Pheonix made £65.
Prime Lambs
The weekly sale of 1400 prime lambs sold, once again well fed and well bred lambs continue to be well bid for at Junction 36. The sale topped for a Texel at £168 from R Allen, Ings with Charolais lambs to £163 from JE&WB Wearing, Millom and Cheviot Mules to £161 from M Robinson, Stainton. Many pens of heavy continental lambs were regularly £140 plus. The smartest bred lambs saw Texels to £157 from PJ&ES Rogerson, Appleby with Beltexs to 330p/kg from AW&AM Clark, Windermere with others at 322p/kg from R Allen, Ings. Commercial export type lambs, full of meat, were regularly 270p/kg to 280p/kg. More hill bred lambs are coming forward now, with Mule lambs selling to £122 from JD&M Capstick, Bootle with other ring fulls selling to £119 from R Capstick & Son or 260p/kg. A ring full of light Cheviots sold to £109 twice or 287p/kg from KM&KJ Curwen, Abbeystead.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £168 St Annes Farm, £157 Mason Gill, £155 Arklid Farm, £152 Warth Sutton Farm, £151 Far Orrest, £150 Belle Vue Cottage. Charollais: £163 Low Shaw Farm, £147 Low Shaw Farm, £119 Birks Farm, £114 Loweswater Terrace. Cheviot Mule: £161 Low Barrows Green Farm, £131 Low Barrows Green Farm, £127 Low Barrows Green Farm. Suffolk: £147 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £139 Hallbeck, £132 Syke House Farm, £130 Steel Croft, £127 Steel Croft, £124 Swallowmire.
Zwartble: £146 Arklindd Farm. Dutch Spotted: £143 Flass Lane, £136 Grayrigg Foot, £108 Flass Lane. Dorset: £140 Hallbeck. Beltex: £140 St Annes Farm, £138 Gibraltar Farm, £130 St Annes Farm, £130 St Annes Farm, £122 West Lodge, £118 Stubb Farm. Hampshire: £124 Endmoor Farm, £116 Endmoor Farm. Mule: £122 Fellside Farm, £119 Fell End Farm, £119 Mosergh Farm, £118.50 Low Longmire, £117.50 Fellside Farm. Continental: £116 Briar Cottage. Mashams: £114 Mealriggs Farm, £107 Mealriggs Farm. Rough Fell: £109 Bargh House. Cheviot: £109 Marshaw Farm, £109 Marshaw Farm.
Cast Sheep
A much leaner and lighter weight show of ewes forward, as many farmers look to off load passengers ahead of the season change. The best continentals sold to £230 for Texels, with other stronger end £170 to £190. The best first cross ewes were £135 to £155. Cheviot Mules sold to £136 and North Country Mules £118, with a large number of feeding type Mule ewes £78 to £95, depending on quality and type. Pure hill ewes sold to £112 for Cheviots, £90 SBF, Lonks £88, Rough Fells £78, Swaledale £69 and Herdwick £67. Smallest and leanest hard worked pure hill ewes were generally £35 to £45.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £230 Spital Farm, £230 Belle Vue Cottage, £172 Oldfield End, £172 Belle Vue Cottage, £169 Mason Gill, £168 Market Street. Beltex: £202 Wreay Syke. Charolais: £152 Loweswater, £118 Low Foulshaw Farm. Dutch Spotted: £138 Grayrigg Root, £132 Grayrigg Foot, £132 Grayrigg Foot, £124 Grayrigg Foot, £112 Flass Lane. Cheviot Mule: £136 Briar Cottage, £96 Mill Barn, £70 Mill Barn. Suffolk: £126 Newcross House Farm, £107 Newcross House Farm, £88 Hill Park. Continental: £126 Owlnook, £110 Crabtree Farm, £108 Market Street, £96 The Borrans, £91 Low Shaw Farm, £90 Wreay Syke. Mule: £118 Low Fold, £115 Downfield, £115 Low Longmire, £112 Hallbeck, £110 Hill Park, £108 Far Kiln Bank. Cheviot: £112 Barugh House, £86 Crabtree Farm, £84 Grayrigg, £76 Mosergh Farm, £76 Marshaw Farm. Zwartble: £106 Arklid Farm, £98 Arklid Farm. Horned: £88 Botton Hall Farm, £70 Addingham, £58 Botton Hall Farm. Masham: £86 Mosergh Farm. Rough Fell: £78 Barugh House, £65 Boundary Beck. Jacob: £74 Broadhead. Herdwick: £67 Glessal, £64 Far Kiln Bank, £42 Glessal. Swaledale: £69 Arklid Farm, £67 Arklid Farm, £63 Hill Park. Lleyn:m £58 Low Foulshaw Farm. Cast Ram Top Prices: Suffolk: £179 Storth End Farm. Leicester: £155 Middle Sadghyll. Beltex: £84 West Lodge. Jacob: £82 The Yews.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Second Sale of Gimmer Lambs & Fortnightly Sale of Store Lambs. Thursday 10th October 2024.
Gimmer Lambs
The second show and sale of gimmer lambs at Junction 36 saw a catalogue entry of 1200 forward selling to a full ring of prospective buyers. The sale commenced with North England Mules with these selling to a top price of £158 for a pen of ten from JD&M Capstick, Bootle. N Cooper, Ulverston reached £148, while the pick of I Clarkes, Kendal run achieved £145. Cheviot Mules were easy to place, with these selling to £162 for a bonny pen from J Duerden, Dalton in Furness. Two pens from JW&E Woof, Firbank reached £148, with only the smallest end £120 or less. Continental gimmer lambs saw the very best types sell to an exceptional rate with a run of Beltex from R Allen, Ings seeing highs of £170. Next at £164 was a pen of Texel cross Lleyn Mules from P Knowles, Kendal this run of powerful gimmers saw others to £146. The smaller end of gimmer was inline with store trade.
Gimmer Lambs Top Prices: Beltex: £170, £160, £140 Corner Cottage.Texel: £164, £146, £128 Cragg Farm, £126 School Hill, £124 Longwell, £122 Craketrees.Cheviot Mule: £162 Killerwick Grange, £148 (2), Ghyll Farm, £120 Killerwick Grange, £118 Ashstead.Mule: £158 Fellside Farm, £148 Troughton Hall, £145 Woodside Farm, £138 Wood Broughton Barn, £132 Ghyll Farm, £130 Woodside Farm.Blue Texel: £119 School Hill.
SECOND SHOW OF GIMMER LAMBS
JUDGE- WILL GARDNER
CLASS 1- 10 MULE GIMMER LAMBS
1st I Clarke, Woodside Farm
2nd N Cooper & Sons, Troughton Hall
3rd RI Dixon, Low Newton Farm
CLASS 2- 10 CONTINENTAL GIMMER LAMBS
1st P Knowles, Cragg Farm
2nd J Handley, Craketrees
3rd P Knowles, Cragg Farm
CLASS 3- 10 ANY OTHER BREED GIMMER LAMBS
1st J Duerden, Killerwick Grange
2nd JW & E Woof, Ghyll Farm
3rd Forest Hall Farm, Thorn Cottage
Store Lambs
A market full wall to wall, with all classes and types sold to buyers from all four corners of the UK. The sale averaged £91.55, with all vendors leaving well suited with prices achieved. The sale peaked at £151 for Texel cross from J&PR Woof, Dent with endless pens of well draw Texel cross lambs £110 to £120, with medium keeping lambs £95 to £108. Well bred health long keep lambs were £82 to £90. Mules sold to a top of £107 for a ring full from Fishwick Bros, Longsleddale with other strong Mules £108 to £105 and longer keep farming sorts £88 to £94. Pure hill lambs were forward in greater numbers, selling to £102 for Cheviots, with other regularly £95 to £92. Dalesbred to £74, Gritstone to £73, Swaledale to £70 and Herdwick ton £72.
Sale Statistics:
Texel cross to £151, averaged £100.75.
Beltex to £119, averaged £89.
Mules to £119, averaged £95.50.
Suffolks to £105, averaged £95.35.
Cheviots to £102, averaged £74.73.
Horned to £73, averaged £64.
Herdwicks to £72, averaged £58.
Next fortnight is the Ambleside sale of 8000 store lambs, vendors are encouraged to enter lambs with confidence.
Store Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £151 Dragon Croft, £121 Causeway Farm, £121 The Borrans, £119 Bleaswood Road, £118 Scroggs Farm, £118 Melbourne House. Continental: £120 Coldcotes Farm, £98 Greenbank Farm, £95 High Borrans Farm, £94 Hall Farm, £92 High Borrans Farm, £88.50 Hall Farm. Mule: £119 Cow Bank, £118 Middle Sadghyll, £114 Low Newton Farm, £107 Middle Sadghyll, £106 Low Newton Farm, £105 Ashstead. Beltex: £119 Long Green Head, £111, £96 High Borrans Farm, £94 Barn Croft, £92 The Plough Inn, £90 High Borrans Farm. Charollais: £112 Briar Cottage, £97 Long Green Head. Suffolk: £107 Briar Cottage, £106 Hill Cottage, £105.50 Sunny Brow, £105 Wyke Farm, £99 Grate Farm, £99 High Borrans. Dutch Spotted: £104 Barn Croft, £92 Mill Barn, £92 Coldcotes Farm, £84 Mill Barn. Cheviot: £102 The Plough Inn, £89 High Borrowbridge, £89 High Arnside Farm, £89 High Arnside Farm, £82, £77 Low Beckside Farm, £75 Wath Farm. Cheviot Mule: £97 Ivy Cottage. Masham: £95 Marsh Grange Farm, £75 Crooksbeck, £60 Steps Farm. Zwartble: £93 Castle Syke Farm, £87 Somme Aveune, £82 Applegarth. Dalesbred: £74 Farleton House. Horned: £73 Low Beckside Farm. Herdwick: £72, £64, £57 Cow Bank. Swaledale: £70 Guest Ford, £66 Thorn Cottage, £66 Guest Ford, £64 (x2), £58 Thorn Cottage. Rough Fell: £69 Steps Farm, £64 Crooksbeck, £64 Fell Foot Farm, £61 Crooksbeck.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's, Stirks & Store Cattle. Friday 11th October 2024.
Calves & Weanlings
70 calves and weanlings were forward today, with trade a touch sharper on the week. Bull calves were the top side of £600 three times, topping at £635 for a British Blue from J&G Thornley, Kirkham with another at £610 from JM&MH France, Littledale. Finally at £600 was another British Blue from J&G Thornley, Kirkham. Native sided bulls sold to £520 and £500 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from J&G Thornley, Kirkham. Dairy bred bulls sold to £450 for a Montbeliarde from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh.
Heifer calves sold to £365 from JM&MH France, Littledale for a British Blue with other British Blues to £335 from I Slater, Brock. Not many younger heifers were forward today, but sweet six week old British Blues were regularly £280 to £300. Weaned calves saw bulls to £690 from TD&A Gardner, Great Eccleston with others from this home at £650. Weaned heifers sold to £570 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from I Richardson, Catforth with Herefords to £440 from TE & MM Kidd, Ellel.
Heifer Calves Top Prices: Angus: £395 Walkers I’th Field, £300 Walkers I’th Field, £300 Walkers I’th Field, £225 Hudsbrook Farm, £180 High Cark Farm. British Blue: £395 Walkers I’th Field, £365 Newhouse Farm, £345 Walkers I’th Field, £335 Hudsbrook Farm, £315 Forton Hall Farm, £295 Sunny Bank. Limousin: £305 Hudsbrook Farm. Hereford: £175 Catshaw Hall Farm, £140 Catshaw Hall Farm, £130 Forton Hall Farm.
Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £635 Derby Lodge Farm, £610 Newhouse Farm, £600 Derby Lodge Farm, £530 Walkers I’th Fields, £470 Tills Farm, £400 Brown Brook. Angus: £520 Derby Lodge Farm, £500 Derby Lodge Farm, £400 Derby Lodge Farm, £325 Brown Brook, £325 Brown Brook, £290 Brown Brook. Charolais: £360 Catshaw Hall Farm. Hereford: £200 Forton Hall Farm, £200 Forton Hall Farm. Friesian: £150 Catshaw Hall Farm, £115 Brown Brook, £110 Tills Farm.
Bull Stirk Top Prices: British Blue: £690 Larbreck Hill Farm, £650 Larbreck Hill Farm. Hereford: £490 Booth Hall. Montbeliarde: £450 Poplar Grove Farm.
Heifer Stirk Top Prices: Aberdeen Angus: £570 West View Farm, £370 West view Farm. Hereford: £440 Booth Hall, £350 Booth Hall. Limousin: £300 Poplar Grove Farm. Montbeliarde: £300 Poplar Grove.
Steer Stirk Top Prices: Aberdeen Angus: £460 West View Farm, £440 West View Farm, Store Cattle
250 stores were forward with trade up a gear on last week. A top price today of £1860 firstly for five Limousin steers from EJ Ward & Son, Nether Kellet and secondly for three British Blues from H Birkett & Son, Overton. MJ Shepherd sold to £1800 for a British Blue with another five at £1800 from J Lamb, Glasson again for British Blues. Native sired sold to £1780 for an Aberdeen Angus from EW&CR Clegg, Stalmine with Longhorns to £1760 from EJ Ward & Son, Nether Kellet. Monbeliardes sold to £1660 from DR Preston, Caton and Friesian to £1400 from EE Thornton, Heaton. Fewer heifers about this week with these selling to £1580 for an Aberdeen Angus from J Oddie, Balderstone, with other Aberdeen Angus next at £1560 from L Parsons, Levens. A quartet of British Blues sold to £1550 from SH&LE Birkett, Nether Kellet. Nine British Blue sold to £1470 from JS&KM Wilson, Kendal.
Store Bullocks Top Prices: Limousin: £1860 Intack Farm, £1680 Yew Tree Farm, £1680 Sunnyside Farm, £1620 Fell End Farm, £1560 Intack Farm. British Blue: £1860 North Farm, £1800 Gaskell House, £1800 Old Glasson Farm, £1760 Pasture House Farm, £1760 Squires Gate Farm. Simmental: £1780 Intack Farm, £1660 Low Levens, £1580 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £1160 Mount Murray. Angus: £1780 Yew Tree Farm, £1760 Gaskell House, £1720 Cheetham House Farm, £1700 Billinge Hall Farm, £1680 Fell End Farm, £1680 Downlands Farm. Longhorn: £1760 Intack Farm. Charolais: £1720 Downlands Farm £1680 Squires Gate Farm, £1180 Mount Murray. Montbelliarde: £1660 Ellers Farm, £1600 Squires Gate Farm, £1520 Squires Gate Farm. Hereford: £1580 Pasture House Farm, £1360 Windy Hill Farm, £760 Kays Farm. Friesian: £1400 Downlands Farm, £1380 Gibraltar Farm, £1260 Plumpton Hall Farm. Belted Galloway: £1080 Mount Murray.
Store Heifers Top Prices: Angus: £1580 Cheetham House Farm, £1560 Low Levens, £1460 Low Levens, £1440 Snub Snape Farm, £1420 Oakenhead, £1420 Oakenhead. British Blue: £1550 Stubb Hall Farm, £1470 High House, £1460 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Lower Castle O Trim, £1360 Barn Hill Farm. Simmental: £1420 Yew Tree Farm, £1000 Mount Murray. Hereford: £1400. Limousin: £1070 Mount Murray, £1030 Mount Murray, £1000 Mount Murray. Belted Galloway: £1070 Mount Murray, £920 Mount Murray. Charolais: £1030 Mount Murray, £960 Mount Murray.
Store Bull Top Prices: Limousin: £920 Mount Murray.
OTM Cattle
130 OTM’s in today, top pence per kilo was 279.5 achieved twice both for Limousin OTM heifers from R Collinge & Son, Kirkham. Cast steers sold to £274.5p/kg from this same good home, again being for a Limousin. Aberdeen Angus steers sold to 259.5p/kg from JD EM & JA Atkinson, Kendal with Simmentals at the same price from EJ&PE Burrow, Storth. Top pence per kilo cow came from EJ Ward & Son, Nether Kellet with this reaching 249.5p/kg. The best of the black and whites sold to 229.5p/kg from RE&P Miller, Barnacre with parlour type cows regularly 180p/kg to 190p/kg. Top grossing today was a Simmental cast bull from E Rossall, Pressall with this totalling £1995.60. An Aberdeen Angus bull sold to £1975.05 from JD EM & JA Atkinson, Kendal. OTM heifers topped at £1766.23 for a Fleckvieh from JK&BK Birkett, Morecambe. Top grossing cow was a stabiliser cow from RW&FJ Rhodes, Ellel with this totalling £1759.80 and British Blues to £1709.29 from AJ&DA Wilkinson, St Michaels.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 249.50 Intack Farm, 229.50 Mount Murray, 219.50 Lane Head Farm, 219.50 High Tenement Farm, 214.50 Lane Head Farm, 214.50 Thornton Hall. Friesian: 229.50 Lower Lingart Farm, 224.50 Downlands Farm, 189.50 Docker Hall, 184.50 (x2) Low Deepslack, 184.50 Lower Lingart Farm. Saler: 219.50 Thornton Hall. Stabiliser: 209.50 Low Moor Head Farm, 189.50 Farleton House. British Blue: 207.50 Intack Farm, 189.50 Springfield Farm. Angus: 199.50 Forgelands Estate, 194.50 Mount Murray, 189.50 Woodstock, 179.50 Farleton House. Blonde: 189.50 Cragg End. Hereford: 189.50 Mount Murray, 187.50, 184.50, 179.50, 174.50 Dalton Old Hall. Norwegian Red: 191.50, 159.50 Dale Barns, 109.50 Cracalt Farm. Charolais: 179.50 Mount Murray, 174.50 High Tenement Farm, 154.50 Mount Murray. Fleckvieh: 179.50 Docker Hall, 149.50 Throstle Nest Farm. Other: 174.50 (x2) Throstle Nest Farm, 129.50 Dale Barns. Simmental: 159.50 Throstle Nest Farm. Brown Swiss: 139.50 Throstle Nest Farm.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Limousin: 279.50, 279.50, 274.50 The Dingle. Fleckvieh: 254.50 White Lund Farm. Simmental: 249.50 (x2) New Grange Farm, 139.50 Sykes Fold Farm. Friesian: 244.50 White Lund Farm, 234.50 Elm Tree Farm, 229.50 White Lund Farm, 224.50 Cragg Farm, 219.50 Elm Tree Farm. Norwegian Red: 234.50 White Lund Farm.
Cast Steer Top Prices: Limousin: 274.50 The Dingle, 259.50, 214.50 Mount Murray. Angus: 259.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 259.50 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Friesian: 249.50 Gibraltar Farm.
Cast Bull Top Prices: Simmental: 219.50 Sykes Fold Farm. Angus: 199.50 New Hall. Hereford: 199.50 New Grange Farm. Blonde: 189.50 High Cark Farm. British Blue: 159.50 Hill Top Farm.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Monday 14th
Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep
Tuesday 15th
J36: 1pm Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep
Thursday 17th
J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves
10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle
11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle
Friday 18th
Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle
11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle
Saturday 19th
J36: 10am Lakeland Fair
