Weekly Report and Newsletter - 8th November 2024
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep. Monday 4th November 2024.
Prime Lambs
Monday morning maintains momentum with all vendors leaving well satisfied with prices achieved and an overall market average of 284p/kg achieved. Todays sale topped at £164 for a well finished Texel cross lamb from Susan Purtill, Wigan. Closely followed by others at £162 from KA Purtill, Wigan, CD&HL Mason, Caton and £161 from TR Prickett, Carnforth. Other well finished pure and ¾ bred lambs met the keenest buyer demand, with these sorts regularly £135 to £150, first cross lambs were £122 to £128. The best lighter weight lambs sold to £128 for Beltex cross. Todays sale peaked at 360p/kg for a Texel from CD&HL Mason, Caton with other better end lambs 320p/kg to 340p/kg. Well finished standard lambs were 285p/kg to 305p/kg, with lighter weight and grass finished lambs 265p/kg to 280p/kg, depending on quality and type. Hill bred lambs now coming forward in greater numbers, with Cheviots to £146 and 311p/kg, Mules to £122 and 277p/kg and Horned to £116 and 264p/kg.
Vendors are reminded that gates open at 7am, with weighting from 7.30am and vendors are encouraged to arrive in good time to allow for a prompt sale start at 10am.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £164 The Hawthornes, £162 Mearsbeck Farm, £157 Botton Hall Farm, £153 Fell End Farm, £152 Mearsbeck Farm, £152 Bensons Farm. Beltex: £162 Oak Aveune, £161 Hutton Roof Hall, £150 The Hawthornes, £145 Hill Farm, £145 Oak Aveune, £145 Ingrave Farm. Cheviot: £146 Oak Aveune, £138 Botton Hall Farm, £118.50, £117, £111, £110.50 Yarlsber. Continental: £144, £136 High Hall Beck, £130.50 Walmsley Fold, £116.50 Lower Swainhead Farm. Suffolk: £139 Abbotson Farm. Leicester: £137 Fell End Farm. Charollais: £134, £120 Walmsley Fold. Cheviot Mule: £122 Botton Hall Farm, £109 Yalsber. Mule: £120 Fell End Farm, £117.50, £117 Cragg End. Masham: £116.50 Kays Farm. Dalesbred: £116 Fell End Farm. Horned: £109.50 Kays Farm.
Cast Sheep
Two full rows of ewes sold to another animated trade, an overall average of £89.40 achieved with ¾ of the sale being leaner hard worked hill ewes. The sale topped at £166 for a trio of Texel cross ewes from P Whitton & Son, Burneside with other better end cross bred ewes £125 to £145. Mules sold to £137 with other stronger pens £118 to £130 and medium Mules £88 to £105. Pure hill ewes sold to £114 for Cheviots, with others £82 to £95. Horned ewes sold to £65 for Dalesbreds and £64 for Swaledales. Keep these ewes coming, 200 are required every week to fulfil buyer demand.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £166 High Tenement Farm, £148 Mearsbeck Farm, £121 High Tenement Farm, £120 Hutton Roof Hall, £114 High Tenement Farm, £72 Hutton Roof Hall. Mule: £137 Eskew Beck, £126 High Tenement Farm, £123 Yarlsber, £117 Hardberry Hill Farm, £113 High Tenement Farm, £100 Lee End Farm. Cheviot: £130 High Tenement Farm, £99 Harberry Hill Farm, £91 Carr House Farm, £88 Harberry Hill Farm. Continental: £121, £110, £90 Carr House Farm, £88, £74 Eskew Beck. Charollais: £120 The Martins, £100, £98 Carr House Farm. Dalesbred: £65 Kays Farm. Swaledale: £64 The Martins.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 5th November 2024.
Prime Lambs
Fireworks in the fat lamb ring at Junction 36, prime lambs rocketed to £175 on several occasions for Texel cross from TMW&H Hodgson, Nibthwaite. Other heavy weight well finished lambs were regularly crackling away between £150 and £165. Standard weight lambs whizzed to £151 from AT Burrow & Son, Hornby on three occasions, with others nicely selling at £138 to £145.
A pen of Texel cross lambs sparkled in the ring, selling to 333p/kg from LE&A Ridding, Selside. Others crackled away at 305p/kg to 330p/kg. Lambs sold to a blazing market averaged of 298p/kg, with another good entry required next week.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £175 Arklid Farm, £175 Arklid Farm, £167 Upp Hall, £161 Crook Hall Farm, £161 Arklid Farm, £155 Arklid Farm. Beltex: £166 High Snab, £145 Birks Farm, £145 Birks Farm, £132 Cantsfield Hall. Suffolk: £156 Hallbeck, £144Birks Farm, £142 Tranthwaitew Hall, £135 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £128 White Horse. Continental: £146 Bouthwaite Farm, £145 Head House, £142 Dunningwell Farm, £141 Steel Croft, £139 Dunningwell Farm, £137 Steel Croft. Dorset: £142 Hallbeck, £131 Leighton Drive, £113 Leighton Drive. Hampshire: £141 Endmoor Farm, £120 Red Syke Lodge. Mule: £139 The Howes, £136 Arklid Farm, £120 Low Hall Farm, £119 The Howes, £105 Low Newton Farm. Charollais: £138 Summer Hill, £134 Summer Hill, £116 Summer Hill. Gritstone: £118 Yew Tree Close. Rough Fell: £100 Intake Farm.
Cast Sheep
Cast ewe numbers slightly less on the week but trade certainly heated up ahead of bonfire night.
- Texels sold to £230 from FE&CM Robinson.
- Beltex sold to £195 from J&O Galbraith.
- Suffolk’s sold to £170 form JB Airey.
- BFL’s sold to £166 from T&CM Kelsall.
- Hampshire’s sold to £160 form A&S Miles.
- Zwartbles sold to £150 form C Wright.
- Cheviots sold to £136 form TH&DM Cornthwaite.
- Mules sold to £136 form CM&CA Jackson.
- Swaledale’s sold to £102 form Bank House Farm.
- Rough Fells sold to £96 from IJ Mallinson. All goods were keenly bid for, trade for heavy ewes remains good with mediums and lights possibly seeing the biggest lift.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £230 Warth Sutton Farm, £195 Town Head Farm, £190 Low Gregg Hall, £180 Warth Sutton Farm, £172 Low Tarn Green, £152 Oldfield.Beltex: £195 Endmoor Farm.Suffolk: £169 Mint Close, £138 Crosscrake Farm, £110 Birks Farm.Leicester: £166, £136 Brown Brook.Continental: £161, £146 Mint Close, £136 Low Hundhowe, £132, £128 Mint Close, £128 Streatlam Grange. Hampshire: £160 Red Syke.Zwartable: £150 Castle Syke Farm.Cheviot Mule: £150 Low Tarn Green, £132 Low Mill House.Cheviot: £136 Low Tarn Green, £134 Low Gregg Hall, £134 Low Mill House, £118 High Arnside Farm.Mule: £136 Forgelands, £130 Birks Farm, £128 Low Brundrigg, £116, £110 Scroggs Farm, £104 Brown Brook.Rough Fell: £96, £90 Borrow Bridge House.Swaledale: £88 Low Longmire, £88 Saddlers Croft, £80 High Birk Howe Farm, £78 Low Newton Farm, £77 Arklid Farm.
Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £170 Bank House, £104 OldField. Leicester: £110 Low Longmire. Swaledale: £102 Bank House Farms.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Breeding Sheep & Store Lambs. Thursday 7th November 2024.
Breeding Sheep
The sale commenced with all classes of breeding sheep, which saw aged Texel rams sell to £300. Mule gimmer lambs sold to £124, £117 and £108. Hill bred sheep saw three crop Herdwick ewes sell to £104, with broken mouth Herdwicks selling to £68 and others at £58. Herdwick gimmers lambs sold to £64, Welsh Badger Face Mountains to £64 and Swaledale to £62. We are still offering a farm to farm service for breeding sheep, please contact our auctioneers regarding you sales requirements.
Aged Ram Top Prices: Texel: £300 Blea Tarn Road.
Gimmer Lamb Top Prices: Mule: £124 Greaves Farm, £117 Greaves Farm, £117 Greaves Farm, £108 Greaves Farm, £92 Saddlers Croft. Continental: £64 Thistle House. Herdwick: £64 Low Longlands. Swaledale: £52 The Hawthornes.
Breeding Ewe Top Prices: Herdwick: £104 High Birk Howe Farm, ££68 Wall End Farm, £58 Tongue House Farm, £56 Wall End Farm, £40 Wall End Farm. Store Lambs
North West Auctions sale of store lambs saw 4218 lambs sell to an average of £101.73. Trade was good from start to finish with the sale peaking at £141 for a pen of Beltex from JE Wightman, Lupton. Others sold to £140 from AE Atkinson, Kendal and a pen of twenty one to £137 from W&J Penny, Kirkby in Furness. A pen of nine Cheviots sold to £135 from RW&SA Nicholson, Lupton with Suffolks to the same price from DH Hogg, Appleby. No less than fifteen Hampshire’s sold to £130.50 from Colby Farms, Appleby with Romneys to £122 from this home. Rough Fells reached highs of £125 from A O’Neil, Sedbergh and Mules to £117 from B Wilson & Sons, Selside. Swaledale sold to £108 from JR Robinson, Nook and Herdwicks to £89 from S Procter, Selside.
All short-term Continental lambs easily sold the top side of £115, with mediums £100 to £110 and only long term less. Mules seeing a big increase on the fortnight, with the strongest of these £100 plus. Horned and hill lambs possibly seeing the biggest lift, being up in the region of £22.25 on the fortnight.
Winning the awards this week and receiving a café Ambio voucher for the highest priced pen of twenty five or more lambs were:
Lowland: 26 Texels at £133 from GR Wilson, Natland.
Mule / Masham: 27 Mules at £117 from B Wilson & Sons, Selside. Hill Bred: 35 Cheviots at £112 from RW&SA Nicholson, Lupton.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 8th November 2024.
Lancaster Auction Mart leads the way at the popular weekly sale.
OTM Cattle sell to 300p/kg and £2318
Store Bullocks to £1920
Store Heifers to £1840
Rearing Calves to £600
Weaned Calves to £910
Calves & Weanlings
Nice show of calves in today with all classes and types selling to a competitive ringside of buyers. Calves to £600 for a Charolais bull from JG Thornley, Kirkham with others to £590 from this home. Next at £530 was a British Blue bull from AD Milner, Brock, one of 3 vendors in the convoy from Claughton this morning. Other British Blue bulls to £465 from JM & MH France, Littledale and natives to £380 from AD Milner, Brock. Dairy bulls to £270 from JR Newsham, Conder Green. Heifer calves to £370 for British Blue also from the Milners with Limousin to £345 from MH & AR Robinson, Holmescales. GP Stott, Parkers Farm also headed north on the A6 selling Angus heifers to £285 at 1 month old and British Blue to £270 at the same age. Stirks were on fire, TD & A Gardner, Great Eccleston selling British Blue bulls to £910 and £850 with Herefords to £620 from JR Newsham. A consignment of fresh weaned Angus heifers sold to £480 from JK & BJ Birkett, Morecambe. Please continue to book calves in with confidence.
Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £370 Lane Head Farm, £270 Parkers Farm. Limousin: £345 Holmescales Farm, £260 Hudsbrook Farm, £235 Hudsbrook Farm, £235 Holmescales Farm, £210 Holmescales Farm, £150 Hudsbrook Farm. Angus: £285 Parkers Farm, £200 Hallbeck, £100 Hallbeck. Hereford: £240 Sellerley Farm, £205 Sellerley Farm, £195 Sellerley Farm, £160 Sellerley Farm, £155 Sellerley Farm, £145 Sellerley Farm. Charolais: £230 Parkers Farm. Friesian: £175 Sellerley Farm.
Bull Calves Top Prices: Charolais: £600 Derby Lodge Farm, £590 Derby Lodge Farm, £360 Holmescales Farm, £240 Parkers Farm. British Blue: £530 Lane Head Farm, £465 Newhouse Farm, £430 Newhouse Farm, £425 Newhouse Farm, £390 Holmescales Farm, £320 Holmescales Farm. Angus: £380 Lane Head Farm, £355 Tills Farm, £330 Tills Farm. Limousin: £380 Holmescales Farm, £375 Holmescales Farm, £230 Hudsbrook Farm. Hereford: £275 Sellerley Farm, £220 Sellerley Farm, £190 Sellerley Farm, £170 Sellerley Farm. Friesian: £270 Sellerley Farm, £155 Sellerley Farm, £100 Hudsbrook Farm, £90 Sellerley Farm. Flekvieh: £240 Sellerley Farm.
Bull Stirk Top Prices: British Blue: £910 Larbreck Hill Farm, £850 Larbreck Hill Farm. Hereford: £620 Sellerley Farm.
Heifer Stirk Top Prices: Angus: £480 White Lund Farm, £450 White Lund Farm, £320 White Lund Farm, £265 White Lund Farm, £245 White Lund Farm, £190 White Lund Farm.
Store Cattle
The weekly store cattle sale saw a few less about this week with trade up and beyond vendor expectations. Making the headlines today would be regular Lancaster supporters J Lamb, Glasson for a Charolais steer at £1920. Other Charolais steers to £1900 for a trio from GT & CA Blezard, Conder Green with JM Haddow, Milnthorpe at the same price who also had a pair of Angus steers at £1900 with G Sagar & Son, Caton at £1820 for a pen of 4 and L Parsons & Sons, Levens at the same price. R Capstick & Son, Ingleton led the way with Limousins to £1880 with others from JB Moore, Grange over Sands to £1640. G Sagar & Son, Caton continued their good days trading with Herefords to £1810 for a pen of 4. Simmental steers from M & RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe to £1900. Low Moor Howe, Winster with a pen of 4 to £1740. British Blue steers to £1780 from R & A Easterby, Westhouse. Plenty of other blue steers round the £1700 mark. Friesian steers again a flying trade to £1610 from J Lamb, Glasson with others from L Parsons & Sons, Levens to £1580. All steers averaged £1561. No let up in trade for heifers, these averaged £1442. Topping this week would be R & DM Rossall, Pilling with a pair of British Blues to £1840, others at £1800 from AT Burrow & Son, Gressingham. Plenty of other blue heifers around the £1700 mark. Aberdeen Angus heifers at £1720 from BW & G Robinson, Carnforth, with others at £1700 from TJ Robinson, Milnthorpe. Plenty of other Angus heifers round the £1500 mark. Limousin heifers to £1660 from MJ Waller, Carnforth with others to £1640 from R & DM Rossall, Pilling. Charolais heifers to £1680 from MJ Waller, Carnforth and Hereford heifers to £1500 from TJ Robinson, Milnthorpe. More numbers required next week to satisfy buyers demand.
Store Bullocks Top Prices: Charolais: £1920 Old Glasson Farm, £1900 Scale House Farm, £1900 Viver Mill Farm, £1840 Carlingwha, £1410 Ghyll Beck Farm. Angus: £1900 Viver Mill Farm, £1820 New Parkside Farm, £1820 Low Levens, £1820 Burnt House Farm, £1800 Outerthwaite Farm, £1780 Low Levens. Simmental: £1900 Station Hotel, £1740 High House Farm, £1700 Low Levens, £1660 Station Hotel Farm, £1520 Outerthwaite Farm. Limousin: £1880 Fell End Farm, £1640 Outerthwaite Farm, £1600 North Farm, £1600 Fell End Farm. Hereford: £1810 New Parkside Farm, £1480 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Ghyll Beck Farm. British Blue: £1780 Fellside Farm, £1740 Wood Nook Farm, £1700 Barn Hill Farm, £1700 Betts Farm, £1680 North Farm, £1560 Yeat House. Friesian: £1610 Old Glasson Farm, £1580 Low Levens. MRI: £1480 Littlewood Hall Farm. Fleckvieh: £1160 Ghyll Beck Farm.
Store Heifers Top Prices: British Blue: £1840 Abrahams Farm, £1800 High Snab, £1760 Yeat House, £1640, £1620 Betts Farm, £1580 Wood Nook Farm. Angus: £1720 Burnt House Farm, £1700 Rowell Farm, £1580 Grange Farm, £1560 (x2) Rowell Farm, £1480 Snub Snape Farm. Charolais: £1680 Carlingwha, £1290 Parrox Hall Farm. Limousin: £1660 Carlingwha, £1640 Abrahams Farm, £1640 Rowell Farm, £1360 Summerlands. Hereford: £1500 Rowell Farm, £1420 Park Farm Barn. Montbeliarde: £1400 Moss House Farm. Friesian: £1280 Raw End Farm. Fleckvieh: £1260 Carlingwha.
OTM Cattle
Cull cows from 3 counties descended upon Lancaster auction mart this Friday. With all cows sold averaging a staggering 193p/kg and £1276 with over half the entry being dairy bred and parlour type cows. Best beef cows sold to outstanding top price of 300p/kg from M & RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe with heavy well-fed Stabilisers from JA & R Geldard, Levens hitting 294.5p/kg on 2 occasions with others at 284.5p/kg. Other strong end beef cows regularly 230-280p/kg to include British Blue x and Limousin x from MA & JA Winn, Burneside, Simmental x from PJ & ES Rogerson, Appleby, Aberdeen Angus x and Shorthorn x from A Guy, Farsley. A staggering 6 beef cows sold over £2000 to include a quartet of Stabilisers from JA & R Geldard, Levens peaking at £2318. A further 15 beef cows sold between £1700-£1950. Dairy cows held their own against their beef counter parts selling to top of 260p/kg on 2 occasions for Montbeliarde and Black and Whites from EW & RM Towers, Hornby with endless heavy well fleshed selling between 210-230p/kg, mediums 185-198p/kg with harder working parlour type cows 130-160p/kg.
Dairy cows sold to a top of £2000 for a Montbeliarde from EW & RM Towers, Hornby with Holstein Friesian selling to £1821 from MS & G Mason, Carnforth with other heavy well fleshed cows regularly £1350-£1600.
OTM beef heifers sold to a top of 285p/kg from JC Prickett, Mewith with other better end beef heifers regularly 260-280p/kg. Top grossing being a Limousin x achieving £1774. Dairy heifers sold to top of 255p/kg and £1397 from AT Burrow & Son, Gressingham. OTM beef steers sold to 285p/kg and £1897 for British Blue x from A Knight, Dalston. OTM bulls sold to 259p/kg and £1769 for Hereford x from MS & G Mason, Kirkby Lonsdale with Limousin stock bulls selling to £1450 from EJ & PE Burrow, Milnthorpe.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 299.50 Station Hotel Farm, 269.50 High Underbarrow Farm, 189.50 Manor Farm, 159.50 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Stabilizer: 294.50 Low Foulshaw Farm, 284.50 Low Foulshaw Farm, 279.50 Low Foulshaw Farm, 274.50 Low Foulshaw Farm. British Blue: 279.50 High Underbarrow Farm, 249.50 High Underbarrow Farm. Simmental: 264.50 Mason Gill. Friesian: 259.50 Holme Head, 244.50 Spital Farm, 239.50 Bainsbank Farm, 239.50 New Grange Farm, 229.50 Holme Head, 227.50 Holme Head. Montbelliarde: 259.50 Holme Head, 199.50 Holme Head. Angus: 254.50 New Grange Farm. Shorthorn: 249.50 New Grange Farm. Norwegian: 221.50 Holme Head, 199.50 Dale Barns. Flekvieh: 217.50 Holme Head, 169.50 Sellerley Farm, 154.50 Newfield, 149.50 Newfield. Continental: 159.50 Manor Farm. Jersey: 124.50 Chapel House.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Friesian: 284.50 Ghyll Beck Farm, 279.50 Ghyll Beck Farm, 264.50 Ghyll Beck Farm, 254.50 High Snab, 229.50 Hallbeck. Charolais: 279.50 Ghyll Beck Farm, 274.50 Wilmar. British Blue: 279.50 Wilmar, 229.50 Spital Farm, 159.50 Spital Farm. Blonde: 279.50 Ghyll Beck, 239.50 Ghyll Beck. Flekvieh: 149.50 Sellerley Farm.
Cast Steer Top Prices: British Blue: 284.50 Wilmar, 279.50 Wilmar.
Cast Bull Top Prices: Hereford: 259.50 Spital Farm, 254.50 Spital Farm, 234.50 Spital Farm, 229.50 Spital Farm. Friesian: 179.50 Spital Farm, 159.50 Spital Farm. Stabilizer: 174.50 Old Parkside Farm.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Monday 11th
Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Cast Sheep & Store Lambs
Tuesday 12th
J36: 10:30am Sale of all Classes of Pigs
1pm Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep
Thursday 14th
J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves
10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle
11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle
6pm North West Suffolk Sheep Breeders Club Evening Show & Sale of Registered Pedigree Individual In Lamb Suffolks. Also Sale of Individual In Lamb Multi Breed Sheep
Friday 15th
Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle
11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle
Saturday 16th
J36: 10am General Sale of Horses, Ponies & Donkeys
