October 2022
J36 Rural Auction Centre: October Online Machinery Sale, Friday 7th October to Monday 10th October 2022.
The monthly collective sale of Tractors, Vehicles, Farm Machinery and Equipment saw over 1200 lots offered for sale with purchases from as far a field as Ireland and Poland once again actively sourcing stock.
Over 40 Tractors and Vehicles were entered catering for the vintage enthusiasts to the modern mechanice. The sale peaked at £20,00 for a JCB Loadall, direct from a local farm with a New Holland 8340 achieving £10,300. Other tractors included a John Deere 2850 selling at £10,00, MF165 £5500, Case 1494 c/w loader £4950, Deutz DX605 £4100, Leyland245 £1950, Ferguson35 £1650.
Plant machinery sold to £6200 for a 4T tracked digger with another achieving £4800. A 2T mini digger sold for £3400. A John Deere Gator sold at £4500 and a Honda ATV £1000.
A wide variety of trailers sold to £3500 for a Frazer dropside trailer, a 12ft IW cattle trailer sold for £2800, 30ft bale trailer £2600, IW plant trailer £2500, IW calf trailer £2400, GE 12ft livestock trailer £2400.
Livestock equipment sold to £3800 for 37 calf pens, £2400 IAE cattle foot trimming crush, 18ft sheep race £780, cattle crush £520, 21 cow mats £480, cattle feed hopper £480, lamb creep feeder £390.
Other items of interest included a shepherd’s hut selling at £3050, Kuhn straw chopper £2500, malgar 1300 tanker £2100, ATV topper £1850, logic weed weeper £1750, power harrow £1050, Bamford hedge cutter £100, haybob £980, Dowdeswell plough £950, flemming topper £830.
The next sale will include a major stock reduction sale of genuine Ifor Williams parts and trailers on behalf of Tony Sharp Trailers.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep, Monday 10th October 2022.
Prime Lambs
Lancaster Auction had an increased entry of just shy of 800 prime lambs forward today with the trade slightly easier than expected with reports nationwide of larger numbers of lambs in markets. Heavy weight lambs were a shade easier this morning, peaking at £131 for Texels from AG Butler, Hambleton followed by £130 from DR Preston, Caton, £129 from S&J Cornthwaite, Brookhouse and £125 from TR Prickett, Hutton Roof with plenty more pens in the early one twenties. Handy weighted lambs today seemed a sharper trade with better quality ones in more demand and selling to a peak of 290p/kg from TR Prickett, Hutton Roof followed by 285p/kg from Kevin Purtill, Wigan.
Prime Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £131 Park Farm Barn, £130 Ellers Farm, £129 Lane House, £125 Hutton Roof, £124 Old Glasson Farm, £122 The Hawthorns. Beltex: £122 Oak Aveune. Continental: £115 Askew Hill, £104 Mill House Farm, £101 Old Glasson Farm, £101 Askew Hill, £101 Oak Avenue, £96 Low Moor Head Farm. Suffolk: £106 Slack Farm, £105 Middle Lee Farm, £99 Old Glasson Farm. Dorset: £103 Corney Hill Farm. Mule: £102.50, £102 Catshaw Hall Farm, £99 Yates Farm, £96, £93.50 Dunkenshaw Farm, £90 Bensons Farm. Masham: £101 Middle Lee Farm, £90 Gibsons Farm. Dutch Spotted: £100, £90 Conway Close. Cheviot: £95 Marshaw Farm. Charolais: £94 Mill House Farm, £94 Salisbury Farm, £90 Mill House Farm. Swaledale: £80, £77 Marshaw Farm.
Cast Sheep
More cast sheep forward on the market today selling to a very similar trade. The market topped at £148 for a Texel x ewe from B&SE Carter, Ellel with other Texel x ewes to £120 from J France, Pilling and £120 from B&M Slater, Pilling with the consignment from Bargh Contractors, Heaton with Oxcliffe to £118 and £116. Leicester ewes sold to £122 and £116 from AC&K Pye, Abbeystead. Mule ewes peaked at £100 from DR Preston, Caton with plenty of pens of Mule ewes selling around the £90 mark.
Cast Sheep Top Prices: Texel: £148 Cragg End, £120 Merryfield, £120 Daub Hall Farm, £118, £116 Old Woodhouse, £114 Daub Hall Farm. Leicester: £122, £116, £112 Dunkenshaw Farm. Mule: £100 Ellers Farm, £94 Old Woodhouse, £91 Yates Farm, £89 Daub Hall Farm, £88 Lower Highfield, £82 Mill House Farm. Suffolk: £100 Oak Avenue Continental: £96 Merryfield.
Store Lambs
The fortnightly sale of store lambs had an entry in excess of 150 forward, good quality lambs regularly sold in excess of the £80 mark with a consignment of Texel and Beltex x lambs from PD Pye, Over Wyresdale to £87, £83 and £81 with Cheviots from the same home to £79. Texel lambs from PD Anderton, Scorton sold to £81 and Texel x lambs from SE&J Gorst, Littledale sold to £80 and £79.50.
Store Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £87, £83 Marl House, £81 Wyre Farm, £81 Marl House, £80 Cragg Farm, £79.50 Cragg Farm. Cheviot: £79 Marl House, £74 Cragg Farm. Continental: £68 West View Farm, £54 Wyresdale Estate.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep. Sale of all classes of Pigs, Tuesday 11th October 2022.
Pigs
Prime Pigs sell to £220 and 209p/kg at NWA J36
The opening sale of pigs for October saw an extremely fast and competitive trade was an abundance of new and returning customers keen to secure all classes and types of pigs. The sale commenced with prime pigs which saw a top price of £220 achieved on two occasions firstly for a Large White x gilts from T Hornby, Silloth with a Saddleback x Pietrain from J Stott, Kingsland also achieving this price. Other pigs to break the £200 barrier included a Large White x Saddleback gilt from PK & R Woof, Stainton. Falling just short of this price barrier was a trio of Berkshire x gilts from GC&G Taylor, Crook achieving £198. Other well finished and well bred gilts regularly sold at £150-£180.
Prime hoggs sold to £175 for a Saddleback x from PK&R Woof, Stainton with prime boars selling to £152 for middle Whites from J Hadwin,
Broughton in Furness. Top pence per kilo today was 209p/kg achieved for a pair of Pietrain x gilts from Wendy Stamper, Chipping with others regularly selling at 175-190p/kg with an overall market averaged of 170p/kg. Cull cows sold to £82 and 51p/kg from B Capstick, Sedbergh. A small entry of store pigs sold to £58 for Pietrain x boars from AP Kiley, Hawes with Saddleback gilts selling to £52 from Stoney Lane Farm, Nateby who also sold Saddleback boars at £48. More pigs are needed to fulfil buyers demand.
Prime Lambs
Prime Lamb Top Prices: Texel - £144 Arklid Farm, £141 Far Orrest, £139 Low Brundrigg, £136 Top Thorn Farm, £136 Low Bendrigg Farm. Beltex - £138 Meathop Park Farm Lodge, £120 Crake Hall. Continental - £137 Stain Forth, £134 Low Stangerthwaite, £124.5 Far Orrest, £118 Ashbank, £16 Low Croft. Suffolk - £128, £126 Lane Ends Farm, £126, £123 High House Farm. Charollais - £122.5, £117 Hampsfield Hall, £114 Hebblethwaite, £110 Hampsfield Hall, £110 The Barn. Cheviot - £119.5 Garnett Folds, £104 Seedhowe Cottages, £100 Poppy Farm, £100 Howriggs. Horned - £105 Hall Drive. Mule - £103 Ashbank, £100 Poppy Farm, £97 Middale Farm. Masham - £102 Middale Farm. Cheviot Mule - £100 Howriggs. Gritstone - £91 Town Head Farm.
Cast Sheep
A full verity of 860 cast sheep were forward with once again meat and power returning the goods and leaner sorts meeting realisation. Texels ewes sold to a top of £160 from TH Garnett & Son, Barrow in Furness with other Texels to £158 from SW Atkinson & Son, Crook. A full pen of Texels sold to £155 from E Dodgson, Kendal. Cheviot Mules sold to a top of £111 from MA Barnes, Whinfell. Mule ewes were back to over the one hundred pound mark topping at £107 from WH Whittaker & Son, Nether Kellett with the best regularly selling in the mid to late nineties. More hill ewes on offer with Leicester ewes sold to £130 from RW&SA Nicholson, Lupton with Cheviots from the same home selling to a top of £84. Rough Fells sold to £60 from BJ Bainbridge, Tebay with the best of the Swaledales selling to £58 from Braestead Farms, Patterdale and a pen of nineteen selling to £57 from WJ&I France & Son, Chipping.
Cast Sheep Top Prices: Texel - £160 New Close, £158 Capplerigg Farm, £155 Spital Farm, £130 Top Thorn Farm, £128 Oldfield End. Leicester - £130 Green Lane End Farm, £91 Ghyll Farm. Lleyn - £114 Spital Farm. Cheviot Mule - £111, £80 Top Thorn Farm. Mule - £107 Lane Ends Farm, £97 Far Kiln Bank, £96, £87 New Close, £86 Yealand Manor. Continental - £98 Barker Knott, £82 Fern Lea, £80 Meathop Park Farm Lodge. Cheviot - £84 Green Lane End Farm, £81 Ghyll Farm, £77 Green Lane End Farm. Horned - £78 Rosebank.
Cast Ram Top Prices: Horned - £86 Lower Core, £86 Town End. Gritstone - £78 Higher Core Farm. Texel - £76 Broadhead, £68 Oldfield Farm. Leicester - £72 Higher Core Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Autumn Show and Sale of Suckled Calves, Autumn Show of Calves under 56 Days, Sale of Calves, Stirks, OTM and Store Cattle, Thursday 13th October 2022.
Calves & Stirks
The fortnightly sale of calves at J36 include the Semex and Norbreck Autumn show of calves 56 days and under. A special thank you to our sponsors and to the judge Peter Fell, Ulverston for his time and expertise. The championship rosette was awarded to the first-place continental bull, this much admired British Blue bull was from J Hornby and Son, Barrow in Furness which went onto sell for £580 to the judge. The reserve championship
was awarded to the first prize continental heifer a British Blue from A Pickthall, New Hutton that went onto sell for £310.
The trade saw good quality calves a very strong trade with good quality British Blue bulls the flavour of the day. The consignment of British Blue bull calves from A Pickthall, New Hutton met plenty of demand selling to £470, £440, £420, £400 and £395. Other leading prices saw the run from J Hornby & Son, Barrow in Furness sell British Blue bulls sell to £450 and £405. This was followed by plenty of strong good quality British Blue bulls selling in the mid three hundreds.
The heifer trade saw a run of British Blue heifers from A Pickthall, New Hutton sell to £330, £310 and £300. Heifers in general met a stickier trade as did smaller younger beef calves.
The stirk trade topped for a pair of British Blue heifers from Saunders and Noble at £620 a run of weaned British Blue bullocks from EW&R Towers, Hornby sold to a top of £535 with others selling to £530, this home also sold Fleckvieh bullocks to £360.
Bull Calf Top Prices: British Blue - £580 Bousfield Farm, £470 Borrans Farm, £450 Bousfield Farm, £440, £420 Borrans Farm. Limousin - £370, £250 Bousfield Farm, £200 Deansbiggin. Hereford - £200 Bousfield Farm. Aberdeen Angus - £140 Hagg Farm.
Heifer Calf Top Price: British Blue - £330, £310, £300 Borrans Farm, £280, £250 Bousfield Farm. Limousin - £130 High Foulshaw Farm.
Bull Stirk Top Price: Aberdeen Angus - £510 Hallbeck. British Blue - £510 Holme Head, £420 High Carlingill. Fleckvieh - £380 High Carlingill. Limousin - £300 High Carlingill.
Heifer Stirk Top Price: British Blue - £620 Fair View, £4400, £410 Holme Head. Limousin - £400 High Carlingill. Stabilizer - £300 High Carlingill. Aberdeen Angus - £280 High Carlingill.
Steer Stirk Top Price: British Blue - £535, £530, £520 Holme Head.
Suckler Calves
A catalogue entry of 520 saw a cracking yard of calves, the best end was a dream to sell with younger sorts selling to an attracting trade and all vendors leaving with a smile on their face. The pre-sale show was kindly sponsored by Wadland Finance with the judging was in the capable hands of Mr R Matterson, Bootle who we thank for his time and expertise. After much time and deliberation, he awarded his championship rosette to the first prize bullock consigned by M&D Hatton, Broughton Mills with this British Blue Bullocks going on to make £1180. The reserve championship rosette was awarded to the first prize heifer from TW Gorst, Crook which went on to sell for £1170.
Outside of the show the suckler calf trade was fast from start to finish with bulls in particularly meeting high demands. The bullock trade saw a top of £1290 from D&A Nicholson, Ulverston with Aberdeen Angus bullocks selling to £1230 from TM&D Dobson, Crossthwaite. All Charolais bullocks were a strong trade with the best end at £1100 from T Longton & Son, Quernmore. The best suckler bred bulls sold either side of the £1000 mark. Limousin bulls sold to £1200 from JM Kelsall & Son, Quernmore with Charollais selling to £1130 for a pen of five from C&S Dickinson, Ulverston. Twenty-five Limousin and Charolais bulls averaged an impressing £1010.
The heifer trade topped at £1210 for a sweet six month old British Blue heifer from TW Gorst, Gilpin with Limousin to £1200 from D&A Nicholson, Ulverston and others to £1180 from NA&J Temple, Ulpha. The best bred heifers were regularly selling at the £980-£1000 mark with the strong well grown suckler heifers regularly selling around the £820-£880 mark.
The next sale of suckler calves is on Thursday 10th November.
Suckler Bullocks Top Prices: Limousin - £1290 Birch Bank, £1150 High Wray Farm, £1120 Dove Ford, £1110 Hall Farm, £1110 Black Hall Farm. Aberdeen Angus - £1230 Broad Oak, £900, £800 Fleets Farm, £755 Broad Oak. British Blue –£1180, £1120, £1090 Knot End Farm. Charolais - £1100 Rooten Brook, £970 Ridding Side Farm, £95 Bandrake Head, £950 Rooten Brook, £940 Luneside. Shorthorn - £720 Parkside Farm, £680 Bankrake Farm, £660 Sayles Farm Continental - £710, £660 Wasdyke Farm.
Suckler Heifers Top Prices: British Blue - £1210, £1170 Gilpin Farm, £890 Lower Oakeneaves Farm. Limousin - £1200 Birch Bank, £1180 Black Hall Farm, £1090 Dove Ford, £980 Birch Bank, £980 Dove Ford. Charolais - £940, £890, £820 Rooten Brook, £820 Lower Hawthwaite. Blonde - £820 Ashstead. Aberdeen Angus - £800 Fleets Farm, £750 Yealand Manor. Simmental - £655, £600 High Skelghyll. Stabilizer - £640 Yealand Manor.
Suckler Bull Top Prices: Limousin - £1200, £1040, £1020, £1000 Low Pleasant. Charolais - £1130, £1020 Abbott Park, £980 Lower Hawthwaite, £980 Bandrake Head. British Blue - £1040, £920 Lower Oakeneaves Farm. Shorthorn - £960 Moser Hill, £780, £750 Parkside Farm. Simmental - £880, £830 River View. Stabilizer - £870 Yealand Manor. Hereford - £790 Little Fell Farm. Aberdeen Angus - £740 Little Fell Farm, £720 Yealand Manor.
Store Cattle
Store Bullock Top Prices: Limousin - £1160 Broughton House Farm, £860 Mosergh Farm. Hereford - £1150 Houkler Hall Barn, £870 Admathwaite, £850 School Hill. Charolais - £1090, £1050 The Bungalow. Aberdeen Angus - £1060 Bradlow Farm, £875 Black Bull Cottage. Dairy Shorthorn - £980 Bellart Howe. British Blue - £960, £940 Broughton House Farm. Simmental - £930, £850 Black Bull Cottage. Friesian - £905 Bellart Howe. Fleckvieh - £860 Bellart Howe.
Store Heifer Top Prices: British Blue - £1000 Broughton House Farm, £930 The Bungalow. Hereford - £980 Houkler Hall Barn, £860 Southmire Farm. Limousin - £960, £850 School Hill. Aberdeen Angus - £840 Fair View, £790 Black Bull Cottage. Simmental - £780 Black Bull Cottage.
OTM Cattle
Another increased entry of cull cows saw 82 forward, selling to an overall market averaged of 158p/kg with a large purporting of parlour type dairy cows and weathered beef cows forward. Heavy well fleshed beef cows sold to 214p/kg for a Saler from A Dixon with Limousins selling to 207.5p/kg from SW Atkinson & Son and 204p/kg from RHM&S Boyren. Other beef cows regularly sold at 175-190p/kg. Dairy cows sold to 184.5p/kg for a Montbeliarde from JW&E Woof & Son with a Holstein Friesian selling to 179.5p/kg from Jenkin Cragg Farms and other dairy cows generally 140-155p/kg with the leanest 105-120p/kg. Top grossing beef cow today was £1746 achieved for an Aberdeen Angus from RJ&J Gardner with dairy cows to £1475 for a Swedish Red and White from WB Winder & Co.
OTM heifers sold to 201.5p/kg for a Holstein Friesian from Jenkin Cragg Farms who sold others at £1322 OTM steers sold to 174.5p/kg and £1219 for a Hereford from DJ Dickinson with a British Blue bull from MA&JA Winn selling at 191.5p/kg and £2018.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Stabilizer – 214.5, 187.5, 179.5 Kit Cragg. Limousin – 207.5 Capplerigg Farm, 204.5 Hill Park, 199.5 Low Waterside, 194.5 Hill Park, 187.5 Bowston Hall. South Devon – 199.5 Bowkerstead Farm. Continental –194.5, 159.5, 141.5 Capplerigg Farm. Blonde – 187.5 Kendal House Farm. Montbeliard – 184.5 Ghyll Farm. Aberdeen Angus – 181.5 Natland Mill Beck Farm, 157.5 Crow Wood, 141.5 Southmire Farm, 137.5, 134.5 Long Green Head. Friesian – 179.5, 171.5 Jenkin Crag, 169.5 Tarnside Farm, 169.5 Low Stangerthwaite, 169.5 Arklid Farm. Hereford –179.5 Southmire Farm, 174.5, 171.5, 169.5 Natland Mill Beck Farm. British Blue – 164.5 Fell End Farm, 124.5 Woodside Farm. Swedish Red & White – 159.5 Wall End Farm. Simmental – 151.5 Capplerigg Farm, 147.5 The Howes. Shorthorn – 149.5 Abbots Reading Farm, 124.5 Long Green Head.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Friesian – 201.5, 194.5, 191.5, 187.5 Jenkin Cragg. Limousin – 187.5 Bowston Hall.
Cast Steer Top Prices: Hereford – 174.5 Lane Ends Farm.
Cast Bull Top Prices: British Blue – 191.5 High Underbrow Farm.
NWA J36 Kendal: Autumn Calf Show
Sponsored by Semex and Norbreck Genetics
Judge- Peter Fell
Class 1- Continental Bred Bull Calf
1st Lot 721 from J Hornby & Son selling for £580
2nd Lot 755 from A Pickthall selling for £470
3rd Lot 754 from A Pickthall selling for £440
Class 2- Continental Bred Heifer Calf
1st Lot 759 from A Pickthall selling for £310
2nd Lot 760 from A Pickthall selling for £330
3rd Lot 740 from JW & TE Sharp selling for £220
Class 3- Native Bred Bull Calf
1st Lot 745 from JW & TE Sharp selling for £100
2nd Lot 711 from B & JM Crowe selling for £100
Class 4- Native Bred Heifer Calf
1st Lot 729 from J Hornby & Son selling for £65
2nd Lot 746 from JW & TE Sharp selling for £60
3rd Lot 734 from RG & J Clark selling for £65
Class 5- Dairy Bred Bull Calf
1st Lot 730 from RG& J Clark selling for £55
Champion- Lot 721 from J Hornby & Son selling for £580 Reserve Champion- Lot 759 from A Pickthall selling for £310
NWA J36 Kendal First Annual Show of Suckled Calves
Sponsored by Wadland Finance
Judge- Raymond Matterson
Class 1- Best Continental Heifer
1st Lot 220 from TW Gorst selling for £1170
2nd Lot 432 from NA & J Temple selling for £1180
3rd Lot 430 from D&A Nicholson selling for £1200
Class 2- Best Continental Bullock
1st Lot 318 from M&D Hatton selling for £1180
2nd Lot 435 from NA&J Temple selling for £1110
3rd Lot 222 from TW Gorst selling for £940
Class 3- Best Continental Bull
1st Lot 72 from JM Kelsall & Son selling for £1200
2nd Lot 79 from JM Kelsall & Son selling for £1040
Champion- Lot 318 from M&D Hatton selling for £1180 Reserve Champion- Lot 220 from TW Gorst selling for £1170
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's and Store Cattle, Friday 14th October 2022.
Calves
The weekly sale of calves and weanlings had an increased entry of 80 forward, selling to the busiest crown ring side seen for some time with calves sold to a larger number of active buyers. A consignment of British Blue weanlings from Messrs Millican, Newby saw bulls to £450 twice and £445 with heifers from the same home twice selling to £325. Aberdeen Angus bull calves from the same home achieved £405. Quality milk calves continue to be in big demand with British Blue bulls to £435 from JM&MH France & Son, Littledale and £425 from AD&R Milner, Claughton on Brock. A consignment of weanlings from G&ME Woodhouse & Son saw an Aberdeen Angus bull calves to £385 and £365 with British Blue heifers to £350 and £340. Plenty of strong beef calves sold in the mid to late two hundreds. Young and smaller beef calves were met with limited demand due to the everincreasing costs. Diary bull calves saw weanling Fleckvieh to £270 and £250 from EW&R Tower, Hornby with Black and White from the same home to £205 and £180 from Messrs Millican, Newby.
Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £400 Lower Oakeneaves Farm, £350, £340 Boldens Farm, £325, £315 Low Moor Farm. Angus: £230, £205 Boldens Farm.
Bull Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £450, £445 Low Moor Farm, £435 Newhouse Farm, £425 Lane Head Farm, £365 Low Moor Farm. Angus: £405 Low Moor Farm, £385, £365 Boldens Farm, £150 Hodgkinson Farm. Limousin: £250, £220 Redfields. Friesian: £180 Low Moor Farm, £150 Boldens Farm. Hereford: £150 Hodgkinson Farm. Fleckvieh: £150 Holme Head.
Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £350 Holme Head, £125 Belmont Farm. Fleckvieh: £270, £250 Holme Head. Friesian: £205 Holme Head.
Store Cattle
The weekly store cattle sale at Lancaster saw 237 cattle go through the main ring with a plainer and smaller show of cattle on offer. All steers forward averaged £1081 with heifers averaging £1005. Good fed and bigger cattle today were a flying trade with smaller weathered cattle harder to place. Top of the league table today saw a pen of three well grown Hereford steers to £1690 from WS Burrows & Son, Silverdale who also sold a pair of strong Herefords to £1660. L Goodier & Son, Preston had a good day selling a pair of cracking Charolais steers to £1550 with British Blue steers from J Lamb, Old Glasson to £1460 and £1450 from KG&LM Park, Grange Over Sands. EW&CR Clegg, Stalmine good run of cattle saw Angus steers to £1440 and Shorthorns to £1300.
Friesian steers from L Parsons & Son, Levens sold to £1370 and J Lamb, Glasson achieved £1230. KH&LM Park, Grange Over Sands topped the heifer section today with British Blues to £1470 with others to £1360 from R&DM Rossall & Sons, Pilling. Aberdeen Angus heifers always have a good following at Lancaster selling to £1460 from L Parsons & Sons, Levens with others to £1300 from KH&D Holden & Son, Pilling. A smart Limousin heifer sold to £1400 from S&CJ Handley, Westhouse with other Limousins to £1340 from D&G Smith, Wigan. Shorthorns today achieved £1270 for a pen of three from EW&CR Clegg, Stalmine. Charollais sold to £1170 from R&C Parkinson, Hambleton.
Store Bullocks Top Prices: Hereford: £1690, £1660 Gibraltar Farm, £1300 Carlingwha, £1110 Threlfalls. Charolais: £1550 Old Hall Farm, £1360 Birch Croft. British Blue: £1460 Old Glasson Farm, £1450 Low Fell End, £1430 North Farm, £1420 Abrahams Farm, £1400 Hallbeck, £1340 Thornton Barn Farm. Angus: £1440 Yew Tree Farm, £1400 Low Levens, £1340 Chestnut House Farm, £1340, £1330 North Farm, £1300 Birch Croft. Limousin: £1400 Low Levens, £1390, £1320 Fellside Farm, £1260 Thornton Barn Farm, £1230 Bradley Farm, £1090 Abbotson Farm. Friesian: £1370 Low Levens, £1230 Old Glasson Farm, £1200 Grizdale, £1010 Low Deepslack. Shorthorn: £1340 Old Glasson Farm, £1300 Yew Tree Farm. Montbeliarde: £1240 Parrox Hall Farm. Norweigean Red: £1200 Grizdale. Saler: £1110 Toulbrick Farm. Meuse Rhine Issel: £1030, £1000 Littlewood Hall Farm.
Store Heifers Top Prices: British Blue: £1470 Low Fell End, £1360 Abrahams Farm, £1280 Fell End Farm, £1050 Sewage Farm. Angus: £1460 Low Levens, £1300 Chestnut House Farm, £1260 Yew Tree Farm, £1170 Low Deepslack, £1100 Carlingwha, £1090 Hallbeck. Limousin: £1400 Thronton Hall, £1340 Sewage Farm, £1180, £1140 Thornton Hall. Shorthorn: £1270 Yew Tree Farm. Charollais: £1170, £1080, £1040 Toulbrick Farm. Simmental: £1110 Old Hall Farm, £1050 Moss Gate Farm. Hereford: £1080 Threlfalls Farm. Montbeliarde: £1080 Threlfalls Farm.
OTM Cattle
The weekly sale of OTM cattle saw a slight increase in numbers with 136 through the bottom ring with the weather now turning to an autumnal feel.
Top grossing cow today saw T&CM Kelsall & Sons, Chipping sell Friesian cows to £1564.43 with Lawsons Farm Ltd, Cockerham not far behind at £1517.10 also for Friesians. Other notable prices for Friesians saw K&DE Woodhouse, Ellel at £1415 and TC Baldwin, Forton at £1406. Ayrshire cattle saw a top price of £1254 from D&K Haworth, Hambleton. Beef bred OTM cows saw Limousins to £1540.44 from A Clark & Johnston, Windermere. Also breaking the £1500 barrier was P Whitton & Son, Kendal at £1529 also for Limousins with British Blue bred cows to £1398 from B&SE Carter, Ellel.
Prices per kilo saw Limousins to 207.5p/kg from P Whitton & Sons, Kendal with others at 201.5p/kg from the same home with British Blues to 199p/kg from B&SE Carter, Ellel. Friesian cows sold to 194.5p/kg from K&DE
Woodhouse, Ellel with others Friesians from Lawsons Farm, Cockerham to the same price.
OTM heifers saw KH Knowles, Preston selling to £1419.82 or 221p/kg for a Friesian with others Friesians to 191.5p/kg from J&N Hull & Son, Winmarleigh.
Cast steers today saw Limousins to 244.5p/kg or £1491.45 for a 610 kilo beast. Top grossing steers saw a British Blue to £1614 from KH Knowles, Preston with other Friesians from the same home at £1455.
A few more cast bulls about today saw A Dixon & Son, Kendal sell a monster of a bull to £1836.77. R Gibson & Son, Kendal sold a Belted Galloway bull to £1333.20
All OTM cattle today averaged an impressive 154p/kg with more cattle required next week for our busy ring full of buyers.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin; 207.50, 201.50 High Tenement Farm, 197.50 Little Fell Farm, 194.50 Low House, 194.50 Far Orrest, 194.50 Low Pleasant. Friesian: 204.50 Brown Brook, 194.50 Sweetings Farm, 194.50, 189.50 Kitchen Ground Farm, 187.50 Mill Farm, 187.50 Forton Hall Farm. British Blue: 199.50 Cragg End, 177.50 Low Pleasant. Ayrshire: 187.50 Rose Farm, 119.50, 107.50 Black Bull Farm. Fleckvieh: 187.50 Hawkin Hall, 184.50, 171.50 Holme Head, 161.50 Hawkin Hall, 149.50 Newfield, 144.50 Holme Head. Hereford: 181.50 Croft Foot Farm. Stabiliser: 177.50, 134.50 Braida Garth. Norwegian Red: 174.50 Holme Head. Montbeliarde: 169.50 Holme Head. Blonde: 154.50 Croft Foot Farm, 131.50 Sowermire Farm. Swedish Red: 154.50 Yeat House. Continental: 149.50, 139.50, 124.50, 117.50 Poole Bank Farm. Galloway: 124.50 Near Orrest. Angus: 107.50 Far Orrest.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Friesian: 221.50 Lower House, 191.50, 189.50 Gibstick Hall, 189.50 Stubb Place Farm. Limousin: 197.50 Lower House, 117.50 Mosergh Farm.
Cast Steer Top Prices: Limousin: 244.50 Gibraltar Farm. British Blue: 224.50 Lower House. Friesian: 219.50 Lower House, 194.50 Throstle Grove Farm, 184.50 Moss House Farm, 181.50 Throstle Grove Farm. Simmental: 201.50 West View Farm.
Cast Bull Top Prices: Stabiliser: 217.50, 171.50 Kit Cragg. Limousin: 199.50 Far Orrest, 129.50 Mosergh Farm. Friesian: 159.50 Greenside Farm. Belted Galloway: 151.50 Singleton Park.
NHS Health Check
Due to staff shortages, there won't be any normal health checks. Next one will be Friday 25th November.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Saturday 15th
J36: 11am Rough Fell Sheep Breeders Association Annual Show & Sale of Rough Fell Rams.
12noon Charmoise Hill Society Sale of Rams & Females. Monday 17th
Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep. Tuesday 18th
J36: 1pm Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep. Thursday 20th
J36: 11am Ambleside Show & Sale of Store Lambs. Friday 21st
Lancaster: 10am Autumn Show of Calves under 56 Days.
10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, also Sale of Cast and OTM Cattle. 11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle.
11.15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle. Saturday 22nd
J36: 10am Lakeland Fair.