Weekly Report and Newsletter - 24th May 2024
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 20th May 2024.
Prime Lambs
150 spring lambs were forward with the best seeing Suffolks sell to £208 from WN&D Smith & Sons, Cockerham. Texels twice sold to £206 from P Lawrenson & Son, Chorley with Beltexs to £202 from A&E Clarkson, Thurnham. The best bred lambs sold to 490p/kg from P Lawrenson & Son, Chorley. The better end regularly selling at 465p/kg to 480p/kg, with good commercial sorts 435p/kg to 445p/kg.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Suffolk: £208, £199, £196, £195, £192, £188 Cocker House Farm. Texel: £206 x2, £200.50, £200, £198 x2 Walmsley Fold. Beltex: £202 Cock Hall Farm, £196, £187 Lingrow.Charolais: £192 Burrow Heighs Farm.
Prime Hoggs
There were less hoggs about today with a two tier trade seen, hoggs with meat and well fed met plenty of demand, with leaners sorts harder to place. Texels sold to £202 from D&N Smith, Stalmine with Beltexs to £198 from AG Butler, Hambleton. Plenty of heavy and well bred hoggs were regularly £190 to £200. Hill bred hoggs saw Mashams to £166 from T&D Wright, Roeburndale with Mules to £160 from KA Purtill, Wigan who also sold Cheviots to £155. Herdwicks sold to £126 from R Doran, Preston with Swaledales to £120 from W Gardner, Brookside.
Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £202 Renard Livery Stables, £198 Parks Farm Barn, £196 x2, £194, £191 Blackleach House Farm. Beltex: £188 Parks Farm Barn, £152 Oak Avenue, £138 Oak Avenue. Masham: £166 Allcocks Farm. Mule: £160 Oak Avenue, £140 Oak Avenue. Suffolk: £158 Oak Avenue. Cheviot: £155 Oak Avenue, £138 Marshaw Farm. Herdwick: £126 School Lane. Swaledale: £120 Quarry House, £120 Quarry House, £111 Marshaw Farm.
Cast
Sheep
Over 100 cast sheep were forward with an overall averaged of £120 achieved for all sold. Texel ewes sold to £222 from James Sanderson, Halton. First cross Texel ewes sold to £190 from P Lawrenson & Son, Chorley with the heaviest ewes regularly £180 to £190. Mule ewes sold to £158 from G Riley, Carnforth with an overall averaged of £125. Hill ewes saw Swaledales to £120 from KM&KJ Curwen, Abbeystead with Lonks to £120 from W Gardner, Caton. Dalebreds sold to £106 from T&D Wirght, Roeburndale. More ewes are needed on a weekly basis to fulfil buyers demand.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £222 Lower Highfield Farm, £190 Walmsley Fold, £180 Blackleach House Farm, £178 Walmsley Fold, £178 Renard Livery Stables, £166 Walmsley Fold. Mule: £158 Maddison Aveune, £152 Little Fell, £144 Lower Highfield, £140 Lower Swainhead Farm, £140 Lower Highfield, £134 Gibsons Farm. Suffolk: £158 Old Glasson Farm. Masham: £134 Old Glasson Farm, £128 Gibsons Farm, £112 Old Glasson Farm, £96, £88 Longstripes Farm. Continental: £120 Quarry House, £90 Moss House Farm, £84 Moss House Farm. Swaledale: £120, £98 Marshaw Farm.
Horned: £116, £110 Gibsons Farm. Jacob: £112 Lower Highfield Farm. Rough Fell: £110 Gibsons Farm. Dalesbred: £106 Allcocks Farm. Cheviot: £78 Longstripes Farm.
Sheep with Lambs at Foot
80 ewes / hoggs with lambs were forward with all selling to a sharper trade. Texel shearlings with single Texel lambs sold to £275 from W Pinder Jnr, Clitheroe who sold a run of Cheviot Mule hoggs with Texel cross lambs to £258 and £255. Aged Cheviot ewes with Texel lambs saw twins sell to £235 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale who sold other pens to £225.
Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £235, £225, £222 (x2), £168 Cragg Farm. Continental: £205 Ivy Bank Farm
Hogg & Lamb Top Prices: Cheviot: £258, £255, £242 (x2), £238, £225 Longstripes Farm.
Shearling & Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £275, £222, £198 Longstripes Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep, Tuesday 21st May 2024.
Prime Lambs
A larger entry of spring lambs were forward, selling to a market averaging of 415p/kg or £181 a head. The sale peaked at £218 for Texels from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe with Beltexs to £215 from AE Atkinson & Son, Endmoor. Suffolks sold to £207 from RA&L Hodgson, Patton. The best and heaviest lambs were regularly around the £200 mark. Texel lambs sold to 455p/kg from J&O Galbraith & Son, Endmoor with nice bred sorts 430p/kg to 440p/kg.
More lambs are needed on a weekly basis for our active ringside of nine buyers.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £218 £201 Ackenthwaite Farm, £215 Stubb Farm, £202 Head House, £197 Bensons Farm, £193 Stubb Farm. Suffolk: £207 £187 Patton Hall, £174 Hawkrigg End. Hampshire: £189 Endmoor Farm, £179 Hawkrigg Farm, £178 Endmoor Farm. Continental: £188 Bensons Farm, £184 Moss End Farm, £168 Hawkrigg End, £163 Crabtree Farm, £160 Moss End Farm.
Prime Hoggs
555 hoggs were forward with all selling to a sharper trade than first expected. Heavy hoggs sold to £218 from N Barker, Dalton for Texels, with others at £212 from M&YS Barker, Halton. Heavy continental bred hoggs were regularly £190 to £200. A run of well finished hoggs from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston saw Texels sell to £190 and other pens to £187. The best bred hoggs saw Texels to 450p/kg from FI&ME Little, Barrows Green and 448p/kg from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston. Well over two thirds of the sale was made up of hill bred hoggs, with Swaledale to £180 from M&YS Barker, Halton. A ring full of Cheviots sold to £179 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston who sold other pens to £177. Pens of Mules sold to £176 from M&YS Barker, Halton with Herdwicks to £170 from the same home. There is plenty of demand in the approaching weeks with buyers looking to purchase all types of hoggs for the upcoming festival.
Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £218 Dalton Old Hall, £212 Halton Park Farm, £208 Green Close, £205 Walker House Farm, £204 Ashtree Cottage, £200 Helm Croft. Suffolk: £200 Halton Park Farm, £180 Mountbarrow Farm, £179 Guides Farm, £172 New Hall. Charolais: £186 Walker House Farm. Continental: £185 £172 Helm Croft, £180 £166 Park
Farm Barn, £143 Low Longmire, £138 Broadhead. Swale: £180 Halton Park Farm, £170 £139 Low Longmire, £156 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £133 Old School House, £129 Nibthwaite Grange Farm. Cheviot: £179 £177 £170 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £149 New Hall, £142 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £132 Holly Bank. Mule: £177 Walker House Farm, £176 £170 Halton Park Farm, £167 Walker House Farm, £166 Helm Croft, £153 Low Longmire. Hampshire: £170 Endmoor Farm, £142 £126 Back O’The Fell Road. Herwick: £170 Paddock Cottage, £170 Halton Park Farm, £164 Park Farm Barn, £133 Rydale Farm, £129 Old School House, £126 Wall End Farm, £125 The Parsonage Farm. Scottish Blackface: £169 £150 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. Horned: £166 paddock Cottage, £132 £131 New Hall, £124 Higher Salter. Beltex: £165 Walker House Farm. Gritstone: £133 New Hall. Jacob: £132 £129 Wall End Farm. Cheviot/Mule x: £129 Nibthwaite Grange Farm. Rough Fell: £126 High Borrowbridge, £110 Boundary Beck.
Cast Sheep
A pleasing entry of 485 cull ewes were forward today, all sold averaged £116, with a large proportion of the sale being pure hill ewes. Only a handful of the very best were forward today, selling to £280 for Texels from RA Batty, Selside with other Texels to £270 from T Strickland, Whinfell. Charolais sold to £240 from RJ Stott, Stainton and Suffolks £228 from T&E Redmayne, Carlisle. The best medium continental and first cross ewes were nicely selling at £165 to £190, with smaller meated sort £140 to £160. Mules sold to a top of £154, with other better medium North Country and Cheviot Mules £135 to £145 and smaller meated sorts £110 to £125. Pure hill ewes sold to £136 for Rough Fells, £128 Cheviots, £125 Dalesbreds, £116 Swaledales and Herdwicks £112. Medium hill ewes were generally £80 to £100, with the smallest and leanest generally £55 to £70. 38 cull rams sold to £185 for BFL’s, Rough Fells £160, medium continentals £135 to £150 and other hill rams £115 to £130.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £280 Dugg Hill, £270 The Borrans, £232 Oak Aveune, £230 Dugg Hill, £185 Howes Lodge, £176 Highfield. Charolais: £240 Crosscrake Farm, £200 (x2), £192 Floraire, £170 The Borrans, £164 Preston Patrick Hall. Beltex: £235, £188 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £170 Crake Hall, £168 Blea Tarn Road, £90 Stubb Farm, £86 Blea Tarn Road. Suffolk: £228, £225 Old Byre Barn, £168 Cockrigg Farm, £140 Crabtree Farm, £136 Hawkrigg End, £122 Crabtree Farm. Leicester: £188 Wood Broughton Barn. Continental: £155 Hardrigg Farm, £145, £140, £138 Heights Farm, £130 Old School House, £126 Holmelands. Mule: £154 Cockrigg Farm, £150 Bensons Farm, £148 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £146 Old Glasson Farm, £142 Cockrigg Farm, £140 Mountbarrow. Cheviot Mule: £146 Stubb Farm, £110 Holmelands. Hampshire: £138, £132, £128, £126, £110 (x2) Holmelands. Cheviot: £128 Old School House, £90 Nibthwaite Grange Farm, £84, £75 Poppy Farm, £72 (x2) Nibthwaite Grange Farm. Dalesbred: £125, £100 Fell End Farm, £90 Calderside Farm, £85 Fell End Farm. Dorset: £122 Floraire. Swaledale: £116 Arklid Farm, £112 Hareden Farm, £102 Arklid Farm, £102 Wood Brougton Barn, £90 West Lodge, £88 Boundary Beck. Herdwick: £112 Wall End Farm, £108, £100 Rydal Farm, £86 Abbots Reading Farm, £82 Old School House. Goat: £100, £80 Wall End. Horned: £86 Higher Salter. Scotch Blackface: £82 Hill Farm.
Cast Ram Top Prices: Leicester: £185 Archers Hall, £155, £130 Boundary Beck, £124 Wood Broughton Barn, £122 Calderside Farm, £120 High Borrowbridge. Rough Fell: £160 Boundary Beck, £134 Archers Hall, £134 Boundary Beck. Suffolk: £158 Mountbarrow Farm. Cheviot: £150 Archers Hall. Texel: £142 Rydal Farm. Hampshire: £128, £124 Holmelands. Continental: £125, £100 Abbots Reading Farm. Ryeland: £120, £114 Old Byre Barn, £104, £92 Abbots Reading Farm. Swaledale: £116 Archers Hall, £110, £104, £98 Rydal Farm, £85 Higher Salter. Charolais: £112 Rydal Farm. Herdwick: £96 Rydal Farm, £85 Abbots Reading Farm.
Sheep with Lambs at Foot
A few less sheep with lambs at foot about today, with many farmers in the field. However there was no let up in trade, with buyers keen for all classes and types. The sale peaked at £282 for continental cross ewes sucking twin lambs from JM&NJ Strickland, Whinfell with similar families regularly £265 to £280. Continental cross ewes suckling singles sold to £190 from SJ Atkinson, Crook. North country Mules were generally £170 to £180. An eye
catching pen of Aberfield cross hoggs with Beltex cross lambs from Stockdale Farms, Sedbergh sold at £260. Hill ewes are now coming forward in greater numbers, with Herdwick cross ewes suckling single Texel cross lambs selling to £162, with others ranging from £50 to £55 per life.
Next weeks sale includes the second prize show and sale of hoggs with lambs at foot, plus the weekly sale of ewes with lambs at foot, entries for the catalogue are required by Wednesday 22nd May.
Hogg & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £260 Bowers Farm.
Shearling & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £275 The Borrans, £260 Nab House. Mule: £235 The Borrans, £178, £165 High Carlingill.
Ewe & Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £282 The Borrans, £275 Thornbush Farm, £250 The Borrans, £240, £190 Quarry Top, £188 Sella Farm. Continental: £265 The Borrans. Mule: £250 Thornbush Farm, £205, £178, £170 (x2) High Carlingill.
Cheviot: £162 Sella Farm. Herdwick: £142, £100 Sella Farm.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's & Store Cattle. Friday 24th May 2024.
Calves & Weanlings
A small but quality show of rearing calves were forward at Lancaster this morning, which sold to a fantastic trade throughout. A top price of £560 was achieved for an Aberdeen Angus bull from RE&P Miller, Barnacre followed by a Limousin bull at £540 from MG&J Parker, Wennington and younger six week old Blue selling to £510 from JP&C Robson, Garstang. All bull calves were easy to sell, with the better end over £500. Rearing heifer calves sold equally as well, with these topping at £400 for an Aberdeen Angus from W&G Cornthwaite & Son, Claughton on Brock with younger calves to £340 for Limousins and £330 for Blues.
A good show of weaned calves and stirks were forward, with these selling to £700 for Herefords bull from JR Newsham & Son, Conder Green with Blues at £650 from W Pinder, Clitheroe. All bulls forward in the stirk section sold above £550. A handful of weaned Blue steers were forward, with these selling to £650 and £600 from JC Morphet, Hale. Weaned heifers sold to £610 for Blues again from JC Morphet, Hale with Herefords reaching £500 from JR Newsham & Son, Conder Green.
More cattle are needed next week with an ever increasing ring side of buyers, capable of handling 100 plus calves every week. Please contact the office or auctioneers with your entries or if you require a farm visit. Already entered for next week are 50 beef calves from three local farms.
Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £610 Field House, £330 Walkers I’th Fields. Hereford: £500 Sellerley Farm. Angus: £400 Matshead Farm. Limousin: £340 Lodge Farm.
Steer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £650 Field House.
Bull Calves Top Prices: Hereford: £700 Sellerley Farm. British Blue: £650 Longstripes Farm, £510 Roe Farm. Charolais: £580 Longstripes Farm. Angus: £560 Lower Lingart Farm, £530 Walkers I’th Fields, £510 Roe Farm, £510 Lower Lingart Farm. Limousin: £540 Lodge Farm. Friesian: £505 Sellerley Farm. Fleckvieh: £450 Sellerley Farm.
Store Cattle
Best steers sold to £1780 for Simmental cross with Aberdeen Angus cross £1690, Limousin cross £1670 and Hereford cross £1670. Other stronger end steers were regularly £1500 to £1650, with other feeding types £1300 to £1500.
Heifers sold to £1640 again for Simmental cross, Hereford cross sold to £1600, Blondes to £1550, Charolais £1540 and Aberdeen Angus cross £1510. Other stronger end heifers were regularly £1350 to £1500, with the younger end £1020 to £1150.
Store Bullocks Top Prices: Simmental: £1780 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £1540 Benson Hall, £1500 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £1390 Benson Hall. Angus: £1690 Cheetham House Farm, £1580 Trapp Farm, £1540 Snub Snape Farm, £1530 Carlingwha, £1420 Thornton Barn Farm, £1410 Lodge Farm. Hereford: £1670 Pasture House Farm, £1400 Windy Hill Farm. Limousin: £1670 Hall Farm, £1630 High Snab, £1240 Lodge Farm. British Blue: £1480 Windy Hill Farm, £1440 Birch House Cottage, £1440 Ivy Farm, £1390
Thornton Barn Farm, £1390 Park House Farm,£1330 Plumpton Hall Farm. Friesian: £1370 Steel Croft, £1340 Lodge Farm, £1290 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1200 Barn Hill Farm. Stabiliser: £1080 Ballacutchel Farms. Shorthorn: £1000 Sproat Ghyll.Belted Galloway: £1000 Benson Hall.
Store Heifers Top Prices: Simmental: £1640 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £1470 Benson Hall Farm, Hereford: £1600 Pasture House farm, £1020 Shawcote Farm. Blonde: £1550 Whittingham Lane, £1340 Nook Farm. Charolais: £1540 Ivy Farm, £1410 Carlingwha. Angus: £1510 Wood Nook Farm, £1440 Snub Snape Farm, £1420 Carlingwha, £1380 Scale Hall, £1340 Raw Head, £1320 Lodge Farm. Limousin: £1480 High House Farm. Friesian: £1260 Lodge Farm. Welsh Black: £1160 Mill House Farm.Shorthorn: £1030 Sproat Ghyll. Stabiliser: £1000 Ballacutchel Farms.
OTM Cattle
A sharp rise in the cull cow trade, saw all sold to a market averaged 191p/kg. The best beef cows sold to 259.5p/kg, with others regularly 220p/kg to 240p/kg. Mediums feeding types were 205p/kg to 220p/kg, with only the leaner sorts 180p/kg to 200p/kg. Dairy cows sold to 209.5p/kg for Fleckviehs and Holstein Friesians to 199.5p/kg. Other better heavier end dairy cows were 180p/kg to 195p/kg, with the best parlour type cows 170p/kg to 185p/kg and the lighter and leaner sorts 140p/kg to 160p/kg. Top grossing being a beef cow at £1805, with others regularly £1400 to £1650. Dairy cows sold to £1548 for a Fleckvieh with the better stronger end £1200 to £1400.
OTM heifer sold to 254.5p/kg and £1527 for a Simmental cross, with diary heifers to 231.5p/kg and £1363. OTM steers sold to 264.5p/kg for British Blue cross and £1656 for an Aberdeen Angus cross. Cull bulls sold to 249.5p/kg for a British Blue and £1682 for a Beef Shorthorn.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 259.50 Ballacutchel Farms, 231.50 Thornbush Farm, 229.5 Marshaw Farm, 227.5 Ballacutchel Farms, 219.5 Thornbush Farm. Charolais: 244.5 Ballacutchel Farm, 204.5 Manor Farm, 199.5 Springfield House. British Blue: 224.5 Cringleber, 204.5 Thornlea. Bazadaise: 217.5 Cringleber. Angus: 209.5 Black Bull Farm, 199.5 Ballacutchel Farms, 194.5 Railside Yard, 189.5 Yak Leaf, 187.5 Ballacutchel Farms. Fleckvieh: 209.5 Holme head. Norwegian Red: 204.5 Holme Head.Friesian: 199.5 Abbotson Farm, 199.5 Langthwaite Heights, 194.5 Hall Farm, 191.5 Priory Farm, 189.5 Batty Hill, 189.5 Berryholme. Saler: 199.5 Nook Farm. Blonde: 199.5 Whittingham Lane. Hereford: 191.5 Dalton Old Hall, 189.5 Ballacutchel Farms. Shorthorn: 181.5 Town House, 169.5 Low Dubbs Farm, 149.5 Yak Leaf.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: British Blue: 249.5 Trapp Farm. Simmental: 254.5 Benson hall. Friesian: 231.5 Rose Farm, 224.5 Ancliffe Hall Farm, 219.5 Batty Hill, 219.5 Low Audlands, 199.5 Ancliffe Hall Farm, 184.5 Low Audlands. Limousin: 224.5 Ancliffe Hall Farm.
Cast Steer Top Prices: British Blue: 264.5 Trapp Farm. Angus: 244.5 Black Bull Farm, 239.5 Ballacutchel Farms, 221.5 Black Bull Farm. Simmental: 224.5 Lodge Farm. Hereford: 189.5 Lodge Farm.
Cast Bull Top Prices: British Blue: 249.5 Moss House Farm. Shorthorn: 189.5 Ballacutchel Farms.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Monday 27th
Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep
11:30am approx Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot
Tuesday 28th
J36: Online Vintage Machinery Sale concludes
10:30am Sale of All Classes of Pigs
11am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at Foot to inc Second Show & Sale of Hoggs with Lambs at Foot
1pm Weekly Sale of Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep
Wednesday 29th
J36: 9am-4pm Vintage Machinery Sale collection
Thursday 30th
J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves
10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle
11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle
Friday 31st
Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle
11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle
11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle & Stirks
