Weekly Report and Newsletter - 30th August 2024
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Annual Show & Sale of Breeding Ewes & Gimmer Shearlings, Saturday 24th August 2024.
Breeding Ewes
The much anticipated sale commenced with 1000 breeding ewes which sold to some extremely competitive trade with buyers keen to secure proven stock. North country mule ewes saw a top price of £255 for pen of homebred 1 crop ewes from AR Edmondson, Hawkswell Farm with others selling at £250 from FI & ME Little, Helm Croft and JM Mawson, Hole Beck Farm. 2 crop mules regularly selling £220-£240, with older ewes selling to a top price of £205 for 4 crop ewes with others regularly £170-£190. 1 crop cheviot mules sold to £190 from J & M Wilson, Cooper House with 2 and 3 crop ewes selling to £180 from M Robinson, Low Barrows Green Farm. Several pens of Suffolk x ewes sold to £170 for 1 crop ewes from TA & JA Dixon, Yoad Pot with others £230-£250. Texel x ewes sold to £240 on 3 occasions for 1 crop ewes from FI & ME Little, Helm Croft with others £220-£235 with older ewes selling to £200 from KA Purtill, Hindley Green. Flock reduction of 4 crop Aberfield ewes from H Pumphrey Armitage, Preston Patrick Hall sold to £170 with others £155-£165.
• Mule Ewes sold to £255, average £195
• Suffolk x Ewes sold to £270, average £242
• Cheviot Mule Ewes sold to £190, average £177
• Texel x Ewes sold to £240, average £201
Breeding Ewes Top Prices: Suffolk: £270 Yoad Pot, £175 Oak Avenue. Mule: £255 Hawkswell Farm, £250 Helm Croft, £250 Hole Beck Farm, £245 Hawkswell Farm, £245 Helm Croft. Texel: £240 Helm Croft.Charolais: £210 Oak Avenue. Cheviot: £190 Cooper House. Cheviot Mule: £180 Low Barrows Green Farm. Beltex: £175 Helm Croft. LLeyn: £160 Helm Croft.
Gimmer Shearling
The pre-sale show was kindly sponsored by Rural Energy Consultants, with the mule classes kindly judged by Ashley Moran, Hellifield, and the continental classes were judged by James Lyle, Penrith who awarded the following results:
CLASS 1- 10 MULE EWES
1St R Seed, Parsonage- £180
2nd JM Mawson, Hole Beck Farm- £250
3rd TA & JA Dixon, Yoad Pot- £200
CLASS 2- 10 MULE SHEARLINGS
1st Robinson & Ward, Intack Farm- £325
2nd Robinson & Ward, Intack Farm- £310
3rd JK & BE Townley, Mearsbeck House- £310
CLASS 3- 10 CHEVIOT MULE SHEARLINGS
1st DE & J Waine, Murthwaite- £265
2nd JS & KM Wilson, High House- £270
3rd JS & KM Wilson, High House- £260
CLASS 4- 10 CONTINENTAL SHEARLINGS
1st JR & LA Capstick, Beckside- £320
2nd RJ & J Towers, Greenlands- £250
A packed ringside of local and travelled buyers led to a blistering trade, with all mule shearlings forward averaging a massive £245 per head. The first prize pen of shearlings sold to £325 from Robinson & Ward, with the same good home selling other pens to £310 with this price also being achieved by JK & BE Townley, Lancaster. With many of the best bred mule shearlings selling £270- £280. Masham Shearlings sold to £240 twice from JM Woof, New Hutton and DE & J Waine,Longsleddle. Cheviot Mule shearlings created plenty of interest with the best selling to £270 from JS & KM Wilson & Son Kendal with others to £265 from DE & J Waine Longsleddle. Continental Shearlings saw well grown & well-bred shearlings keenly sought after single suffolk sold to £420 from M & J Greenwood, Middleton with the first prize pen of texels selling to £320 from JR & LA Capstick, Killington who sold other pens to £300 all continental shearlings averaged £261.
Gimmer Shearling Top Prices: Suffolk: £420 Yew Tree Farmhouse, £245 The Hills, £225 Egerton Lodge, £220 The Hills. Mule: £325 Intack Farm, £310 Mearsbeck House. Texel: £320 Beckside, £270 Nab House. Continental: £275 Bleaswood Road, £228 Preston Patrick Hall, £220 Bleaswood Road, £218 Preston Patrick Hall. Masham: £240 Millriggs Farm, £240 Murthwaite, £205 Heathercroft, £200 Murthwaite, £185 Heathercroft. Cheviot Mule: £270 High House, £265 Murthwaite, £260 High House, £245 Murthwaite, £240 Kingsland. Charolais: £250 Greenlands Farm. Dutch Spotted: £250 Quarry Close.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep. Monday 26th August 2024.
Prime Lambs
Bank holiday boom at NWA Lancaster, with prime lambs to £213 and 435p/kg.
NWA Lancaster held its popular Monday morning sale of prime lambs, which saw well bred and well finished lambs selling to the keenest demand, with these regularly selling at 305p/kg to 320p/kg. The best pure bred lambs sold to 435p/kg for Beltex from GR&A Foy, Conder Green, with endless pens of well finished pure bred Texels selling at 355p/kg to 380p/kg. Well finished first cross lambs were generally 310p/kg to 330p/kg, with a large proportion of todays sale being lambs direct off grass, selling at 285p/kg to 305p/kg, depending on quality and finished. Under finished lambs a more cautious trade, and perhaps looking better suited to the Monday morning store market.
Todays sale peaked at £213, again for Beltex from GR&A Foy, Conder Green, with other pure and ¾ bred lambs regularly £155 to £180. First cross heavy weight lambs were £140 to £160, standard weights £128 to £138, and lighter weights £108 to £115, depending on quality and finish.
Hill bred lambs are coming forward in greater numbers, with Mules to 263p/kg and £129 from Calderside Farms. Cheviots sold to 300p/kg and £135, Cheviot Mules to 270p/kg and £124 and Horned lambs to £110.
Eight buyers were ringside today, all keen to secure lambs for Monday morning orders, with more required every week to satisfy demand. An overall average of 295p/kg was achieved for lambs ranging from 34kg to 54kg.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Beltex: £213 Parkside Farm, £183 Hill Top Farm, £166 Oak Aveune, £163 Hill View Farm, £160 Hill Top Farm, £158 Hill View Farm. Texel: £170 Hill View Farm, £163 Walnut Tree Cottage, £158 Botton Hall Farm, £158 Calderside Farm, £158 Bensons Farm, £156 Hill View Farm. Charollais: £149 Oak Aveune, £129 Bensons Farm, £118 Burrow Heights Farm, £112 Low Pleasant. Suffolk: £138 Shaws Farm. Cheviot: £135 Oak Aveune, £116 School Lane. Continental: £129.50 Ivy Farm, £126 Hill Top Farm, £123 Gibsons Farm, £119, £118 Castle O Trim, £112 Low Pleasant. Mule: £129 Calderside Farm, £120 School Lane. Cheviot Mule: £124 School Lane. Hampshire: £110.50 Castle O Trim. Horned: £110 Burrow Heights Farm.
Cast Sheep
118 cast sheep were forward today, and continued to sell to a keen buyer demand, with several grazing orders now coming forward. Todays sale topped at £220 for a Beltex cross ewe from DH Patel, Lancaster with other Beltex ewes to £190 and £182 from GR&A Foy, Conder Green. Other stronger medium Continental ewes were £150 to £170, with Suffolks to £146. First cross ewes sold to £139 for Texel cross, with other mediums generally £118 to £135 and grazing types £96 to £110. Mules sold to £127, with other stronger end £120 to £125, a large number of grazing type Mules were £65 to £80. Pure hill ewes sold to £100 for Cheviot and Herdwicks sold to £70. Learn and medium Swaledale sold to £59, other smaller leaner Swaledales were £40 to £50.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Texel: £220 Blades Street, £174 Hill View Farm, £140 Parkside Farm, £139 Oak Aveune, £130 Greenwoods, £130 Bensons Farm. Beltex: £190, £182 (x2), £150 Parkside Farm. Charollais: £164 Broseley Hall Farm, £89 Greenwoods. Suffolk: £146 Parkside Farm, £124 Walnut Tree Cottage, £116 Moss Gate Farm. Mule: £127 Burrow Heights Farm, £124 Castle O Trim, £121 Greenwoods, £110 Low Moor Head Farm, £106 Bensons Farm, £100 Walnut Tree Cottage. Continental: £82 Old Waterslack Farm. Swaledale: £59 Middle Lee Farm, £55 Rooten Brook, £53 Low Moor Head Farm.
Cast Ram Top Prices: Cheviot: £100 Old Waterslack Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Pigs, Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 27th August 2024.
Pigs
An astronomical trade witnessed at J36 sale of prime and store pigs, with 14 prime pigs selling over £300. Battle for top price was hotly contested but coming but coming out on top was GC&GW Taylor, Crook with their pair of 120kg prime gilts at £340, with this home topping the hogs at £325 for 130kg. Jade Barkley made the trip down from Whitehaven with a consignment of six averaging £308 for 105kg. Boars topped at £320 for 120kg from the previous mentioned Taylors of Crook, with four more 100kg boars from this home at £280. Topping the pp/kg was C Woodhouse, Garstang with a pair of hogs at 322p/kg, grossing £290.
Stores sold to a top of £115 from M Howarth, Grange Over Sands and weaners to £98 from Messrs Halpin, Barrow.
Prime Lambs
1200 lambs were forward, with a two tier traded seen here at Junction 36. Well meated / fed lambs were meeting plenty of bidding and easily sold, with leaner grass fed lambs harder to place. Heavy bred lambs met another strong trade at Junction 36, with a ring full of Texel to £166 from J Woodburn & Partners, Ulverston. Other Texels sold to £165 from F&CE Bentley & Son, Shap. Pens of Suffolks sold to £162 from J&R Waller, Killington. Many pens of meated / fed heavy continental lambs were regularly £145 plus.
The best bred lambs sold to 335p/kg for Texels from IL Dixon, Cantsfield with the best 330p/kg plus. Nice bred commercial lambs were regularly 305p/kg to 310p/kg.
More hill bred lambs on offer today, with a ring full of Mules to £131 from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: Texel: £166 Mansrigg Hall, £165 Hill Top Farm, £163 Mansrigg Hall, £159 Mansrigg Hall, £158 Field Broughton, £157.50 Gaskell House. Suffolk: £162 Hallbeck, £157 Mansrigg Hall, £156.50 Mansrigg Hall, £143 Halton Park Farm, £140 Cockrigg Farm, £136 Halton Park Farm. Continental: £149 Town End, £147 Milestones Cottage, £141 Low Croft, £140 Rakesmoor Farm, £136 Low Croft, £132 Hawkrigg End. Dutch Spotted: £141 Singleton Park. Blue Texel: £133.50 Helwith Bridge, £117.50 Cragg House Farm. Mule: £131 Catshaw Hall Farm, £120 High Greenside. Dorset: £125.50 Cumbrae, £120 Wild Boar Farm. Cheviot: £118 Marshaw Farm, £116 Marshaw Farm, £116 The Plough Inn. Zwartble: £105 High House. Rough Fell: £109 Maryfell.
Cast Sheep
Just short of 500 ewes were forward, despite a lot of people being on standstill due to recent sheep sales. A full ringside of buyers were forward, to include several customers looking for grazing ewes. Just a handful of the strongest pure and pedigree bred ewes today, which sold to £232 for a Beltex ewe from R&E Ladds, Kendal. With Texels to £203 from D&A Nicholson, Ulverston and other medium pure and pedigrees £170 to £200. The best heavy first cross ewes sold to £198 for Texels, with others at £155 to £180. Meated mediums £128 to £140, with lighter weight ewes £105 to £118. Mules sold to £166, with heavy Mules to £164 and others generally £140 to £150, mediums £122 to £135 and best light weights £90 to £102. Leaner sorts finding a keen interest as grazing ewes, at £78 to £85. BFL’s sold to £196, Cheviots £168, Dorset £136, Lleyn £110, Rough Fells £106, SBF £101 and Swaledales £95. Medium hill ewes £70 to £85, with lesser and leaners sorts £40 to £60. Several cull rams forward sold to £195 for both Texels and BFL’s, with other leaner continentals generally £120 to £140 and hill rams £80 to £100.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Beltex: £232 Benson Hall. Texel: £203 Birch Bank, £198 Stubb Farm, £186 Mountain View, £184 Benson Hall, £182 Arklid Farm, £180 Low House. Leicester: £196, £182, £146 Benson Hall, £126 High Borrowbridge, £124 The borrans. Mule: £166 Catshaw Hall Farm, £164 Benson Hall, £146 Birch Bank, £145 Low Croft, £140 Catshaw Hall Farm, £136 Low House. Cheviot: £168 Benson Hall, £148 Cumbrae, £112 Crozier Croft, £110 Blea Crag. Charollais: £160 The Steading, £124 The Borrans.Dorset: £136 The Steading, £128, £102 Cumbrae. Continental: £132 Kirket Nook, £132 Low Garths Farm, £114 West Lodge, £110 Kirket Nook. Suffolk: £128 Burrow Heights Farm, £122 The Steading, £112 Cockrigg Farm. Cheviot Mule: £120 Low House. Dutch Spot: £108 The Park. Rough Fell: £106 Higher Standen Drive, £102 The Park, £98 Maryfell, £84 Fell Foot Farm. Scottish Blackface: £101 Low Garths. Lleyn: £100, £80 Birch Bank. Swaledale: £95 Brown Edge, £74 Catshaw Hall Farm, £70 West Lodge.
Cast Ram Top Prices: Texel: £195 Larkrigg, £100 Fell Foot Farm. Leicester: £195 Catshaw Hall Farm. Cheviot: £120 Fell Foot Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Special Sale of Suffolk & Continental Gimmer Lambs followed by Fortnightly Sale of Store Lambs. Thursday 29th August 2024.
Store Lambs
3000 store lambs were forward at J36 fortnightly sale, after following an unseasonal week of weather the sale still attracted keen interest and achieved an average of £97.18. The sale topped at £130 for a pen of twenty from J&R Bell, Crook with other short keep lambs £115 plus. Texels sold to £129 for ten from MB&J Fell, Kendal and Beltex to £125 from D Cockett, Ingleton. A large proportion of todays sale were Mules, with these topping at £105 from JW Hodgson, Longsleddale and a ring full from Messrs Hodgson, High Borrans at £101.50. The strongest of these the top side of £90. Cheviots sold to £102 from B Wilson, Selside with generally all medium keep lambs £95 to £110, and only the long keep lambs to be had for less than £90.
Store Lambs Top Prices: Suffolk: £130, £121 Sunny Brow, £109 High Underbrow Farm, £97.50 Somme Aveune, £88.50 High Borrans Farm, £85.50 Stribers Farm. Texel: £129 Wreay Syke, £128 Bandrake Farm, £123 Gilsmere Farm, £122 High Low Wood, £120 High Underbrow Farm, £119 Bandrake Farm. Beltex: £125 Wilson Wood, £117 Riverside Cottage, £115, £107 Wilson Wood, £99 Wilson Wood, £91.50 Sella Farm. Continental: £107 High Underbrow Farm, £91.50 Barker Knott, £80 Lowick Green, £79.50 Low Dubbs Farm, £78 Farleton House, £77 Sunny Brae. Mule: £105 Dale End, £101.50 High Borrans Farm, £99, £98 Stable Harvey, £98 Yewbarrow, £95.50 Farleton House. Cheviot: £102 Ashstead, £91.50 Nun House, £91.50 Grate Farm, £91 Nun House, £89 Ellergill, £87.50 Valley View. Dutch Spotted: £100.50, £88 Hill Farm. Cheviot Mule: £95.50 Nun House. Dorset: £84 Leighton Drive. Rough Fell: £75 Bandrake Farm. Herdwick: £73 Riverside Cottage, £70 Farleton House.
Continental & Suffolk Gimmer Lambs
The annual show and sale of continental gimmer lambs was a flying success, with buyers traveling from all counties, ensuring all vendors left with a small on their face. We would like to thank our judge Mr TJ Jackson, Lancashire who awarded the following results:
CLASS 1- 10 SUFFOLK GIMMER LAMBS
1st TA & JA Dixon, Yoad Pot
2nd TA & JA Dixon, Yoad Pot
3rd Messrs Ellwood, Heathwaite
CLASS 2- 10 CONTINENTAL GIMMER LAMBS
1st R & E Ladds, Benson Hall
2nd J Handley, Gunnerfleet
3rd R & E Ladds, Benson Hall
CHAMPION- R & E Ladds, Benson Hall
RESERVE CHAMPION- TA & JA Dixon, Yoad Pot
The overall champion pen topped the trade at £300 from R&E Ladds, Kendal who sold other pens to £280. A pen of pure bred Texels sold to £250 from J Handley, Chappledale with Beltex cross Texels gimmers to £232 from D&S Robinson, Old Hutton. A pen of Texel cross Suffolks sold to £202 from TA&JA Dixon, Selside. First cross Texel Mules sold to £170 from JG&PH Thompson & Sons, Selside with Suffolk Mules to £160 from Messrs Ellwood, Drysbeck.
Many pens of strong gimmers were £155 to £165, with smart bred runners £140 plus. An overall average of £148 was achieved, with this being £41 up on the year.
Gimmer Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £300, £280, £265 Benson Hall, £250 Gunner Fleet Farm, £232 Oakfield Farm, £212 Gunner Fleet Farm. Suffolk: £202 Yoad Pot, £160 Heathwaite Farm, £150, £148, £142 Yoad Pot, £140 Mosergh Farm. Continental: £155, £152, £126 Yoad Pot, £98 (x2) Lane House Farm.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Calves, OTM's, Store Cattle & Stirks. Friday 30th August 2024.
A 500 plus Friday at Lancaster, with good prices achieved in all three rings. Calves & Weanlings
109 calves and weanlings were forward today at Lancaster, with all classes selling to a fast trade. Rearing calves sold to a top of £640 and £630 for British Blue bulls from J&G Thornley, Kirkham. Native sired bull calves sold to £580 for Aberdeen Angus cross from Tom Barron Farm, Woodplumpton. JS&KM Wilson, Kendal presented well grown Limousin bulls to £550 and £540. Younger calves were keenly sort after with Barber Farms, Brock selling month old British Blues to £370 and Aberdeen Angus to £350. Dairy bulls sold to £235 for fortnight old Montbeliardes from GJ&G Billington, Garstang. JS&KM Wilson, Kendal topped the heifer calves at £465 for Limousins with month old British Blues to £370 from Throstle Nest, Pilling and £350 from JH Towers & Sons, Tunstall. Native sired heifers sold to £275 for Aberdeen Angus. Weanlings were good to sell, topping at £810 for Aberdeen Angus bulls from TD&A Gardner, Great Eccleston. Charollais cross bulls sold to £780 from EW&A Bradshaw, Stalmine. Six month old British Blue bulls sold to £745 from AW&AM Park, Ellel and weaned heifers to £735 for a British Blue from RE&P Miller, Barnacre with this home selling Hereford heifers to £655.
Heifer Calves Top Prices: British Blue: £735, £690 Lower Lingart Farm, £580 (x2), £500 (x2) Walkers I’th Fields. Hereford: £655 (x2), £500 Lower Lingart Farm. Angus: £625, £560 (x4) Birkland Barrow, £460 Hatters Farm. Friesian: £595 Birkland Barrow. Limousin: £510, £500 Hatters Farm, £465 High House, £440 West View Farm, £400, £380 High House. Longhorn: £115 Ambrose Hall Farm.
Bull Calves Top Prices: Angus: £810 Larbreck Hill Farm, £700 Brades Farm Dairy, £580, £515 Ambrose Hall Farm, £495 High House, £490 Derby Lodge Farm. Charolais: £780 The Old Stable. British Blue: £745, £650 Walkers I’th Fields, £640, £630 Derby Lodge Farm, £530 Walkers I’th Fields, £370 Manor House Farm. Hereford: £730 Larbreck Hill Farm, £680 West View Farm. Limousin: £550 High House, £540 West View Farm, £540 High House. Montbeliarde: £235, £195, £175, £150 (x2), £115 Myerscough House. Friesian: £100 (x2) Gibsons Farm.
Steer Calf Top Prices: Angus: £565 (x3), £525 (x3) Gibsons Farm. Friesian: £450 (x2) Birkland Barrow.
Store Cattle & Stirks
320 through the main ring, with the sale featuring our monthly entry of stirks.
Store trade was every bit as good as recent weeks, with the top spot this week going to DJ Townley, Lancaster for a British Blue bullock realising £1980. GR&A Foy, Conder Green were closely behind at £1940 for their British Blue bullock. Other notable prices were £1850 for a pair of Aberdeen Angus bullocks from EW&CR Clegg, Stalmine and Fleckvieh bullocks to £1500 from EW&RM Towers, Hornby.
DJ Townley, Lancaster also topped the heifers at £1820 for a Limousin, while £1780 was achieved for an Aberdeen Angus heifer from KH&D Holden, Pilling. TE JS & SA Carruthers, Underbarrow achieved £1720 for their trio of Limousin heifers, with a pen of four Aberdeen Angus from EW&CR Clegg, Stalmine at £1680.
The monthly sale of stirks saw all entered keenly bid for, with twelve month old Aberdeen Angus bullocks topping this section at £1060 for a pen of six from JW Thwaites, Tebay. British Blue bullocks sold to £940 from FW Rhode, Ellel and a pen of Black
and Whites stirks to £820 from G Rawlinson, Manchester. Heifer stirks were equally as good with a pen of four Limousins to £1010 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale. Four eight month old Aberdeen Angus sold to £770 from A&J&F Marsh, Garstang.
Store Bullocks Top Prices: British Blue: £1980 Whinney Carr Farm, £1940 Parkside Farm, £1800 Greenlands Farm, £1780 Stubb Hall Farm, £1770 Old Glasson Farm, £1760 Parkside Farm. Angus: £1850 Yew Tree Farm, £1780 Cock Hall Farm, £1700 (x2) Low Levens, £1690 Grange Farm, £1670 Fellside Farm. Simmental: £1710 Low Levens, £1680 Stubb Hall Farm, £1500 Toulbrick Farm. Charolais: £1700 Downlands Farm, £1440 Outerthwaite Farm. Limousin: £1640 Thursgill, £1580 Thornbush Farm, £1550 Old Glasson Farm, £1480 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1460, £1320 Thursgill. Hereford: £1640 Godsone House Farm, £1640 Whinney Carr Farm, £1500 Toulbrick Farm, £1480 Holly House Farm, £1380 Windy Hill Farm. Shorthorn: £1640 Toulbrick Farm, £1560, £1540 Parkside Farm. Fleckvieh: £1500, £1450, £1420, £1380, £1120 Holme Head, £820 Redchalis Farm. Montbeliarde: £1350 Carlinghurst. Friesian: £1310 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1220 Low Levens, £1120 Hall Bank, £820 Redchalis Farm. Meuse-Rhine-Issel: £1180 Littlewood Hall Farm.
Store Heifers Top Prices: Limousin: £1820 Whinney Carr Farm, £1720 Red Scar Farm, £1680 High Snab, £1480 Carlingwha, £1370 Thornbush Farm, £1110 Hall Bank. Angus: £1780 Chestnut House Farm, £1680 Yew Tree Farm, £1610 Chestnut House Farm, £1580 Bainsbank Farm, £1500 Hill House Farm, £1490 Grange Farm. British Blue: £1640 Stubb Hall Farm, £1600 High Snab, £1560 Summerlands, £1410 Carlingwha, £1400 Staffords Farm, £1380 Kate Farm. Charolais: £1640 Toulbrick Farm, £1530 High Snab, £1520 Ellers Farm, £1460, £1400 Carlingwha, £1360 Ellers Farm. Simmental: £1540 Little Crimbles, £1410 Sykes Fold Farm, £1150 Park Farm Barn. Hereford: £1510 High Snab, £1440 Ellers Farm, £1370 Chesnut House Farm, £1320 Holly House Farm, £1180 Middle Ridge Farm. Montbeliarde: £1440, £1260 Carlinghurst. Other: £1430 Grange Farm.
OTM Cattle
Numbers are rising week on week, with todays sale averaging 180p/kg for cows, 240p/kg for OTM heifers and 260p/kg for OTM steers.
The best beef cows sold to 229.5p/kg from RG&H Preece, Roeburndale with other heavy weights 210p/kg to 220p/kg for Stabilisers from A Dixon & Son, Selside. Other better medium beef cows were 190p/kg to 205p/kg, with those suitable for finishing 170p/kg to 190p/kg. Top gross beef cows was a Stabiliser from A Dixon & Son, Selside achieving £1705. Young dairy cows sold to 239.5p/kg for a British Friesian from RG&B Lewis, Middleton, with heavy weight meated Holstein Friesian generally 180p/kg to 195p/kg. Parlour types were 155p/kg to 175p/kg with only the leanest and lighter weights less (120p/kg to 140p/kg). Top grossing dairy cow was a Holstein Friesian from RR&JA Knowles, Docker achieving £1533.
OTM beef heifers sold to 279.5p/kg and £1737 for a Limousin cross from WS Burrow Ltd, Silverdale, with other beef heifers 240p/kg to 270p/kg, being £1450 to £1700. Dairy heifers sold to 264.5p/kg and £1785 for a Montbeliarde from A&FM Bolland & Sons, Ellel with Holstein Friesian to 239.5p/kg from Barker Farms Ltd, Warton and £1358 from J&O Galbraith & Son, Endmoor.
OTM beef bred steers sold to 269.5p/kg for an Aberdeen Angus cross from O Butler, Kirkham and a Luing from D J & A Freeman, Troutbeck. Other Aberdeen Angus cross sold to £1835 from O Butler, Kirkham. Dairy bred steers sold to 269.5p/kg and £1668 from WS Burrow Ltd, Silverdale. Cull bulls sold to 274.5p/kg for a Limousin from I Atkinson & Son, Warton with British Blue stock bulls selling to 219.5p/kg from W Heaps, Chorley which also was top grossing at £2096.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Friesian: 239.50 Bainsbank Farm, 191.50 Walkers I’th Fields, 191.50 Myers Farm, 191.50 Downlands Farm, 189.50 Sweetings Farm, 189.50 Lawsons Farm. Limousin: 229.50 Thornbush Farm, 214.50 Oak Fold, 164.50 Longlands. Angus: 221.50, 199.50 Elm Bank Farm, 167.50 Park House Farm. Stabiliser: 221.50, 219.50, 214.50, 204.50 Kitt Cragg. Continental: 207.50, 191.50 Town End. Simmental: 194.50, 177.50, 174.50, 164.50, 119.50 Longlands.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Limousin: 279.50, 274.50 (x2) Gibraltar Farm. Hereford: 269.50 Yeat House. Montbeliarde: 264.50 Yeat House. Longhorn: 244.50 Thornbush Farm. Dairy Shorthorn: 224.50 Rash Mill Cottage. Friesian: 239.50 Cotestone Farm, 229.50 Endmoor Farm, 224.50 Cocker House Farm, 219.50 Endmoor Farm, 211.50, 199.50 West Hall.
Cast Steer Top Prices: Angus: 269.50 Elm Bank Farm, 249.50 Gul Farm, 229.50 Elm Bank Farm. Continental: 269.50 Town End. Friesian: 269.50 Gibraltar Farm. Hereford: 269.50 Gibraltar Farm.
Cast Bull Top Prices: Limousin: 274.50 Boon Town Farm, 199.50 Oak Fold. British Blue: 219.50 Derbyshire Farm.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Monday 2nd
Lancaster: 10:30am Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Cast Sheep & Store Lambs
J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Viewing
Tuesday 3rd
J36: From 9am Machinery Sale concludes 1pm Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep
Wednesday 4th
J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection
Thursday 5th
J36: 10am Fortnightly Sale of Calves
10:30am Fortnightly Sale of OTM/Cast Cattle
11:15am Fortnightly Sale of Stirks & Store Cattle
4pm: Lads Night Out
Friday 6th
Lancaster: 10:15am Weekly Sale of Calves, and OTM/Cast Cattle
11am Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle
11:15am Weekly Sale of Store Cattle
J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection
