North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 10th September
Weekly report & newsletter NWA J36 ‘Lad’s Night Out’ Lads Night Out sell to £1,400 The Annual ‘Lads Night Out’ prize show and sale of Breeding Rams, saw a catalogued entry of over 400 attract buyers from throughout the Northern Counties, Scotland, Wales and The Midlands. Following the judging of the individual breeds, the judges combined to award an overall championship rosette to Mr R Batty of Kendal with a superb Suffolk Shearling from his Redhills flock, which sold for £1,050 to Messrs Wood & Lightburn of Shap. The Reserve rosette went to a Texel Shearling from W W & D Boow, which sold for a final bid of £980 to F Towers of Wray. The top price of £1400 was paid for a Beltex Shearling from S Harryman, purchased by R A & C Benson, Ulverston. A new feature of the sale was the sale of individual females, which saw pedigree Beltex Gimmer Shearlings from D Towers of Wray, sell at £420, with Charollais x Beltex Gimmer Shearlings £360 from J A & R Geldard. Show Results Overall Champion – Suffolk Shearling Ram from R A Batty Reserve Champion – Texel Shearling Ram from W W & D Boow Suffolks – Judge: Mr I Ellis Shearlings 1st R A Batty 2nd T A Blair rd R A Batty 3
Ram Lambs 1st B Teasdale 2nd B Teasdale rd 3 T A Blair
£440 £420 £620
Charollais – Judge: Mr C Alty Shearlings 1st C W Marwood & Son n/s 2nd Kenton Foster £480 J A & R Geldard £300 3rd
Ram Lambs 1st C W Marwood & Son 2nd C W Marwood & Son 3rd S G Benson
n/s n/s £220
Texels – Judge: Mr M Fishwick Shearlings 1st W W & D Boow £980 2nd E & C A Shuttleworth £540 S Cunliffe £680 3rd
Ram Lambs 1st O Airey 2nd S Cunliffe 3rd S Cunliffe
£500 £480 £400
£1,050 £820 £1,000
Beltex x – Judge: Mr J Hadwin Shearlings 1st D Towers £600 2nd Kenton Foster n/s 3rd W W & D Boow £650 Beltex – Judge: Mr J Hadwin Shearlings 1st S Harryman £1,400 2nd P D & P J Mason £680 rd 3 KJ & HM Armitstead/Kellett £320
Sale Statistics Shearlings Suffolks to £1050 Texels to £980 Charollais to £520 Beltex to £1400
av, £395 av. £425 av. £385 av. £390
Lambs Suffolks to Texels to Charollais to
av. £280 av. £315 av. £240
£620 £500 £300
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NWA Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 5th September 677 Cattle and 486 Sheep at NWA Lancaster Another large entry of Store Cattle this morning saw bullocks sell to £1490 for a pair of Charollais from Robin Dogson, Burton in Lonsdale. A trio of Charollais from K Barron sold close behind at £1420. Angus bullocks sold to a top of £1320 from M Allen, with Angus heifers selling to £1150 from AJ & D Knowles, Windy Hill. A good show of cattle this morning were met by more buyers round the ring. All vendors left happy with the prices achieved. Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – FR- £1090 Low Levens; £1090 Old Glasson Farm. AA- £1320 Yealand Manor; £1290 Bainsbank Farm; £1250 Low Levens. SHO- £1120 Jolley Fold Farm; £1100 Oatland Farm. GAL- £450 Middle Ridge Farm. CON- £940 Cock Hall Farm; £670 Crook Farm. WB- £1190 Yew Tree Farm; £1070 Cragg Farm; £1040 Billinge Hall. LIM- £1290 Crooklands Farm; £1270 Clarksons Farm; £1220 Holmgarth. CHA- £1490 Kilburn House; £1420 Mealsgate Avenue; £1400 Yealand Manor. HE- £1210 The Old Stable; £1200 North Farm; £1180 Windy Hill Farm. SIM- £1270 Low Levens; £1230 Crooklands Farm; £1200 Crooklands Farm. ST- £960 Farleton House. BRB- £1200 Weavers Farm; £1170 Yew Tree Farm; £1150 King Bank Farm; £1040 Oatland Farm. MO- £1010 Billinge Hall; £1000 Moss House Farm; £890 Oatland Farm. BAZ- £1150 Church Street. SRW- £910 Wyre Farm. LNGH- £960 Forton Bank Farm. BA- £1090 Sykes Fold Farm; £970 Peel Hill Farm. STORE HEIFERS – FR- £1110 Lathwaite Farm; £1020 High House. AA- £1150 Windy Hill Farm; £1120 Croppers Farm; £1120 Ivy Barn. SLR- £890 Greaves Farm. WB- £950 Sunderland Brows Farm. LIM- £1200 High Tenement Farm. CHA- £1140 Wilson House Farm; £1120 Raw Head; £1100 Intack Farm. HE- £1090 North Lodge; £860 Billinge Hall. SIM- £1100 Ivy Barn. BRB- £1200 High Tenement Farm. BA- £1180 Intack Farm.
Cast Cows, a good number of cows forward this morning saw meaty cows and heifers sell well with plainer out of parlour sorts a little easier. Taking the top five spots in the OTM ring today and topping trade was DH & M Kellet & Sons, Boundary House with a Hereford Heifer at 204.5ppk. Black and White Heifers sold to 144.5ppk from A Swale with Friesian cows selling to 127.5pk from GB & EA Metcalf & Son, Holme House. Overall OTMs averaged 118.8ppk. Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COWS – FR- 127.5 Holme House Farm; 127.5 Hagg Farm; 124.5 Batty Hill. AA- 129.5 Bank House Farm. SHO- 97.5 Bank House Farm. MRI- 119.5 Waterscales Farm. LIM- 139.5 Thornton Hall; 127.5 Winder. BS- 124.5 High House. MO- 124.5 White Lund Farm. SRW- 114.5 White Lund Farm; 97.5 Kilntree Farm. BA- 97.5 Winder. BRB- 101.5 Deepclough. CAST HEIFERS – FR- 144.5 Stanley Farm; 134.5 High House. AA- 151.5 Sunderland Brows Point. LIM- 194.5 Boundary House. HE- 204.5 Boundary House. CAST/PRIME BULLS & BULLOCKS – FR- 159.5 Stubbins Farm; 134.5 Cock Hall Farm. BRB- 179.5 Shorrocks Farm; 164.5 Kilburn House.
Calves and Stirks, another strong entry with 94 going under the hammer. Calves sold to a top of £410 from JH Towers, Tunstall Hall, with a Lim Bull. British Blues sold to £350 from J Bargh & Son. Continental calves were forward in better numbers, with Sim bulls selling to £300 from SH & LE Birkett, Stubb Hall. Black and whites sold to a top of £120 from WN & D Smith, Cocker House. Best sorts sold in excess of £90 with well fleshed calves £40-£65. Stirks topped at £585 from Days of Royton, Oldham with a pure Angus Bull, Angus x sorts sold to £480 again from Days of Royton with others at £425 from Jones of Sandvilla. Simmental heifers sold to £550 from JR & M Ayrton, Bambers Farm. Herefords sold to £525 and Lims at £480. Calf Top Prices: BULL CALF – FR- £120 Cocker House Farm; £102 Pump House Farm; £100 Bambers Farm. AA- £275 Deepclough. LIM- £410 Tunstall Hall; £305 North Farm. SIM- £300 Stubb Hall Farm. BRB- £350 North Farm; £325 Bambers Farm; £285 North Farm. BULL STIRK – AA- £585 Hanging Chadder Farm. LIM- £430 Deepclough. HEIFER CALF – FR- £60 Lawsons Farm. AA- £280 Deepclough; £225 Newhouse Farm. WB- £165 Norbreck Farm. LIM- £220 Tunstall Hall. SIM- £250 Stubb Hall Farm. BRB - £292 Deepclough; £275 Norbreck Farm. HEIFER STIRK- AA- £425 Sandvilla; £365 Hanging Chadder Farm. LIM- £480 Deepclough. SIM- £550 Bambers Farm. BULLOCK STIRK- HE- £525 Deepclough. SIM- £550 Deepclough.
Breeding sheep and store lambs. An entry of 20 breeding rams forward sold to a strong trade with tups keenly sort after by a ring of eager buyers. Tups sold to a top price of £380 twice for Texel shearlings from John Harrison of Greenaway’s Farm and then from Joe Townley of Mearsbeck. Charollais tups sold to a top price of £340 from Alison Lee of Cinder Hill Farm. Breeding sheep sold to a good trade for good sorts with the buyers selective as been seen at other sale throughout the North West. Texel x shearlings sold to a top price of £148 from Tony Chapman of North Lodge who also sold mule shearlings to £140. Aged Mule ewes sold to £110 from W Pinder Jnr of Longstripes. Store lambs sold to a strong trade consider the prime lamb trade. Biggest sorts of store lambs sold between £56 and £58 with longer keep lambs selling around the £50 mark.
Monday 8th September
815 Prime Lambs to £79 & 180p/kg
Weights Top Av. A smaller entry of prime lambs following last weeks larger entry, with 815 going under the hammer. Standard 32 ½ -39 161.0 155.0 A few buyers missing round the ring today, however this made no difference to trade, coming back at Medium 39 ½ -45 ½ 180.0 152.0 152ppk, exceeding all expectations. JK & BE Townley, Mearsbeck Farm showed a nice pen of 5 Heavy 46 - 51 ½ 159.0 147.0 Texels at 44kg achieving 180ppk or £79. Suffolks sold to £76/head from James Burr, Quernmore for heavey weights, with 45 -46kg suffolks making £68 from J & R Waller, Killington & HJ & BE Kelsall, Gressingham. Mules sold to £63 from W & A Cornall, Bank Farm and Mashams to £61.50 from D Eames, Abbeystead. Prime Lamb Top Prices: SUFF - £76 Little Fell; £68 Walnut Tree; £68 Hallbeck; £66.50 Bradlow Farm; £65 Lentworth Farm; £64.50 Fell End Farm. CHAR - £61 £60 Moss House Farm; £61 Stirzakers Farm. TEXEL - £79 £68.50 Mearsbeck Farm; £78 Low Moor Head; £72 Newhouse Farm; £70 Little Fell; £68 Parks Farm Barn; £63 Lentworth Farm. MASH - £61.50 £59 Middle Lee Farm. MULE - £63 £62 Bank Farm; £60 Isle of Skye Farm; £60 Highfield Farm; £58 Botton Hall. HORNED - £64.50 Botton Hall; £60 Millbeck. CHEV - £65.50 Cragg Farm.
Cast sheep sold to a strong trade again this week, selling to a top of £90 for a pen of 3 Texels from RA Holmes, Inskip. Mules to £82 from BD Gill. A pen of 9 horned tups from KJ & KM Curwen, Marshaw realised £60/head. Cast Sheep Top Prices: Cast Sheep – HORNED - £60 Marshaw Farm; £45 Yarlsber. TEXEL - £90 Keepers Cottage; £82 Yarlsber; £80 Mearsbeck Farm. HERD - £50 Lee End Farm.
11 Prime Bulls to 193.5p/kg, £1329.01 Top Av. 193.5 191.5 173.5 168.0
Prime Bulls sold to a top of 193.5ppk for a Limousin from JA Airey, New Hutton. Montbelliardes Class from GA Haston & Son, Galgate sold to 173.5ppk and Herefords from P & A Bell, Village Farm selling Prime Others to 165.5ppk. Prime Bull Top Prices:
Prime Bulls – LIM- 193.5 189.5 Old Croft; 173.5 Bensons Farm. MO – 173.5 169.5 Lane House; 169.5 163.5 Village Farm. HE – 165.5 Village Farm. SIM – 153.5 Bensons Farm. Clean Cattle- CH – 149.5 Low Barrows Green.
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NWA J36 Sale Reports Thursday 4th September Calves at J36 Rural Auction centre sold to a sharper tarde then what has been seen over previous sales with strong beef calves in strong demand . heifers and bulls both keenly sort after with many people looking for heifers with breeding potential. Black and whites continue to be a similar trade for smaller plainer sorts with better rearing sorts looking a stronger trade as beef price throughout begin to lift again. a mixed back of stirks forward sold to a keen ring of buyers with buyers now in the market looking to purchase stirks but stirk buyers are urged to contact Ian with entries to ensure the right buyers are forward on the day.
Please note no sale on Thursday 11th September due to Westmorland County show For more informa on please contact Ian Atkinson 07766521472 The fortnightly sale of Store Cattle saw a top price of £1100 for a Bazadaise x Steer from FW Park, Bannerigg Farm with yearling Lim x steers from JH Barker, Stribers Farm selling at £965. A smart Lim x heifer from JM Harrison, Lane End sold for £935 with a run of Char x yearlings form DN Smith, Fell House selling to a top price of £700. Native breed topped at £1045 for Hereford x Steers from Mason Birkland Barrow with AA x £975 from D Clark, Challon Hall Farm. Cows and calves sold to £1280 for a Lim x second calved cow with heifer calf from JH Barker, Stribers Farm. Store Cattle Top Prices: Steers - FR £620 Stribers Farm. ANG £975 Challon Hall Farm, £850 Greaves Farm. SLR £885 Greaves Farm. LIM £965 Stribers Farm, £885, £880 Greaves Farm. HER £1045 Birkland Barrow, £675, £675 Garden Terrace. SIM £790, £705 Garden Terrace. BAZ £1100 Bannerigg Farm. Heifers – LIM £935, £760 Lane End. CHAR £700 Fell House, £650 Garden Terrace. HER £685 Garden Terrrace. SIM £680 Garden Terrace. BLO £670 Garden Terrace. Cow & Calf – ANG £1280 Stribers Farm.
An increased ringside of buyers saw CAST/OTM Cattle sold to a strong trade with an overall average of 111p/kg (£976). Leading the sale was a Saler cow selling for 159p/kg from DJ Clarke, Orphan Cragg closely followed by a Fresian Heifer from J & BL Ellis, Hawkrigg End at 157p/kg with a BRB cow 154p/kg from JW Robinson & son, Green Close. D & J & A Freeman sold a Lim Bull at £1146 with beef cows to £1124 and dairy cows £1080. Cast Cow Top Prices: Cast Cows - FR 124.5 Strickland Hill, 117.5 Low Gregg Hall, 114.5 Strickland Hill. SHO 117.5, 114.5, 114.5 Strickley. SLR 159.5 Orphan Crag Barn. LIM 144.5 Stubb Farm, Orphan Crag Barn, 139.5 Close Foot Farm, 131.5 Orphan Crag Barn. STAB 114.5, 141.5, 139.5 Kit Cragg. MON 117.5, 114.5 Green Lane End Farm. SRW 104.5 Low Stanger Farm. BB 154.5 Green Close, 147.5 Fairbank, 144.5 Green Close. Cast Heifer – FR 157.5, 147.5 Hawkrigg End. Cast Bull -– SHO 104.5 Lunesdale House. LIM 114.5 Bramaskew, 111.5 Town End
Dairy cattle saw an entry of mainly heifers all sell to top price of ÂŁ1950 for a heifer 10 days calved and giving 6 gallons from J & JA Burrow with a pedigree heifer from E & K Bland sellibg at ÂŁ1820. Cows sold to ÂŁ1720 for a fresh second calved cow from R & J Dodgson with mature cows achieving ÂŁ1180. PLEASE NOTE NO DAIRY SALE ON THURSDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER THE SALE WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER TO INCLUDE DISPERSAL SALEOF 80 IN MILK & IN CALF COWS AND HEIFERS. Dairy Cattle Top Prices: N/C Cow ÂŁ1720, Cracalt Farm, ÂŁ1180 Hollins Farm, N/C Heifer ÂŁ1950 Thursgill, ÂŁ1820 Cotegill, ÂŁ1600 Thursgill.
The weekly sale of store lambs saw buyers in attendance from as far afield as the Midlands and Hereford alongside the strong local attendance. Best short keep lambs regularly selling ÂŁ55-ÂŁ58 topping at ÂŁ65 for a pen of texel x from M & D Hatton, Knott End Farm. Mules peaked at ÂŁ58.50 with hill lambs ÂŁ54 for chev x. An overall market average of ÂŁ50.68 PLEASE NOTE NO SALE NEXT THURSDAY DUE TO COUNTY SHOW STORE LAMBS WILL BE SOLD ON FRIDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER FOLLOWING GIMMER LAMBS Store Lambs Top Prices: MULE ÂŁ58.50 High Low Wood, ÂŁ56 Turners Farm, ÂŁ47 Low Newton Farm. RGH ÂŁ45 Howes Lodge, ÂŁ39 Howes Lodge. CHAR ÂŁ57.50 Meadowside Avenue, ÂŁ57 Kirkby Hall, ÂŁ56 Ashlack Hall. CHEV ÂŁ54 Wood Broughton Barn. TEX ÂŁ65 Knott End Farm, ÂŁ60 Valley View, Riverside House, ÂŁ57 Scroggs Farm.
Dairy Sales at NWA NWA Lancaster Two Day Dairy Sale Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th September Monday Day 1
Tuesday Day 2
Monthly Sale of 45 Pedigree & Commercial Cows & Heifers with entries from: Alandrew, Blackwood, Butlersarms,Cockerhouse, Corfield, Enchanted, Fencefoot,Garsby, Kirkwood, Pennine, Quernmore,Shoreline, Stardale, Witherslack, Wyredale also Annual Show & Sale of Pedigree Holstein Friesian Bulls from Abbeyhouse, Jackbeck, Pennine, Riverstar, Stardale
Collective Sale of 157 Pedigree & Commercial Youngstock to include dispersal sale of 53 Yearling Heifers from RA & GJ Close & Son, Cotestones. Other entries from Avenham, Abbeyhouse, Tunstall. Longstar in Conjunstion with Norton & Brooksbank
NWA J36 Monday 22nd September Dispersal sale of 80 in milk/in calf cows and heifers on behalf of J B Moore, Allithwaite. This sale will also include our Fortnightly Collective Dairy Sale moved from Thursday 18th September for this week only
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NWA J36 Sale Reports Tuesday 9th September Prime lambs sell to 193p/kg – Cast Sheep £110
NWA J36 saw 2575 prime sheep sold at its weekly sale with all sheep selling to full value inline with other local centres and the national trend. Prime Lambs sold to a top price of 193p/kg for Char x lambs from J Arnold, Ambleside with a run or Char x and Texel x from JA & J Harper regularly 172p/kg – 178p/kg. Suffolks peaked at 167p/kg from WJ Barker with Beltex from the same home at 175p/kg. A greater number of hill bred lambs coming forward with Mules to 146p/ kg from WM & JE Shuttleworth and horned lambs 153p/kg from MB Platts.
1874 Prime Lambs to £82 & 193.5p/kg Weights Top Av. Standard 32 ½ -39 193.5 152.5 Medium 39 ½ -45 ½ 177.6 151.0 Heavy 46 - 51 ½ 175.0 145.0
A top price of £82 was achieved for heavy Lleyn lambs from R & J Parkinson with a strong pen of Char x from S & M Cooper selling at £77.50. Texels from JG & PH Thompson sold to £76 with Suffolks £75 from H Halhead & Son. Mules from P & TL Edmondson sold to £66 with Mashams £60 and Swaledales £58. An overall Saturday 20th September market average of 152p/kg was achieved with buyers keenly competing for well finished ‘in spec’ lambs and showing caution to under finished or over weight lambs. NWA J36
PRIME LAMB TOP PRICES:
BEL £70 Brown Edge, £69.50 & £68.50 Poppy Farm, £68 Ellerbeck, £66 Foredales Farm. MASH £60 Steps Farm. SWALE £58 Archer Hill. CHAR £77.50 Tarnside Farm, £70 Myers Farm, £67.50 Tarnside Farm, £67 Myers Farm. SUFF £75 Lawsons Farm, £74 Dendron Farm, £70 Boustagill, £69 Lawsons Farm, £68 Hartrigg Farm. MULE £66 Low Hall. TEX £76 Poppy Farm, £73 Low Hall, £69 Ellerbeck. LLEYN £82 Springfield House.
Sale of Flowering Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Dwarf & Ornamental Conifers, Fruit Trees, 701 Cast Sheep sold to a top of £110 for texel rams with others regularly £90 - £100. Heavy Bushes, Plants, Hedging & Screening meated ewes peaked at £90 for texels from K Little with Suffolks at £89. Mules achieved £78 Plants, Perennial Plants from SW Atkinson with mashams £76 from Messrs Gibson & Berry. Hill ewes sold to £64 for Sale at 11am Rough Fell from AEA Harrison with Swaledales £57 from N Burton. All ewes sold averaged £53 with buyers competing for all classes. Cast Sheep Top Prices: SUFF £89 Gilthwaiterigg, £88 Ninezergh & Gilthwaiterigg, £80 Salterwath Farm. MASH £76, £70 Low Audlands. MULE £78, £75 Capplerigg, £73 Benson Hall, Gilthwaiterigg, Dendron Farm. SWALE £57 Low Haygarth, £49 Nook Farm, £45 Netherhouses, £40 Low Haygarth. ROUGH £64 Boundary Beck, £62 Patton Mill. CHEV £60 Salterwath Farm, £59 Salterwath Farm, Gatebarrow Farm. TEX £90 Wood Broughton Barn, £88 Dendron Farm, £86 Wood Broughton Barn, Poppy Farm, £85 Capplerigg. LLEYN £62 Penrose Cottage. LEIC £76 Boundary Beck. HERD £35 Fell House, £34 Marsh House Farm. Cast Rams £110 Gilthwaiterigg, £100 Gilthwaiterigg, Bradley Farm.
Gimmer Lamb Sales at NWA 12, 050 Gimmer Lambs
Farm Sale Saturday 4th October
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Sale to include 6 tractors, one telehandler, Land Rover plus large selection of well maintained Livestock & Grassland equipment
Friday 12th September 2,600 ‘Ambleside Fair’ Prize show & Sale of Mule & Masham Gimmer Lambs
Full list and photographs available online in due course.
NWA J36 Friday 19th September Show & Sale of Registered & Unregistered Blue Face Leicester Rams & Females
Saturday 13th September 7,320 Sale of North of England Mule Gimmer Lambs on behalf of the Kendal Branch of NEMSA
Wednesday 17th September 2,130 Annual Show & Sale of Mule, Masham & Continental Gimmer Lambs to include Lambs from NEMSA members
Show at 3.30pm Sale at 5pm
Saturday 20th Show &Sale of Registered Pedigree Beltex Breeding Rams & Females On behalf of Northern Beltex Club Sale at 12 noon Also today Breeding Ewes, Gimmer Shearlings & Breeding Rams Friday 26th September Prize Show & Sale of Swaledale Breeding Ewes, Gimmer Shearlings & Gimmer Lambs Annual Prize Show & Sale of Rough Fell Ewes, Gimmer Shearlings & Gimmer Lambs on behalf of RFSBA Also Sale of Other Hill Breed Females Entries Close Monday 15th September
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