North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 8th April
Young Auctioneer wins National Award North West Auctions Trainee Auctioneer William Alexander has scooped up the National Young Show Stars Award for Young Auctioneers. William, 24 of Lancaster, who took part in the competition on Thursday 2nd April at the Three Counties Show Ground in Malvern, won the award for his outstanding skill and knowledge of valuing and selling of Livestock. William took on four other nominees from across the country to demonstrate his skill as an auctioneer to judge Clive Roads, who is Agricultural Chairman for McCartneys in Worcester. William, who has worked for North West Auctions since graduating from Harper Adams University, had to arrange a promotional display board which depicted himself, his sponsor and the livestock and meat industry, he also had to show a wide range of skills which included valuing a variety of livestock, equipment and deadstock, identify crops, stock judge Dairy Cows, have a public interview where he had to demonstrate his knowledge of the livestock industry as well as write a 1000 word essay prior to the event. All this impressed Mr Roads giving William an outstanding score and the top place winning him a trip to The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, Canada. Judge Clive Roads said “William is a breath of fresh air to auctioneering, a young man with a fantastic professional attitude and an absolute credit to his company”
On winning his award William said “It was an honour to represent North West Auctions in this competition and it is a privilege to be awarded the National Young Show Stars Young Auctioneers Award. Thank you to everyone who has supported me in my career so far as well as in this competition” Bill Nelson, Livestock Manager for North West Auctions, said “We are absolutely delighted that William managed has won this fantastic award. This competition is great at showing the ability and skill an Auctioneer needs”
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Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 3rd April A reduced entry forward at Lancaster this week of just 28 OTM Cattle due to the Bank Holiday weekend and slaughterhouses not wanting cattle until Tuesday. All cattle that were forward sold to a continued good trade at Lancaster. Cast cows topped at 147.5ppk from Jim Clark of Lea with a heavy weight Limousin cow coming to £1216. Better sorts of Black and Whites sold to 129.5ppk with plainer dry bag types making in the late one hundred and teens pence per kilogram. All OTM cattle forward sold to an average of 116ppk.
Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COWS – FR: 129.5 Chapel House; 119.5 Manor House Farm; 119.5 Birks Farm. AA: 141.5 Moss View; 101.5 Marl House. LIM: 147.5 New Hall Farm; 117.5 Broomfield Farm. CAST HEIFERS – FR: 131.5 Gardners Farm CAST STEER – LIM: 189.5 Intack Farm. SIM: 189.5 Intack Farm. CAST BULL – FR: 114.5 Sellerley Farm
Plenty of quality Store Cattle on offer today at Lancaster with the prices achieved slightly easier but still a very good trade compared to the prime cattle trade that keeps on dropping. Summering Cattle and younger types continue to be in strong demand with the trade still very strong with vendors and potential vendors strongly advised to forward these types of cattle to Lancaster for a ring full of buyers. The trade twice topped at £1400 firstly from John Bargh of Old Woodhouse with a British Blue and then from David Moorhouse of Natland with a Limousin. Native bred cattle always wanted at Lancaster topped at £1290 for an Angus steer from V & EJ Chadwick & Sons of Sowerby Lodge. It was a British Blue that topped the heifers from David Whittaker of Little Fell.
Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – FR: £1060 Newsham Hall Farm; £1060 Old Glasson; £960 Moss View. AA: £1290 Sowerby Lodge; £1220 Cragg Farm; £1200 Intack Farm. SHO: £970 Aynsome Manor Farm. LIM: £1400 High House; £1290 Old Woodhouse; £1240 Cock Hall Farm. SRW: £930 Bouthwaite Farm. CH: £1290 Lentworth Farm. HE: £1070 Aynsome Manor Farm. SIM: £1290 Hilderstone Farm; £1190 Cock Hall Farm; £1090 Myerscough Hall. BRB: £1400 Old Woodhouse; £1270 Fell End Farm; £1150 Aynsome Manor Farm. MO: £1170 Cragg Farm; £1100 Old Glasson; £1070 Newsham Hall Farm. BA: £1200 Intack Farm. STORE HEIFERS – FR: £590 Intack Farm. AA: £1140 Cragg Farm; £1100 Well House Farm; £1070 Moss View. LIM: £1110 Mireside Farm; £1080 Little Fell Farm; £1040 Cragg Farm. HE: £870 Bull Bank Farm. SIM: £1120 Hilderstone Farm; £1060 Myerscough Hall; £900 Ivy Farm. BRB: £1200 Little Fell Farm; £1110 Myerscough Hall; £1090 Bouthwaite Farm.
The trade for Calves slightly easier than seen over previous months with many buyers feeling the reduction when selling their larger cattle out with a few buyers also currently busy lambing. Better types of British Blue bulls sold to £420 and £395 from David Harrison of Birks Farm with Angus 5 week old Bull calves achieving £360 from David and Eileen Wallbank of Abbeystead who also sold Angus heifers to £280. Black and White bull calves sold to £132 and £120 with all Black and Whites average £79. A good number of Stirks forward once again saw 4/5 month old British Blue bulls make £540 with British Blue heifers achieving £505. An entry of Black and White bulls at seven month old sold to £445.
Calf Top Prices: BULL CALF – FR: £132 Tills Farm; £55 Gibsons Farm. AA: £360 Tills Farm. BRB: £420 Birks Farm; £315 Chapel House. BULL STIRK – FR: £445 Longstripes Farm; £250 Sellerley Farm. AA: £450 Muffys Platt Farm. HE: £295 Sellerley Farm. SIM: £470 Sellerley Farm. BRB: £540 Muffys Platt Farm; £325 Sellerley Farm. HEIFER CALF – AA: £280; £270; £200 Tills Farm. HEIFER STIRK – BRB: £505 Muffys Platt Farm.
Monday 6th April Following on from an increase in price for Prime Hoggs at the end of the previous week Lancaster enjoyed a better trade than the previous week with more numbers forward. A sale day entry of 737 forward sold to an average of 197ppk with SQQ hoggs averaging 203ppk. Better quality texel x hoggs sold to 224ppk from Andrew Butler of Hambleton. Heavy weight hoggs also a stronger trade than the previous week with a few pens breaking the one hundred pound barrier topping at £103 from Cardwell Farms of Stalmine.
Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices: Spring Lambs; CH: £118 Low Foulshaw Farm; £110 Springfield Farm. TEX: £92 Springfield Farm; £84 Corney Hill. Prime Hoggs; SUFF: £92 North Farm; £90.50 Hudsbrook Farm; £89 St Johns Kirk. MULE: £90.50 Curwin Hill; £88.50 St Johns Kirk; £87 North Farm. HRN: £83.50 Tarnwater Farm; £82.50 Curwin Hill; £76 Holme House. CH: £70 Hazleslack Tower Farm. CHEV: £94 Inverbervie; £93 St Johns Kirk; £91.50 North Farm. TEX: £102 Mill House Farm; £97 North Farm; £95 Inverbervie. LLEYN: £70 Low Foulshaw.
A few more Spring Lambs in the market this week with an entry of 36 forward. Lambs forward ranged from 33kg to 48kg and averaged 248ppk with buyers preferring lambs between 39kg and 44kg. It was a pen of 45kg Charollais lambs from JA & R Geldard & Sons of Low Foulshaw that took top price of £118. The fantastic Cast Ewe trade continues with all classes of sheep easily as good if not slightly better. Cast ewes sold to a top of £145 for Continentals from RS & IM Kellet of Mill House with others from the same home achieving £135. Big Continental ewes easily sold around the £130 area. Mule ewes sold to a top of £113 from Andrew Wilson of Burrow Heights with plenty of fit mules around £100. Horned ewes sold to a top of £74 from WI & AM Atkinson of Holme House. Cast sheep sold to an average of £89.96.
Cast Sheep Top Prices: DOR: £116 Corney Hill. SUFF: £128 Hazleslack Tower Farm; £104 Burrow Heights Farm. MULE: £114 Burrow Heights Farm; £104 North Farm; £103 Moss House Farm. HRN: £74 Holme House; £73 Higher Green Nook Farm; £64 Holme House. CH: £126 Jacksons Farm; £104 Higher Green Nook Farm. CHEV: £76 St Johns Kirk. TEX: £135 Longlands Rd; £114 Moss House Farm. LEI: £90 Yates Farm.
Spring Breeding Sheep Sale The Easter bank holiday Monday sale of Sheep with lambs at foot still had a very respectable entry of 68 families or 184 head forward. A varied entry forward this week with continental ewes suckling strong Beltex lambs from Harry Woods of Dutton selling to £225 with ewes and singles from the same home achieving £195. Young continental ewes suckling twins from Matthew Heap of Burns Farm sold to £200. An overall average of £62 per life was achieved.
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J36 Sale Reports Thursday 2nd April The sale of Cast/OTM cattle saw 48 forward, selling to a top price of 154p/kg for a well-fleshed Friesian cow from Messrs Wood of Newby, with others 149p/kg for Saler cows from A M S Robinson, Staveley. The market was topped by C Hutchings, Ulpha with a shorthorn cow selling for £1017. OTM clean cattle sold to 189p/kg (£1013) for a 31 mo Ang steer from D J & P C Samson, Underbarrow, with others steers 169p/kg (£927). Heifers sold to 159p/kg (£963) for HF from R A & E Edmondson, Levens. All OTM cows averaged 108p/kg, steers 180p/kg, heifers 121p/kg
Cast Cow Top Prices: Cast Cows: Fr: 154.5p, 119.5p Longlands Farm; 124.5p Endmoor Farm; 117.5p Moss House Farm; 114.5p School Hill; 109.5p Tranthwaite Hall, Myers Farm. Ayr: 111.5p, 84.5p Sunny Bank. Ang: 121.5p Singleton Park, Natland Mill Beck. Sho: 137.5p Hazel Head Farm. Gal: 91.5p School Hill. Slr: 149.5p, 139.5, 134.5p, 129.5p New Hall. Lim: 139.5p Turner Hall; 129.5p, 127.5p, 124.5p Singleton Park. Mon: 117.5p Wall End Farm. Cast Hfrs: Fr: 159.5p, 129.5p High Barns; 144.5p Carter House. BrB: 124.5p Low Newton Farm. Blo: 124.5p Crabtree Farm Cast Steers: Ang: 189.5p Scarfoot. BrB: 169.5p Crabtree Farm. Cast Bulls: Fr: 91.5p Halforth.
Store Cattle peaked at £1145 for a pen of 5 Sim steers from Mrs E Tuer with Lim x £1080 from J E Wightman. Younger steers peaked at £1000 for Lim x from S W Atkinson & Son and D J & E A Park. Heifers sold to £980, again for Sim x from Mrs Tuer, with J Moorhouse selling Lim x for £985. Best young heifers to £915 for Lim x from J & J Postlethwaite, with others generally £750-£820. A larger entry of feeding bulls saw M G & H M Capstick sell Stablisers to £890, young Lims £685. Dairy bulls sold to £520 for 8 mo from P W & D Swindlehurst. Beef Breeding cattle saw BRBx heifers with calves at foot selling to £1900 from J D & M Beck, Longdale. Thursday 16th April to include dispersal sale of the suckler herd on behalf of D G Underhill.
Store Cattle Top Prices: Store Bullocks: Lim: £1080 Crabtree; £1000 Capplerigg; £1000, £965, £920 £905 Hollin Hall Farm; £880 Crabtree Farm. Sim: £1145 Common Farm. BrB: £800 Lawsons Farm. Store Heifers: Slr: £860 New Hall. Lim: £985 Broughton House; £955, £895 Crabtree Farm; £915 Bramaskew. Char: £720 Lawsons Farm. Here: £890 Common Farm. Sim: £980, £910 Common Farm. BrB: £735 Lawsons Farm. Store Bulls: Fr: £520 Tranthwaite Hall; £505 Pyes Bridge. Lim: £685 Bramaskew. Stab: £890 Park House Farm. Cow & Calf: BrB: £1900, £1350 Town Foot.
The weekly sale of Calves and Stirks at J36 Rural Auction centre had a reduced entry of 38 forward, with many vendors and buyers absent today as they are busy lambing. The reduction in the beef price and general reduced confidence in beef at the moment led to a slightly reduced trade. All types of calves were still eagerly enough sought after, with still plenty of buyers around the ring. Good beef bull calves sold to a top of £395 for British Blues from JW & TE Sharpe of Flodder Hall. British blues from WB Winder & Co made £380 and Limousin calves from Brian Wilson of Spout House made £375. Heifer calves twice topped at £370, firstly from JW & TE Sharpe of Flodder Hall with a British Blue and then a Limousin from Brian Wilson of Spout House. Strong beef calves, between 4 – 6 weeks, were still achieving £300 plus. Black and whites sold to a top of £150 for strong calves from HJ Robinson & Son of Elm Tree, with others making £140. Young British Friesian types sold to £95 and £80 from WB Winder & Co., with all Black and Whites forward averaging £71.82. A small entry of stirks sold to £605 and £600 for seven month old British Blue steers from JR Armistead of Sedbergh, with all stirks forward achieving their value.
Store Cattle Top Prices: Bull Calves: Fr: £150, £140, £100 Elm Tree; £100 Ravens Lodge; £95, £80 Wall End Farm. Ang: £290 Natland Mill Beck. Lim: £375 Spout House. Luing: £240 Sunny Bank. BrB: £395, £350 Flodder Hall; £380 Wall End Farm; £350 Hagg Farm; £330 Ravens Lodge. Heifer Calves: Ang: £260 Wraysholme Tower. Lim: £370 Spout House. BrB: £370, £350, £340 Flodder Hall. Steer Stirks: BrB: £605, £600 Whinney Haw; £535 Wall End Farm; £425 Borwick Fold Farm. Sho: £335 Borwick Fold Farm.
Tuesday 7th April NWA held their weekly sale of primestock at J36, where an entry of 1300 Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep were put before the usual compliment of buyers. A mixed show of Prime Hoggs were forward, with all classes selling to a strong trade. Well fleshed hoggs commanded premium prices, topping at £108 for Texel x hoggs from J C Walling & Son, Crosthwaite and a top price of 211.4p/kg for Cheviot x hoggs from J E Atkinson, Ulverston.
Prime Hogg Top Prices: Suff: £97, £95 Dawson Fold; £96 Gilsmere Farm; £90 Burton Hill. Mash: £74.50 Middale Farm. Mule: £89 The Galleon; £84 Hill Top Farm; £83.50 Rigg End; £82.50 Burton Hill. Swale: £82 Rigg End; £78 Higher Salter; £75 Jacques Farm House; £74 Arklid Farm. RFell: £82 Borrow Bridge House. Chev: £88.50, £85, £84 Nibthwaite Grange Farm; £80 Moss House Farm. Tex: £108 Dawson Fold; £104, £98 Hallbeck; £100 High Loanthwaite Farm. Leic: £79 Arklid Farm. Herd: £74.50 Moss House Farm; £74 Hartrigg; £73 High Loanthwaite Farm; £70 Moss Howe Farm.
All classes of Cast Sheep were a truly phenomenal trade, being described as ‘one of the dearest trades seen yet’ for cast sheep. Topping at £150 for a Charollais from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe, with plenty of Continental and Suffolk ewes £130-£140. Mule ewes topped at £120 on several occasions, with plenty at £110-£116. Horned sheep peaked at £96 for Rough Fell ewes and £86 for Swaledales.
Cast Sheep Top Prices: Hamp: £112 Winterscales. Dors: £96 Marsh House Farm. Suff: £138 Far Highfield; £128 Ackenthwaite Farm; £124 Ninezergh. Mash: £120 Yew Tree; £110 Scroggs Farm. Mule: £120 Yew Tree; £116 Riddings, Marsh House Farm; £115 Crabtree Farm. Swale: £86 Low Hundhowe; £84 Gunnerthwaite; £75 Tongue House Farm. RFell: £96 High Farm, Winfield Road; £80 Riddings; £79 Crabtree Farm. Char: £150 Ackenthwaite Farm; £116 Dale View, High Biggarsbank. Chev: £112 Sandham Farm; £106 Dale View Farm; £94 Brow Head; £88 Nibthwaite Grange Farm. Tex: £142 Marsh House Farm; £138, £130 Silverhow Farm; £130 Applegarth. Lley: £70 Penrose Cottage. Leic: £148 High Loanthwaite Farm; £136 Helm Croft; £135, £115 Moss Howe Farm. Herd: £54 High Loanthwaite Farm, High Farm. Zwart: £98 Applegarth. Belt: £102 Stubb Farm.
The weekly sale of Sheep and Lambs saw 262 forward, with a greater number of younger sheep coming forward. The sale peaked at £200 twice for Mule Shearlings with Texel twins from J & M Wilson, Selside and 2/3 crop Texels from G & I D Postlethwaite, Howgill. Others suckling twins were generally £185-£195. Singles peaked at £172 for Mule Shearlings from M J & J A Dobson, Howgill with older ewes £148 from G & I D Postlethwaite. Next week’s sale to commence at new time of 11.30 am. Show for Ewes and Shearlings (pens of 5) at 11 am
Sheep & Lamb Top Prices: Mule Shearling with twins, £200, £170 Mule Ewes with twins, £192, £185, £182 Mule Shearlings with singles, £172 Mule Ewes with singles, £125 Texel Ewes with twins, £200, £192 Texel Shearlings with twins, £190
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Coming up at North West Auctions… J36 Rural Auction Centre Tuesday 14th April Monthly Sale of Pigs at 10.30am and Show & Sale of Ewes & Shearlings with Lambs at foot (pens of 5). Show at 11am Sale at 11.30am
Thursday 16th April Fortnightly Sale of Store Cattle to include the dispersal sale on behalf of the late Mr Underhill of Windermere. Sale to Consist of Pure Luing Bull, Red Poll Bull, Pure Luing Cows in-calf or with Calves at foot, Red Poll Cows and Dexter Cows with Calves at foot.
Saturday 18th April ‘Discovery Day’ in conjunction with 1818 Auctioneers Builders Tools & Equipment, Reclamation & Restoration Items, Antiques, Equipment & Architectural Salvage
Wednesday 29th April Monthly Machinery Sale to include dispersal of Farm Machinery from two small Local Farm. Details available in due course.
Thursday 30th April Annual Grass Day Show & Sale of Store Cattle
Saturday 2nd May ‘Small Holders Saturday’ Annual Sale of Rare & Minority Breed Livestock, Poultry, Waterfowl, Hatching Eggs & Equipment in association with RBST Retirement Dispersal Sale of Alpacas on behalf of Town End Alpacas plus Sale of Registered Fell Ponies on behalf of the Fell Pony Society Simply Local Farmers Market with Foods & Crafts
Saturday 9th May On Farm dispersal to include 6 Tractors plus large selection of modern and well maintained grassland machinery and equipment plus livestock equipment. Entries by permission from the Auctioneer Matthew Probert 07760 557932.
Lancaster Auction Mart Monday 20th April Monthly Show and Sale of all classes of Dairy Cattle.
Friday 1st May Weekly Sale of Store Cattle to include Special Spring Show.
Saturday 16th May Collective Sale of Farm Machinery and Equipment plus household items in conjunction with 1818 Auctioneers
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Contact Details Bill Nelson - Livestock Manager 07785 542738 Gary Capstick - Auctioneer 07970 830518 Matthew Probert - Auctioneer 07760 557932 Ian Atkinson - Auctioneer 07766 521472 Will Alexander - Fieldsman & Trainee Auctioneer 07976 646035 Richard Gardiner - Fieldsman 07713 787510 George Harryman - Fieldsman 07759 278741
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