The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
32 prime cattle, 0 young bulls, 2 over thirty month cattle, 4,504 prime
lambs and 3,640 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown
on Tuesday 22nd December, 2009.
Top price in the prime cattle of 181.5p
for a British Blue bullock from J.C. & D. Nicholson, The Gill;
Limousin 171.5p Nirvana and The Gill; Charolais 166.5p (£1,223)
Sceughdyke.
Despite conditions, a grand show of 4,504 prime lambs sold to a
packed ring of buyers desperate for sheep, resulting in an overall
average of 204p per kilo.
The sale was topped at 257p per kilo for
Beltex’s from Castlenook and to £105.50 per head also
for Beltex from Nunscleugh, others £100 Aldery Terrace, £98.50
Nunscleugh, £95.50 High Stenries; Texel £96.80 Burnside, £95.80
Cumcrook; Suffolk £94.50 Sceughdyke and Jacksonrigg, £93.80
Mossband Hall; Charollais £91.20 Culquhasen, £88.20 Tinnis
Hall, £86.20 Cadgillhead, £85.50 Sceughdyke; Greyface £90.50
Culquhasen, £87.80 Bennettsfield, £86.80 Justicetown;
North Country Cheviot £87.80 Philiphaugh; Blackface £86.20
Boreland, £84.80, £84.20 Drannandow, £79.80 Markdhu;
Hill Cheviot £83.50 Smalmstown, £81.20 Halliday Hill, £74.80
Castle Nook; Cheviot Mule £83.20 High Stenries; Romney Marsh £80.80
Haithwaite; Zwartbles £80 Hobbiesburn; Half Bred £78.80, £74.80
Earlside; Leicester £74.50 Raggetsyke; Woodland £73.20
Longrow; Herdwick £72.20 Ashley Park.
The 1,355 light lambs
sold to £76.80 for Texels from Hilltop
(Fox), £75.20 Macherquhat, £72.20 High Dovecote; Charollais £72.80, £70
Wallholm, £67.80 Cara View; Blackface £71.80 Boreland,
369.80 Arnicle, £68 Westloch, £64.20 Macherquhat; Greyface £70.80
Clonrae, £70 Smalmstown, £68.80 Maxton House, £68
Macherquhat; Hill Cheviot £70.50 Kirkhouse, £66.80 Castle
Nook, £57.80 Kirkhouse; Beltex £70 Hobbiesburn; North
Country Cheviot £68 Catslackburn; Herdwick £60 Ashley
Park; Suffolk £60 Macherquhat; Masham £59.80 Smithy Court.
Considering
the extreme weather conditions experienced across the country, Longtown
Auction still managed an excellent show of 3,640 ewes and rams. A
full ring of buyers endured the conditions, resulting in the best
ewe trade in this centre for many years.
The 3,640 ewes averaged £81.99
overall and sold to a top of £159.50
for heavy Texel ewes from Boreland, others £151.50 Waterloo, £149.50
Newbigging; Charollais £151.50 Upper Mains; Suffolk £147.50
Roadside, £144.50 Halliday Hill, £131.50 Coytre; Leicester £125.50
West Nubbock; North Country Cheviot £126.50 Halliday Hill, £115.50
West Whatten; Greyface £105.50, £101.50 West Nubbock, £100.50
Boreland, £98.50 Newbigging; Roussin £97.50 Allfornaught;
Half Bred £97.50 Jury Park; Dorset £85.50 Netherplace;
Beltex £81.50 Coytre; Cheviot Mule £78 Bluebell.
Hill
ewes to £99.50 and £91.50 for Cheviots from Allfornaught,
others £91.50 Nether Stenries, £89.50 Thorns; Blackface £95.50
Tone Hall, £93.50 West Nubbock, £85.50 Tone Hall and
Wanwood Hill; Swaledale £75.50 Stackbraes, £69.50, £67.50
Kelmore Hills; Clun £75.50 Jury Park; Shetland £69.50
Allfornaught; Herdwick £65.50 Jury Park, £55.50 Cara
View; Welsh Mountain £59.50 Coytre; Jacob £57.50 Jury
Park.
Texel rams to £149.50 Waterloo, £135.50 Stackbraes, £129.50
Dippen, £117.50 Marchbank; Leicester £133.50 Clonrae, £105.50
Kelmore Hills, £103.50 Philiphaugh;North Country Cheviot £123.50
Waterloo; Blackface £91.50 Boreland; Dorset £87.50 Jury
Park; Herdwick £81.50 Jury Park; Suffolk £78.50 Jury
Park.
Averages:
Steers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to 169.5p (164.3p)
Heavy to 181.5p (165.4p)
Heifers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to 148.5p (148.5p)
Heavy to 168.5p (156.1p)
Young bulls to -------p (-------p)
Lambs
Light to 226.0p (196.4p)
Standard to 257.0p (205.3p)
Medium to 244.0p (204.5p)
Heavy to 202.0p (187.9p)
Overweight 183.0p (134.6p)
Ewes
Light to £99.50 (£71.28)
Heavy to £159.50(£92.15)
Cast Rams to £149.50(£89.40)
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