The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
40 prime cattle, 9 over thirty month cattle, 5,590 prime
hoggs and 4,655 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown
on Thursday 11th March, 2010.
The 40 prime cattle saw more heavyweights
on offer with averages down on the week. Limousin heifers to 187.5p,
179.5p, 173.5p, 172.5p and 171.5p Hallburn. Limousin bullocks to
169.5p, 167.5p and 164.5p Toppin Castle. Charolais bullocks to £1,180
Sceughdyke; British Blue £1,135.
The 9 over thirty month cattle
were a plainer show which again met a sharper trade with Blue Grey
steers selling to 132.5p (£675.75)
from T.D. Bell & Sons, Moorhills Farm. Limousin cows to £878.15
Becton Hall; Ayrshire £511.50.
Another large show of 5,590 prime hoggs, a full ring of buyers saw
trade remain buoyant for well fleshed quality export hoggs, which
were short of demand and frequently sold between £2 and £2.40
per kilo, but more heavy hoggs over 46 kilos proved harder to cash
following national trend.
The 4,474 hoggs under 46 kilos averaged
189.7p whilst the 1,116 hoggs over 46 kilos averaged 185p. Top price
per kilo of 259p for Beltex’s from Messrs Gribbon, Waterside
and to £106.50 per head for Texels from Newbiggin, £97.50
The Shearlings and Kirtlebank; Beltex £105.50, £103.50
Waterside, £98.50 Low Longthwaite; Suffolk £94.20 Dyke, £92.80
High Stenries, £92.50 Hopestead; Charollais £91.50 Newbiggin, £84.80
Sceughdyke, £84.20 Kirtlebank; North Country Cheviot £90
Haystown and Biggin, £89.20 Langberrick; Greyface £90
New Farm, £88.80 Drumbreddan, £87.80 Balker Farms; Lleyn £87.50
Whitcastles, £83.80 Pallet Hill; Hill Cheviot £85.20
Sceughdyke and Potholm, £83.50 Tushielaw; Blackface £84.80
Smalmstown, £84.50 Cleughfoot, £84.20 Sceughdyke; Cheviot
Mule £83.20 High Stenries; Half Bred £81.80 Stobshiel
Mains; Leicester £80.50 Finnieness; Swaledale £76.50
The Shearlings; Easycare £73.80 Cleongart.
The 1,595 light hoggs
sold to £68.80 for Texels from Whitecroft
Mains, £68.20 Holydean, £67.80 Weels; Blackface £66.20
Sorbie, £64.80 Cairnbowie, £64.20 Arnicle; Hill Cheviot £65.80
Milnholm, £64.80 Becks; Greyface £65.20 Streethead, £62.80
Calliburn; North Country Cheviot £64.80 Achow; Charollais £64.80
High Glen Triplock;; Suffolk £64.80 Cumstone; Swaledale £59.80
Streethead, £52.80 Cairnbowie.
Another excellent show of 4,655
cast ewes and rams saw trade similar on the week but ewes were more
in demand and easier to sell. The sale was topped at £168.50
for Texel tups from Byreburnside, £156.50
Newbigging, £148.50 Newlands; Charollais £140 Seavers, £123
Coytre; North Country Cheviot £138.50 Haystown, £106.50
Stobshiel Mains; Suffolk £138.50 Seavers and Stackbraes, £130.50
Seavers; Dorset £131.50 Severs, £126.50 Rashee; Lleyn £130.50
Rashee; Half Bred £120.50 Seavers; Oxford £112.50 Seavers;
Leicester £108.50 Newbigging; Blackface £90.50 Edges
Green; Hill Cheviot £86.50 Newbigging; Beltex £86.50
Ballimore. Heavy ewes to £153.50 Roadside, £146.50 Stackbraes, £138.50
Kilnford Croft; Texel £148.50 Winterhope, £142.50 Harene, £140.50
Severs and Cowans; Charollais £138.50 Coytre, £122.50
Ballinliss, £120.50 Coytre; Suffolk cross £138.50 Severs, £132.50
Coytre, £122.50 Rashee; North Country Cheviot £132.50
Biggin, £102.50 Golden Lane, £100.50 Rashee; Beltex £132.50
Newbigging, £123.50 Coytre, £120 Waterside; Rouge £132.50
Roadside; Bleu d’Maine £128.50 Cowans; Leicester £110.50
Nunscleugh; Greyface £103.50 Golden Lane and Castletown, £102.50
Stackbraes; Cheviot Mule £97.50 Coytre.
Averages:
Steers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to 163.5p (153.0p)
Heavy to 169.5p (153.5p)
Heifers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to 139.5p (139.5p)
Heavy to 187.5p (156.6p)
Hoggs
Light to 208.0p (181.1p)
Standard to 254.0p (191.0p)
Medium to 246.0p (193.9p)
Heavy to 227.0p (179.9p)
Overweight -------p (-------p)
Ewes
Light to £86.50 (£49.43)
Heavy to £138.50 (£89.06)
Cast Rams to £153.50(£77.93)
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