The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
57 prime cattle, 2 young bulls, 33 over thirty month cattle, 2,417
prime hoggs and 3,043 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at
Longtown on Thursday 1st April, 2010.
Clean cattle lacked overall quality
with trade sharper. Top price of 180.5p for a Limousin heifer from
Hallburn, others 177.5p Upper Tinwald, 175.5p, 172.5p, 171.5p Toppin
Castle. Limousin bullocks to 173.5p The Gill. Simmental bullocks
to £1,150
Sceughdyke; Limousin £1,180
The Gill.
Over Thirty Month cattle were dearer on the week. Limousin
cows to 117.5p Bellbank, 114.5p Becks; Angus 114.5p Scugg House;
Friesian 109.5p Jerriestown; British Blue 104.5p Greensburn. Limousin
heifers 138.5p Plumpe. Angus bull £801 Whitstonehill.
The 2,417 prime hoggs were well short of buyers requirements and
met a superb trade selling regularly at 210p-220p even though the
Easter weekend loomed. The sale average for hoggets up to 45 kilos
was 205.4p and with the heavy hoggets it made the overall avergage
197.1p per kilo. Top price of £116.50 per head and 248p per
kilo for Beltex’s from Messrs MacTaggart Bros, Station Yard.
Included on this day was the Annual Show & Sale of Blackface
Prime Hoggs. The show was kindly sponsored by Frank Johnston Tractors
Ltd, Carlisle and the championship was awarded to Messrs J.P. Fisher,
Smalmstown, Longtown for a pen of 20 weighing 48 kilos and selling
at £90 to the judge Mr. Paul Barker of Woodhead Bros., Colne.
Prize
winners:
20 hoggs 36 kilos and under - 1st W. Tod, Glenshanna
20 hoggs 37 to 42 kilos - 1st Messrs Ramsay, Milnmark, 2nd J. Jardine,
The Yett
20 hoggs over 43 kilos - 1st Messrs J.P. Fisher, Smalmstown, 2nd
J. Jardine, The Yett
Champion pen of Blackfaces, pictured the judge Paul Barker and
vendor John Fisher
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Principal prices: Beltex £116.50, £102.80 Station Yard;
Texel £103.50 Newbigging, £98.80 Station Yard; Suffolk £99.80
Newbigging, £97.80 Dunjop; Charollais £98.50 Newbigging, £91.50
Culquhasen; Hill Cheviot £94.80 The Land, £93.50 Falnash;
Blackface £92.80 Yett, £90 Smalmstown; Greyface £89.20
Oswie, £88.50 Hammershields; North Country Cheviot £88.80
Justicetown, £85.20 Ploverhill; Swaledale £83.20 Farney
Shield, £77.80 Hammershields.
Lightweight hoggs to £77.80
for Beltex from Newton; Hill Cheviot £75.20
Graystale; Texel £75.20 Graystale; Jacob £72.80 Smerlie;
Shetland £70.50 Newbigging; North Country Cheviot £68.80
Unthank; Blackface £68.20 Cara View; Greyface £61.80
Newbigging.
Cast ewes and rams were another good show for quality
with best ewes maintaining recent rates, smaller plain and export
types were dearer on the week but middle of the road ewes, especially
fat were easier on the week.
Top price of £169.50 for heavy
Texel ewes from Winterhope, others £163.50 Winterhope, £150
Kilnford Croft; Charollais £164.50
Roadside, £153.50 Severs Road; Suffolk £161.50 Blackburn, £158.50
Kilnford Croft, £155.50 Church Road; Rouge £138.50 Newbigging;
Leicester £138.50 Whintingstown, £102.50 Graystale; North
Country Cheviot £117.50 Achow, £112.50 Carruthers, £108.50
Oldfield; Greyface £116.50 Roadside, £112.50 Winterhope, £106.50
Copperthorns; Beltex £108.50 Newbigging, £99.50 Severs;
Bleu d’Maine £99.50 Middle Farm; Half Bred £96.50
Winterhope; Cheviot Mule £82.50 Stackbraes; Easycare £75.50
Westerhouses; Zwartbles £74.50 Stackbraes.
Hill ewes to £95.50, £92.50
for Lleyns from Westerhouses; Blackface £80.50 Broughton Mains, £71.50
Horseholme, £69.50
Allfornaught; Hill Cheviot £73.50 Becks and Stackbraes, £68.50
Allfornaught; Swaledale £67.50 Brisco Hill, £64.50 Rosgill
Hall; Shetland £56.50 Archibald Road.
Rams to £161.50
for Texels from Roadside, £160.50 Severs;
Suffolk £157.50, £150.50 Severs; Charollais £142.50
Rashee, £128.50 Newbigging; Leicester £138.50 Newbigging;
Beltex £118.50 Rashee, £112.50 Severs; North Country
Cheviot £108.50 Carruthers and Severs; Blackface £106.50
Newbigging, £82.50 Graystale; Border Leicester £102.50
Broynach; Bleu d’Maine £94.50 Rashee; Hill Cheviot £93.50
Becks; Swaledale £66.50 Farney Shield.
Goats sold to £100.50, £93.50, £90.50
Coytre.
Averages
Steers
Medium to 165.5p (154.2p)
Heavy to 173.5p (153.6p)
Heifers
Medium to 162.5p (158.5p)
Heavy to 180.5p (157.6p)
Young bulls 129.5p (123.9p)
Hoggs
Light to 213.0p (202.1p)
Standard to 236.0p (206.6p)
Medium to 239.0p (204.0p)
Heavy to 248.0p (182.4p)
Ewes
Light to £95.50
(£53.96)
Heavy to £169.50 (£97.05)
Cast Rams £161.50 (£107.80)
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