The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
44 prime cattle, 18 over thirty month cattle, 5,746
prime hoggs and 6,715 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at
Longtown on Thursday 2nd February 2012.
A smaller show of prime cattle saw a rise in trade and topped at
227.5p for an outstanding Limousin heifer from J. & N. Blaylock & Son,
Hallburn, Charolais sold to 222.5p from A. Irving, Toppin Castle
and 218.5p (twice) both from Messrs Blaylock, Hallburn, with Blonde
d’Aquitaine bullocks topping at 212.5p shown by A. & W.J.
Taylor & Son, Dashwell Green and purchased by W. Kirkup & Sons,
Butchers, Longtown.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER KILO)
Bullocks
Blonde d’aquitaine – 212.5p Dashwell Green.
Limousin – 211.5p The Gill, 209.5p, 207.5p Toppin Castle, 207.5p
The Lake, 206.5p The Gill, 204.5p Dashwell Green, 203.5p Dashwell
Green and The Lake, 198.5p Dashwell Green.
British Blue – 207.5p Toppin Castle.
Charolais – 202.5p, 201.5p The Gill, 196.5p Sceughdyke, 193.5p
Dashwell Green, 190.5p Sceughdyke.
Heifers
Limousin – 227.5p Hallburn, 209.5p Toppin Castle, 198.5p Hallburn,
196.5p Houghton House and Hallburn.
Charolais – 222.5p Toppin Castle, 218.5p (x2) Hallburn, 198.5p
Sceughdyke, 195.5p Sceughdyke, 193.5p (x2) Hallburn, 193.5p Houghton
House.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER HEAD)
Bullocks
Charolais – £1,488 The Gill, £1,441 Dashwell Green, £1,336
Sceughdyke, £1,309 The Gill.
Limousin – £1,438 The Gill, £1,424 Dashwell Green, £1,404
The Gill, £1,400 The Lake, £1,340, £1,338 Toppin
Castle, £1,332 The Lake.
Blonde d’aquitaine – £1,413 Dashwell Green.
British Blue – £1,379 Toppin Castle.
Heifers
Charolais – £1,311, £1,289 Hallburn, £1,191
Sceughdyke, £1,179 Toppin Castle, £1,161 Houghton House, £1,124
Sceughdyke.
Limousin – £1, 160 Hallburn, £1,120 Toppin Castle, £1,110
Hallburn.
A small plain show of OTMs topped at 133.5p for Black & Whites
from T.B. Imrie, Harelawhole.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER KILO)
Friesian – 133.5p, 119.5p Harelawhole, 113.5p Evertown.
Simmental – 114.5p Low Longthwaite.
Galloway – 105.5p Softley.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER HEAD)
Friesian – £1,074, £824 Harelawhole, £822
Evertown.
An excellent show of 5,746 prime hoggs were forward
to a full ring of buyers, with an overall average of 207.3p per kilo
obtained, with export weight hoggs regularly between 210p and 230p
with all classes being firmer on the week and many more well finished
hoggs forward.
Hoggs sold to a top of 288p per kilo for Beltex from
The Wreay. Top per head of £117.50 for Texel from Trailflat, £116.50
Uppercleuch, £114.50 Pirntaton; Suffolk £114.50 Pirntaton, £103.50
Becton Hall, £101.50 Old Rectory; Cheviot Mule £110.50
Borlick, £82.80 Tarrasfoot; Beltex £103.50 Drummuie, £95.50
Nether Brotherstone, £94.50 The Wreay; Zwartbles £98.50
Cleughbrae; Blackface £97.50 Blairs House, £92.50 Pirntaton, £90.50
Penchrise and Glenshanna; Charollais £96.50 Leaona Villa, £89.80
Barend, £88.20 Westhill; North Country Cheviot £95.50
Jubilee Park, £94.50 Plantation Cottage and Whitstonehill, £90.50
Plantation Cottage; Greyface £93.80 Justicetown, £93.50
Hesleywell, £92.50 Longrow; Hill Cheviot £90, £88.50
Falnash, £85.80 Potholm; Hampshire £86.50, £83.50
Dyke; Leicester £86.50 Pirntaton, £74.50 Clonrae, £72.50
Hesleywell; Ryeland £83.50 H & K Farms; Lleyn £76.80, £73.50
Cooilingel; Swaledale £76.50 Ravenwood Cottage, £74.20
Hayclose, £73.50 Burn House and Hesleywell; Herdwick £75.80
Hayclose
The 1,652 lightweight hoggs continued to sell at recent high rates.
Top of £89.50 for Texels from Barrogill Mains, £77.80
Howgillside; Beltex £86.50 The Wreay, £85.50 Balneil;
Hill Cheviot £80 Falnash, £69.20 Waterside; Charollais £75.20
Corries Mill; Lleyn £74.80, £68.80 Girdstingwood; Suffolk £74.20
Girdstingwood; Blackface £73.80 Sorbie, £69.80 North
Deanhead; Greyface £71.80 Clonrae, £69.80 Naddle; Zwartbles £69.50
Cooilingel; Swaledale £65.50 Oswie; Welsh Mountain £62.80
H & K Farms; Jacob £54.50 Barend.
A tremendous show of 6,715 cast ewes & rams were
forward to a packed ring of buyers with all classes £2 dearer
on the week. Blackface, Swaledale and Cheviot ewes were in very strong
demand and lean plain ewes were short of buyers requirements.
Top
price of £149.50 for Texel rams from Roadside, £143.50
Westhill, £139.50 Severs; Charollais £134.50 Severs and
Roadside, £126.50 Roadside; Leicester £132.50 Severs, £113.50
Clonrae, £108.50 Newbigging; Suffolk £132.50 Pirntaton, £128.50
Westhill, £126.50 Alton; North Country Cheviot £126.50
Newton Farm, £118.50 Mainside, £113.50 Marygate; Hill
Cheviot £120.50 Lirritn, £99.50 Catslackburn, £96.50
Newton Farm; Beltex £116.50 Mouldyhills, £106.50 Roadside;
Rouge £113.50 Severs; Bleu d’Maine £100.50 Haithwaite;
Lleyn £96.50 North Deanhead; Blackface £96.50 Smyllum, £95.50
North Deanhead, £94.50 Marygate; Dorset £94.50 Severs;
Zwartbles £84.50 Severs; Jacob £84.50 Haithwaite; Swaledale £68.50
Burn House, £54.50 Border Rigg.
Heavy ewes to £148.50
for Texels from Hopesyke, £146.50
Newton Farm, £144.50 Middle Dukesfield; Suffolk £134.50
Stackbraes, £130.50 Roadside, £126.50 Pirntaton; Beltex £132.50
The Wreay, £104.50 Stackbraes, £102.50 The Wreay; Charollais £126.50
Severs, £122.50 Haithwaite, Roadside and Lynegar, Greyface £118.50, £108.50, £106.50
Golden Lane; Leicester £116.50 Cranshaws and Middle Dukesfield, £106.50
Pirntaton, £103.50 Fontanbleau; North Country Cheviot £116.50
Lirrit, £114.50, £106.50 Newton Farm, £100.50 Olrig
Mains; Cheviot Mule £114.50 Fontanbleau, £106.50 Roadside, £98.50
Whinneyknowe; Half Bred £108.50 Fontanbleau, £100.50
Westhill; Bleu d’Maine £103.50, £93.50 Middle Farm;
Zwartbles £96.50 West Clyth Farm; Dorset £79.50 North
Deanhead; Ryeland £59.50 Newtown.
Hill ewes to £97.50
for Cheviots from Backmuir, £96.50
Haithwaite, £92.50 Hill of Balmaclellan; Blackface £92.50
Whiteside, £88.50 Tombuie, £85.50 Haithwaite; Shetland £87.50
Cannon Park, £52.50 Upper Millsteads; Jacob £69.50 Lesson
Hall Farm, £65.50 Stackbraes; Swaledale £64.50 Stackbraes, £62.50
Ravenwood Cottage and Chapel Farm, £61.50 High Edges Green;
Herdwick £59.50 Stackbraes and Kilncroft, £58.50, £57.50
Stackbraes; Hebridean £55.50 Westhill, £42.50 Cooilingel.
Goats
to £82.50 Stackbraes, £72.50 Fairnbank.
Averages:
Steers
Light to 184.5p (184.5p)
Medium to 209.5p (198.3p)
Heavy to 212.5p (202.4p)
Heifers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to 227.5p (205.1p)
Heavy to 218.5p (198.5p)
Young bulls to -------p (-------p)
Hoggs
Light to 288.0p (207.4p)
Standard to 265.0p (210.3p)
Medium to 243.0p (205.1p)
Heavy to 216.0p (189.9p)
O/weight to -------p (-------p)
Ewes
Light to £97.50 (£69.32)
Heavy to £148.50 (£95.67)
Cast Rams to £149.50(£95.98)
corresponding week 2011 sale report |
