The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
31 prime cattle, 7 young bulls, 39 over thirty month cattle, 5,698
prime lambs and 8,498 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at
Longtown on Thursday 6th September 2012.
Prime cattle saw a shortage of numbers, quality saw trade good to
sell, and three times as many could have been sold to advantage.
Top price to 219.5p (twice) for Limousin bullocks from D. & E.
Lockhart, Faulding Cleugh. Limousin heifers sold to 218.5p from Messrs
Rutherford, Bleatarn.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER KILO)
Bullocks
Limousin – 219.5p (x2), 214.5p,
203.5p Faulding Cleugh.
British Blue – 209.5p
Faulding Cleugh.
Heifers
Limousin – 218.5p Bleatarn, 214.5p
Hallburn, 209.5p Low Hallburn, 195.5p Woodslee.
Charolais – 214.5p Hallburn.
Saler –
198.5p Low Hallburn.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER HEAD)
Bullocks
Limousin – £1,491 Becton Hall, £1,404
Faulding Cleugh.
Heifers
Limousin – £1,311 Bleatarn, £1,201
Hallburn.
Charolais – £1,265
Hallburn.
Saler –
£1,210 Low Hallburn.
Prime bulls were a small show and quality sorts in short supply
saw trade top at 206.5p for a British Blue x Friesian from T. & M.
Irving, Becton Hall.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER KILO)
Limousin – 196.5p,
189.5p Harelawhole.
British Blue – 206.5p
Becton Hall, 199.5p Broomhills.
Friesian – 167.5p
Becton Hall.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER HEAD)
Limousin – £1,061
Harelawhole.
British Blue – £1,331Becton
Hall.
Friesian – £1,122
Becton Hall.
The 39 OTM cattle were a larger and better show which saw a top
of 176.5p for an Angus cow from Mr I. Nelson, Outertown, Limousins
to 172.5p from J. &
N. Blaylock & Son, Hallburn.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER KILO)
Limousin – 172.5p
Hallburn, 159.5p Sorbietrees and Outertown, 150.5p, 148.5p, 144.5p,
143.5p, 135.5p, 127.5p Blindhillbush.
Angus –176.5p, 126.5p Outertown.
Hereford –158.5p Hallburn, 139.5p Bleatarn.
Simmental - 138.5p Hallburn.
Friesian – 112.5p Riddings.
Montbeliard Bull – 155.5p
Peterscrook.
PRINCPAL PRICES (PER HEAD)
Limousin – £1,098 Blindhillbush, £1,086
Hallburn,
£1,084 Outertown, £1,030, £989, £975, £918
Blindhillbush.
Angus –£1,094 Outertown.
Hereford –£1,172
Hallburn.
Simmental - £1,004
Hallburn.
Montbeliard Bull – £1,306
Peterscrook.
Charolais Bull – £1,255
Peterscrook.
A larger show of 5,698 prime lambs were a mixed trade this week
with a big difference between lambs with flesh and lean lambs, good
lambs regularly sold between 180p and 190p but leaner lambs were
little more than store price with many more light weight lambs forward.
The sale averaged 179.1p per kilo. Top price of 205p per kilo for
Texels from Maidencoates with a top price per head of £100.20
for Texels from Dyke Farm, £98.50 Wood Farm, £97 Carran;
Suffolk £93.50 Sceughdyke and Barnglies, £88.50 Clayock,
£87.80 Guardsmill; Charollais
£92.50 Golden Lane, £90.50 Braithwaite Hall, £84.80 Broomhouse;
Beltex £88.80 Wood Farm, £84.80 Sorbie,
£83.80 Wood Farm; Greyface £88.50, £76.80 Golden Lane, £76.80
Penpeugh; Dorset £86.80 Golden Lane; Zwartbles £80 Cottage, £69.50
Viewfield; Hill Cheviot £76.20, £75.80 Balure, £62.80 Mainside;
Blackface £72.50 Wanwood Hill, £70 Culquhasen, £65.80 Penpeugh;
Bleu d’Main £71.80, £67.80 Middle Farm; Oxford £66.20
Guards; Cheviot Mule £60.80 Tushielaw; Ryeland £60 Gall Farm.
A larger show of 1,291 lightweight lambs saw well fleshed lambs
easily sold with Swales and plainer types harder to cash. Top of £67.20
for Charollais from Low Tirfergus; Suffolk £65.20 Low Tirfergus,
£61.20 Eastfield of Wiston; Blackface £62.20 Milnmark, £59.80
Wanwood Hill; Hill Cheviot £60.50, £51.50 Mainside; Greyface £60
Golden Lane, £59.80 Arnicle; Swaledale £53.80 Kirkland
Green, £42.20 Softley; Easycare £49.80, £44.80
East Fortissat.
An extraordinary show of 8,498 cast ewes and
rams were forward to
the usual ring of buyers with trade a couple of pounds easier on
last week. Good selling Continental ewes remain easily sold and rams
constantly short of buyers requirements, realising extreme rates
and a many more plainer hill type ewes forward proving harder to
cash.
Rams to £173.50 for Texels and Charollais’
from Burdon, other Texels£148.50 Roadside, £143.50 Willimoteswick,
other Charollais £139.50, £138.50 Roadside; Leicester
£148.50 Dunns House, £133.50 Stonehall, £127 Ottercops;
Suffolk £123.50 Golden Lane, £118.50 Haithwaite, £110.50
Brae Road; North Country Cheviot
£106.50 Catslackburn, £86.50 Cooilingel; Blackface £100.50, £92.50
Milnmark, £88.50 Crewe Road; Zwartbles £98.50 Main Street, £82.50
Cooilingel; Dorset £98.50 Burdon; Hill Cheviot £84.50
Glenlea, £64.50 Eweslees; Swaledale £64.50 Coldshield, £57.50
Stackbraes.
Heavy ewes to £122.50 for Texels from Roadside, £120.50
Colinton Mains, £118.50 Cooilingel; Suffolk £106.50 Flagstaff, £98.50
Cowcorse and Roadside, £97.50 Flagstaff; Charollais £104.50
Roadside, £102.50 Brae Road, £92.50 Severs; Leicester £100.50
Cowcorse, £94.50 Coldshield,
£78.50 The Side; Cheviot Mule £100 The Croft, £84.50
Colmslie Hill, £80.50 Severs; Half Bred £95.50 Cowcorse;
North Country Cheviot £93.50 School House, £90.50 Forss, £88.50
Skaill; Greyface £92.50 Westerhall, £89.50 Todburn,
£86.50 High Wood.
Hill ewes to £73.50 for Lleyn from Flagstaff, £59.50
Braehead; Hill Cheviot £69.50 Cottage, £68.50 Potholm, £67.50
Lough Road; Blackface £64.50 Dunns House,
£62.50 The Side, £58.50 Wanwood Hill; Swaledale
£54.50 Nettling Flatt, £51.50 Setterah Park, £50.50
Black House; Shetland £44.50 Shop Farm, £39.50 Edgehill.
Averages:
Steers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to 219.5p (207.9p)
Heavy to 195.5p (183.2p)
Heifers
Light to 193.5p (190.0p)
Medium to 214.5p (201.2p)
Heavy to 218.5p (208.4p)
Young bulls 206.5p (182.0p)
Lambs
Light to 185.0p (160.5p)
Standard to 201.0p (179.2p)
Medium to 205.0p (182.4p)
Heavy to 192.4p (176.9p)
O/weight to 175.0p (158.2p)
Ewes
Light to £73.50 (£44.02)
Heavy to £122.50 (£71.69)
Cast Rams £173.50 (£94.81)
corresponding week 2011 sale
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