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The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers’ Mart P.L.C. had forward
6,503 store hoggs, breeding sheep and cast ewes & rams at their
Annual sale at Longtown on Tuesday 8th January 2008.
A large show
of hoggs attracted many distant and local buyers and as a result
all classes met an extreme demand.
Top of £44.20 for Suffolk crosses from
High Crindledyke and Texels from Gibstown, other Texels to £43.20
High Crindledyke and £42.50 Nether Hill, other Suffolks to £42.50
Nether Hill and £40.80 Risehead. Leicester £39.80 Hightown;
North Country Cheviot £39.20 Greenside Lodge, £38.80
Sorbietrees, £37.80
Whitchesters; Greyface £37.50 High Thorneyburn, £36.80
Nether Hill, £34.20
North Gillbank and Heathergate; Blackface £37.50 High Thorneyburn, £35.80
The Gall, £33.80 Wanwood Hill; Charollais £37.20 Hallburn, £35.50
Woodfoot; Beltex £37.20 Pallet Hill; Hill Cheviot £36.20
Granton; Herdwick £34.80 Gall; Clun £33.20 Rigghead;
Zwartbles £31.80
Barnglieshead; Roussin £30 Castlefearn; Shetland £26.20
Inglewood Bank; Swaledale £22.80 Greenleycleugh. Tup lambs
to £39.50 Hightown.
Breeding sheep met a sound enquiry and
were short of requirements. Top of £48
for Greyface in lamb ewes from Bayles who also sold Charollais’ at £40,
Texels at £39 and Swaledales at £26; Blackface £27.50
Knowehead, £25
Knockreoch. In lamb Greyface hoggs to £42 Heathergate.
Cast
ewes and rams met a fast trade at above current prime stock sale
prices. Top of £60.50 and £52.50 for Texel cross ewes
from Woodhead (Jamieson); Hill Cheviot £39.50 Carlenrigg;
Greyface £35.50 Chapel; Bleu d’Maine £35.50
Woodfoot. Rams to £46.50 for Leicesters from Granton and
for Texels from Muirhead, Granton and Newlands, other Texels £44.50
Woodhead, £41.50
Minto; Suffolk £43.50, £41.50 North House, £40
Chapel; North Country Cheviot £43.50 High Thorneyburn, £40
North House; Meat Linc £40
Greystoke Castle; Hill Cheviot £38.50 Catslackburn, £35.50
Granton, £34.50
Falnash, £33.50 Upper Hindhope; Zwartbles £31.50 Barnglieshead;
Blackface £30.50
High Thorneyburn.
2007 sale report
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