Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 1,736 Store Sheep sale at Longtown on Wednesday 27th August 2025.

A small show of store lambs on offer with a lot of vendors currently on standstills from previous breeding sales. A lack of strong lambs on offer with a large show of blackface tup lambs forward. Longer keep lambs seeing a slight resistance due to the shortage of grass.

Lambs topped at £142 for a fantastic pen of Suffolk cross lambs from B & S R Stobbart & Son, Hullerbank.

PRINCIPAL PRICES
Store Lambs
Suffolk - £142 Hullerbank, £125, £124, £119 Springhill, £109 Merkland
Texel - £134, £133 Greenwell Meadows, £130 Whitstonehill, £117, £113 Greenwell Meadows, £112 Moorside Parks and Springhill
Charollais - £120 Greenwell Meadows, £105 Monk Farm, £101 Whitfield, £98 Monk
Half Bred- £110 Springhill
Mule - £106 The Row, £105 Baggarah, £96 The Row
Cheviot Mule - £105 Sorbietrees
Beltex - £102 Whitstonehill
Blackface - £65 The Row
Tup Lambs
Suffolk - £121 Springhill
Texel - £89 Todhillwood
Blackface - £77 Lochs Estate, £67 Merkland

Feeding ewes holding up a strong trade with plenty of customers looking for numbers, many more could be sold week on week.

Topping the sale was a pen of English Mules realising £114 from Carruthers Farming, Merkland.

PRINCIPAL PRICES
Ewes
Mule - £114 Merkland
Blackface - £100 Bonnington, £72 Pole