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Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart PLC had forward 5,065
store lambs and breeding sheep at their sale at Longtown on Tuesday
28th October, 2008.
A large show with many distant buyers present,
all classes enjoyed the best trade of the season. Top was £49.80, £49, £47.50
for Texel crosses from Lees Farm.
Suffolks £40.50 Ridley
Stokoe, £40 Risehead; Charollais £37
Old Police House; Halfbreds £35.80 Whitehill; Greyfaces £41.20
Taylorburn, £39.50 Blacksmiths Cottage, £38.50 Highburnfoot;
Blackfaces £32, £30.50 Chapel House, £29 Ramshope, £28.50
Sewing Shields; Herdwicks £30 The Green; Kendal Roughs £28
Church View; Swaledales £25.50 Knells, £22.80 Sinderhope
Shields.
Tup lambs to £38.50 Southdene, feeding ewes £40
Cooks House.
Hill Cheviots also met the best trade of the season
with buyers from Lincoln present. Top was £38.50 for a pen
from Granton with others to £35.50 Singlie, £35.20
Unthank, £35
Burnfoot of Ewes.
Breeding ewes (701) met a keen enquiry with
a top of £47
, £45 for Beltex shearlings from Shawhill, Greyfaces to £45
Ashfield.
Ewes to £44 for Suffolk x from Shawhill; Texels £40
Croft Avenue; Beltex £42 Shawhill; Greyfaces £38
Ashfield; Hill Cheviots £39 Craig Farm; Zwartbles £28
Streatlam Grange.
Rams (50) were good quality and again easy to
sell. Suffolk shearlings sold to £260, £250 from
The Lands, others £160, £150
Tushielaw; Texels £250, £240, £210 Kingside;
Rouges £220, £170 Dinwoodie Green; North Country
Cheviots £130 Carruthers, £120 Innergellan House;
Swaledales £100 Haltcliffe; Beltex £150 Low Fauld.
Suffolk ram lambs to £190, £180, £170 The Lands;
Charollais £130 Springfield. Suffolk 2 shear ram £130
Snowdon Close; Leicesters £180 Snowden Close; Charollais £110
Springfield.
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