STORE SHEEP
The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
5,075 Store Lambs at their sale at Longtown on Tuesday
13th November, 2012.
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buyers from the South meant all classes easily maintained last weeks
rates.
Top of £60 for Texels from Oliver Road, others to £59
Harwood House, £58 Glentoo; Suffolk £56.50 Artfield, £56
Glentoo; North Country Cheviot £52 Oliver Road; Greyface £51.50
Riggfoot, £48 Greensburn; Charollais £49 Enzieholm;
Hill Cheviot £47 Granton, £45 Drycleughlea; Blackface £40, £39.50
Barnglieshead, £38 Oliver Farming; Herdwick £34.50 Thirlspot;
Swaledale £22 Deadwater.
Feeding ewes to £60 Burnton,
cast rams £140 Quarry House.
BREEDING SHEEP
1,112 Breeding Sheep were forward at the late season sale, comprising
25 rams, 2 dispersals and an array of other breeding stock.
Rams
sold to £320 for a Bluefaced Leicester shearling from
Messrs Browell, Quarry House, others from the same home to £300
and £220; Charollais shearling £260, £240 Upper
Auchenlay; Texel shearling £200 Kinninghall, £160 Haas
Grove and Greenknowe; Suffolk shearling £180, £160 Catslackburn.
Also
included were two dispersals on behalf of W. Bell & Co.,
Greenknowe, Canonbie and Mr W. Nairn, Burnton Farm, Cumnock.
These
sheep attracted a full ring of buyers and sold very well considering
the time of year.
Greenknowe – Texel shearlings £100, £98, £95;
1 crop £98, £94; 2 crop £90, £88; 3 crop £86.
Burnton – Texel
shearlings £100, £95, £90;
1 crop £100, £90; 2 crop £92, £91, £88;
3 crop £84.
Other breeding sheep sold to a top of £80
for Swaledale shearlings from The Bayles; Hill Cheviot £52
Blackburn; Greyface £52
Linton House; North Country Cheviot £47 Bayles. Ewes to £50
for North Country Cheviot from Lochuisge; Swaledale £47 Bayles;
Blackface £46, £40 Bayles, £40 Linton House; Hill
Cheviot £44 Bayles, £43 Linton House.
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