Longtown Store Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward a massive show of store lambs and feeding ewes at their end of year sale at Longtown on Tuesday 17th December 2019, where there was an entry of 5,831.

With the recent bad wet weather, lambs were not the quality of recent weeks, however plenty of buyers operating, with trade very much on par with last weeks extreme rates. ¾ Beltex and Texels at a premium.

Top £90.50 for Beltexs from Uppercleugh, others to £85.50 Heathery Knowe, £85 Broomhills. Texels to £88 & £87.50 Uppercleugh, others to £87 Bloch, £83.50 Whitstone Hill; Suffolks to £87 Swaites, £77 Hepple Hill; North Cheviots to £75.50 North Synton, £72 Kelsocleugh, £71.50 Yetholm Mains; Charollais to £80.50 & £76.50 Moss Side; Rouges to £73 Scarba Cottage; Kerry Hills to £68 Edges Green; Cheviot Mules to £75.50 Archbank, £71 Bloch; Zwartbles to £66 Greyside; Greyfaces to £74 School Cottage, £73 West Hottbank, £71 Benmore; Hill Cheviots to £65 Bloch, £63.50 & £62 Burnfoot of Ewes, £61 Arivore; Blackfaces to £66 Morven, £62.50 West Hottbank, £61.50 Haliburton, £61 Killervan; Swaledales to £61 School Cottage, £55 West Hottbank, £53 Millbeck Hall; Herdwicks to £65 Millbeck Hall; Leicesters to £69 Holme Head. Tup lambs to £83.50 for Texels from Dalegarth, Blackfaces to £80.50 Edges Green.

Feeding ewes (306) a strong trade. Top £73 for Texels from Scarbie Cottage; Greyfaces to £71 Haliburton; Cheviot Mules to £67 Park Hill; North Cheviots to £67 Satchells; Kerry Hills to £67 Derskelpin Farmers. Hill ewes to £55 for Blackfaces from Derskelpin Farmers; Cheviots to £45 Falnash. Cast rams to £93 for a Charollais from Dewhirst Farm; Texels to £90 West Hottbank.