Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 4,506 store lambs and feeding ewes at Longtown on Tuesday 10th November 2020.

Another good show of stores attracted many buyers from the South as well as locals, trade was excellent from the start to the finish, with last weeks extreme rates easily maintained several buyers left unsupplied.

Top £100 for a Beltex from Horsley Hill Farm Cottage, others to £90 Mid Banks, £89 Beckstones; Texels to £91 from Gillalees & Welldon, others to £90 Ormiston, £89 Marchbank; Suffolks to £82.50 Logie Farm, £79 Waterhead Cottage; Charollais to £91 Boghall; Greyfaces to £84 Nether House, £81.50 Horsley Hill Farm Cottage, £77 Aldery Terrace & Mossband House; Cheviot Mules to £88 Shepherds Cottage, £79 Yetholm Mains; Jacobs to £79 Wardrew; Kendal Roughs to £74.50 Church View; Leicesters to £90 & £83 Barlaes; Easycares to £72 Blackhaugh.

A tremendous show of hill lambs met the best trade of the season. Cheviots sold to a top of £81, £79 for Hill North Country Cheviots from Dunterly, others to £79 Yetholm Mains & Blakehope, £76.50 New Farm. Hill Cheviots to £73 Clerkhill & Waterhead of Dryffe, £72.50 Granton & Priesthaugh, £71 Haliburton. Blackfaces to £90, £80 Horseholme, £80 Shepherds Cottage, £77 The Lamperts & Crindledykes & Mains (Goodfellow), £76 Marbrack. Herdwicks to £55 Pow Heads.

Feeding ewes in very strong demand. Top of £80 for Texels from Hazelbank. Hill ewes to £74 for Cheviots from Girnwood; Blackfaces to £53 East Redford Green, £51 The Ash (Thompson). Cast rams to £122 for Leicesters from Crindledykes.

A small show of breeding sheep met a much sharper trade with correct Texel ewes to £85 from Fairfield, who also sold Suffolks to £84. Correct Blackfaces to £50 from Ewelees and Blackface ewe lambs to £76 Horseholme.