Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts had forward 2102 store lambs, feeding ewes and cast rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 2nd September 2025.

Breeding ewes top at £175 from J F Bowe & Sons, Foulsyke Farm for a pen of Texel cross three shear ewes with Mule ewes topping at £170 for a pen of four shear ewes from G & E Sisson & Son, Grainhead.

Topping the Gimmer trade was noted vendor JW & ES Woodmass, Howard House who sold Texel cross gimmers to £235, also matching the top price was two fantastic pure Suffolk gimmers from SGD Dawkins, Romanway realising £235.

PRINCIPAL PRICES

Breeding Sheep

Ewes
Texel - £175 Foulsyke
Mule - £170, £165 Grainhead
Cheviot - £155 Achafores
Dutch Spotted- £138 Foulsyke

Gimmers
Texel - £235, £230 Howard House
Suffolk - £200 Bolam Lake House, £185 Seymour Farms
Zwartbles - £170 Low Longlands
Cheviot - £125 Achafores

Ewe Lambs
Suffolk- £152 Culfargie Estate
Texel- £122, £116 Culfargie Estate
Berrichon-£112 Low Longlands
Cheviot - £95 Achafores
Easycare- £96 Chatton Park Farm

Store lambs sharper on the week for a larger show of longer keep lambs as new faces appear at the ringside. Short keep lambs remain in strong demand with a shortage on offer. Top price of the day was a pen of Texel lambs from Culfargie Estates, Tarrylaw Farm topping at £143. In the Suffolk department chasing for top place were three tremendous Suffolk lambs from S Robson Farming, Little Ryle realising £141. Beltex lambs also top at £141 from KLRI Watson, Orchard Terrace.

Store Lambs
Texel - £143, £140, £133 Culfargie Estate
Suffolk - £141 Little Ryle, £131 Culfargie Estate
Beltex - £141 24 Orchard Terrace, £133 Culfargie Estate
Mule - £136 Pallet Hill, £131 Little Ryle, £129 Ettrickshaws
Cheviot Mule - £119 Orchard Terrace, £108 12 Weensland Road
Dutch Spotted - £92, £87 Romanway, £85 Kingfield
Ryeland - £90, £79 Little Ryle
Easycare - £90 West View, £83 Chatton Park Farm
Charollais - £88, £81 Margher-eknew
Herdwick - £87 Dmainholm Farm
Blackface -  £83 Frankly Den, £74 High Thorneyburn
North Country Cheviot- £78 High Thorneyburn
Shetland - £71 West View

Tup Lambs
Texel - £120 Raefield
Blackface- £82 Frankly Den

A larger show of feeding ewes topping at £198 for a strong Beltex cross ewe from Kingfield. A strong demand for feeding ewes of all classes with many more numbers needed each week to satisfy demand.

Feeding Ewes
Texel - £198 Kingfield
Suffolk - £142 Kingfield, £132 Cooilingel
Mule - £132 Kingfield
Easycare - £102 Cooilingel
Romney - £92 Little Ryle
Goats - £80 Kingfield
Swaledale - £82 Margher-e-kew
Ryeland- £80 Little Ryle
Blackface - £78 Margher-e-kew, £75 7 West View
Jacob - £70 Kingfield

Rams
Texel - £140 Cooilingel