Longtown Primestock Thursday 28 May 2026
C&D Auction Marts had forward an entry of 3,129 sheep comprising of 251 spring lambs, 1,209 hoggs and 1,669 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown Mart on Thursday 28th May 2026.
NEW SEASON SPRING LAMBS
An increased entry of 251 spring lambs with the handy weight well bred lambs selling with ease, many more numbers required on a weekly basis as more firms look to switch over the next coming weeks.
Top price per head of £290 for a tremendous Beltex lamb shown by JA & LA Thompson, Woodhead, Scaleby, which also achieved the top price per kilo of 547p.
Overall average 448.4p (SQQ 452.5p)
Principal Prices (Per Head)
Beltex £290 Woodhead.
Suffolk £272 Wester Oathlaw, £222 Beckhall, £220 Kilnford Croft, £210 Rigfoot.
Texel £240 Braehead, £239 Kimmeter Green, £232 Mansfield Cottage, £230 Dashwell Green, £228 Braehead.
Oxford £228, £212 Guards.
Charollais £228 Beckfoot.
Principal Prices (Per Kilo)
Beltex 547p Woodhead.
Texel 489p, 488p Braehead, 479p Dashwell Green, 477p Kilnford Croft, 476p Dashwell Green, 473p Kimmeter Green.
Suffolk 469p Dashwell Green, 463p Guardsmill, 453p Studholme Bungalow & Wester Oathlaw, 449p Kilnford Croft.
Charollais 447p, 439p Beckfoot.
Dutch Spotted 440p Mid Derry.
Hampshire 439p, 428p Steel Hall.
Oxford 433p Guards.
PRIME HOGGS
A small entry of 1,209 prime hoggs forward with a lot of cleaning up hoggs on offer. Heavies were in very big demand, constantly selling between £230-250 and handy weight well fed hoggs regularly at 430-450p per kilo.
Top price of £266 for Texel hoggs from J Donaghue, Trawill, Todhills with top per kilo of 497p for Beltex from M Dunlop, Corstane, Broughton
Overall average 397.7p (SQQ 400.3p)
Principal prices (Per head)
Texel £266 Trawill, £253 Broomhills, £252 South Bogbain, £250 Powheads.
Beltex £260 Broomhills, £254 Currie Inn, £249 Drummuie, £244, £243 Broomhills.
Cheviot £257, £243 Skelfhill, £232 South Bogbain & Becks, £230 Lurgan, Hindhope & South Bogbain.
Charollais £254 Lanehead.
Lleyn £254 South Bowerhouses.
Cheviot Mule £253 South Bogbain.
Suffolk £248, £246 South Bogbain, £245 Broomhills, £243, £232 South Bogbain.
Blue Texel £245, £222 Meikle Dykes.
Easycare £244 Monellie.
Blackface £230 Cowden Burn, £228 Kirkhouse, £220 Cowden Burn.
Mule £214 Kirkhouse, £210 Wydon Eals, £205 Blackford, £200 Mosser Gate & South Bogbain.
Principal Prices (Per Kilo)
Beltex 497p, 481p Corstane, 475p Lurgan, 473p Killocraw, 469p Broomhills.
Texel 482p, 462p Heathery Hall, 458p South Bogbain, 455p High Trewhitt, 453p Pasture House.
Suffolk 454p South Bogbain, 447p Heathery Hall, 446p, 439p South Bogbain.
Cheviot 452p Thornship, 451p Mallsgate Hall, 446p Pasture House, 444p Blackside, 442p Longoe.
Easycare 444p, 443p, 440p High Trewhitt.
Blackface 441p Heathery Hall, 440p Pasture House, 438p Laughtmuirside, 436p Heathery Hall, 434p New House.
Shetland 438p, 418p Heathery Hall.
Blue Texel 437p, 423p Meikle Dykes.
Cheviot Mule 429p South Bogbain.
Mule 428p Kirkhouse.
Herdwick 397p Mosser Gate.
CAST EWES AND RAMS
A smaller show of 1,669 cast ewes and rams forward with the best ewes much dearer again on the week, whilst heavy ewes remaining similar. Plainer sorts met some resistance. Many more ewes needed going forward.
Texel ewes sold to a top of £395 from Blackside Farms.
Cheviot ewes selling to £188 from RM Fishwick, Thornship, Shap.
Rams topped at £290 for a Texels from Horsemarket.
Heavy ewes
Texel £395 Blackside, £325 Tercrosset, £315 Home Farm, £300 Fowrass & Blackside, £298 Fallaw, £285 Home Farm & Blackside.
Beltex £278 Tercrosset, £230 Thackwood, £220 Tercrosset.
Charollais £270, £212, £205 Thackwood.
Suffolk £240 Wester Oathlaw, £224, £214 Beckoot, £212 Studholme & Windyknowe.
Blue Leicester £216 Beckfoot.
Cheviot Mule £204 Tercrosset, £192 Fowrass, £190 Kilnford Croft, Thornship & Killocraw.
Dutch Spotted £202 Coxhill.
Mule £196 Mosser Gate, £189 Leithenhall, £188, £175 Kirkhill, £174 Beckfoot, Blackford, Porterstown & Leithenhall.
Light ewes
Cheviot £188 Thornship, £174 Ramseycleugh, £165 Thornship, £163 Drumreach, £160 Glendearg & Kilnford Croft.
Easycare £168 Monellie.
Swaledale £151 Spoutbank.
Blackface £150 Cranberry Brow, £144 Thornton Tower, £134 Tinnis, £130 Brackley & Pole.
Herdwick £134 West Stobswood.
Kendal Rough £134 Gill Head.
Rams
Texel £290, £272, £260 Horsemarket.
Suffolk £285 Logie Durno, £240 Beckfoot, £228 Guardsmill.
Charollais £255 Beckfoot.
Cheviot £250 Horsemarket.
Bluefaced Leicester £220, £200 The Ash.
Beltex £200 Blackside.
Lleyn £195 Incheoch.
Blue Texel £190 Meikle Dykes.
Averages:
Lambs
Light to —–p (—–p)
Standard to 454.0p (427.1p)
Medium to 489.0p (453.7p)
Heavy to 479.0p (442.3p)
Overweight to 547.0p (445.0p)
Hoggs
Light to 355.0p (296.3p)
Standard to 451.0p (385.4p)
Medium to 497.0p (413.6p)
Heavy to 475.0p (422.9p)
Ewes
Light to £188.00 (£116.68)
Heavy to £395.00 (£183.37)
Rams to £290.00 (£186.56)
CAST COWS
A mixed offering forward to the usual ringside of buyers. The sale topped at £2,092 for a Limousin cow shown by Shankbridge End Farm Ltd, Hethersgill with others to £2,013 from M Hall, Tombuie, Dalmally. Luing cows sold to £1,509 from Ardencaple Farms, Oban. Top per kilo of 274p from Tombuie and 270p Shankbridge End for Limousin cows with Luings from Ardencaple topping at 258p. More numbers are required on a weekly basis to satisfy buyer demand.
Please contact your auctioneers or fields personnel for further enquiries:
John Walton 07880 527 066
Daniel Lynn 07584 200 489
Nick Woodmass 07442 246 063
Sam Hogg 07584 207 323
Norman Douglas 07786 366 833
Helen Rickard 07741 313 029
