Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Tuesday 02 June 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 800 Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 2nd June 2026
A great show of 560 ewes & hoggs with lambs at foot was forward. Ewes and lambs remain in strong trade. With the leaner sorts dearer on the week. Several new customers round the ringside. More numbers needed each week with plenty of customers looking for sheep.
Topping at £178 per life for a Texel ewe and lamb from Messrs Thomson, Pilmuir , many more could be sold to advantage every week.
Ewes & Lambs
Texel– £178, £142 Pilmuir
Mule– £148, £132, £130 Pilmuir
North Country Cheviot– £130, £120 High Keenley Fell
Cheviot– £118 Auchentoul
Blackface– £90 Beyond the Moss
Swaledale– £75 Grange Farm
Shearlings & Lambs
Texel– £178, £170 Midgeholm
Suffolk– £158, £150 Midgeholm
Hoggs & Lambs
Texel– £182 The Harras, £172, £168 Highwood
Suffolk– £165 Grindon Hill, £160 The Harras, £160 Midgeholm
Cheviot Mule– £145 Grindon Hill
Mule– £138, £122 Old Police House
Store sheep keep on coming forward with all classes highly contended for, even so late in the season.
STORE HOGGS
Texel– £164 Spadeadam Farm
Blackface– £148 Brandleys Farm
TUP HOGGS
Shetland– £80, £74 Woodhall
Numbers of feeding sheep are needed going forward with more and more purchasers appearing round the ringside.
FEEDING EWES
Cheviot Mule– £170 Main Hill, £168 Airyolland
Mule– £168 Spadeadam Farm, £156 Main Hill
Texel– £166 Airyolland
Suffolk– £145, £130 Hopestead
Cheviot– £138 Arkleton
Blackface– £124 Spadeadam
Beulah– £122 Howcleugh
