Dumfries Store Cattle Report – 19 October 2026
C&D Auction Marts Ltd held their fortnightly sale of Store Cattle at Dumfries which included their Annual Show and Sale of Suckled Calves.
250 Suckled Calves forward; The show sponsored by Prostate Buddies D&G was ably judged by A Fawcett, Harrogate who made the following awards:
Champion Single – Adkin, Dollard £1940 Simmental Bullock
Reserve Champion Single – Porteous, Penlaw £1600 Beef Shorthorn Heifer
Champion Pen – Adkin, Dollard £1820 Simmental Bullocks
Reserve Champion Pen – Porteous, Penlaw £1580 Beef Shorthorn Bullocks.
Suckled Calves sold at extreme rates for a mixed show of quality.
Principal prices Spring born Calves
Bullocks per Head
Simmental – £1940, £1820, £1780 & £1720 Dollard
Charolais – £1680 Glenlaugh, £1400 Laught Mains, £1400 Gillesbie
Aberdeen Angus – £1600 Tathhill
Beef Shorthorn – £1580, £1500(x3) Penlaw, £1270 Barguillean, £1210 Gillesbie
British Blue – £1440 Kimmeter Green
Saler – £1400
Bullocks per Kg
Simmental – 573.6p(x2) Dollard, 528.3p Gillesbie, 526.7p Dollard
Beef Shorthorn – 556.5p, 533.3p & 500p Tarbert, 454.5p Penlaw
Hereford – 556.5p & 533.3p Tarbert, 497.9p Balmore
Charolais – 528.3p & 507.3p Gillesbie
Limousin – 502p West Auchensheen, 486.4p High Townhead
Aberdeen Angus – 466.7p & 452p Gillesbie, 449.2p Laugh Mains
Heifers per Head
Beef Shorthorn – £1600 & £1420 Penlaw
Charolais – £1480 Kimmeter Green, £1320 Laught Mains, £1300 Auchenhill
Heifers per Kg
Beef Shorthorn – 558.6p Tarbert
Hereford – 558.6p & 487.8p Tarbert
Simmental – 500p High Townhead
Charolais – 485.7p Gillesbie
Aberdeen Angus – 456.1p Auchenhill
Limousin – 453.1p High Townhead
400 Store Cattle were keenly sought after with plenty of feeders looking for cattle. Bullocks to £2200 from Swallow, Muirfield who also seen Heifers to £2040.
Bullocks per Head
Aberdeen Angus – £2200 Muirfield, £1960 Fardingjames, £1960 Bettyknowes
British Blue – £2180 Muirfield, £2140 Larglea, £1890 Chapelcroft
Charolais – £2120 High Auchneel, £1920 Burnfoot Hill, £1920 Bettyknowes
Limousin – £2120(x2) Newbarn, £2030 Crofthead, £1920 Larglea, £1900 Newbarn
Hereford – £1960 Ballaggan, £1920 High Auchneel
Beef Shorthorn – £1880 Burnfoot Hill
Friesian – £1360 Baltersan
Bullocks per Kg
British Blue – 432p Slacks
Heifers per Head
British Blue – £2040 Muirfield, £2000 High Auchneel, £1900 Larglea, £1890 High Auchneel
Limousin – £2020 Belridding, £1960 Newbarn, £1940 Belridding, £1940 Lantonside, £1920 & £1900 Belridding, £1880 Shenrick, £1860 Lantonside
Aberdeen Angus – £1990 & £1970 West Lanegate, £1940 Muirfield, £1900 West Lanegate
Simmental – £1900 High Auchneel
Hereford – £1840 High Auchneel
Stabiliser – £1820 Horseholm
Charolais – £1800 High Auchneel
Ayrshire – £1520 Crofthead
Holstein – £1420 Crofthead
Heifers per Kg
Stabiliser – 416.1p Horseholm
Limousin – 451.3p, 451.2p & 445.6p Lantonside, 431.8p Belridding
Please contact your auctioneers for further enquiries:
Harry Begg – 07713 569 593
Cameron Robertson – 07435 702 625
Alistair Watret – 07715 499 320
Robert Weir – 07885 729 495
