Dumfries Store & Breeding Cattle Sale Report

C&D Auctions held their fortnightly sale of 779 Store Cattle in Dumfries on Monday 14th October 2024.

The Autumn Sale of 239 Organic Cattle generally lacked strength due to the poor grazing summer and comprised of mainly dairy crosses.

Pen of Organic Bullocks from Torehousemuir sold for £1490

Leo Petrucci, Outer Blair sold Simmental x heifers at £1660 with Torhousemuir British Blues to 313.1p/kg, heifers averaged 262.3p/kg. Simmental bullocks from Outer Blair made £1490 with Shorthorns to 321.1p/kg Woolfords bullocks averaged 296.7p/kg.

Organic Bullocks per Head
Aberdeen Angus - £1490 Outer Blair, £1340 Woolfords
British Blue - £1490 Torhousemuir
Herefords - £1400 Steel Farm
Simmental - £1340 Outer Blair
Swedish Red - £1300 Outer Blair
British Shorthorn - £1220 Woolfords
Limousin - £1200 Swinside

Organic Bullocks per Kg
Aberdeen Angus – 311.1p/kg Woolfords
Simmental – 304.50p/kg Outer Blair
Limousin – 300p/kg Main Hill
Swedish Red – 295.5 Outer Blair

Organic Heifers per Head
Simmental - £1660, £1550 (x2) Outer Blair
British Blue - £1470 & £1460 Torhousemuir
Holstein - £1420 Torhousemuir
Aberdeen angus - £1230 Dumfries Estate
Swedish Red - £1150 Outer Blair
British Shorthorn - £1100 Woolfords

Organic Heifers per Kg
Simmental – 352p/kg (x2) Outer Blair
British Blue – 303.1p/kg Torhousemuir

Champion from Drumburn sold for £900

540 Non Organic Cattle which included show of suckled calves ably judged by Steven Paterson who awarded Best Animal to N Shuttleworth, Drumburn with Limousin x heifer selling at £900 (250kg).

Best Pen from A&M Fitzsimmons, Tregallon realised £1210

Best Pen from A&M Fitzsimmons, Tregallon realised £1210 (340kg). A large ringside of buyers were in attendance with best sorts maintain recent values. Plainer weathered sorts meeting less demand. Angus Bullock from H&A Hiddleston, Park sold to £1830 with Simmental x Heifers from Torwoodlee & Buckholm Estate reaching £1720.

Bullocks per Head
Aberdeen Angus - £1830 & £1420 Park, £1530 Arnmannoch, £1500 & £1480 High Auchneel, £1460 Clonyard, £1410 Kirkbride
Limousin - £1640 Kirkbride, £1630 Ballaggan , £1500 & £1480 Hartbush
Simmental - £1500, £1480 & £1400 Hartbush, £1500 High Auchneel, £1460 Torwoodlee
Luing - £1420 Lawesknowe, £1180 Torwoodlee
British Blue -£1250 90 Nutfield Road
Friesian - £1200 Park
Fleckvieh - £1150 Slacks
Hereford - £1150 Slacks

Bullocks per Kg
Limousin – 356.4p/kg Drumburn, 353.8p/kg & 340.80p/kg Tregallon, 351.2p/kg & 341.7p/kg West Auchensheen
Simmental – 353.8p/kg & 348.1p/kg Dollard, 318.2p/kg Hartbush
Charolais – 334.3p/kg Tara, 320.7p/kg Glenlaugh, 317.2p/kg Laught Mains
Saler – 320.7p/kg Glenlaugh
Aberdeen Angus - 310.1p/kg Dollard, 305.7p/kg Shenrick
British Blue - 294.90 Auchenhill
British Shorthorn - 271.20p/kg 2 Butterdales

Heifers per Head
Simmental - £1720 & £1640 Torwoodlee, £1460 Mouswald Grange
Aberdeen Angus - £1610 & £1440 High Auchneel, £1510 Kirkbride, £1500, £1460 & £1410 Henderland, £1430 North Bowerhouses
Limousin - £1580 & £1400 Kirkbride, £1480 High Auchneel
Charolais - £1300 Shenrick
Hereford - £1270 Mouswald Grange
Luing - £1210 Torwoodlee

Heifers per Kg
Limousin – 327.3p/kg Drumburn, 300p/kg West Auchensheen
Simmental – 334.5p/kg & 322.80p/kg Dollard, 331.3p/kg & 327.60p/kg Torwoodlee
Charolais – 325p/kg Laught Mains