Longtown Mart Store & Breeding Sheep Report – 03 March 2026
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 3,608 Store Hoggs and 520 Breeding Sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 3rd March 2026
First offering of ewes and lambs at foot set off a strong trade for all classes, topping the sale was a Texel cross ewe with a single lamb at foot from WN & JC Gilhespy, Tedcastle Farm realising £175 per life.
A mixed show of in lamb ewes met a strong demand with well-bred strong ewes being short of buyer’s requirements.
BREEDING SHEEP
Ewes
Suffolk- £270, £262 Hards Cottage
Texel – £270 Hards Cottage, £255 Elsdonburn, £250 Dinwoodie Farm, £245 Elsdonburn, £235 Allgood, £230 The Knock
Mule – £230, £225 Dinwoodie Farm
Cheviot- £228 Allgood, £185, £180, £162 Langholm Initiative
Dorset- £208, £185, £172 Knock & Maize
Lleyn- £172, £165 Meiklebob Farming
Shetland- £90 Hill Court
Jacob- £80 Hill Court
SHEARLINGS
Texel- £255 Elsdonburn, £245 Auchentaggart
Mule- £195 West End Town
North Country Cheviot- £175 The Knock
Suffolk- £140 Meiklebob Farming
Beltex- £118 Hill Court
Hoggs
Mule – £260 Craigend
Ewes & Lambs
Texel- £175, £155, £148 Tedcastle, £144 Hill Court
Mule- £138, £126, £122 Tedcastle
Beltex- £122 Hill Court
A larger mixed show of store sheep on offer faced by a strong trade with purchasers on look for numbers, many more needed each week to fulfil the strong demand here at Longtown. Top price of the day was £245 for a Texel tup hogg from S Kewley, Boulaine Farm, Isle of Man.
STORE HOGGS
Texel – £245, £190, £172 & £165 Boulaine, £165 Longrigg, £160 Halfway House & Boulaine
Beltex – £151 Solwaybank, £135 Thornbrough
Mule – £150 High Town, £145 Borthaugh, £144 Peela Hill, £140 High Town, £138 The Flatt, Low Tirfergus & Drinkstone, £136 Dalpeddar
Suffolk – £148 Meiklebob Farming, £143 Lyelston Cottage & Whitfield Estate, £142 Halfway House, £138 Dalpeddar, £136 Barkbeth, Lyelston & Dalpeddar
Charollais – £146, £144 Moss Side, £144 Whitfield Estate, £142, £134 Moss Side
Dorset- £145 Meiklebob Farming
Hampshire- £145 Branxholm Braes
Cheviot Mule -£141, £139, £135 Marwhirn, £128 Solwaybank, £121 Newtonhill
Blue Faced Leicester- £140 High Town
Hill Cheviot – £140 Itonfield, £138 East Deloraine, £132 Falnash, £126 Solwaybank, £121 East Deloraine
Dutch Spotted- £140 Whitcastles & Bolton Hall
Blackface – £136 Garvilland, £130 Hunthill Estate, £127 Ardachermor, £126 Stronchullin, £122 Peela Hill, £121 East Skeroblin
North Country Cheviot -£128, £108 Newtonhill, £108 Sorbietrees & Howman Grange
Easycare- £126 Borrane
Kendal Rough- £116, £110 Hill Head
Herdwick- £116 Dalpeddar
Badgerface- £114 Rainors, £100 Bolton Hall
Romney- £107 Riverside Glen Wyllin, £106 Keskadale
Dorper- £102 Bolton Hall
Shetland- £100 Riverside Glen Wyllin, £96 Newtonhill
Swaledale- £92, £90 Cooilingel
Tup Hoggs
Suffolk- £160 Howman Grange
Hill Cheviot- £158, £148 High Green Hill, £140 Bloch
North Country Cheviot- £158, £128 Howman Grange
Beltex- £150 Itonfield
Blackface- £136 Peela Hill, £121 East Skeroblin, £120 Killipol, £102 Newtonhill, £100 Baljean
Texel- £124 Harper Hill, £118 Desoglin
Cross- £118 Baljean
Charollais- £116 Newtonhill
Romney- £98 Greenrigg
A larger show of feeding ewes on offer holding very much the same high rates of return as last week with a strong present around ring side looking for feeding ewes.
FEEDING EWES
Texel – £192 Cooilingel, £156 Clonhie, £150 Mosshill, £140 Low Old Shields, Cooilingel, Meiklebob Farming & High Barns
North Country Cheviot – £162 Elsdonburn, £142 Barnyards, £130 Branxholm Braes, £124 Marwhirn, £120 Solwaybank, Cadgillhead & Barnyards
Mule- £148 Baljean, £128 Cooilingel, £120 Baljean
Easycare- £148, £122 Dolphinston
Suffolk- £144 Low Tirfergus, £125 Barnyards
Blackface- £144, £138 Baljean, £112, £104 Stronchullin, £100 Barkbeth, Merkland, £96 Carscreugh
Dorset- £136 Greenrigg
Cheviot Mule- £136 Elsdonburn
Hill Cheviot- £112 Barkbeth, £110 Linhope, £108 Barkbeth
Herdwick- £95 Holebeck
Badgerface- £88 Bolton Hall
Ryeland- £85 Low Tirfergus
CAST RAMS
Blue Faced Leicester- £170 Sorbietrees
Texel- £145 Meiklebob Farming, £132 Hill Court
Dorset- £136 Greenrigg
Hill Cheviot- £134 Linhope
Blackface- £100 Cooilingel
