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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

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