Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report
C&D Auction Marts had forward 2102 store lambs, feeding ewes and cast rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 2nd September 2025.
Breeding ewes top at £175 from J F Bowe & Sons, Foulsyke Farm for a pen of Texel cross three shear ewes with Mule ewes topping at £170 for a pen of four shear ewes from G & E Sisson & Son, Grainhead.
Topping the Gimmer trade was noted vendor JW & ES Woodmass, Howard House who sold Texel cross gimmers to £235, also matching the top price was two fantastic pure Suffolk gimmers from SGD Dawkins, Romanway realising £235.
PRINCIPAL PRICES
Breeding Sheep
Ewes
Texel – £175 Foulsyke
Mule – £170, £165 Grainhead
Cheviot – £155 Achafores
Dutch Spotted– £138 Foulsyke
Gimmers
Texel – £235, £230 Howard House
Suffolk – £200 Bolam Lake House, £185 Seymour Farms
Zwartbles – £170 Low Longlands
Cheviot – £125 Achafores
Ewe Lambs
Suffolk– £152 Culfargie Estate
Texel– £122, £116 Culfargie Estate
Berrichon-£112 Low Longlands
Cheviot – £95 Achafores
Easycare– £96 Chatton Park Farm
Store lambs sharper on the week for a larger show of longer keep lambs as new faces appear at the ringside. Short keep lambs remain in strong demand with a shortage on offer. Top price of the day was a pen of Texel lambs from Culfargie Estates, Tarrylaw Farm topping at £143. In the Suffolk department chasing for top place were three tremendous Suffolk lambs from S Robson Farming, Little Ryle realising £141. Beltex lambs also top at £141 from KLRI Watson, Orchard Terrace.
Store Lambs
Texel – £143, £140, £133 Culfargie Estate
Suffolk – £141 Little Ryle, £131 Culfargie Estate
Beltex – £141 24 Orchard Terrace, £133 Culfargie Estate
Mule – £136 Pallet Hill, £131 Little Ryle, £129 Ettrickshaws
Cheviot Mule – £119 Orchard Terrace, £108 12 Weensland Road
Dutch Spotted – £92, £87 Romanway, £85 Kingfield
Ryeland – £90, £79 Little Ryle
Easycare – £90 West View, £83 Chatton Park Farm
Charollais – £88, £81 Margher-eknew
Herdwick – £87 Dmainholm Farm
Blackface – £83 Frankly Den, £74 High Thorneyburn
North Country Cheviot– £78 High Thorneyburn
Shetland – £71 West View
Tup Lambs
Texel – £120 Raefield
Blackface- £82 Frankly Den
A larger show of feeding ewes topping at £198 for a strong Beltex cross ewe from Kingfield. A strong demand for feeding ewes of all classes with many more numbers needed each week to satisfy demand.
Feeding Ewes
Texel – £198 Kingfield
Suffolk – £142 Kingfield, £132 Cooilingel
Mule – £132 Kingfield
Easycare – £102 Cooilingel
Romney – £92 Little Ryle
Goats – £80 Kingfield
Swaledale – £82 Margher-e-kew
Ryeland– £80 Little Ryle
Blackface – £78 Margher-e-kew, £75 7 West View
Jacob – £70 Kingfield
Rams
Texel – £140 Cooilingel
