Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report
C & D Auction Marts held their weekly sale of 1,736 Store Sheep sale at Longtown on Wednesday 27th August 2025.
A small show of store lambs on offer with a lot of vendors currently on standstills from previous breeding sales. A lack of strong lambs on offer with a large show of blackface tup lambs forward. Longer keep lambs seeing a slight resistance due to the shortage of grass.
Lambs topped at £142 for a fantastic pen of Suffolk cross lambs from B & S R Stobbart & Son, Hullerbank.
PRINCIPAL PRICES
Store Lambs
Suffolk – £142 Hullerbank, £125, £124, £119 Springhill, £109 Merkland
Texel – £134, £133 Greenwell Meadows, £130 Whitstonehill, £117, £113 Greenwell Meadows, £112 Moorside Parks and Springhill
Charollais – £120 Greenwell Meadows, £105 Monk Farm, £101 Whitfield, £98 Monk
Half Bred– £110 Springhill
Mule – £106 The Row, £105 Baggarah, £96 The Row
Cheviot Mule – £105 Sorbietrees
Beltex – £102 Whitstonehill
Blackface – £65 The Row
Tup Lambs
Suffolk – £121 Springhill
Texel – £89 Todhillwood
Blackface – £77 Lochs Estate, £67 Merkland
Feeding ewes holding up a strong trade with plenty of customers looking for numbers, many more could be sold week on week.
Topping the sale was a pen of English Mules realising £114 from Carruthers Farming, Merkland.
PRINCIPAL PRICES
Ewes
Mule – £114 Merkland
Blackface – £100 Bonnington, £72 Pole
