Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report
C&D Auction Marts Ltd held their Great Annual Ram Fair at Longtown on Wednesday 7th October 2020, where one of the best shows of quality commercial rams of all classes was seen for many years. With buyers from all ends of the country competing to buy the sires of next years lamb crop, a massive lift in averages and extreme clearance rates were being witnessed.
The sale was lead for the second year in succession by Bryden Nicholson, Highfield Farming Ltd, Knock Farm for a Texel ram lamb, where he sold his pen leader for £2,200 to I&B Sutherland, Millingsound, Shetland, with Bryden also consigning the 2nd top at £1,500, for another lamb by the same sire, to Messrs Holliday, Cathpair, Stow. Texel shearlings met an animated demand with customers galore for all classes of tups, especially for those with size, good skins and shape. Topping a £950 from Neil Elliot, Duke Street, who sold another at £900.
Top Consignments Averages
Texel Shearlings
JR & CJ Ward, Whitstonehill - £875 (2)
N Elliot, Duke Street - £688 (9)
WN Douglas, Catslackburn - £674 (5)
AJ & LJ Haston, Dearham Hall - £612 (5)
WJ & JG Bell, Kinninghall - £597 (6)
A & HC Smith, Crumhaughhill - £584 (7)
Pilkington Farmers, Bank Top - £547 (6)
Texel Lambs
Highfield Farming Ltd, Knock - £962.50 (9)
AR Bell & Son, Kirton - £864 (5)
J & M Tough, Easterseat - £492 (8)
N Woodmass, Harene - £479 (8)
G Wilkinson, Arkleby House - £478 (6)
K & M Jamieson, Woodhead - £410 (3)
Top Prices
Texel Ram Lambs £2,200, £1,500, £950, £800, £750, £520 Knock, £1,350, £950, £850, £750 Kirkton, £620 Arkleby House, £580, £520 Easterseat, £550, £520 Harene.
Texel Shearling Rams £950, £900, £850, £700 Duke Street, £900, £850 Whitstonehill, £850, £750, £650 Catslackburn, £800, £700 Kinninghall, £800 Glenrath, £780 Dearham Hall, £720 Bank Top, £680 Crumhaughhill
Cross bred and other continental rams with power and shape again sold to serious demand, with best end pure Beltex being a massive premium and sold to a top of £1,000 for the pick of the Corstane pen of M Dunlop, closely followed at £900 for a Beltex x Texel shearling from G & CE Edminson, Middle Farm.
Top Consignments Averages
TN Cavers & Co, Sorbie - £646 (6)
C Currie, Inamay - £600 (3)
J Ritson, Pond House - £510 (3)
G & CE Edminson - £501 (19)
J Oliver & Sons, Waltonwoodhead - £475 (5)
G Wilkinson, Arkleby House - £432 (4)
M Dunlop, Corstane - £427 (11)
Top Prices
Ram Lambs
Rouge £500 Grassknop.
Charollais £360, £340, £300 Springfield.
Blue Texel £250 (4) Holmhead.
Shearling Rams
Beltex £1,000 Corstane, £850 (2), £750, £600 Sorbie, £800, £620 Inamay, £620 Waltonwoodhead.
Beltex x Texel £900, £700 (3), £650, £600, £500 Middle, £650 Pond House, £550, £520, £500 Park Nook.
Suffolk x Beltex £650, £400 (2) Flex.
Suffolk x Texel £520 Allanshaws.
Texel x Suffolk £420 Newmains.
Charollais £420, £400 Thackwood, £360 Great Tossen.
Charollais x Beltex £420 (2) Lesson Hall.
Bluefaced Leicester x Texel £420 Raggetsyke, £300 Howard House.
Charollais x Texel £400 Bank Top.
Blue Texel £350 Hermiston, £280 Holmhead.
A good entry of Suffolk shearling rams and ram lambs were forward with quality better bred rams easy to sell to the full ringside of potential purchasers topping the sale was a very well-bred Shearling consigned by M/s G Beatie, Guards Mill.
Top Prices
Suffolk Ram Lambs £300 Lesson Hall
Suffolk Shearling Rams £680, £480 Guardsmill, £600, £450 Guards, £580 Nethertofts, £420 Fowrass.
An Increased entry of Blueface Leicester Shearlings & Ram Lambs sold to a fantastic trade with all vendors going home highly delighted with their days trading. Topping the sale was an upstanding, very well bred, crossing type ram lamb consigned by M/s RW & M Carruthers, Hill Brae realising £1,000. Many more could have been sold to vendor advantage as demand outstripped supply by quite a margin.
Top Prices
Bluefaced Leicester Ram Lambs £1,000 Hill Brae, £420 High Parkfoot, £400 Grassknop.
Bluefaced Leicester Shearling Rams £650 Parkhill, £550 Howard House & Glenrath, £480 Laverhay & Hill Brae & Parkhill, £450 Parkhill & Colmslie Hill.
