Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 4,890 store lambs and feeding ewes at Longtown on Tuesday 15th December 2020.

Another large show attracted the usual cliental trade was brisk throughout the sale with all classes, only slightly cheaper from last week’s extreme rates.

Top £100 for a Beltex from Linda Bell, Moss Edge; others to £94, £93 Abbots Close, £90 Cleamire; Texels to £95 from 6 Bushfield (Storey), £91 Windy Hill, £90.50 Pilmuir; Suffolks to £95 Satchells, £88.50 Twislehope, £88 Grindon Hill; Charollais to £89 Coolingel; Greyfaces to £87 Grindon Hill, £82.50 North Gillbank; Cheviot Mule to £85 Dodgsonstown, £82.50 Clonhie; North Country Cheviot to £86.50, £81 North Synton, £83 Newton Farmhouse, £81 Satchells; Kerry Hills to £75.50 Derskelpin Farmers; Easy Cares to £67 Blackhaugh; Blackfaces to £80 Wanwood Hill, £76, £75, £73 Drummuckloch, £70 Glenkiln; Hill Cheviots to £70.50, £67 Twislehope, £70, £69 Skelfhill, £67 Satchells & West Hott Bank; Swaledales to £62 The Dairy, £56.50 Millbeck Hall; Herdwicks to £58.50, £55.50 Millbeck Hall; Shetlands to £55 Kernal Hill; Welsh to £55.50 Fell of Lochronald.

Feeding ewes (245) a strong trade. Top £97, £93 for Texels from Coolingel; Suffolks to £97 Firth & Coolingel; Dorsets to £88.50 Coolingel. Hill ewes to £66 for Cheviots from Coolingel; Blackfaces to £63 West Hott Bank; Swaledales to £55 Coolingel. Cast rams to £97 for Leicesters from Sweetbit; Suffolks to £80 Coolingel; Texels to £93 Sweetbit, who also sold Kerry Hills at £78; Blackfaces to £75 Ryehills.