Longtown Store Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 761 store hoggs, cast ewes and rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 6th April 2021. A good quality show of hoggs for the time of year, with the usual buyers forward. Trade again very dear with numbers short of requirement.

Top £141 for Suffolks from Shield Farm; Texels to £135 Newhope, others to £129 & £128 Keepershield; Beltexs to £127 & £125 Newhope; Greyfaces to £127 Rise Head; North Cheviots to £121 Priesthaugh, £117 Kingside; Blackfaces to £99 Kingside; Hill Cheviots to £117 & £113 Bloch; Swaledales to £75 Sheepriggs, £70 Shield; Herdwicks to £65 Hetland, Ryelands to £85 Waterhead; Shetlands to £71 Hetland.

Feeding ewes (81) sold to £124 for Texels from Kingside. Hill ewes to £83 for Cheviots from Kingside; Blackfaces to £78 Marbrack. Cast rams to £109 for a Ryeland from Waterhead.