Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report
C&D Auction Marts Ltd held their weekly sale of 3,617 store lambs on Tuesday 9th August 2022 at Longtown. A good company of buyers attended for another good quality show of lambs, trade no dearer but no cheaper.
Top £120 for Texels from Church View, £115 Sunnycroft, £114 Wolfhills & Shepherds Cottage; Suffolks to £106, £103 Ragithwhaite, £95 Sunnycroft, £92 Nether House; Cheviot Mules to £101 Shepherds Cottage, £98 Gillesbie; Greyfaces to £88 Orthwaite Hall & The Bungalow, £85 Softley, £83 Smiddy Hill; Zwartbles to £101 Church View; Cheviots to £85 Blackburn, £84 Meiklewhitriggs; Kerry Hills to £76 Skelfhill; Half-Breds to £76 Monklaw; Blackfaces to £55 Pole Farm. Feeding ewes to £68 (x2), £61 for Blackfaces from Barkbeth.