The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart PLC had forward
29 prime cattle, 39 over thirty month cattle, 6,031
prime lambs and 8,024 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at
Longtown on Thursday 20th October, 2011.
A very small show of prime
cattle due to standstill restrictions and a shortage of inside fed
cattle being ready. Top price to 205.5p for a Limousin heifer from
J. & N. Blaylock & Son, Hallburn.
PRINCIPAL
PRICES (PER KILO)
Bullocks
Luing – 185.5p Arkleton.
Heifers
Limousin – 205.5p Hallburn, 197.5p Sceughdyke.
Charolais – 197.5p Sceughdyke, 191.5p, 187.5p Hallburn, 187.5p
Sceughdyke.
More weathered cows on offer saw trade once again good to sell.
Charolais cows topped the sale at 145.5p and 144.5p from Messrs Baxter,
Moss Side.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER KILO)
Charolais – 145.5p, 144.5p Moss Side, 134.5p Burnside, 123.5p
Potholm.
Limousin – 137.5p, 131.5p Whamtown, 124.5p Border Rigg and
Burnside, 122.5p Clarghyll, 121.5p Clarghyll, 120.5p Burnside.
Angus – 129.5p Border Rigg.
Shorthorn – 119.5p Minsca.
British Blue – 118.5p Border Rigg, 116.5p The Side.
Friesian – 108.5p Newby Farm.
PRINCIPAL PRICES (PER HEAD)
Charolais – £1,287, £1,257 Moss Side, £895
Potholm.
Limousin – £962 Whamtown.
Shorthorn – £896, £809 Minsca.
Hereford – £819 Minsca.
A grand show of 6,031 quality lambs sold to the usual ring of buyers
with good quality export types in particular demand. The sale averaged
a marvellous 177p per kilo, dearest of the week. Top per kilo of
216p for Texels from Messrs Vevers, High Stenries and to a top per
head of £102.50 for Texels from Kirkton, others £93.80
Nunscleugh, £90.50 Kirton and Sunnycroft; Suffolk £93.20, £92.20
Tone Hall, £88.80 Priesthaugh; Greyface £88.50 Yewtree
Farm, £82.50 North Deanhead, £76.80 Peela Hill; Charollais £86.80
Hallburn, £86.20 Nunscleugh, £82.80 Hallburn; Beltex £83.80
Sorbie, £80 Hillside; North Country Cheviot £80.20 Whiteknowe
and Tarnside House, £77.20 Whiteknowe; Cheviot Mule £79.20
Macharioch, £72.80 Priesthaugh and Skelfhill; Blackface £75.20
The Old Police House, £70.80 Pitland Hills, £68.80 The
Newton; Hill Cheviot £74.50 Blakehope; Leicester £73.50
Parcelstown, £64.50 Williamston; Dorset £68.80 Guards
Farm; Swaledale £56.80, £56.20 Low Rough Hill.
The 1,261 light lambs sold to a top of £68.20 for Texel from
Easterfrew, £67.80 Ronachan; Suffolk £65.50 Rosgill Hall, £64.80
Crawfordjohn Mill; North Country Cheviot £62.80 Killean; Blackface £62.50
Haithwaite, £60.20 Syart; Hill Cheviot £60 Whitefield, £57.50
Murraythwaite; Charollais £60 Barend; Greyface £58.80
North Deanhead, £56.50 Craig Farm; Swaledale £56.80 Low
Rough Hill, £54.80 Laverhay.
Another massive show of 8,024 cast ewes and
rams saw trade faster
on the week with Mule ewes and best big heavy ewes and Continental
ewes £5 to £6 dearer on the week. Hill ewes remained
similar but fat ewes still remain hard to cash.
Top price of £146.50
for Texel Rams from Pirntaton, £143.50
Severs and Fountanbleau; Leicester £133.50 Dale House, £100
Albierigg, £99.50 Stubsgill; Suffolk £123.50 Fontanbleau, £118.50
Geltsdale; North Country Cheviot £108.50 Alton, £106.50
House Farm; Hill Cheviot £104.50 Crossdykes, £89.50 Carlenrigg;
Blackface £80.50 Pirnaton and Albierigg, £79.50 Skelfhill
and Cowburn; Charollais £78.50 Fontanbleau; Jacob £72.50
Stackbraes; Beltex £72.50 The Wreay; Swaledale £68.50
Williamston; Hebridean £39.50 Killinochonoch Cottage; Manx £36.50
Cordeman.
Heavy ewes to £141.50 for Texels from Roadside, £138.50
Severs, £132.50 Hassendeanburn; Suffolk £124.50, £120.50
Longyester, £119.50 Seavers; Charollais £120.50 Severs, £98.50
Seavers and Severs; Greyface £112.50 Pool, £88.50 Longyester, £87.50
Rottington Hall, £86.50 Camieston; Beltex £110.50 House
Farm, £99.50 Stackbraes; Leicester £108.50 Whiteside, £106.50
Parcelstown, £103.50 Alton; Half Bred £102.50 South Mains;
Bleu d’Maine £102.50 Severs; Cheviot Mule £99.50
Clackmae, £98.50 Harwood House; North Country Cheviot £95.50
Adderston Shiels, £92.50 West Millhills, £88.50 Midtown;
Oxford £90.50 Seavers; Romney Marsh £89.50 Fontanbleau;
Wensleydale £77.50 Stackbraes.
Hill ewes to £81.50 for
Cheviots from Newbigging, £79.50
Fontanbleau, £77.50 Alton; Lleyn £80.50 Campbelton, £79.50
The Height, £76.50 Campbelton; Blackface £76.50 Albies, £70.50
Whiteside, £69.50 Kirkhouse and North Deanhead; Jacob £67.50
Howard House; Swaledale £59.50 Derwent, £58.50 Denton
Mains, £57.50 Dale House, £56.50 Stubsgill; Welsh Mountain £59.50
Relief; Herdwick £59.50 Alton; Kendal Rough £50.50 Stackbraes;
Manx £36.50 Cordeman; Shetland £33.50 Stackbraes; Hebridean £28.50
Killinochonoch Cottage.
Goats to £85, £80.50, £72.50
Seavers.
Averages:
Steers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to 142.5p (142.5p)
Heavy to 185.5p (167.3p)
Heifers
Light to -------p (-------p)
Medium to -------p (-------p)
Heavy to 205.5p (186.6p)
Young bulls to -------p (-------p)
Lambs
Light to 203.0p (171.9p)
Standard to 228.0p (179.6p)
Medium to 219.0p (183.5p)
Heavy to 187.0p (171.9p)
O/weight to 163.0p (154.4p)
Ewes
Light to £81.50 (£50.50)
Heavy to £141.50 (£80.02)
Cast Rams to £146.50 (£79.97)
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