 The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
3,866 head at their weekly sale of store hoggs at Longtown on Tuesday
19th January 2010.
A large show and more distant buyers saw trade
easily upheld.
Top of £87.50 and £84.50 for Suffolks
from Candybank; Texel £77.50
Beechcroft, £75.50 Haithwaite, £75.20 Shield Hill;
Charollais £75.50 Sleetbeck, £74.50 Lodge House; Beltex £74.50
Haithwaite; North Country Cheviot £74.50 Carpet Farm, £72.80
Kelsocleugh; Lleyn £73.80 Rammerscales; Greyface £71.80
Patties Hill, £70.20 Greyside; Blackface £67.50, £61
Halterburnhead, £63 Balmurrie; Hill Cheviot £66.50
High Thorneyburn; Swaledale £48.20 Newholm, £48 Wydoncleughside;
Kendal Rough £46.50 Beechcroft.
Ewe lambs to £82.50
for Texels from Newbiggen who also sold Suffolk crosses at £77.50;
Greyface £69.50 Beechcroft.
In lamb ewes to £74 Candybank.
Cast ewes to £94 Candybank, hill types £73.50 Greyside.
Cast rams to £144 Candybank, hill types £102.50 High
Thorneyburn.
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