 The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
3,007 store hoggs & 1,512 in lamb sheep at their weekly sale
at Longtown on Tuesday 23rd February 2010.
Store hoggs still good
to sell. Top of £82.20 for Texels
from Redbanks, £78.80 Bloch, £78.50 Ridley Stokoe;
Suffolk £78.20 Cowcorse Cottage, £76.80 Bloch, £75.20
Hardhurst; Greyface £76.20 Mains of Collin, £74.50
Low Greenends, £74.50 Swinside; North Country Cheviot £72.50
Philiphaugh; Blackface £65.50 Cacrabank, £62.20 Castlenook;
Cheviot Mule £64.50 Dinley; Hill Cheviot £61.50 Skelfhill, £61.20
Girnwood, £60.50 Priesthaugh; Swaledale £52.50 Low
Greenend; Herdwick £43.50 Middle Row. Cast ewes to £124
for a Texel from Redbanks, hill types to £57.50 Carpet Farm,
cast rams £79 Ridley Stokoe.
The special sale of in lambers
included a dispersal of 475 head from Mr P.R. Smith, Cocklake House,
Penruddock, Penrith. Many buyers were present, all classes easy
to sell with vendors well pleased. Top of £138 for in lamb
Texel cross hoggs from West Mill Hills; Suffolk Mules £137
Tone Hall; Greyface £124
West Mill Hills.
In lamb ewes to £130 and £128 for
Texels from Cocklake House; Greyface £105 Greenknowe, £103
Cocklake House; North Country Cheviot £98 Priesthaugh, £93, £92
(5 pens) Cocklake House; Blackface £76, £75 Eyecott;
Swaledale £72 Crook. Geld ewe hoggs to £120 for Texels
from Drinkstone.
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