The Cumberland
& Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart PLC had forward 100 Ewes with Lambs at
foot, also 300 Store Hoggs and Feeding Ewes at their weekly sale at Longtown
on Tuesday 16th April, 2013.
Store
hoggs sold to a top of £93.50 and £86 for Texels from
Greenbeck, others £73.50 Bankside; Greyface £63.50, £49.50
Lawesknowe; Blackface £57.50 Lawesknowe, £48.50 Upperburnmouth;
Cheviot £57.50 Lawesknowe, £49.50 Burnhouse.
Feeding ewes to
£59.50 Burnhouse, cast rams to £84.50 Lowgreenends. Geld
ewe hoggs to £80 Stonehall.
Ewes with lambs were forward to a packed ring of buyers and more
could have been easily sold to vendors advantage, especially outfits
of younger sheep and stronger lambs.
Shearlings with singles
Greyface £68 Newlands, £51 Murraythwaite; Texel £68
Whitehaugh; Suffolk £57 Bascodyke.
Shearlings with twins
Greyface £68 Station Road; Texel £68 Whitehaugh.
Ewes with singles
Greyface £60 Milton Mains, £58.50 Rabygrange; Suffolk £54
Murraythwaite; Texel £54, £52 Murraythwaite; Hill Cheviot £35
Murraythwaite.
Ewes with twins
Greyface £64 Bateyshield,
£60 Milton Mains, £58.50 Rabygrange; Suffolk £64
Rabygrange; Texel £49 Milton Mains.
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