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Averages up for store lambs at Skipton

An increase in both numbers and the overall sales average was seen at ÌýSkipton's opening show and sale of store lambs, with 2,957 head, up 530 on the year, levelling at £128.36/head, a rise of £11.06/head on 2025.

While short-keep lambs were in shorter supply than in previous years, the very best, smart, strong-looking lambs were £150-plus, with continental crosses leading the way on price.
Topping the sale at £194/head was a trio of Beltex-crosses from Haddon Farms, Meltham.

G.M. and S.V. Bayles, Barningham, sold Beltex-crosses at £186/head and £184/head.

The winning pen of 40 or more lambs, Beltex crosses from Robert Challinor, Dilhorne, sold for £178/head.

Andrew Haggas, Otterburn, was runner-up in show with 40 Beltex-crosses which made £163/head. The third-prize pen of 40 from David and Susan Pinder, Newton-in-Bowland, sold at £144/head.

The next grade of nice-skinned lambs made £145-£160/head, a medium-keep types £135-£140/head and £125-£130/head for smaller smart lambs.

Large-framed Texels sold to £148/head from the Hewetson family, Bank Newton, with stronger types in the £130s/head, mediums £128- £132/head, and longer keep lambs £116-£127/head.

Suffolk lambs were mainly from £128/head to a high of £136.50/head for James Foster, Bolton Abbey.
A few pens of Highlander/Romney crosses sold to £118/head, with some long-term types available for around £90/head.

ÌýAverages – Store lambs - ÌýBeltex, £159.69; Suffolk £130.39; ÌýTexel £127.94; Dutch Spotted £131.78; Charollais £119.34; Romney-crosses, £106.60.

ÌýAuctioneers: CCM.

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Bluefaced Leicesters peak at £5,400 online

ÌýThe Blue Jewels online sale of Bluefaced Leicesters topped at £5,400 for a ewe lamb from S. Proctor's Spurrig flock, Cumbria. By £22,000 V1 Shitlington ,out of a show ewe by £33,000 N1 Hewgill, it sold to Messrs Pedley, Kirkby Stephen.

Next, at £5,100 was a shearling gimmer by T1 Skeagh, from A. and D. McKillop's Giant Causeway flock, Co Antrim, which sold to Messrs Pirrie, Glasgow.

ÌýMessrs Allan, Appleby in Westmorland, then paid £3,800 for a 2023-born ewe by R1 Highberrie Haaland, from the same home.

Making £3,100 was a ewe lamb from F. Robertson's Broomiebank flock, West Lothian. By V2 Temain, it sold to Messrs Jackson, Newcastleton.

ÌýAuctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

ÌýDairies in demand at Leek

There was a scorching trade for milkers at Leek, with every one selling for more than £2,000 and topping at £3,650 for cows and £3,600 for heifers.

ÌýSale leader was a second-calver from the Flowers family, Friden. By OCD Chronicle, it had given 11,349kg as a heifer and sold, giving 50kg, to a local buyer for £3,650.

Heifers peaked at £3,600 for a Drouncer K and L Chase daughter, from the Shepherd family, Bakewell. Giving 33kg, it went to Messrs Hulme, Basford.

ÌýThe Mellor family run of five second-calvers and one heifer to top at £3,500, and averaged £3,150.

ÌýIn-calf heifers topped at £2,850 for David Tomlinson, Ford.

ÌýAuctioneers: Leek Auctions.

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Strong store cattle trade at Penrith

ÌýStore cattle were in demand at Penrith, topping at £2,385/head for a pair of Limousin bullocks from K. Norman Farms, Redcar, with the consignment of 18 averaging £2,126.67.The heifer section topped by A.J. Glendinning, Harrogate, with a two-year-old Charolais which sold at £2,285, with the run of seven heifers averaging £2,096.
E. Hird, Park Head, sold a pen of four 20-month-old British Blue-cross heifers to £1,955/head.
J. and B. Donald and Son, Penrith, sold a pen of six 16-month-old British Blue cross bullocks to £1,785,/head while R. and J. A. Nettleton, Hutton in the Forest, sold 16-month-old Hereford bullocks to £1,925/head.

Auctioneers: Penrith and District Farmers Market.

Summer Select Texels peak at £9,800

Topping the Summer Select online sale of Texels at £9,800 was a shearling gimmer by Forkins Hawkeye from A. Ligget's Corbo flock, Co Tyrone, which sold to Messrs Murphy, Co Tyrone.

Making £4,000 was a Mainview shearling gimmer by Oberstown Hercules from A. Kennedy, Co Antrim, which sold to Messrs Mangan, Co Mayo.
Another Corbo shearling gimmer by Forkins Hawkeye then sold for £3,800 in a two-way split to Messrs Greene and Messrs, McGrath, both Co Donegal.
Next at £3,600 was a shearling gimmer by a home-bred ram from Brian Hanthorn's Mullan flock, Co Armagh, which sold to Messrs Tuohy, Co Clare.

ÌýAverages: 17 shearling gimmers, £2,435.88; 8 ewe lambs, £1,962.50.

ÌýAuctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

ÌýDairy trade peaks at £3,800 in Gisburn

Pedigree newly calved heifers reached £3,800 at Gisburn where 32 pedigrees sold in excess of £3,000, and the 68 head including non-pedigrees levelled at £3,001.

Sale leader at £3,800 came from G. E. Airey and Sons' Loudbank herd, Preston, as a Peak Altaamulet daughter. From the same herd and selling at £3,550 was a Peak Altaindigo heifer from the Gladys family.
Then at £3,700, S.J. Sugden, Oakworth, sold Summerrose Earlybird Doris giving 34kg, this heifer having been Oswestry judge, Evan Ellis's choice for the pedigree class red rosette.

H. and V. E. Jolly, Great Eccleston, sold 10 heifers from their Fieldside herd to £3,650 for a 37kg Peak Altafuturama daughter. Also from Fieldside, were two at £3,600 apiece. ÌýÌýÌý

Jennings Farmers, Ripon sold an Aireburn-bred heifer at £3,600, while at the same price, was Goosnargh vendors F. R. Lawson and Son's Almondene Biddy 479 by Valiant Mitchell Rolex.

Five in-calf heifers all carrying Angus calves for August peaked at £2,920 for a Pine-Tree-I Pursuit from K. E. Robinson and Son, Carnforth, which had won its class.

Averages: Pedigree newly calved heifers, £ 3,115; pedigree newly calved cows, £2,850; non-pedigree newly calved heifer,. £2,959; non pedigree newly calved cows, £2,253; pedigree in-calf heifer £2,708.

Auctioneers: Gisburn Auction Marts.

Calves in demand at Skipton

An entry of 91 rearing calves forward Skipton's July show on Monday topped at £1,070 for the champion, a six-week-old British Blue bull by CBL Roadman from Rob and Sarah Marshall, Dacre.

The reserve champion from John Smith, of C. Smith and Sons, Sutton-in-Craven, was a British Blue bull, runner-up in its show class behind the victor, which made £900.
Champion and reserve both sold to the judge, Steven Loftohouse, Grewelthorpe.

There were further calls of £1,000 respectively for Stephen Clarke, Hampsthwaite and the Marshalls again, both with British Blue bulls.
Ìýnra95 -sired calves sold to £960 for the Sowray family, Bishop Thornton, with a six-week-old bull, while the oldest Limousin bulls realised to £940 for G. Hayton and E.C. Stocks, Bolton Abbey.

ÌýAberdeen-Angus topped at £700 for Martyn Jennings, Cowling, with a bull calf. Black and white dairy bulls sold to to £355 for James Gooch, Cononley.

The Marshall's calves were placed first and second in the Blue heifer show class, resulting in both topping jointly at £810.

The first place other continental heifer was an Inra, again from the Sowray family that sold at £800.

ÌýAverages – bull calves, £721; heifer calves, 638.

ÌýAuctioneers: CCM.

Ìý Sedgemoor dairies top at £3,750

At Sedgemoor's collective dairy sale there were the first signs of an easing in trade for off lying or older cows due to concerns over a lack of grass due to hot weather, according to the auctioneers.
But there was still strong demand for fresh calves and in-calf heifers. The 60kg second calver, Beaconhill Fitz Janet, from M.J.K. Reed and Son, ÌýBlackborough, sold to £3,570 to top the sale.
Calved heifers sold to £3,150 for the 38kgs Peacehay Harris Fairy 105 from F.H. Chave and Son, Wellington.

The complete dispersal of the commercial herd for T.L. Rosewell and Son, Honiton, topped at £3,255 for a May calved red and white second lactation cow served again.

The continued dispersal for C.G. Capon, Isle of Wight, topped at Ìý£2,572.50 for a July calved third lactation calved cow giving 32kgs.
The strong in-calf heifer trade continued with heifers Ìýfrom the Dimond family, Sherborne, topping at £3,360 for the September calving, Dorset Pursuit Helen, with others to £3,150 for members of the Princess and Joy families. Their six heifers averaged £3,139.50.
The bulling heifer trade remained strong topping at £1,575 six times for The Cooke Partnership, Cullompton, Ìýwith their pedigree Cullyford heifers and the continued dispersal for Garrett Bros, Dorchester, with their Swedish Red cross commercial heifers. Ìý

Auctioneers: Greenslade Taylor Hunt.

Pedigree heifer tops Market Drayton

ÌýAt the July dairy show and sale at Market Drayton Market supported by the Western Holstein Club the championship went to from W.A. and C.G. Oakes, Byley, was the first prize pedigree heifer Alcar Daisy 168 which sold for for £3,600. Their other heifers sold to £3,620, £3,550 and £3,480 averaging £3,410 for five. They also sold second calvers at £3,200 and £3,050.

Clayden 51AVÊÓƵPartners, Crewe ,sold second calvers for £3,280, £3,220 and £3,080.

The first prize commercial heifer from G.S. and A. Sheard, Stoke-on-Trent, sold for £3,600.

Other heifers over £3,000 were P & M Timmis, Standon £3,380 and £3,100, Mark Whitehurst, Adderley £3,150, Hilltop Farming Company, Northwich £3,050.

Heifer calves sold to £820

ÌýAverages: 36 heifers, £2,584; 15 cows, £2,562.

Auctioneers: Gwilym Richards and Market Drayton Market.

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