On Tuesday 26, Hexham and Northern Mart held their weekly sale of prime sheep and cattle.

Three good butchers’ heifers forward from M/s J&D Longlands, Tone Hall topping at 216.5ppk.

Charolais Heifers: £1348.80, £1342.77 & £1218.24 Tone Hall. 216.5p, 214.5p & 211.5p Tone Hall.

OTM. A smaller entry of cast cows forward after the Easter weekend. Fleshier cows again good to cash with leaner sorts also very easy to sell.

Topping the sale was a cracking Limousin x cow from M/s W Patterson & Son, Halton Red House selling for 168.5ppk

Limousin: £1253.64 Halton Red House, £1242.68 White House Slaley, £1138.32 Holly Hill West, £1000.68 Halton Red House, £987.67 Low Eshells, £958.38 West Shaftoe, £935 Low Eshells, £932.09 East Uppertown. 168.5p Halton Red House, 141.5p Low Eshells, 139.5p Holly Hill West, 137.5p Low Eshells & West Shaftoe, 134.5p Halton Red House & East Uppertown, 131.5p White House Slaley. British Blue: £974.61 & 136.5p Spittalshield. Hereford: £885.40 Causey Bridge End.

Prime sheep and lambs.

A small but very good show of lambs sold to £125 from Grange Houses and 324.3p from Woodhall.

Texel x: £125, £123 & £112 Grange House. 315.4p, 290.7p & 287.2p Grange House. Suffolk x: £123 & £107 Woodhall. 286.1p & 281.6p Woodhall. Beltex x: £120 & £114 Woodhall. 324.3p & 292.3p Woodhall.

Another decent show of hoggs forward for this time of year but more weight resulting in a less pence/kilo average but £91.80 per head average.

Texel x: £109 Hilltop, £108 Willimoteswick, £107.50 Hilltop, £103 West Grange, £102 Aydonshields & Hilltop, £100 Blackburn, £97.50, £97 & £96.50 (x2) Hilltop, £96 Aydonshields, £95.50 Blackburn, £95 Aydonshields & Hilltop, £94 Moss Barns, & Blackburn (x3), £93.50 Hilltop (x2), £92 West Grange, £90 Blackburn, £88 Blackburn & Hilltop, £85 Low Eshells, £84 Low Staples (x2), £80 Fairspring, £79 Blackburn, £78 Moss Barns, £75 Fairspring & Low Staples. 220.5p, 216.7p & 209.8p (x2) Hilltop, 209.5p & 208.9p Blackburn, 208.7p & 208.2p Aydonshields, 204.7p & 203.3p (x2) Hilltop, 203.2p, 202.6p & 196.1p Blackburn, 193.9p Aydonshields, 187.8p West Grange, 184.8p Low Eshells, 184.3p Blackburn, 182.6p Low Staples, 181.4p Moss Barns. Dutch Texel x: £111, £103, £100, £98, £96 & £90 Willimoteswick. 22p5, 213p, 208.7p, 202p, 194.7p & 158.7p Willimoteswick. Suffolk x: £109, £97 & £94.50 Hilltop. 185.3p, 183p & 175.8p Hilltop. Bleu D’Maine x: £79.50 & 180.7p Low Staples. Hampshire x: £94 & 162.1p Blackburn. Leicester: £85.50 & 167.7p Aydonshields. Kerry Hill: £82 & 143.9p Willimoteswick. Cheviot x: £61.50 & 170.8p Warkshaugh. Cheviot Mule: £79 & £75 Warkshaugh. 182.9p & 168.1p Warkshaugh. Mule: £76 & 176.7p Fairspring.

Cast ewes and rams. Texel x: £107 West Grange, £91 & £78 Moss Barns. Suffolk x: £68 Moss Barns.