Mart prices, August 26

Prime cattle. A small show of heifers sold well topping at 223.5ppk for a smart Limousin x heifer consigned by M/s T Nixon & Sons, Longlea, Wark. Topping price per head was a fantastic pure bred Limousin heifer consigned by M/s W Barron, Morrow Edge Farm realising £1349. An overall sale average of 210.2ppk and £1278 was achieved.

Limousin heifers: 223.5p Longlea, 200.5p Morrow Edge. Charolais heifers: 217.5p (x2) & 212.5p Flotterton. Angus heifers: 193.5p Longlea. Limousin heifers: £1349.37 Morrow Edge, £1285.13 Longlea. Charolais heifers: £1234.13, £1249.50 & £1226.70 Flotterton. Angus heifers: £1263.56 Longlea.

OTM. A small show of cows forward to the same collection of competitive purchasers ensuring recent rates were maintained. Topping the sale was a superb Charolais cow realising £1320 and 134.5ppk.

Charolais: 134.5p Thrunton. Limousin:129.5p High House, 127.5p & 123.5p Burnbank, 114.5p Warksfield Head. British Blue:119.5p Linacres, 115.5p Humber Hill. Charolais: £1320.79 Thrunton. Limousin: £985.50 High House, £839.810 Burnbank. British Blue: £892.67 Linacres, £883.58 Humber Hill

Prime lambs. More lambs forward and a very good show. Trade was easier on the week by 6p but dearer than most markets. Top price per head £92.50 for Texel lambs from WR Sparke & Son, Little Swinburne. Top price per kilo 218.8p (40kgs) for a tremendous pen of Texel x lambs from M/s Reed & Hill, Lingey Field.

Texel x: £92.50 Little Swinburne, £87.50 Lingey Field, £86.80 Grindon Hill, £85.80 Frolar Meadows, £85 High Fotherley, Little Swinburne, Comb Hills & Great Chesters, £84.50 Willimoteswick, £84.20 Stone Stile, £84 Cheeseburn Grange & Woodcroft, £83.50 Grindon Hill, £83.20 Little Swinburne, Nunwick & West Shields, £83 Crescent Farm, Nunwick (x2), West Shields & Great Chesters, 218.8p Lingey Field, 207.3p Little Swinburne, 198.7p Lingey Field, 197.5p St Oswalds, 197.1p Nunwick, 194.4p Agars Hill (x2) & St Oswalds, 194.2p Cheeseburn Grange, 192.5p Lingey Field, 192.3p Nunwick, 192.2p Woodcroft, 192.1p Lingey Field, 191p Agars Hill & East House, 189.7p Watch Currock, 189.5p West Heddon, Crescent Farm, Middle Farm & Woodcroft, 188.9p Great Chesters, 188.8p St Oswalds, 188.4p Nunwick, 188.1p Watch Currock. Dutch Texel x: £77 & 179.1p Willimoteswick. Suffolk x: £90 Old Town, £86.20 Berwick Hill, £83.50 Grindon Hill, £82.20 Piatroon, £82 High Alderheads & Flotterton, £81 Lunns House & High Alderheads, £80 Cheeseburn Grange, Merryshields, Sillywrea & Old Town, 195.1p Old Town, 186.9p Satley, 182.2p High Alderheads, 182.1p & 180.7p Flotterton, 179.1p Piatroon, 179p Low Huntwell. Charollais x: £78 Flotterton, £77 (x2) Satley, 185.7p Flotterton, 185.4p & 183.3p (x2). Hampshire x: £74 & 172.1p Stone Stile. Mule: £80 Crowhall, £79.80 North Cocklake, £72.80 Crowhall, 173.5p North Cocklake, 168.8p & 165.5p Crowhall. Cheviot x: £77 Flotterton, 176p Sillywrea. Cheviot Mule: £75 & 178.6p Little Swinburne. Blackface: £64 & 156.1p Crowhall.

Cast ewes and rams. Texel x: £77 Yatesfield, £70 & £68 Salmonswell. Mule: £59 Piatroon. Blackface: £66 Yatesfield, £40 Crowhall.

ON Friday, Hexham and Northern Marts held their weekly sale of store cattle with an entry of 316 which included the monthly sale of native breeds with half of the sale being Angus x and Hereford x. The Angus and Hereford cattle sold at increased rates on the previous month, sold well and were short of buyer’s requirements. All other classes maintaining the good rates of previous weeks.

Cattle 23-30 months. Limousin x steers: £1010 Tosson Glebe. Limousin x heifers: £1180 & £1080 High Yarridge. Angus x heifers: £1245 Mount Huly, £1000 Partridge Nest, £990 Pottsdurtrees. Beef Shorthorn heifers: £1180 Yatesfield.

Cattle 17-22 months. Charolais x heifers: £1120 & £1040 White House Birtley. Limousin x steers: £1115, £1100 & £1085 Ewesley. Simmental x steers: £1125 Brandon. Angus x steers: £1355 Yatesfield, £1290 & £1285 Watch Hill, £1260 Newton Farm, £1190 Pitland Hills, £1160 Yatesfield, £1120 Hedley West, £1100 Hedley West & Parkside. Angus x heifers: £1110 & £1075 Yatesfield. Hereford x steers: £1025 Mount Huly. Beef Shorthorn steers: £1220 & £1100 Newton Farm. Beef Shorthorn heifers: £1035 Yatesfield.

Cattle 11-16 months. Charolais x steers: £1190, £1185 & £1140 (x2) Brandon, £1050 Ewesley. Charolais x heifers: £1165, £1095, £1085 & £1080 Brandon, £1050 (x2) White House Birtley, £1000 Ewesley, £990 Brandon. Limousin x steers: £1160 & £1125 Redesmouth, £1085 Pitland Hills & Redesmouth, £1055 Redesmouth, £1045 Pitland Hills (x2), £1015 & £1010 Redesmouth, £955 Yatesfield. Limousin x heifers: £1085 Redesmouth, £1075 Parkside, £1055 Bog Hall, £1050 Roxburgh Mains, £1040 Pitland Hills & Redesmouth, £1025 Brandon, £950 & £935 Bog Hall. Angus x steers: £1295 The Stobbs, £1260 Watch Hill, £1195 Nookton, £1190 Edlingham Newtown, £1170 & £1150 Redesmouth, £1130 Yatesfield, £1125 Woodview, £1100 Redesmouth, £1050 Edlingham Newtown & South Colwell, £1045 Nookton, £1030 Old Town, £1000 South Colwell, £940 Newton & South Colwell. Angus x heifers: £1095 Old Town, £1020 North Crane, £1010 Redesmouth, £920 Nookton. Hereford x steers: £905 Mount Huly. Hereford x heifers: £990 & £985 North Crane, £960 Nookton, £930 Mount Huly. Beef Shorthorn steers: £930 & £920 Yatesfield.

Cattle 10 months and under. Limousin x steers: £810 Low Bishopton. Limousin x heifers: £800 Low Bishopton. Simmental x steers: £800 Struthers. Simmental x heifers: £810 Low Bishopton. Angus x steers: £790 & £785 Featherwood

Hexham and Northern Marts held their weekly sale of 5349 c ast ewes and store lambs.

Cast ewes. A smaller show of ewes forward being £3-4 easier across the board.

Texel x: £81 Rusheylaw, £78 Lee Hall, £77 Grange House, £75 West Wharmley, £73 Haining Hall. Dutch Texel: £83 Grange House. Suffolk x: £66 Flotterton. Beltex: £76 Grange House. Leicester: £70 Tecket. NC Cheviot: £66 Flotterton. Mule: £66 Flotterton, £64 West Wharmley, £60 Grange House. Blackface: £64, & £54 Rusheylaw. Swaledale: £45 Linshiels, £44 Tecket, £41 Glebe Farm, £40 Highside. Crossbred: £98 Grange House.

Store lambs. Another great entry of sheep forward being easier on the week by £2-3 achieving an overall sale average of £61.94. Topping the sale was a pen of Texel x lambs consigned by M/s H&TV Walton, Settlingstones realising £89 with a further ten pens breaking the £80 mark. For further entries/enquiries please contact John Walton 07738406297 or Auctioneers 01434 605444

Texel x (Av £64.31): £89 Settlingstones, £88.50 Townfoot Slaley, £85.50 Rinnion Hills, £82 Chapel House (x2) & High Yarridge, £80.50 Birkside & High Yarridge, £79 West Haydon, £77.50 Wallish Walls, £77 Lynnshield, £76 Wallish Walls, £75.50 West Mill Hills & Townshields, £75 Townshields & Blue Gables. Dutch Texel : £81 West Mill Hills, £75 West Mill Hills & Willimoteswick. Suffolk x (Av £68.09): £82 Lynnshield, £75.50 West Mill Hills, £75 & £73.50 Settlingstones, £69.50 Hepple Whitefield, £68 West Mill Hills. Beltex x (Av £66.71): £87 Needless Hall, £78 High Oldshield, £75 Needless Hall. Hampshire: £57 Dunshiel. Cheviot x (Av £65.21): £68.50 Dunshiel, £66 Lynnshield. Cheviot Mule (Av £65.44): £73 Blakehopeburnhaugh. Mule (Av £55.95): £70.50 Agars Hill, £68 Allensgreen, £63 Burnbank, £61.50 Agars Hill, £61 Allenshields. Blackface (Av £46.32): £56 Hotbank, £55 Featherwood & Hotbank, £52 West End Town, £51 Townfoot Woodburn, £50 West End Town. Crossbred (Av £41.57): £67 & £55 Chattlehope.

ALSO on Friday, Hexham and Northern Marts held their monthly sale of beef breeding cattle which incorporated three special dispersal sales on behalf of three well respected farming businesses with which the company have enjoyed successful working relationships for many years.

The first of these was a dispersal of 40 homebred Angus and Hereford cross cows on behalf of Robin Jobling, Mount Huly, Capheaton. A good crowd assembled at the ringside to compete for the increasingly popular “black baldies” with both spring and autumn born calves at foot. The best of these, both those with calves at foot and those that were in calf changed hands in excess of £1500 with the entire offering peaking at £1600 with outfits averaging £1387 and in calvers at a notable £1378.

The second retirement dispersal was conducted on behalf of father and son Bill and Billy Robson, Chesterhope, West Woodburn, who brought forward a useful commercial herd of mainly Limousin cross cows with ¾ bred Limousin cross calves at foot. A useful number of local and distant buyers were maintained at the ringside and were swelled by the support of long standing neighbours of the Robson family. Autumn calvers peaked at £1980 for a square 2010 born 3rd calver with a smart December bor steer calf at foot to see these average £1458. Whilst the spring calving portion of the herd were in better condition poor weather during calving and throughout the summer had hampered calf growth and in spite if this these sold well in comparison. Another 2010 born, this time a Blue cross led the trade at £1720 with a March born heifer calf and saw the spring calvers average £1306 per outfit.

The third consignment to disperse was that belonging to Robert Keenleyside, The Struthers, Catton and the Simmental cross cows attracted another set of potential purchasers to the Hexham ring. A smaller offering in comparison to those sold previously saw no less demand and this trade peaked at £2100 for a second calver with an older, well grown, Simmental cross steer at foot and an even split of autumn and spring calvers averaged £1430 to complete the trio of disposals.

Heifers with calves at foot. Limousin: £2200 Roxburgh Mains, £2000 East Farm.

Cows with calves at foot. Angus: £1280 (x2), £1160 & £1100 Halfway House. Limousin: £1480 Dene House, £1450 Halfway House. British Blue: £1520 Halfway House, £1480 Greenwell, £1450 Dene House, £1100 Halfway House.

Dispersal sale: M/s BI & RL Jobling, Mount Huly, Kirkheaton. Cows and heifers with calves at foot. Angus: £1480, £1450, £1420, £1260, £1250, £1200 (x3), £1140 & £1080. Hereford: £1600, £1580, £1560, £1550, £1540 & £1200. In calf cows & heifers. Angus: £1100 & £1080. Hereford: £1560, £1500, £1450, £1440 (x2), £1350, £1300, £1250 & £1120. Angus Stock Bull (Auchvale Frontier): 1200gns. Hereford stock bull (Tree Bridge Engine): 1100gns.

Dispersal sale: M/s W Robson & Co, Chesterhope, West Woodburn. Cows with calves at foot (autumn calvers). Limousin: £1980, £1720, £1700, £1620, £1600, £1550, £1520 (x2), £1500, £1300 (x2), £1120, £1050 & £1040. Angus: £1620, £1520, £1400 & £1200. Cows with calves at foot (spring calvers). Limousin: £1660, £1580 (x2), £1520 (x2), £1450, £1420, £1340, £1320 (x2), £1250, £1200, £1120, £1040. Angus: £1300. British Blue: £1720. In calf cows. Limousin: £1000, £910. Limousin stock bull (Widdrington Alec): 1050gns.

Dispersal sale: RW Keenleyside Esq., Struthers Farm, Catton. Cows with calves at foot. Hereford: £2100, £1920, £1740 & £1280. Simmental: £1500, £1320, £1260, £1150, £1100 & £1020. Charolais: £1340. Simmental Stock Bull: 1100gns.

LAST Wednesday, Scots Gap Auction Mart sold 789 prime lambs and cast sheep at their weekly sale. Whilst the majority of classes were easier and in line with other centres trades seen earlier in the week the best of both heavy and smart types continued to sell very well at The Gap. The trade of the day was achieved by local ram breeder Hans Porksen, Gallows Hill, who brought forward a super run of well bred, well fleshed ¾ Beltex cross lambs that peaked at £100 for 39kgs equating to 256ppkg far and away the best price on the day. Mr Porksen sold lambs from 37-41kg and saw them average 218.4ppkg. Heavy lambs also continued to sell well and peaked at £97 for a super heavyweight Texel cross from John and Rosalind Murray, Cartington. Suffolk crosses peaked at £90 for Percy, May and Neil Robson, Dene House.

Cast sheep were largely easier for a very mixed show and peaked at £85 for big Texel cross ewes from John and Emily Moffat, West Shaftoe.

Leading prices. Prime lambs. Texel x: £97 Cartington, £91 Three Farms, £88 (x2) Cornhills, £88 Cartington, £87 (x2) The Chesters, £85 South Farm, £85 Three Farms, £85 Gallows Hill, £85 Cornhills, £85 High Baulk, £84 Belsay Barns, £83 The Chesters, £82.50 High House. 2.00p South Farm, 197.6p High Baulk, 197.5p Belsay Barns, 195.2p Cornhills, 195.1p Cartington, 195.1p Monkseaton, 195.1p (x2) South Farm, 193.2p Cornhills, 193.2p High Baulk, 192.3p Bridgeford, 190.9p Cornhills, 190.5p High House, 190.5p High Baulk, 187.2p Cornhills, 186.8p Cartington. Beltex: £100, £94, £88, £82, £78 Gallows Hill, 256.4p, 229.3p, 215.8p, 214.6p & 210.8p Gallows Hill. Suffolk x: £90 Dene House, £85 The Chesters, £82.50 Dene House, £82 & £80 The Chesters, £78 Gallowhill, 180.0p (x2) Rugley Walls, 177.1p, 173.9p The Chesters, 169.3p Gallows Hill, 168.4p Dene House. Hampshire: £84 Runny Mede 161.9p.

Cast ewes. Texel ewe: £85 West Shaftoe, £69 Cartington, £68 (x2) West Shatftoe. Suffolk: £65 High Baulk. Herdwick: £37 Forbesfield. Mule: £60 The Shield, £58 West Shaftoe. Blackface: £48 Cartington.