Weekly Report and Newsletter- 14th June 2024
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Monday 1oth June 2024. Prime Lambs Spring lambs seeing a little resistance in trade on the week, with may outlets concentrating on ewes and hoggs, for the upcoming festival. 412 lambs sold to a top of £190 for a super Beltex cross lamb from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe. Suffolks sold to £186 from RC Billington & Son, Claughton on Brock. Texels sold twice to £182 from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe and KA Purtill, Wigan. Best bred lambs sold to 435p/kg from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with others to 428p/kg for Texels from KA Purtill, Wigan. The best bred lambs were regularly 400p/kg to 410p/kg, with first cross Mule types, full of meat regularly selling 375p/kg to 385p/kg. Prime Lamb Top Prices: Beltex: £190 Bensons Farm. Suffolk: £186 Stubbins Farm, £171 Cocker House Farm, £165.50 Kays Farm, £154 Stubbins Farm, £150 Bailey Hey Farm, £149 Kays Farm. Texel: £182 Bensons Farm, £182 Oak Aveune, £177 Bensons Farm, £171 Little Fell, £170 Stubbins Farm, £168 Cock Hall Farm. Continental: £181, £175, £169, £167 Cocker House Farm, £165 North Farm, £162.50 Cocker House Farm. Dutch Spotted: £166, £132 Fern Bank Farm. Ryeland: £162 North Farm.
Prime Hoggs 150 hoggs were forward, with once again well meated and fed hoggs meeting eager bidding, with leaner types to realisation. Texels sold to £172 from AG Butler, Hambleton and Beltexs sold to £160 from T&E Burrow, Slyne. Horned hoggs sold to £148 from S Bosworth, Burnley with Mules to £133 from A&L Huddleston, Wray and Swaledales to £130 from KM&KJ Curwen, Abbeystead. Prime Hogg Top Prices: Texel: £172 Park Farm Barn, £160 Throstle Grove Farm, £150 Merryfield, £150, £148 Throstle Grove Farm, £146 Merryfield. Continental: £152 Burrow Heights Farm, £150, £100 Park Farm Barn. Beltex: £146 Merryfield. Horned: £140 Lower Oakeneaves Farm. Dutch Spotted: £140 Park Farm Barn, £134, £103 (x2) Overhouses. Mule: £133, £126 Overhouses, £122 Quarry House, £110 Moss Gate Farm, £110 Overhouses. Suffolk: £132 Merryfield, £130 Park Farm Barn, £128 Merryfield. Swaledale: £130, £128, £116 (x3), £112.50 Marshaw Farm. Herdwick: £126, £114, £90 Park Farm Barn. Cheviot: £120 Marshaw Farm. Dalesbred: £90 Stauvins Farm.
Cast Sheep 170 ewes were forward selling to an overall averaged of £149.15. Texels sold to £200 from DR&BE Rolfe, Scorton and a pen of Beltex to £195 from M Coxhead, Little Hool. A pen of first cross Texel ewes sold to £190 from A&E