Weekly Report and Newsletter - 21st February 2025 L&K Group Plc Shares for Sale We have a number of L&K Group plc shares for sale and are being offered for sale by tender with a closing date of 10am on Tuesday 25 February 2025. If you would like to learn more about the sale, number of shares or how to bid, please email our Company Secretary k.black@landkgroup.co.uk or for more details, please see our website https://www.nwauctions.co.uk/lk-group/shares-for-sale.aspx
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep. Monday 17th February 2025. Marvelous Monday’s maintain momentum at Lancaster market, with prices and numbers holding firm. Prime Hoggs Prime hoggs sold to unseen levels at Lancaster Auction this morning, with a top price of £240 per head achieved twice for pens of Beltex cross from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby. A further three pens sold over £200 and an additional ten pens were £170 to £195. Well finished hoggs continued to attract the keenest buyer interest, selling to 441p/kg from M Beresford, Kirkby in Furness with others regularly 380p/kg to 415p/kg, with standard weights 340p/kg to 370p/kg. Hill bred hoggs sold to £158 for Mashams, £152 Cheviots and £145 for Mules. Cheviots sold to 343p/kg, Masham 322p/kg, Lonks 315p/kg and Mules 312p/kg. Several pens of lighter weight hoggs were forward, which sold to £124 and 375p/kg, with light weight hill bred hoggs 275p/kg to 310p/g being £95 to £110. More hoggs are required every week to fulfil buyer requirements. Prime Hoggs Top Prices: BELTEX: £240 (x2), £232, £228, £200, £196 Humblescough Farm. TEXEL: £182, £180 Blackleach House Farm, £167 Oak Aveune, £166 Newhouse Farm, £166 Lower Langthwaite Farm, £166 Stonehead. CONTINENTAL: £160, £155 Peel Street, £149, £134, £128 Little Crimbles, £124 Manston Grove. SUFFOLK: £159 Pilling Hall Farm, £155 Little Crimbes, £149 Pilling Hall Farm, £144 North Farm, £130 Old Parkside Farm. MASHAM: £158 Allcocks Farm. CHEVIOT: £152 Lower Langthwaite Farm, £147 Manston Grove, £147 School Lane, £139 Peel Street, £137 School Lane. MULE: £145, £144 High House Farm, £138 North Farm, £118 Old Parkside Farm. HORNED: £126 Higher Hollinhead Farm. SWALEDALE: £122 Little Crimbles. Cast Sheep Cull sheep maintained the strong trade of recent weeks, with Texel cross to £208 from B&M Slater, Chipping with others £185 to £200. Other stronger mediums ewes were £150 to £180, with lighter weights £128 to £140. Pure hill ewes sold to £156 for Cheviot, £146 Lonks and mediums Swaledale sold to £90. Cull rams sold to £156, with other harder worked continentals £130 to £150. Cast Ewes Top Prices: TEXEL: £208 Daub Hall Farm, £200 Angerton Hall Farm, £186 Bensons Farm, £174 Angeton Hall Farm, £170 (x2) Daub Hall Farm. LLEYN: £180, £178, £172 Kellmergh Farm. RYELAND: £160 Lower Swainhead Farm. CHEVIOT: £156, £140 Angerton Hall Farm. HORNED: £146 High House Farm. MULE: £134, £124 Stonehead, £120 Moss Gate Farm. SWALEDALE: £90 Rooten Brook. CONTINENTAL: £80 Moss Gate Farm. Cast Ram Top Prices: TEXEL: £156, £145 Rooten Brook.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 18th February 2025. Prime Hoggs The good days keep on coming. The prime hogg trade was very strong on the whole, once again at Junction 36. A mixed show of sheep forward saw the average slightly down on the week, however this doesn’t tell the full tale, as many vendors received a very similar trade or better than the previous Tuesday. Well fed and fit hoggs along with the best bred, still faced an unbelievable force of demand, with the busy ringside of buyers still hungry for more at the end of the day. A pen of three Texels topped the day at £220 from J France, Pilling. The same home sold a further pen of eight for £205. Lewis McCarrick, Chorley hit £210 with a Texel, while Suffolks topped at the £200 mark from Stockdale Farms, Sedbergh. Beltex sheep sold to 392p/kg from PJ&ES Rogerson, Appleby for a smart pen of four. Handy weight Texels sold well again, with 43kg hoggs hitting £160 or 372.1p/kg from RF Morphet, Halton and 42kg hoggs from Messrs Black, Kendal achieved £156 or 371.4p/kg. Lighter sheep sold well subject to plenty of coverage! MJ Shepherd, Newbiggin got to 360p/kg for 35kg Texels. Even lighter hoggs which were plentiful today were up to 351.6p/kg for three 31kg Texels off RG&L Potter, Tebay. More numbers are required next week again, with no sign of let up. Once again a highly satisfying trade for all types with especially Mules, Swaledale and Herdwicks selling fantastically well.