Weekly Report and Newsletter - 7th February 2025 Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep. Monday 3rd February 2025. No messing on Mondays at NWA Lancaster - Prime hoggs to £190 and 418p/kg, Cull ewes to £140. Prime Hoggs The call for prime hoggs was answered, a larger entry forward was greeted by a fast and competitive trade with an SQQ of 343p/kg. Standard weight hoggs sold to an extremely competitive trade, with over weights perhaps seeing the greatest level of resistance. Well fed and well-bred hoggs continue to sell to a premium, topping at £190 for a pair of Beltex cross from KA Purtill, Wigan with other at £184 from GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston and J Twigge, Lindale. Others were regularly £170 to £180. A top of 418p/kg was achieved by GM&A Jackson, Little Eccleston selling Beltex cross. Others exceeding the 400p/kg barrier was KA Purtill, Wigan and ST Birkett & Son, Carnforth with endless other pens 375p/kg to 395p/kg. Well finished first cross hoggs were regularly £155 to £165 and 340p/kg to 365p/kg. Hill bred hoggs sold to £159 and 335p/kg for Cheviots. Mule/Mashams sold to £151 and 322p/kg, Herdwicks to £144 and 272p/kg, with others horned hoggs to £130. Several pens of lighter weight hoggs forward sold to £152, with other pens of well-bred Continentals £128 to £136, ranging from 300p/kg to 360p/kg. Keep these hoggs coming, with additional buyer enquires coming forward ahead of next week. Prime Hoggs Top Prices: BELTEX: £190 Oak Aveune, £184 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £179 Oak Aveune, £175 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £175 The Hawthornes, £172 Oak Aveune. TEXEL: £184, £180 Holmelands, £179 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £178 Holmelands, £178 Park Farm Barn, £176 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. CHAROLAIS: £177 Holmelands. CONTINENTAL: £171 Holmelands, £151 Bensons Farm, £150 Park Farm Barn, £150 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £148 Low Croft, £147 Holmelands. SUFFOLK: £170 Low Croft, £167 Oak Aveune, £164 Low Croft, £156, £154 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £149 Pilling Hall Farm. ZWARTBLE: £166 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. CHEVIOT: £159, £151, £138, £134 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £134 Marshaw Farm. DORSET: £153 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. MASHAM: £151 Low Croft, £150, £148 Allcocks Farm. MULE: £146, £139 Park Farm Barn, £136 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage, £133 Brown Brook, £130 Overhouses, £115 Old Parkside Farm. HERDWICK: £144 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. SCOTCH BLACKFACE: £136 Little Eccleston Hall Cottage. HORNED: £130 Overhouses. LEICESTER: £120 Old Parkside Farm. SWALEDALE: £118, £105 Marshaw Farm, £90 Old Parkside Farm. Cast Sheep Cast sheep saw a rise in price with all sold average £136, the best continentals sold to £240 for Texel from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby with others at £220 from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe and £194 from J Gardner, Bay Horse. Heavy weight Mules sold to £159 again from R&DL Cornthwaite, with others £140 to £152. Medium ewes of all breeds were regularly £128 to £140. Several pens of hill ewes forward saw Cheviot to £141 and £140 from CJ Metcalfe, Ingleton with Swaledales to £97 from KM&KJ Curwen, Abbeystead. Cast Ewes Top Prices: TEXEL: £240, £234 Humblescough Farm, £220 Bensons Farm, £208 Humblescough Farm, £194, £186 Haversham House Farm. MULE: £159 Humblescough Farm, £150 Moss Gate Farm, £150 Bensons Farm, £144, £134, £130 Low Moor Head farm, CHEVIOT: £141, £140, £126, £102 Yarlsber. SWALEDALE: £97, £78 Marshaw Farm. Store Hoggs A seasonal entry of store hoggs sold to a top of £102 with all sold average £97, for predominantly long keep continentals. Store Hoggs Top Prices: CONTINENTAL: £102 Low Pleasant. TEXEL: £100, £98, £91 Low Pleasant.
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