NWA NEWSLETTER, 080825

Weekly Report & Newsletter - 8th August 2025 VOTE WILL ROGERSON FOR NEW AUCTIONEER OF THE YEAR 2025 Our very own Will Rogerson has been shortlisted for New Auctioneer of the Year at the Marts the Hearts Awards. Please show your support & vote for him using the link agrc.im/uiHeh Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep. Monday 4th August 2025. NWA Lancaster once again proved to be a popular place, with new vendors in attendance drawn to the prompt and e icient Monday morning sale. All lambs are properly weighted on arrival with friendly unloading and hassle-free sorting. #LAMBS2LAM PRIME LAMBS Full buyer support today, keen to secure all classes and types, generating an overall market average of 351p/kg for lambs ranging from 33kg to 58kg. Buyers showing preference to well finished fed lambs, with these selling to a premium. Ahead of under finished grass-fed lambs, which were perhaps pinched a week or two too early. Heavy weights sold to £208 from H Birket & Son for Texel cross, with endless pens of the lower heavy weight range £177 to £185. The best standard weights sold to £175 for Beltex cross from M Coxhead, with Texel cross £174 from KA Purtill and WS Burrow Ltd. Other better end standard weights were £162 to £170, with grass finished lambs £152 to £160. Lighter weight lambs were forward in greater numbers and predominantly o grass, selling to £155 for Beltex cross with other continental bred lambs to £140. The first of the Swaledale lambs this season saw light weights from KM&KJ Curwen achieve £108 (35kg). Hill bred lambs are coming forward in greater numbers, with pure Cheviots to £171, North County Mules £153 and Masham £140. Other standard weight grass finished Mules were £128 to £136. A pen full of Beltex cross lambs from WS Burow achieved 391p/kg, with others at 388p/kg from M Broadhurst, 381p/kg D&D Huddleston and 380p/kg M Coxhead. Wellbred and well finished lambs of all weights were generally 360p/kg to 380p/kg, with the best grass finished lambs 345p/kg to 358p/kg and the next draw down 330p/kg to