Weekly Report and Newsletter - 11th July 2025
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep. Monday 7th July 2025. Monday morning prime lambs sold to £180 and 393p/kg and cull ewes to £222, new butcher buyers again in attendance and keen to return. #LAMBS 2LAM PRIME LAMBS Spring lamb numbers continue to rise, with additional buyer’s ringside keen to secure lambs at this prompt Monday morning sale and keen to return each week - keep these lambs coming! Leading today’s sale at £180 was W Barnes, Lancaster selling heavy weight Texel cross lambs with others at £174.50 for Texel cross from JM Sanderson, Halton. Other well finished standard and heavy weight lambs were £162 to £170, with better end standard weights £150 to £162 and grass finished £140 to £150. Several pens of lighter weight lambs forward were well received, selling to £141 for Texel cross, with other at £136 and super lights to £111. EJ&PE Burrow led the sale with Beltex cross lambs at 393p/kg, with other Texel cross lambs also selling at 393p/kg from CJ Metcalfe. Charollais cross achieved 390p/kg from D&K Swarbrick, Texel cross 388p/kg D Wightman and 381p/kg DR Preston. Well finish standard and heavy weights were regularly 350p/kg to 370p/kg, with the best grass finished 345p/kg to 360p/kg, mediums generally 340p/kg to 350p/kg, light weights 345p/kg to 365p/kg and an overall market average of 345p/kg. Prime Lambs Top Prices: TEXEL: £180, £174.50 Longlands Road, £174.50 Lower Highfield, £171 North Farm, £169.50 Hall Croft Barn, £169 West Lodge. MULE: £166 Cock Hall Farm, £120 Longstripes Farm. CHAROLAIS: £164 Bensons Farm, £143 Potters Hill Farm. BELTEX: £163 (x2) West Lodge, £157 Hazelslack Tower Farm. SUFFOLK: £150 Bensons Farm, £147.50 Abbotson Farm, £140 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £139 Old Parkside Farm, £135 (x2) Hazelslack Tower Farm. CONTINENTAL: £147, £141, £133 Potters Hill Farm.