Weekly Report & Newsletter - 12th December 2025 Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Sheep. Monday 8th December 2025. PRIME LAMBS A market SQQ of 323p/kg achieved today with well finished lambs attracting keenest buyer interest topping at 398p/kg and others generally 350p/kg to 380p/kg, grass finished lambs to 367p/kg with most 320p/kg to 335p/kg provided they fell within specification. Best of the heavy weights to 337p/kg, with most 270p/kg to 290p/kg for hill bred. Heavy weights led the sale topping at £181 with others £176, £175, £172, £170, standards to £175 and light weights £129. Business as usual next week at NWA Lancaster and throughout all of December. Prime Lambs Top Prices: BELTEX: £181 Castle Mill Farm, £176, £175 Deep Clough, £172 Castle Mill Farm, £170 Oak Aveune, £166 Castle Mill Farm. TEXEL: £170 North Farm, £167 Park Farm Barn, £166 North Farm, £165, £164 Oak Aveune, £160 North Farm. CHEVIOT: £159, £155 High Tenement Farm, £145 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £141 Yarlsber Farm, £135 Marshaw Farm, £135 Yarlsber Farm. CHAROLAIS: £158 Park Farm Barn, £152 Bensons Farm, £151 Broseley Hall Farm, £149 North Farm, £147 Burns Farm, £147 Broseley Hall Farm. SUFFOLK: £157, £147 The Hawthornes, £147 Higher Fair Snape Farm, £142 Park Farm Barn, £142 Oak Aveune, £140 Park Farm Barn/ CHEVIOT MULE: £150 Yarlsber. MASHAM: £150, £142 Allcocks Farm. CONTINENTAL: £149 Old Glasson Farm, £148 Cuerdale Hall Farm, £147 Allcocks Farm, £146 Higher Fair Snape Farm, £136 Lower Lingart Farm, £136 Old Glasson Farm. MULE: £145 Yalsber, £141, £140 High Tenement Farm, £135 High House Farm, £131 Thornbush Farm. SWALEDALE: £108 (x2), £106, £93 Marshaw Farm.
CULL SHEEP Plenty of interest in cull sheep with another increase on numbers forward greeted with buyers approval. Better end continental cross ewes £175 to £200 topping at £222 from ST Birkett & Son, mediums £148 to £170. Mules topped at £169 from WB Kellet with other heavies £158 to £165, mediums £130 to £155. Pure hill ewes saw cheviots £148, Swaledale £107 with leaner horned ewes £75 to £95. Several rams forward selling to £220 for texels. Keep these ewes coming with buyers keen to secure sheep on a Monday morning. Cast Ewes Top Prices: TEXEL: £222 Hall Croft Barn, £204 Birch House Cottage, £182 Castle O Trim, £174, £170 Lower Brockholes Farm, £168 Moss Gate Farm. CHEVIOT: £192 Low Croft,