North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 12th October
NWA J36 Second Gimmer Lamb Sale Thursday 6th October The second sale of Gimmer Lambs at J36 Rural Auction Centre had an entry of 1,114 forward for the sale. The entry was mainly made up by Mule gimmer lambs with the majority being running lambs and young hill lambs. A brisk trade throughout the sale with buyers looking to purchase lambs with potential of growing out into shearlings. The trade topped at £101 for Mules from Brian Dodd of Selside, with lambs fit to tup selling in the early nineties. Plenty of running lambs sold in the late seventies with bonnier stronger types achieving £80. A small number of Mashams forward for the sale sold to a top of £86 from JE Read of Mealrigg. Cheviot mule gimmer lambs from Ian Dixon of Low Newton sold to £77 and £72. Continental gimmer lambs topped at £88 from B & M Slater of Daub Hall. North West Auctions J36 had 2208 Store Lambs forward at the fortnightly sale. There was a great show of sheep on offer, which sold to a packed ringside of buyers from up and down the country. All classes of Lambs were keenly bid for with vendors leaving happy with their trade. Top price of the day was for a Suffolk Lamb from T Redmayne, Gowan Bank. Charollais Lambs sold to a top price of £67 from Coward Brothers of Kirkby Hall, with Charollais averaging £60. Texels sold to £67 from RH Redmayne of Windermere and Mule Lambs topped at £62 from JF Cook, Witherslack. Good condition and short keep lambs were in strong demand with long keep lambs having the biggest increase on the day. Nice tight coated skinned lambs with shape were exceptionally bid for with Store Lambs averaging £56.20. The next sale of Store Lambs will be held on Thursday 20th October which will include ‘Gathering o’th’ Fells’ a show for Mule, Lowland, Cheviot and Horned Store Lambs in pens of 20. Please advise the office of entries where a list of entries will be produced, lambs will be penned on arrival to the market and a ballot drawn 10 minutes prior to the sale.
Top Prices Gimmer Lambs Mule £101 Thorn Cottage, £97 Botton Hall Farm, £94 Rydal Farm, £93 Catshaw Farm, £92 Roundthwaite, Stable Harvey. Tex £88 Daub Hall, £84, £81 Arklid Farm. Mash £86 Mealrigg, £68, £Steps Farm, £61 New Hutton. RF Mule £80 Moors Cottage. Chev £77, £72, £68 Low Newton Farm. Lei £71 Preston Patrick Hall. Rough £64 Mealrigg. Suff £61.50 Rankthorn. Store Lambs Suff £70 Gowan Bank, £66 Grate Farm, £63 Sunny Brow, Preston Patrick Hall, £61.50 Rankthorn, Dragon Croft, £60 Gowan Bank. Char £67 Kirkby Hall, £64.50 Knittleton Farm, £61.50 Kirkby Hall, £60 Knittleton Farm. Mule £62 Moss Howe Farm, £59.50 Dragon Croft, £59 Wads Howe, Low Newton Farm, £58.50 High Skelgill, High Borrowbridge, £58 Kirkby Hall. Horned £58 Gowan Bank. Rough £54.50, £48.50
NWA Lancaster Dairy Cattle Sale Monday 17th October 53 Dairy Cattle with entries from Bilsrow, Deerslet, Kirkwood, Parkgill, Pennine, Ravenscar, Robanne, Saltoke, Sandcrest, Stardale, Strickland Hill, Tunstall, Wyredale, Wraytop
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Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 7th October A large entry of Store Cattle forward once again with quality cattle and well fleshed cattle selling to a continued to a good trade with weathered cattle slightly harder to place this week. A consignment of continental bullocks from MS Dugdale & Sons of Tewitfield Farm saw British Blues sell to a top of £1,430 with another half a dozen from the same home selling to £1,370. Native cattle once again always selling very well at Lancaster topped at £1,370 from C Hargreaves & Son of Sunderland Point. There was 44 bullocks sold in excess of £1,200. Heifers sold to a top of £1,150 from D Clark of Challon Hall for a British Blue with short keep heifers selling around the £1,100 mark. Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – BRB: £1430 Tewitfield Farm; £1330 Walmsley Fold; £1240 Greenlands Farm. AA: £1370 Sunderland Brows Farm; £1330 Yealand Manor; £1300 Kirkham Road. LIM: £1370 Tewitfield; £1280 Low House; £1170 Moss Head. CH: £1350 Kilburn House; £1330 Yealand Manor; £1300 Kilburn House. SIM: £1280 Tewitf ield; £1240 Forton Bank Farm; £1200 North Farm. SHO: £1270 Walmsley Fold. FKV: £1230 Ninezergh; £1160 Sowerby Lodge. MON: £1110 Sowerby Lodge; £1020 Low House. HE: £1080 Cock Hall Farm; £980 Trapp Farm; £980 Brockhurst Farm. SLR: £1060 Ingrave Farm. SD: £1000 Whaitber; £960 Adlington Hall Farm. FR: £950 Sunderland Brows Farm; £820 Lodge Farm; £820 Higher Broadwood Farm. STORE HEIFERS – BRB: £1150 Challon Hall Farm; £1090 Roseacre Hall; £1020 Hawkrigg End. AA: £1130 Sowerby Lodge; £1090 Mill Farm; £1070 Church Street. LIM: £1130 Challon Hall Farm; £1000 High House Farm; £990 High Fell Gate. HE: £1090 Raw Head; £940 Cockrigg Farm. CH: £1050 Langhtwaite Heights; £1020 Gunnerthwaite. FR: £800 Fencefoot Farm.
A smaller entry of OTM Cattle forward for the sale today with better weather and manty busy with an entry of 90 forward this week. The trade was stronger than last week with all types a better trade. The trade topped at 177.5ppk for a Blonde Cow from RW & FJ Rhodes of Low Moor Head with beef cows selling to a top gross of £1,124 from H Whittaker of Coaley Walks Farm with plenty of beef cows selling in excess of 160ppk. Dairy cows sold to a top of 119.5ppk or £875 from S Kellet & Sons of Pilling Hall. All cast cows forward sold to a market average of 100.4ppk. There continues to be a strong trade for OTM Heifers and Steers at Lancaster with Charolais heifers selling to a top of 184.5ppk from TN Pye & partners of Langthwaite Heights with bullocks from the same home selling to 159.5ppk. Black and white OTM heifers sold to 131.5ppk or £716 from GB & EA Metcalfe & Son of Holme House. Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COW – BA: 177.5 Low Moor Head Farm; 119.5 Beckside. HE: 164.5 Coaley Walks Farm; 107.5 Cringleber. LIM: 159.5 Avondale; 119.5 Cringleber ; 119.5 Croft Foot Farm. AA: 134.5 Post Office Farm; 109.5 Cringleber. MON: 134.5 Hillock Farm; 117.5 Walker I’th Fields. FR: 119.5 Sweetings Farm; 119.5 Pilling Hall; 117.5 Lambrigg Head. CAST HEIFER – CHAR: 184.5 Langthwaite Heights. NOR: 134.5 Park Lane Farm FR: 131.5 Holme House Farm. LIM: 124.5 Lambrigg Head Farm. CAST STEER – CH: 159.5 Langthwaite Heights.
The weekly sale of Calves and Stirks had a smaller entry this week following the monthly sale of stirks last week. A strong trade throughout the sale for both beef and black and white calves. Once again a fantastic consignment of calves from David and Eileen Wallbank of Tills Farm saw British Blue bull calves sell to £450 and £430 with Angus bull calves from the same home selling to £335. British Blue heifers from DJ Clarke of Barnacre sold to a top of £350, young beef calves regularly sold into the late two hundreds. Best types of young Friesian bull calves sold in excess of £110 from David and Eileen Wallbank of Tills Farm with all black and white calves very eagerly bid for and vendors leaving pleased with their trade selling to an average of £70. Calf Top Prices: HEIFER CALF – BRB: £350 Kellbrick Farm; £230 Manor House Farm. HE: £270 Cocker House Farm; £220 Great Eccleston Hall. AA: £295 Tills Farm. BULL CALF – BRB: £450 Tills Farm; £300 Manor House Farm. AA: £335 Tills Farm; £300 Half Way House. HE: £295 Catshaw Hall Farm. FR: £110 Tills Farm;
Monday 10th October NWA - Lancaster, had on offer 767 Prime Sheep, 182 Cast Sheep and 2 Young Bulls. Topping the sale in the Prime Sheep ring this morning was G A Haston & Son, Lane House, Galgate, for a pen of 50kg shapey Texels, and realising £87. Top price per kilo was 192p for a pair of smart Beltexs scaling 39kg, and consigned by Ian T Richardson, Beech Grove House, Malley House. Good quality lambs with a decent cover of meat were selling to 175p - 180p, and were keenly bid for to fulfil buyers requirements. Lighter lambs - 36-39kg that were meaty and shapey sold to good rates 170p - 175p.The heavy type lambs met a solid trade this morning, £80-85, for weights 45-50kg. Overall sale average today was 163p, which was better than anticipated. Prime Lamb Top Prices: TEX: £87 Lane House; £83.50 Low Kit Brow; £77.50 Ellers. SUFF: £80 Low Kit Brow; £73.50 Beaumont Gate; £67.50 Tarnwater Farm. BEL: £78 Hutton Roof Hall; £75 Beech Grove House. HRN: £76 Beaumont Gate; £59 Fell End. MULE: £75 Highfield Farm; £73 Bank Farm. CHAR: £70.50 The Dingle. SWALE: £62 Clerk Laithe Farm. CONT: £58 Longstripes Farm. JAC: £33 Englenook.
Toppping the sale of Cast Sheep today was £77 for a pen of Mules consigned by J M Sanderson & Son, Lower Highfeild, Hatton. In the continental section, a pen of Texels consigned by W M Pye, Tarnwater Farm, topped £71. All classes of ewes met a firm demand this morning. Cast Sheep Top Prices: MULE: £77 Lower Highfield; £73 Heights Farm. TEX: £71 Tarnwater Farm; £66 Heights Farm. CONT: £69 Tarnwater Farm. HERD: £52 Lee End Farm. CHEV: £50 Cragg Farm. SWALE: £48 Highfield Farm; £42 Wyresdale Park. JAC: £44 Englenook. ZWART: £32 Cragg Farm.
Top price for Young Bulls was £844.20 and 167.5p for a Mon, scaling 504kg, and consigned by P & A Bell, Village Farm, Pilling. Prime Cattle Top Prices: AA: 167.50 Village Farm. MON: 167.50 Village Farm.
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J36 Sale Reports Thursday 6th October The weekly sale of Calves had an entry of 20 forward selling to a continued strong trade with plenty of interest ring side for calves with, once again, an entry mainly consisting of young Black and White bull calves. A buoyant trade for black and whites with buyers looking to purchase good dark rearing types topping at £105, twice, from HJ Robinson of Elm Tree Farm with a market average of £51.27, with plenty of young calves selling between £50 and £60. A small selection of young beef calves forward saw British Blue bulls and heifers selling to £275 from JW & D Robinson & Sons of Hollins Farm. Calves Top Prices: Bull Calf: Brit Blue £275 Hollins Farm, £250 Sunny Bank, £200 Broomfield. Lim £250 Broomfield. Fri £105, £60 Elm Tree, £55, £50 Sunny Bank. Heifer Calf: Brit Blue £275 Hollins Farm.
Tuesday 11th October NWA - J36. Had forward 1743 Prime Lambs, 786 Cast Sheep, 42 Store Pigs and 39 Prime Pigs at there weekly sale. The monthly sale of all types of Pigs to include prime, store, weaner and cast sows and boars had a strong entry of 81 forward. As seen over previous weeks a good following of prime pig buyers at J36 so another strong prime pig trade. Pietrain cross pigs from O’Rourke Farms of Dalbeattie sold to a top of £124 or 143pence per kilo with plenty of prime pigs selling in excess of £110 and plenty of good conformation gilts and hogs selling between 120 and 140 pence per kilogram. Breeders and finishers are strongly advised to castrate all pigs with gilts and hogs selling to a premium and certainly of financial advantage to the vendors. Store Tamworth’s gilts and hogs sold to £62 from John Handley of School House with Pietrain cross weaners selling to a top of £52 from Ben Harrison of Windermere. The next sale of Prime pigs will take place on Tuesday 25th October 2016, Vendors are strongly advised to inform Ian Atkinson of entries so buyers can be informed of numbers coming forward. Top price in the Prime Sheep today was £104 twice, firstly for a pair of 60kg Texel's, consigned by C Gawthrop, 44 Summerhill, Bootle, and secondly for a 60kg Texel, consigned by J & J Postlethwaite, Bramaskew, Howgill. Top price per kilo for lambs was a Texel scaling 40kg and realising 240p, and consigned by K Thomas, Hill Top Farm, Firbank The overall sale average was 164.23p. The lighter lambs, 32-38kg, that were in good condition were making from 170-180p. Handyweight lambs scaling39-44kg, and had shape and quality were selling to 190-200p. Lambs that were scaling 45-50kg with a nice cover of meat were keenly bid for, 175-185p. The heavyweight types, from 51kg plus sold to a solid trade, from £88-98. Prime Lambs Top Prices: Tex £104 Bramaskew, Summerhill, £96 Hill Top Farm, £94 Hawes Farm, £90 North Lodge, £89 Millom Castle, Crabtree Farm. Char £98 Myers Farm, £83.50 Yealand Manor, £79 High Green, Myers Farm, £78.50 Myers Farm, £77 High Green, Yealand Manor. Suff £93.50 Crooklands Brow, £90 Garnett Folds, £87 High House Farm, £86 Smithy Green, £85.50 Low Brundrigg. Bel £90 Low Hall Farm, £87.50 Poppy Farm, £86.50 Low Hall Farm, £85 Low Hall Farm, Poppy Farm. Cont £75 Brow Head. Mule £72.50 Bramaskew, £70.50 Tongue House Farm, £68.50 Seedhowe Cottages, £67 Yoad Pot, £64.50 The Coach House. Chev £67, Seedhowe Cottages, £65 Green Lane End. Llyen £67, £56 Gaitbarrow Farm.
The weekly sale of Cast Sheep had a larger entry of over 700 forward this week, as seen nationwide the cast sheep trade a shade steady then seen over previous weeks. Cast rams sold to a top of £109 for a Charollais x Beltex tup from JA Chapman of North Lodge Farm. Continental cast ewes sold into the eighties topping at £86 from DW & NM Alderson of High Green with numerous pens selling in the late seventies. Pens of mule ewes sold to the mid-sixties for powerful ewes topping at £66 from JW & TE Sharp of Flodder Hall. Horned ewes harder to place today with Swaledale ewes selling to a top of £53 from JW Thwaites of Eskew Beck. Cast Sheep Top Prices: Cast Ewes Char £86 High Green, £85, £80 Ballavitchell, £74, £60 High Green. Tex £85 Cooilingel Farm, £77 Hutton Roof Hall, £76 Kirket Nook, £75, £74, £72 Cooilingel Farm. Suff £85 Smithy Green Farm, £75 New Close, £68 Hawes Farm, £67 High Green, Gilpin Green Farm, £66 High Green. Lei £70 Moss Head, £69 Kit Cragg. Mule £66 Flodder Hall, £65 High Green, £63 Stoney Farm, £60 High Biggarsbank, Croft meadow House. Chev £61 Hill Top Farm, £59 Hutton Roof Hall. Cast Rams Bel £109 North Lodge. Suff £86 East Ridding. Tex £85, £79, £68 Cooilingel Farm.
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NWA Architectural - Windows on Development Many of you will have read the article in the Farmers Guardian of October 7th about housing land and barn conversions. The article was about the allocation of housing development land as part of Local Plans. Planning authorities have a duty to allocate housing land based on a known demand for housing that they have separately identified and published. This is not currently being met by land allocations in many local councils. As such many are still considering land under the allocations process. If you have land near the edge of a village or town that you think may be suitable for development then please get in touch with me at J36 and we can have a look at it with you and advise on the process involved. The land does not necessarily need to be large, it could be a small awkward area of a field that could accommodate 2 or 3 houses. The land does not necessarily have to be suitable for housing, many local authorities do not have enough employment land available. Land that lies in the open countryside or at the edge of small hamlets or groups of houses is probably not going to be suitable. The deficit in housing and employment land can also be met by existing buildings. There are a number of new permitted development rights that apply to farm buildings offering opportunities for development and farm diversification. There are of course some restrictions on the development rights which we won’t detail here. However if you wish to discuss your land or buildings to see if there is any development potential, however small, please contact Greg Gilding at J36 or call 015395 66248 or 07969994945. We can have a look at your land or buildings and advise on the likelihood of a consent being achievable. We have a good record of success in planning applications, 96% success rate, and will not usually undertake a planning application we do not think has a good chance of success, unless of course a landowner insists.
Rough Fell Ram Sale Saturday 15th October at J36 Rural Auction Centre Annual Show & Sale of 211 Registered Kendal Rough Fell Rams Judging at 8.30am and Sale at 10am
Order of Sale Aged Rams, Ram Lambs & Shearling Rams
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Saturday 15 October Annual Show & Sale of 211 Rough Fell Rams on behalf of the RFSBA Show at 8.30am & Sale 10am Thursday 20th October Weekly Sale of Calves at 10.15am ‘Gathering o’th’ Fells’ Show at 9.30am Sale at 11am Show & Sale of 3000 Store Lambs show classes for Mule, Lowland, Cheviot & Horned Store Lambs in Pens of 20 Saturday 22nd October at 10.30am ‘Lakeland Fair’ Show & Sale of Swaledale Rams & Other Hill Breed Rams Plus sale of all classes of Breeding Sheep Saturday 29th October at 10.30am Annual Show & Sale of 74 Registered Fell Ponies on behalf of the Fell Pony Society
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Monday 17 October at 11.15am Monthly Show & Sale of 53 Dairy Cattle from Bilsrow, Deerslet, Kirkwood, Parkgill, Pennine, Ravenscar, Robanne, Saltoke, Sandcrest, Stardale, Strickland Hill, Tunstall, Wyredale, Wraytop Wednesday 19th October at 10.30am Sale of Machinery & Small Tools including Kawaski Quad Bike, Parmater Shear Grab, Pallet Fork with backing plate, Wood Working Equipment, Assorted Drill Bits, Chicken Coup Friday 21st October from 10.15am Weekly Sale of 60 Calves, 100 Cast Cows & 500 Store Cattle
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