Weekly Report and Newsletter - 13th June 2025 Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep. Monday 9th June 2025. PRIME LAMBS (498) Those that drew lambs were duly rewarded, with buyers keen to fill existing orders and start new ones. Well bred and fed lambs were 360p/kg to 380p/kg, topping at 433p/kg from WA&LM Jenkinson, Stalmine with others to 420p/kg from KA Purtill, Wigan. Several pens of lighter weights lambs coming forward, selling to 366p/kg from D Wightman, Burton in Kendal. Topping the market today selling several pens of Texel cross at £174 was D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe. Closely followed by KA Purtill, Wigan and A&E Clarkson, Cockerham achieved £172. Standard weigh in specification lambs were in the keenest demand, with light weight selling to £139. An overall market average of 339p/kg and SQQ of 342p/kg was achieved got all sold. Prime Lambs Top Prices: TEXEL: £174 (x2) Bensons Farm, £172 Cock Hall Farm, £169 Woodlands Farm, £161, £160 Bensons Farm. BELTEX: £172 Oak Aveune. SUFFOLK: £161 West Lodge, £158 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £150 Potters Hill Farm, £149, £148 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £147 West Lodge. CONTINENTAL: £160 West Lodge, £147 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £146 Moss Gate Farm, £137, £125 Lundholme Farm. DOSET: £146 Abbotson Farm, £138 Oak Aveune. MULE: £127 North Farm, £124 Burrow Heights Farm.
PRIME HOGGS (66) Just a handful of end of season hoggs forward selling to a top price of 329p/kg for a Texel cross from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe and £140 for Cheviots from the Isle of Man. Prime Hoggs Top Prices: TEXEL: £140 IOM, £131 Burrow Heights Farm, £102 Bensons Farm, £94, £72 Burrow Heights Farm. CONTINENTAL: £133, £118 IOM, £96 Bensons Farm, £93, £80 IOM. CHEVIOT: £105 Cotestones Farm, £100 Moorcock Hall Farm, £96, £80 Cotestones Farm. DUTCH SPOTTED: £102 Moorcock Hall Farm. MULE: £92 Moorcock Hall Farm, £70 Burrow Heights.
CULL SHEEP (90) No let up in the trade for all classes and types of cull sheep. Better continentals were £195 and £230, topping at £240 was WA&LM Jenkinson, Stalmine with mediums £170 to £190. Mules peaked at £184 from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe with another stronger end ewes £165 to £180, and the next draw down £140 to £160. Hill ewes sold to £170 for Cheviots. Cast Ewes Top Prices: TEXEL: £240 Woodlands Farm, £212 Oak Aveune, £206 (x2) Hall Croft Barn, £200 Lingrow, £196 Oak Aveune. DORSET: £202 Oak Aveune. CONTINENTAL: £186, £178, £176 Oak Aveune, £162 Bensons Farm, £142 Ochard Cottage, £122 Wyre Farm. MULE: £184 Bensons Farm, £176 Hall Croft Barn, £166 Bensons Farm, £154, £130, £106 Wyre Farm. SUFFOLK: £178 Oak Aveune. CHEVIOT: £170 Oak Aveune, £98 Hall Croft Barn, £88 IOM, £88 Moorcock Hall Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Pigs, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Tuesday 10th June 2025. Pigs A good buzz down the pig alley this morning, with trade showing a slight increase on last sale. Prime pigs sold to £230 for a pair of gilts from local producer Peter Woof, Stainton. A trio sold to £205 from J&JR Stott, Kingsland which achieved the days top pence per kilo at 241p/kg. Boars sold to £185 from W Stamper, Chipping with the best of the steers achieving £142 from DA&AM Chalmers, Appleby. Weaners perhaps the trade of the day, selling to £100 for five from M Berry, Endmoor with others to £90 from HA Sawrey, Ulverston. Sheep with Lambs at Foot Trade holding up as the season winds down. A tidy show of ewe and hogg families, consisting mainly of Mule hoggs, all achieving £285. Texel cross ewes with Texel lambs reached £260 from Messrs Metcalfe, Ravenstonedale. The same vendor topped the hill sheep section with a pen of Swaledale ewes with Mule and Texel lambs making £200. Sale statistics: Swaledale ewes with twins, averaged £200. Texel ewes with twins, averaged £260. Texel ewes with singles, averaged £225. Mule hoggs with singles, averaged £285. A few families expected for next week, as trade rises for spring lambs. Don’t miss out on getting some stock on the ground. You can’t pay bills on fresh air!