North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 23rd December
Dressed Poultry Sale Monday 21st December The evening sale of ‘oven-ready’ Christmas poultry saw approximately 500 birds forward, with a large crowd of buyers present from local villages and towns, keen to purchase their Christmas dinner. They were spoilt for choice from the quality of entry of birds presented for sale. Geese sold to £90 for a 14lb goose, from Mrs S Garnett, with others at £75 & £72. Ducks sold to £25 for a 8lb duck from Mr J H Clarke, with others at £24 & £23. Chickens sold to £33 for a 14lb chicken from Messrs Jenkinson, with others at £27, £26 & £24. Perhaps the best show of Turkeys seen for several years sold to in excess of vendors’ expectation, with birds generally within either side of £2/lb, dependant on the weight. The heaviest bird of the evening was a 37lb turkey from R Hodgson which sold for £70, with other heavy birds £55 to £62. Handy weight birds, 12-14lb, sold in excess of £3/lb, with bronze turkeys in short supply and selling to £38 for a 13lb turkey from Messrs Jenkinson. During the sale at Lancaster, NWA bought a 22lb Turkey and donated it to Lancaster and Morecambe Homeless charity and at the sale at J36, NWA also bought another 22lb Turkey and donated it to Manna House Homeless Charity.
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Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 18th December A good show of Store Cattle forward this morning, achieving a 100% clearance. A pleasing trade for all classes. Topping the sale was a smart pen of 4 Limousin bullocks realising £1340 from J Capstick & Son, Millom. Heifers sold to a top of £1200 for a smart Charollais from BN Greenwood, Catterall. Native bred bullocks sold to £1230 from A & E Clarkson, Cock Hall. Native heifers to £1140 from J & M Maudsley & Son, Raw End Farm. Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – LIM: £1340 Whicham Hall; £1110 Daniel Fold Farm; £1080 Bull Bank Farm. AA: £1230 Cock Hall Farm; £1170 Kitchen Ground Farm; £1160 Billinge Hall. BRB: £1280 Kitchen Ground Farm; £1240 Pasture House Farm; £1090 Church Street. HE: £1200 Hill Top; £1090 Windy Hill Farm; £990 Billinge Hall Farm. BA: £1150 Beaumont Grange Farm. MO: £1040 Billinge Hall Farm. CH: £980 Low House. FR: £980 Braeslacks; £910 Walmsley Fold; £860 Park Farm. STORE HEIFERS – CH: £1200 Daniel Fold Farm; £1070 Aughton Hall Farm. BRB: £1170 Greenlands Farm; £1170 Fell End Farm; £1170 Beaumont Grange Farm. LIM: £1150 Low House; £920 Whinney Garth; £890 Middle Ridge Farm. AA: £1140 Nutgill; £1140 Raw End Farm; £1090 Manor House Farm. SIM: £1100 Manor House Farm; £880 Whinney Garth. CON: £1110 Nutgill. FR: £840 Elm Tree Farm; £780 Hallbeck.
A very small show of Cast Cows and OTM Cattle forward this morning. All prices sharper on the previous week, topping at 174.5ppk or £1076.67 for a British Blue cow from Messrs Scott. Diary cows sold to a top of 104.5ppk for a Brown Swiss from EJ Hodgson & Son, Lambrigg Head. Friesian cows topped at 89.5ppk from J & M Robinson, Hoggetts Lane Farm. Cast Cows Top Prices: CAST COW – BRB: 174.5 Newton Villa Farm. FR: 119.5 Low Sizergh Farm; 89.5 Hoggets Lane Farm; 87.5 Endmoor Farm. BS: 104.5 Lambrigg Head Farm. JE: 99.5 Low Sizergh Farm. AA: 87.5 Eskew Beck. LIM: 84.5 Mireside Farm. CAST HEIFER – MO: 124.5 Lane House. CAST BULL – FR: 77.5 Breedy Butts Farm.
A good show of 43 Calves this morning, with numerous beef calves forward. Trade topped at £370 twice, both for Blue Bulls from Steven Robinson, Burton in Lonsdale. Angus Bulls to £285 from Walbank Farms Ltd, Abbeystead and Limousin Bulls to £255 from JM & MH France, Littledale. Black and whites a touch easier than previous weeks, topping at £105 from TD & V Whitaker, Winmarleigh. Best sorts in excess of £80 with smaller nice rearing calves £42-£58. Calf Top Prices: BULL CALF – BRB: £370 Longber Farm; £350 Tills Farm; £225 North Farm. AA: £285 Tills Farm; £255 Park Lane Farm. LIM: £255 Newhouse Farm; £210 Booth Hall. FR: £105 Park Lane Farm; £90 Cocker House Farm. HEIFER CALF – BRB: £315 Longber Farm. AA: £270 Longber Farm; £200 Tills Farm. LIM: £195 North Farm.
A good show of Store Lambs this morning with 107 passing through the ring. Trade topped at £60 for a pen of 25 nice Texels from DNO Scott & Sons, Morpeth. Mules to £55.50 from Peter Thornton, Scorton. Overall average of £58.56 for all forward.
Monday 21st December An entry of 773 Prime Lambs forward this week sold to an overall market average of 155ppk with over half the lambs forward Mules and Horned lambs. Continental and Suffolk lambs well fleshed easily sold and more could have been handled today. Suffolk lambs topped at £85 for a heavy weight from FA Nowell & Partners of Oak Head Farm. Handy weight Continental lambs between 32kg – 37kg sold in the 170’s topping at 178ppk from K Whitaker & Son of Stirzakers Farm. Mule lambs keenly sought after selling to £72 from T & CM Kelsall of Brown Brook weighing 47kg with all Mule lambs selling to an average of £67 or an average of 153ppk. Horned lambs sold to a top of £65 from Andrew Butler of Hambleton. Next Sale Monday 28th December 2015 – Prime Lambs will be required for more information contact Ian 07766521472 Prime Lamb Top Prices: SUFF: £85 Oak Head Farm; £74.50 Thornbush Farm; £74 Walnut Tree. TEX: £76 Parks Farm Barn; £76 Walmsley Fold; £73.50 Old Woodhouse. CH: £76 Walmsley Fold; £66 Throstle Grove Farm; £63.50 Burnt House. CHEV: £72.50 Brown Brook. MULE: £71 High House Farm; £70.50 Brown Edge; £70 Ouzelthorn Farm. HRN: £65 Parks Farm Barn; £63.50 Tarnwater Farm. RGH: £64 Millbeck. SCOTCH: £64 Tarnwater Farm. SWALE: £63 Sykes Farm; £63 Oak Head Farm; £54 Ouzelthorn Farm. CON: £62 Hazelslack Tower Farm. MASH: £60 Holme House Farm. HB: £58.50 Fell End Farm. HAMP: £58.50 Upper Greenbank.
Another good show of Cast Sheep at Lancaster, with 94 forward. Topping the sale was a Texel Tup from JA & MM Taylor, Lots Farm, realising £92. Ewes sold to a top of £86 for a pair of Texels from Bargh Contractors, Morecambe. Mules sold into the early sixties, topping at £65 for a trio from H Birkett & Son, Overton. Horned sheep sold to a top of £65 from R Capstick & Son, Ingleton with Dalesbreds and swales realised £55 from F Towers, Wray. Cast Sheep Top Prices: TEX: £92 Lots House Farm; £86 Old Woodhouse; £71 Springfield Farm. SUFF: £87 North Farm. CONT: £70 Springfield Farm; £65 Upper Greenbank. MULE: £65 North Farm; £63 Springfield Farm; £62 Ashton Barn. SWALE: £55 Curwen Hill.
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J36 Sale Reports Thursday 17th December An entry of just shy of 50 Calves forward for the last sale before Christmas, with a large quantity of black and white calves, and the majority of beef calves just being young. Not as many buyers in attendance as sometimes, with many farmer buyers not wanting to create work over the festive period. British Blue bulls sold to £255 at a month old, and heifers to £220 from J Hoggarth & Son of Manor Farm. Black and whites sold to £132 from Gibson & Berry of Low Audlands. ** Next sale of Calves and Stirks Tuesday 29th November 2015 at 10.15am. ** On behalf of NWA I, Ian Atkinson, would like to take this opportunity to wish all calf and stirk vendors and purchasers, a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. It has been a very successful year for Calves and Stirks at J36 and we look forward to the success continuing in 2016. Calf Top Prices: BULL CALVES – BRB: £255 Manor House Farm; £210 School House. AA: £120 Elm Tree. Fr: £132 Low Audlands; £70 Elm Tree; £65 Birds Park, Endmoor Farm, High Foulshaw Farm. HEIFER CALVES – BRB: £220 Manor House Farm. Lim: £115 Wraysholme Tower. AA: £110 Warton Grange Farm. Hfd: £50 Kitchlow Farm.
The weekly sale of Store Lambs had an entry of over 1,100 forward. Good quality store lambs were few and far between, but very good to sell and eagerly bid for, especially any lambs with flesh. Well fleshed short keep lambs in the sixties topping at £67.50 from TW & J Beaty of Long Green Head, with a pen of Texels from David Galbraith of Sunny Bank selling to £64. A large proportion of small lambs forward, with many vendors bringing forward their last draw of lambs of the season. These sold to a very strong trade and were eagerly bid for, with plenty of buyers around for the long-keep lambs. Mule and Masham lambs sold to their value for the size and quality of lambs forward, topping at £63.50 for Mashams from JE Read of Mealrigg, Mules topped at £63 from TW & J Beaty of Long Green Head. Store Lamb Top Prices: Suff: £67.50 Long Green Head; £57.50 High House; £51 Gowan Bank; £49 Quarry Top. Texel: £64 Sunny Bank; £63 Long Green Head; £62.50 Street; £58 Bannerigg; £57 Low Woodedge. Masham: £63.50 Mealrigg. Mule: £63 Long Green Head; £56.50 Low Dubs; £51.50 Orphan Crag; £49.50 Main Street; £48 Fold Farm. Rough Fell: £54.50 Mealrigg. Leicester: £55 Scar Sykes. Herdwick: £44 Long Green Head, Main Street; £37 Borwick Fold. Horned: £37.50 Low Haygarth. Char: £49 Fold Farm; £45.50 Barker Knott; £40 Marsh Grange. Swale: £33.50 Scar Sykes; £31 Low Dubs. Teeswater: £31.50 Gowan Bank. Jacob: £30 Gowan Bank.
Tuesday 22nd December Prime Lambs Sell To A Rising Trade at NWA J36 North West Auctions held its weekly sale of Prime Lambs on Tuesday 22nd December. A competitive ringside of buyers saw lambs sell to an improved trade with an overall average of 165p/kg achieved. First cross lambs generally selling in excess of 170p/kg with Mules 155p/kg upwards. A top price of £85 was achieved for heavy Suffolks (52kg) with other lambs 45kg upward selling in the mid £70’s with Mules generally a few pounds either side of £70. Hill lambs sold to £67 for Rough Fells with Swaledales to £66. Light lambs sold to keen interest from buyers achieving £60 for first cross lambs with pure hill lambs to £58. Next sale of prime sheep at NWA J36 is Tuesday 29th December to include Show of individual prime lambs to be shown by Young Handlers. Show to commence at 11am prompt Prime Lamb Top Prices: Suff: £85 Smithy Green; £78.50 Brown Edge; £75.50 Meadow Oaks; £75 Beckfoot Farm Cottage. Texel: £84.50 Steel Croft; £84 Arklid Farm; £83.50 Meadow Oaks; £81.50 Red Lodge. Mule: £78 Barrowfield; £76 Brown Edge; £75.50 Stud Ford Gill; £75 Heaton Hall, Arklid Farm. Chev: £78 Crooklands Farm; £71.50 Seedhowe Cottage; £65 Howriggs; £64 Brow Head. Char: £77 Flodder Hall. Rough Fell: £67 Seedhowe Cottage; £64.50 Boundary Beck; £60 Clarfe Avenue. Swale: £66 Mill Farm; £64 Town End; £63.50 High Loanthwaite. Lleyn: £73.50 Low Foulshaw. Herdwick: £60 Moors Farm. Zwart: £82.50 Crooklands Farm.
Cast Ewes sold to a noticeably stronger trade as the festive break is fast approaching. Continental ewes sold into the nineties for bigger cross bred Continentals. Mule and Masham ewes sold into the seventies topping at £77 from Gibson & Berry of Low Audlands for a pen of 21 Mashams with Mules ewes topping £74. All Mule ewes forward averaged £69.54 with Mashams averaging £75.34. Rough Fell ewes sold to £67 twice from TLB & J Knowles of High Borrowbridge and M Bateman & Son of Moors Farm and all forward averaged £60.17. Swaledale ewes topped at £54 from £52 from TA & J Dixon of Yoad Pot with all Swaledale ewes averaging £43. A strong trade for the ewes forward. Leaving a market average of £58. Cast Sheep Top Prices: Tex: £94 St Johns Kirk; £82 Underley; £80 Main Street; £79 Red Scar. Chev: £89 Green Head. Leicester: £75 Moors Farm; £68 Nook Farm. Mule: £74 Underley; £74 Nook Farm; £72 St Johns Kirk; £69 Holme Farm, Bowston Hall. Masham: £77 Low Audlands. Dorset: £75 St Johns Kirk. Suffolk: £50 High Biggarsbank. Rough Fell: £67 High Borrowbridge, Moors Farm; £60 Boundary Beck. Swale: £54 Yoad Pot; £53 Middale Farm; £48 St Johns Kirk. Dales: £48 Low Audlands. Herdwick: £56 Bowston Hall; £41 Nook Farm. Zwart: £62 Bowston Hall. Goat: £46 The Coach House.
There was a smaller show of Cast Cows and clean cattle forward this morning at J36 for this additional sale. Top price was 150p/kg (x2) for Lim Heifers from A Dixon & Son, Kit Cragg, Selside. Cast Cow Top Prices: CLEAN HEIFERS – Stab: 150p/kg, 144p/kg Kit Cragg. CAST COWS – Stab: 124p/kg, 118/kg Kit Cragg. Fri: 92p/kg, 84p/kg Bridge End.
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Tuesday 29th December J36 – Normal Primestock Sale to include Young Handlers Show plus additional sale of Calves at 10.15am Lancaster - Offices open till 12noon Wednesday 30th December Both offices open as normal New Years Eve – Thursday 31st December No Sale – Both offices close at 12noon New Years Day – 1st January 2016 No Sale – Both offices closed Monday 4th January 2016 All office and sale times back to normal For more information on sales please visit our website or ring either office.