North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 30th December
NWA Lancaster Monday 28th December Young Handlers Show & Sale North West Auctions Lancaster held the Christmas Bank Holiday sale of lambs, including the Christmas Show of Young Handlers Prime Lambs. Taking the overall champion rosette was Charlie Butler of Hambleton with a smart Beltex lamb, realising £100, selling to Plumgarths Farm Shop, Kendal. Please keep an eye on the Facebook page for pictures of all prize winners. Away from the show lambs met a faster trade, topping at £84 from FK & F Woodhouse & Son, Fell End or 188ppk for, a pen of 21, 30kg swales from Allan and Chris Pye, Abbeystead. Overall average of 162ppk for all forward. Swale lambs were the fastest trade this morning with 38kg lambs realising £63.50 from RH & C Ayrton, Ouzle Thorn. Mules sold to £74 for a pair from D France, Isle of Skye, a pen of 13, 47kg mules from WI & A Atkinson & Son, achieved £71.50. Texels sold to £80 from N Brown with regular vendor P Lawrenson, Brindle realising £79.50 with well meated 48kg lambs. The fast trade for Cast Ewes continued at Lancaster this morning, with 5 active buyers ringside. Trade topped at £107 for a Texel ewe from ST Birkett, Hall Croft Barn, with another from the same home at £106. Mules sold some £18 - £20 above previous weeks, topping at £78 for a pair from EJ Burrow, Milnthorpe, closely followed by Sandra Blades with 15, achieving £76. Horned sheep sold to £73 for a Dalesbred Tup from D France, Isle of Skye and a pen of roughs from F Towers selling at £60. An average of £72.09 for all ewes forward, more needed to fill the demands of buyers. Only 4 Cast Cows forward with no real headline prices, JJ Woof & Son topped the sale with a Blonde cow realising 104.5ppk. Just 10 Calves forward, however a fast trade for all. Fleckvieh bulls sold to £295 from Brian Barnes, Middleton, Herefords to £260 for Bulls and £215 for heifers from Steve Mason and Black and Whties to £80 from TD & V Whitaker, Winmarleigh. The next sale of Store Cattle, OTMs and Rearing Calves is Friday 8th January. Top Prices: PRIME LAMBS – TEX: £100 Parks Farm Barn; £80 Deep Clough; £79.50 Walmsley Fold. SUFF: £84 Fell End Farm; £78.50 Knowsley Farm; £76.50 Isle of Skye Farm. BEL: £78 Red Lodge; £71.50 Cross House Farm. CH: £77 Parks Farm Barn; £70 Bibbys Farm; £70 Hutton Roof Hall. LLEYN: £76 Low Foulshaw Farm. MULE: £74 Isle of Skye Farm; £71.50 Holme House Farm; £70 Brown Brook. DALES: £68.50 Yarlsber; £62.50 Holme House; £60 Isle of Skye. ZWART: £68 Yates Farm. SCO: £66.50 Tarnwater Farm. CHEV: £66 Yates Farm. CON: £65 Muffys Platt Farm. SWALE: £63.50 Ouzelthorn Farm; £60 Old Glasson; £58 Holme House Farm. HRN: £62 Brown Brook; £55.50 Deep Clough. CAST SHEEP – TEX: £107 Hall Croft Barn; £97 Cock Hall Barn; £95 Keer Holme. LLYEN: £94 Low Foulshaw Farm. SUFF: £93 Deep Clough; £69 Muffys Platt Farm. ZWART: £85 Keer Holme; £78 Curwen Hill. CON: £85 Deep Clough. MULE: £78 Hazelslack Tower Farm; £76 Hill Top. SWALE: £73 Isle Of Skye Farm. DORS: £71 Hill Top. HRN: £68 Deep Clough. RGH: £60 Curwen Hill.
Show Results Judge Tim Hamlet, Hamlet’s Butchers, Garstang Under 12 Lowland Lambs 1st Ella Jackson Texel £70 2nd Matthew Jackson Texel £67 3rd Rachel Parker Texel £67 Under 12 Upland Lambs 1st Amy Ayrton 2nd Jonathon Ayrton 3rd Ella Jackson
Mule £68 Mule £68 Mule £67
Over 12 Lowland Lambs 1st Charlie Butler 2nd James Baxter
Texel £100 Char £69
Champion Charlie Butler Texel
£100
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NWA J36 Sale Reports NWA J36 Tuesday 29th December - Young Handlers Show & Sale North West Auctions held its weekly sale of Prime Sheep, which saw an entry of 1,907 forward selling to a market average of 156p/kg for all lambs sold, today’s sale saw a rise in numbers of light lambs forward, with this section exceeding 200 for the first time this season. These sold to a top price of £67 achieved for best well bred lambs from J Hartley & Son. Others 175p/kg – 190p/kg. Hill lambs sold to £51 for Swaledales with others in the mid to late £40’s dependant on weight. The sale topped at £85 for heavy Suffolks for DE & J Waine with other heavy lambs £75 - £79. Well bred lambs which fall within spec were easiest sold generally achieving £25 - £30 over weight. Mules sold to £74, Swaledales £65, Rough Fells £73 and Cheviots £70 TOP PRICES - PRIME LAMBS – Beltex: £200 Redhills; £100 Cross Hill; £82 High Underbrow. Texel: £150 & £100 Poppy Farm; £130 & £110 Mosergh Farm; £100 St Annes Farm, £90.50 & £86 High Underbrow Farm; £85 Bank House Farm, Hill Top Farm. Suffolk: £85 Murthwaite; £79 Brown Edge; £78 Smithy Green; £77 Masongill Hall, Dunningwell Farm; £75 Birks Farm. Mule: £74 Brown Edge; £73 Nurthwaite; £72 Boundary Beck, Fox Howe; £71.50 Low Hall, Well Foot. Char: £83 Middleton Hall; £75.50 Birks Farm; £74.50 Low Foulshaw Farm, High Foulshaw Farm. Chev: £84 Bank House Farm; £80 Middleton Hall; £70 Greenhills Farm; £68 Brow Head. Dorset: £59 Brow Head. Swale: £65.50 Middle Sadghyll; £60 Well Foot, Boundary Beck; £58 Braida Garth, The Borrans. Rough Fell: £73 Bank House Farm; £59 High Borrowbridge; £56.50 Boundary Beck. SBF: £63.50 Greenhills Farm. Horned: £56 Ashstead. Lleyn: £72.50 Low Foulshaw Farm. Leicester: £77.50 Brown Edge. Jacob: £60 Bark House. Herdwick: £72.50 Holmelands; £69 Fern Lea; £64 Millness Hall; £60 Ashstead. Zwart: £75 Birks Farm
Cast Ewes - The cast ewe trade was not as strong as the previous week with many pens selling ten pound less but in keeping with the day’s national trends with large numbers of cast sheep out throughout the country. Buyers very cautious of over fat ewes especially fatty Mules very hard to sell this week with plain and lean ewes the easiest sold and in by far the strongest demand. Vendors are strongly advised not to over fatten ewes. Big Continental ewes sold to the late seventies with big Mule ewes selling to the late sixties. Best horned ewes sold to the sixties with real lean types looking dearest with lean Swales regularly in the mid-thirties. TOP PRICES - CAST EWES - Tex: £76 (ram) Cooper House; £75 Arklid Farm, Low Tarn Green, Fox Howe; £74 Hill Top, Scale House; £71 Ivy House. Char: £78 Brainda Garth; £66 Red Scar. Chev: £58 School House; £49 Stoney Gill. Suff: £80 Murthwaite; £69 Thwait Rigg End; £65 Hill Top. Cont: £56 Birks Farm. Masham: £60 Low Audlands. Mule: £71 Scale House; £69 High Wray, Standsfield Farm; £65 Hill Top, Low Row. Swale: £60 Whinfield Farm; £42 Wall End; £41 Murthwaite. Rough Fell: £64 Scale House; £54 Low Deepslack; £47 Boundary Beck. SBF: £52 Greenhills Farm. Lleyn: £68 Low Foulshaw. Leicester: £70 Murthwaite; £52 Boundary Beck. Jacob: £36 Bark House. Dales: £45 Middale Farm. Teeswater: £66 Murthwaite. Herdwick: £50 Brow Head; £41 The Galleon. Zwart: £59 Ivy House. Beltex: £69 (ram) Braida Garth.
Calves - An additional sale of calves had an entry of 16 forward. The trade was strong for the quality and age of calves forward. Beef bred calves regularly in the late two hundreds topping at £295 for a month Simmental bull from the Morris-Eyton family of Beckside. TOP PRICES - CALVES BULL CALVES – Sim: £295 Beckside Farm. Fr: £48 Beckside.
HEIFER CALVES – BRB: £280 Sunny Bank; £260 Hawkrigg Farm.
CHAMPION YOUNG HANDLERS LAMB SELLS AT £200 & 425P/KG TO PLUMGARTHS FARM SHOP The much anticipated Annual Young Handlers Show & Sale of prime lambs saw fantastic turn out of lambs from local young forward before the judge Mr Mark Curr of Bowderdale who had an entry of 50 lambs put before him competing in 9 show classes. The championship rosette and the John Geldard Challenge Cup was awarded to Alfie and Alyssia Price of Red Hills, Kendal showing a 47kg ¾ Beltex Lambs which later sold for a final price of £200 (425p/kg) purchased by Plumgarths Farm Shop. Reserve Champion rosette was awarded to William Atkinson of Mosergh Farm, Selside showing a 50kg Beltex x lamb selling for £130 to Higginsons Butchers. Young Handlers - Show Results - Judge - Mark Curr Class 1 – Single Lowland Lamb Under 10 years 1st Alfie Dawson & Alyssia Price, Redhills, Texel – Champion £200 Plumgarths Farm Shop 2nd Abigail Winn, High Underbrow, Texel £86 Higginsons Butchers 3rd Johnathan Winn, High Underbrow, Texel £84.50 Pickstocks Class 2 – Single Lowland Lamb 11-16 years 1st Robyn Allen, St Annes Farm, Texel £100 Plmgarths Farm Shop 2nd Emma Winn, High Underbrow, Texel £90.50 Pickstocks 3rd Taylor Daniels, Redhills, Beltex £77 Higginsons Butchers Class 3 – Single Lowland Lamb 17-26 years 1st William Atkinson, Mosergh Farm, Texel – Reserve Champion £130 Higginsons Butchers 2nd Bradley Thompson, Poppy Farm, Beltex £150 Plumgarths Farm Shop 3rd Matthew Atkinson, Mosergh Farm, Texel £110 Higginsons Butchers
Class 4 – Single Upland Lamb Under 10 years 1st Maddie Watson, Middleton Hall, Cheviot £80 Pickstocks 2nd Elizabeth Wilson, Ashstead, Mule £65.50 M Lomax 3rd Thomas Wilson, Ashstead, Mule £58 Lancashire Direct Halal Meats Class 5 – Single Upland Lamb 11-16 years 1st George Wilson, Ashstead, Mule £57 Lancashire Direct Halal Meats Class 6 – Single Upland Lamb 17-26 years 1st Tom Fishwick, Bank House, Cheviot £84 Plumgarths Farm Shop 2nd Amy Harrison, Boundary Beck, Mule £72 Dunbia 3rd N Strickland, Borrans Farm, Mule £66 Dunbia
Class 7 – Single Horned Lamb Under 10 years 1st Harry Huddleston, Overhouses, Swaledale £55 Plumgarths Farm Shop 2nd Anne-Marie Huddleston, Overhouses, Swaledale £52.50 Lancashire Direct Halal Meat 3rd Thomas Wilson, Ashstead, Herdwick £60 Lancashire Direct Halal Meat Class 8 – Single Horned Lamb 11-16 years 1st George Wilson, Ashstead, Herdwick £56 Lancashire Direct Halal Meat Class 9 – Single Horned Lamb 17-26 years 1st John Fishwick, Bank House, Rough Fell £73 M Lomax 2nd Amy Harrison, Boundary Beck, Rough Fell £60 Dunbia 3rd N Strickland, Borrans Farm, Swaledale £58 Dunbia
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