Forward: 658 Head, Store Lamb av £52.85; Inlamb Ewes av £105.45 A seasonal entry of store sheep met with a very strong trade on the day, best smart continentals to £91, and stronger sorts mid 60’s to mid 70’s. Several lots of nice Lonk Wethers resulted in a breed average of £55 and similar for Mules. Inlamb Sheep sold well this fortnight with a nice dispersal of Correct Texel Ewes 2shear upwards seeing the best end trade at £110 to £120, and smaller types £100-£105.

Another title and top price double for Smearsett BFL flock at CCM Skipton The Booth family’s Smearsett Blue Faced Leicester flock, based at Old Hall Cottage, Feizor, north of Settle, emulated its success of the previous year when again sending out the champion and top price performer at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual winter fixture for breed females. (Wednesday, February 7).

NEMSA looks to the future with confidence NEMSA, the North of England Mule Sheep Association, remains in fine heart, with a growing membership fast approaching four figures and a solid financial footing, members heard at a well-attended 34th annual general meeting in Settle.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 1067 Head. Store sheep a very strong trade. Prices easily on a par with previous sale. Inlamb sheep were slow.

IN LAMB COMMERCIAL EWES This year’s Annual Sale of individual and small groups of Continental sired sheep. AVERAGES – (overall £209.11)

Forward - 1051 Breeding Sheep & 38 Rams ........... A good entry of breeding sheep for the early November sale, and included a nice entry of 800 Mule Gimmer Lambs for what is effectively our 5th fortnightly sale. Trade for these was much sharper than the two previous sales and an overall average of £67.31 reflects a healthy late season bounce in trade. Best end £80 to £90, and anything smart or loking stronger for the time of year was £70 plus. Rams were also a good trade for late season with the pick of the day a Swaledale Shearling Ram from Roy Nelson selling for 500gns, and the main of Texel Shearling either side fo 300gns, whilst a run of Texel ram lambs from Procters Farms created a stir and all found new homes at a good average of £275 topping at 320gns.

SKIPTON AUCTION MART MARKET REPORT – TUESDAY 24th OCTOBER 2017 FORWARD: 369 Breeding Sheep & Rams. Final Tuesday Breeding Sheep Sale of Ewes and Rams

Richard Close at last gets his hands on coveted Skipton Dalesbred trophy Dyed-in-the-wool Dalesbred sheep farmer Richard Close, of Calf Hall Farm, Starbotton, was crowned champion at the annual Dalesbred Sheep Breeders’ Association’s final seasonal show and sale of shearling and aged rams, and females, at Skipton Auction Mart. (Tues, Oct 18)

A nice show of rams displaying plenty of power and bone were forward at Skipton on Tuesday for The Dalesbred Sheep Breeders Annual Sale. Achieving the top price of 300gns was a Shearling Ram from Richard Close and Family from Calf Hall Farm in Starbotton, Wharfedale. Sired by their Kelsall ram out of a Dawson got ewe, it attracted much interest and spirited bidding from the ringside before being knocked down and it finding a new home at Whitmoor Farm with Messrs V Verity and Son.

FORWARD: 2,467 Breeding Sheep & Gimmer Lambs. (2,386 Gimmer Lambs and 81 Dalesbred Sheep) CCM Auctions conducted their fortnightly sale of Gimmer Lambs at Skipton on Tuesday. A very mixed show of lambs for this fourth sale of the season saw an overall average of £61.04p for Mule gimmer lambs, very much in line with late season trade, and would be a straight go for the size of lambs that generally was on offer. Anything with that bit extra quality was quickly sold, but it is evident buyers are discounting plain and smaller lambs this year.

FORWARD: 1,513 Breeding Sheep & Rams including Annual Sale of Lleyn Breeding sheep and Gimmer Lambs, Fortnightly Sale of Breeding Sheep and Third Sale of Swaledale Ewes.

Rams in demand at Skipton breeding sheep sale Skipton’ Auction Mart’s latest fortnightly Tuesday sale of 1,513 breeding sheep and rams saw the latter in particular meet a strong trade when achieving 85% clearance, with anything well framed and ready for immediate turn out finding a ready ringside of buyers. (Tues, Oct 10) A strong pen of Texel tups from Procters Farms in Tatham, Lancaster, sold to a sale high of 480gns for a brace of shearlings claimed by Ashley Thwaite, of Hellifield, and Addingham’s Johnny Greenwood. The same vendors also headed the ram lamb prices at 300gns

Forward: 89 Registered Swaledale Rams There was a similar entry to usual with 89 rams presented from a catalogue of 104. Rams were generally just not as strong as seen in previous years, but anything with that little bit of extra quality generally got away nicely and produced solid averages as below. Top price in sale was 1,500 for the first prize aged ram from Kevin Huck of Bordley. Bred by Messrs Emmott at Whitelees in Weardale, this 4 shear sold to Jeff Pickles, Ribblehead. The Champion made the 2nd highest price of 1,300 from Andrew Haggas of Otterburn, got by a Martin Sunter out of a ewe by an old homebred tup, it went up to Cumbria when purchased by Alan Birbeck of Nateby, Kirkby Stephen.

Skipton Swaledale rams sell to 1,500gns top The annual evening fixture for registered Swaledale rams at Skipton Auction Mart attracted another strong turnout of 89 head, with the two frontrunners in the show arena also clocking up the leading prices. (Mon, Oct 9)

CCM Auctions held their third fortnightly sale of gimmer lambs at Skipton Mart - ANNUAL SALE OF MASHAM GIMMER LAMBS ON BEHALF OF MEMBERS OF THE M.S.B.A.... ANNUAL SALE OF SWALEDALE GIMMER LAMBS .... THIRD SEASONAL SHOW & SALE OF NORTH OF ENGLAND MULE GIMMER LAMBS.... ANNUAL SHOW & SALE OF DALESBRED MULE GIMMERS ....