Countdown on to Halton pedigree Hereford reduction sale at CCM Skipton The countdown has commenced to a keynote native cattle reduction sale from the local Halton pedigree Hereford herd, run by husband and wife, David and Iris Boothman, at Home Farm, Halton East. To be staged at Skipton Auction Mart, on Saturday, August 7, the sale is due to comprise 49 head – 11 cows with calves at foot, six heifers with calves, 11 maiden heifers, two in-calf heifers and a brace of bulls.

Countdown on to keynote Upsall Beef Shorthorn reduction sale at CCM Skipton The countdown has commenced to a keynote native cattle reduction sale of pedigree Beef Shorthorns from the Upsall herd, near Thirsk, at CCM Skipton Auction Mart in North Yorkshire, on Saturday, August 7.

CCM Skipton Bank Holiday Blues pedigree fixture anything but The inaugural ‘Bank Holiday Blues’ sale of pedigree Blue Texel females at Skipton Auction Mart, on Monday, featured a catalogue entry of 26 sheep with lambs at foot, along with empty ewe hoggs, all attracting a good crowd of bidders ringside.

Tomschoice supreme championship and top price double at Craven Limousin Day highlight Procters Farm and Oddacres bulls real eye-catchers in both show and sale James and Sarah Cooper’s well-known Tomschoice pedigree Limousin herd at Hill Top Farm, Dacre, Harrogate, picked up yet more high profile successes when securing both top price and supreme championship coups at Skipton’s Auction Mart’s annual Craven Limousin Day highlight. (Wed, May 12)

Pedigree Limousin Cattle Report

PEDIGREE BREEDING CATTLE Top price of the day at the Craven Native Day was 2000gns ‘Yearsley Royal Lion’ a well grown Rawburn Jackson Eric son bred from one of the Yearlsey herds best cow families Yearlsey Royal Lady and shown by TA&P Johnson from Brandsby selling to Robert Gemmell.

Top Side Orion soars to 5,100gns top call at CCM Skipton Blue Wednesday highlight Dean Saunders claims championship coup on pedigree debut Two Cumbrian exhibitors making their first-ever appearances in the pedigree cattle arena at Skipton Auction Mart landed principal honours with July, 2019, bulls born just two days apart at the annual ‘Blue Wednesday’ fixture for British Blue bulls and females. (Wednesday, April 28)

Oddacres gimmer hogg heads prices at Skipton BFL females winter sale While Skipton Auction Mart’s annual winter fixture for Bluefaced Leicester females was without the usual show classes, so preventing last year’s title winners and top price achievers, the Mason family, who run the Oddacres flock in Embsay, from defending their crown, they did head the selling prices again. (Wed, Feb 10)

*INLAMB WINTER FEMALE SALE* NATSB WINTER SALE OF IN LAMB PEDIGREE TEXELS Forward: 33 head of Pedigree Texel A superb start to the year of Pedigree Sales at Skipton with the double header of Pedigree Texel and Blue Texel Females at Skipton.

PEDIGREE & PURE BRED SHEEP Annual Sale of Pedigree Beltex A small but select entry of Pedigree Beltex females at todays sale were a sharp trade and a nigh on total clearance. Leading the section at 1,000gns was Matts Endeavour, a daughter of the 3500gn Hackney Download and with the 3400gn Warrior in the Dam line, it sold carrying twins to JGE Heseltine of Bolton Abbey. The same farming sold further inlamb sheep at 850gns 650gns and 600gns a price matched by MR Davis Rathbone. (Full report to follow)

Sandwick herd 6,200gns top price coup at CCM Skipton Beef Shorthorn Club highlight A top call of 6,200gns was achieved at the North of England Beef Shorthorn Club’s 11th annual sale-only at Skipton Auction Mart for a September, 2018, heifer from Andrew and Caroline Ivinson’s Sandwick pedigree herd at Townhead, Ousby, in the Eden Valley. (Wed, Nov 11)

Airedale herd dominates annual CCM Skipton Aberdeen-Angus females sale The Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society’s third annual autumn sale-only of pedigree females at Skipton Auction Mart was dominated by the local Airedale herd of South Craven father and son breeders, David and Josh Isherwood, of Lane Bridge Farm, Kildwick. (Wed, Nov 11)

Annual Pedigree Sale - FORWARD: 67 HEAD OF CATTLE. 24 Pedigree Beef Shorthorn Cattle. 38 Pedigree Aberdeen Angus Cattle. 5 Pedigree British Blue Cattle.

Calderdale show win and top price coup at Skipton Hereford females fixture Pedigree Hereford females turned out for their second annual weekend fixture at Skipton Auction Mart, when a small, but select turnout of cattle, which continue to grow in popularity across the UK, achieved virtual total clearance. (Sat, Nov 7)

Online bidding facility boosts annual CCM Skipton Suffolk females sale Derbyshire and Cheshire breeders lead the way in show and sale While current circumstances might well have adversely affected Skipton Auction Mart’s second annual winter weekend fixture for pedigree Suffolk females this proved far from the case when the mart’s decision to add online bidding to the live auction created a strong virtual company of buyers, with internet bidders keenly contesting the majority of lots.