Fortnightly Sale of 4,219 Store Lambs & 480 Breeding Sheep & Rams Forward: 4,699 Head, Overall av £56.41 A cracking sale for Mid November with still a large line up of 4,219 store lambs alongside nearly 500 breeding sheep attracting a good company of buyers and a fast trade ensued. Best Continental Store lambs into the 70’s, strong Suffolks and Texels in the mid 60’s, as were the best pens of Mules and Mashams including a pen of 112 mules at £65 each from James Harrison, Weston. Mid to long keep lambs have also been better to sell this last few sales as seasonal buyers get clear ground to graze. Horned lambs found a very strong following.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 4282 Head, Overall av £54.79 A large contingent of travelled buyers meant for a swifter trade on average today. A lighter show of lambs certainly concentrated the trade but a full ringside of buyers was present from the start to the finish of the sale. The top price came for a pen of ¾ Beltex lambs of TB Moorhouse at Dacre for £79. Mules were better to sell with a strong average of £53.91 with lots of pens mid to late £50’s with the last consignment of mules through the ring from JW Hall seeing his lambs reach £58. Suffolk and continental lambs were on the receiving end of a firmer trade with a number of dairy and arable farmers contesting strongly for healthy medium keep lambs.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 8,077 Head, Overall av £50.57 A more mixed show for quality at this weeks’ sale. Strong and smart lowland lambs were a decent trade most of the day, strongest best sorts into the late 60’s and mid 70’s, the 4th and 3rd last pens in the ring making £71.50 and £70.50, with more early to mid 60’s, whilst the strongest end of medium keep lambs were late 50’s towards £60. However there was then a drop to longer keep and more commercial types of lamb. Mule wethers were showing the time of year more than usual, better end over £50, longer keep types mid to late 40’s.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 6,346 Head, Overall av £56.75 An improved trade today for store lambs with more buzz about the ringside, especially for the longer keep types. Continental lambs saw mid 60’s upwards as a regular figure for the strong end, whilst nice lambs were either side of £60 and long keep sorts mid 50’s. Mule Wethers were a much improved trade with a strong contingent of buyers eager for numbers and the 1,662 on offer levelled at £54.98 each, best end up to £64 from Chris Ryder.

David Airey wins Swaledale show at Skipton Auction Mart Sutton-in-Craven’s David Airey, who farms a thousand-acre moorland farm with his son Matthew, won the annual Swaledale wether lambs show at Skipton Auction Mart for the first time. (Wed, Sept 20) His pen of 25 seized first prize, picked out by judge Anthony Hewetson, of Bank Newton, and went on to sell for £35 per head.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Gimmer Lambs Forward: 8,189 Head (Overall av £53.65) CCM Auctions held their fortnightly sale of lambs at Skipton on Wednesday where 8,189 head were sold. Buyers were understandably slightly more cautious given the recent fall in prime prices, however strong stores were largely unaffected and just about maintained recent rates. Medium keep and long keep lambs were harder to cash though and as the season has progressed there is more of this class of lamb in the entry too. Buyers though are reporting that they expect winter keep to become available this next few weeks as dairy cows get housed and going forward this should help trade for the longer keep lamb.

Forward: 3,787 Head comp: 3,753 Ewes & Shearlings & 34 Pedigree Charollais CCM Auctions held their fortnightly sale of Gimmer Shearlings and Breeding Ewes at Skipton Mart on Tuesday.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep: Forward: 7,997 Head, Overall av £65.37. Another good entry of lambs today and trade back up a gear, especially for the longer keep store lambs. Today’s sale included the Annual Show & Sale of Continental cross Gimmer Lambs competing for The Chris Hagar Trophy. Judge Mr John Turner awarded the champion rosette to a lovely pen from Roger & Jason Craddock of Bolton by Bowland and these sold for £155. Tops of the sale were £170 from the same vendor with several best show pens into three figures. To receive a premium, drawn Suffolk and Continental lambs need to be well grown and have good skins and a clean head, and most of these type of lambs sold for £80-£95, with smaller running type lambs from £68 to £78. Those not conforming to this standard are best left as mixed stores with the wethers. Stores were good to sell and a large crowd of buyers assembled from a wide area, with a large contingent of Welsh buyers and Border counties buyers. Mule Wethers found good favour today with 2,000 of these trading to an average of nearly £57. Masham Wethers were also out in force, and the Annual show for pens of 40 or more wethers saw first prize go to Messrs Lister of Kiln Hall selling for £67 each.

Repeat show successes at Skipton gimmer and wether lamb highlights Another whopping entry of sheep - just three short of 8,000 head - was penned for sale at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest fortnightly Wednesday sale of store lambs and breeding sheep, when lamb trade stepped up a gear, especially for the longer keep stores, to produce an overall selling average of £65.37 per head. (Wed, Sept 6)

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 9,802 Head Store & Breeding Sheep (comprising 9,755 Store Lambs & 27 Pedigree Suffolk Breeding Sheep) A very large show of lambs today sold to an overall average of £59.30, completing a busy 3 days at Skipton which has seen over 20,000 Prime, Store and Breeding Sheep through the sale rings.

Haggas family success at Skipton Beltex store lamb show Skipton Auction Mart’s third major fortnightly Wednesday store lamb sale of the season featured a prize show for pens of 25 or more Beltex-cross lambs, when the red rosette fell to a well-balanced pen from local breeder Andrew Haggas, of Grove Farm, Otterburn. (Wed, Aug 9) Exactly 25 in number, Mr Haggas had the assistance of his 13-year-old daughter, Sarah-Jane, a pupil at Skipton Girls High School, in choosing the first prize pen – she helped lamb them too.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 6213 Head, Overall av £63.07 A healthy trade for store lambs today with 5781 lambs through the ring. The pre-sale Show of Beltex store lambs was kindly judged by Peter Fox of Withgill, Clitheroe and chose a super pen of lambs presented by Andrew Haggas of Otterburn which despite being the last man in the ring went on to sell for £86.

Second Skipton store lamb sale trade very similar to seasonal opener Skipton Auction Mart’s second store lamb sale attracted another strong turnout of 3,604 head, which sold to an overall average of £62.65 each. (Wed, July 26) Trade for most types was almost identical to the seasonal opener a fortnight earlier, though a few pens of the best smart lambs proved dearer. Strong first-cross lambs sold into the late £60s to £70 and to £73 per head for a Texel-cross pen of 50 from Michael and Carol McKenzie, of Arncliffe.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 3,718 SHEEP comp: 3,604 Store Lambs (Overall av £62.65) 114 Breeding Ewes (Av £109.64) CCM Auctions held their second fortnightly sale of Store Sheep at Skipton on Wednesday where trade was seen to be very similar for most types to those prices seen at the opening sale, a few pens of best smart lambs would be dearer, strong first cross lambs made late 60’s to £70 with the best at £73 from Michael Mckenzie. The 400 Mule Wether Lambs in the entry were keenly contested and would be dearer too, medium keep lambs would be very similar.

Second Skipton store lamb sale trade very similar to seasonal opener Skipton Auction Mart’s second store lamb sale attracted another strong turnout of 3,604 head, which sold to an overall average of £62.65 each. (Wed, July 26) Trade for most types was almost identical to the seasonal opener a fortnight earlier, though a few pens of the best smart lambs proved dearer. Strong first-cross lambs sold into the late £60s to £70 and to £73 per head for a Texel-cross pen of 50 from Michael and Carol McKenzie, of Arncliffe.