‘Key transition period for British agriculture’ - CCM News Hot off the press is Skipton Auction Mart’s annual magazine, CCM News, packed with agricultural-related features and informed comment from sector experts, both in-house and externally, along with an-in depth round-up in both words and pictures of the 2021 show and sale season.

Last Wednesday Sale of Store & Breeding Sheep Forward: 631 Head, Overall av £75.74 Store Hoggs a very nice trade today for the last Wednesday sale of the season. Store hoggs will now be sold every Monday following the ewes with lambs at foot.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs. Forward: 1338 Head, Store Lambs Forward: 1235 Overall av £87.46 Breeding Sheep Forward: 103 Ewes & Shearlings

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 1,911 Head, Overall av £87.51 An excellent start to the New Year Store Sheep Sales with medium and short keep lambs in good demand. A busy ringside of regular buyers from the local area together with from counties the length of the Welsh Borders, and a good contingent from Eastern Counties on the A1 corridor present ringside to bid for all classes.

Throup family coup as Addingham Sheepbreeders charity lambs showcase nets over £5,000 Addingham & District Sheep Breeders’ Association stalwart Joe Throup again co-organised its 15th annual charity show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart in aid of Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice, Oxenhope, then claimed the bragging rights by winning it with a home-bred North of England Mule wether lamb.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs inc Addingham Sheep Breeders Charity Show & Sale. Forward: 3023 Head, Overall av £87.23

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Feeding Sheep Forward: 2,883 Head, Overall av £96.77 The fortnightly store sheep sale at Skipton witnessed an electric trade as the average rose by £6.22 per head on the fortnight to settle at £96.77 per head across the board for a show that included a higher percentage of wintering and long keep types.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 4151 Head, 4064 Store Lambs Overall av £90.55 87 Breeding Sheep & Rams

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep. Forward: 5,934 Head. 5,425 Store Lambs and Feeding Sheep, 509 Breeding Sheep and Rams.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 7,714 Head, Overall av £81.82 A large entry of sheep for an October Sale and once again trade was fast and furious with all classes matching the demand seen at the previous sale and the average still over £81 for a show including an increased proportion of wintering and hill bred types.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 7,138 Head, Overall av £84.74 An excellent entry of lambs given the recent wet weather, but cows now getting housed and grass keep coming available, there was a packed ringside of customers right from the off at 10am and a very sharp trade ensued all sale.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs. Forward: 8,810 Head, 8723 Store Lambs Overall av £77.75. 87 Horned Feeding Ewes Overall av £40.48.

3,000-plus wether lambs take centre stage at CCM Skipton This season’s horned wether lambs had their main show and sale day of the year at Skipton Auction Mart when another large turnout of 8,723 store lambs included 2,100 Mule and Masham wethers, and 1,200 horned wethers, all trading to an overall selling average of £77.75 per head.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 10,586 Head: Store Lambs – 5,363 av £80.42 Gimmer Lambs – 5,139 av £106.05

Young ladies in high demand as over 5,000 lambs sold at Skipton A bumper turnout of 10,586 head packed the sheep pens at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest fortnightly Wednesday sale, when 5,139 gimmer lambs sold for an overall average of £106.05 per head and 5,363 store lambs at £80.42.