CCM Skipton Easter ewes and lambs highlight produces highest entry of year to date The 812 breeding sheep penned for sale at Skipton Auction Mart on Monday was the largest weekly turnout of the year to date – It was also the annual Easter ewes and lambs show - with young outfits for farming and including in flocks in extremely good demand, assisted by a great trade for cull and feeding ewes and the first signs of Spring in the air.

‘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.

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

Today was the final Tuesday Sale of Breeding Sheep & Rams for this season, a small entry of breeding sheep were forward with Tony Bell selling his run of 2 crop Texel’s from £140-£185. Broken mouthed correct below horned ewes were £35-£65. Cheviot 3 and 4 crop ewes from F Jackson, Whitby sold to £102.

ANNUAL SALE OF REGISTERED DALESBRED SHEEP

FORWARD: 1798 Breeding Sheep (1663 Gimmer Lambs and 135 Dalesbred Sheep) CCM Auctions conducted their fourth fortnightly sale of Gimmer Lambs at Skipton on Tuesday. A tidy trade ensued with stronger nice runners, either bonny or darker types making £100 plus, medium types on the day £85 to £100 and smaller lambs in the £70’s.

Royston Baxter Trophy awarded for landmark 21st year at Skipton Dalesbred highlight The Dalesbred Sheep Breeders’ Association’s final seasonal prize show and sale of registered rams and females at Skipton Auction Mart marked a memorable milestone, as it was the 21st year that the Royston Baxter Trophy was awarded to the show champion.

FORWARD: 931 Breeding Ewes & 35 Rams. Some useful runs of sheep in today with strong ¾ bred Texel Shearlings from Tony Bell, Silsden reaching £215, but in the main Texel crosses being first cross commercial types.

MARKET REPORT – MONDAY 11th OCTOBER 2021. Forward: 72 Registered Aged and Shearling Swaledale Rams

Stockdale Cowperthwaites claim championship and £1,400 top price at CCM Swaledale rams showcase Horns-a-plenty were on parade as Swaledale rams made their annual exodus from the northern hills and fells for the hardy breed’s annual evening show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart.

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 DALES MULE GIMMER LAMBS

Mashams and Mules perform well at third CCM Skipton gimmer lamb highlight The October gimmer lamb showcase at Skipton Auction Mart – the third sale of the season – attracted a turnout just short of 4,000 head and followed the trend seen this autumn,

ANNUAL SHOW & SALE OF SWALEDALE EWES & GIMMER SHEARLINGS Forward: 2217 head. Overall Average was £130.23 (+£13.89) CCM Auctions conducted their Annual Sale of Swaledale Draft Ewes and Gimmer Shearlings at Skipton Mart on Saturday.

CCM Skipton Swaledale females average shows healthy increase on year ‘Ladies day’ for Swaledale females, the annual Saturday show and sale of gimmer shearlings and draft ewes at Skipton Auction Mart, saw horns aplenty,