Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 600 head of cattle. Comprising: 557 Feeding Cattle (79 Young Bulls, 60 Beef Feeding Cows & Bulls, 418 Bullocks & Heifers) & 43 Breeding Cattle.

Second Prize Show & Sale of North of England Mule Ewe Lambs on behalf of NEMSA Members. Forward: 6,470 head at an overall average of £77.23 per head (+5.51 on 2018) CCM Auctions held their 2nd Fortnightly Sale of North of England Mule Gimmer Lambs on behalf of members of NEMSA on Tuesday at Skipton where a tidy entry of lambs sold away nicely on the year whilst still being sensibly priced for all concerned.

Forward: 50 Prime cattle comprising 17 Clean Cattle & 33 Cast Cattle. 3,246 Prime Sheep comprising 2,852 Prime Lamb, 394 Cast Ewes & Rams. 33 Rearing Calves. 6 Loads of produce.

CCM Auctions conducted the Northern Area Texel Sheep Breeders Club Sale at Skipton Mart on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th September 2019. Sale Sponsors – Minexcel Nutrition, Dalehead Vets & Settle Country Store. Show Results – Judge – Ben Vernon

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 7,091 Head, Overall av £58.52 Another healthy show of lambs for todays Store lamb sale with again over 7,000 lambs going under the hammer. Today’s sale included the annual show and sale of horned wether and hill lambs which found the Newbould family of Dallowgill coming out victorious with there strong Swale wether lambs selling for £43 and heading to wales with a Swaledale wether average of £34.73. Westalls presented the first prize hill lambs with their pen of Cheviot lambs selling for £52.

Wether lambs take centre stage at CCM Skipton This year’s wether lambs took centre stage at Skipton Auction Mart for their main show day of the year, with four classes for Swaledale, Dalesbred and other hill breeds. (Wed, Sept 18) Successful in the Swaledale show class was upland hill custodian Paul Newbould, of Potter Lane Farm, Dallowgill, with a pen of 50 lambs reared entirely on heather moorland in the Nidderdale Area of Natural Beauty. Mr Newbould keeps some 800 ewes, which go to both pedigree Swaledale and Bluefaced Leicester rams, the latter servicing the requirements of his North of England Mule flock. The class victors sold at a section-topping £43 per head to a regular Welsh buyer.

Cross-border victors at 2nd Skipton shearling gimmer highlight The two show classes at Skipton Auction Mart’s second annual shearling gimmer fixture fell to exhibitors from both sides of the border, who were both stepping up after finishing runners-up in the same sections at last year’s corresponding fixture. (Tues, Sept 17) The red rosette-winning North of England Mules from brothers Peter, Edward and Robert Fox, of Fox Farms in Clitheroe, were a pen of ten purchased as gimmer lambs at Skipton’s 2018 NEMSA autumn highlights.

MARKET REPORT – Second Sale of Gimmer Shearlings and Ewes 2shear plus. Forward: 2,958 Head comp: 2919 Ewes & Shearlings & 39 Pedigree Charollais Rams

Deborah Witcher champion at Skipton Charollais commercial rams showcase Dyed-in-the-wool Charollais sheep aficionado Deborah Whitcher, who runs the Galtres flock in Skewsby, York, was supreme champion at the British Charollais Sheep Society’s annual commercial rams show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart. (Tues, Sept 17)

Rearing Calves to £415 (61) B&W av £91.2 Cont av £307.42 Native av £203 A healthy turn out of calves for the September show and sale of rearing calves with Tony Binns of Clint undertaking the judging honours. Some difficult classes were swiftly dissected however where to place the champion rosette took some deliberation, eventually choosing the superb heifer presented by JP&KE Hartley of Bolton Abbey went on to take the second highest price of the day selling for £390 to Malcolm and Stephen Abbott of Dacre. The Reserve Champion a superb British Blue bull from Mike Longster of Fellbeck which sold for the sale high of £415.

61 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 39 Cast Cattle. 3,200 Prime Sheep comprising 2,835 Spring Lamb, 365 Cast Ewes & Rams. 61 Rearing Calves. 3 Loads of produce.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle. Forward: 783 head of cattle. Comprising: 765 Feeding Cattle (108 Young Bulls, 31 Beef Feeding Cows, 626 Bullocks & Heifers) & 18 Breeding Cattle.

Great Annual Show & Sale of North of England Mule Ewe Lambs on behalf of NEMSA Members. SOLD: 6,929 head at an overall average of £90.75 per head (-0.47p) CCM Auctions conducted their opening Fortnightly Show and Sale of NEMSA members Mule Gimmer Lambs at Skipton Auction Mart, North Yorkshire on Tuesday 10th September with an increased entry being put forward for sale by breeders in this district.

Walker family on to a winner with champion pen of 10 at CCM Skipton NEMSA gimmer lamb opener Caton Otterburn Lodge flock champion and reserve in 20s show class The Walker family, who farm 6,000 acres of primarily fells high above Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire’s Forest of Bowland, consigned the champion pen of ten at Skipton Auction Mart’s opening annual gimmer lamb show and sale for members of the North of England Mule Sheep Association (NEMSA). (Tues, Sept 10)

Moorhouse milker champion again at Craven Dairy Auction The Aireburn pedigree herd of Bell Busk husband and wife dairy farmers Brian and Judith Moorhouse at Hesper Farm clinched another in a long line of Craven Dairy Auction championships at their local Skipton Auction Mart. (Monday, Sept 9) They bagged their latest title with the first prize newly calven heifer, Aireburn Delegate Melissa, a 16 days calved 30 litre daughter of their home-bred stock bull, Delegate, whose offspring are now starting to come through. The victor made £2,000 top price when claimed by ringside regular Brian Blezard, of Ribchester.