Coverdale repeat coup at Skipton shearling gimmer show There was a notable double at Skipton Auction Mart’s second annual shearling gimmer show and sale when Lambert and Joy Coverdale and their son, also Lambert, from Crimple Meadow Farm, Beckwithsaw, repeated their Continental class win at the mart’s big shearling gimmer opener last month. They achieved a second success with a pen of ten home-bred Texels, out of North Country Cheviot Mules, and the red rosette winners sold at £175 per head when joining M&E Lavender, of Catforth, Preston. The Coverdales also sold further Texel shearling pens at £170 and £165.

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.

Another Marwood family double at 2017 Skipton Charollais highlight Celebrated father and daughter Charollais sheep breeders, Charles Mawood and Deborah Whitcher, who both farm near York, once again dominated the annual show and sale of commercial rams staged at Skipton Auction Mart by the British Charollais Sheep Society, this year celebrating its milestone 40th anniversary.

Forward: 93 Prime cattle comprising 22 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 70 Cast Cattle. 3,902 Prime Sheep comprising 3,437 Prime Lambs & 465 Cast Ewes & Rams. 150 Rearing Calves. 2 Loads of produce.

Rearing Calves to £555 (150) A scintillating trade today for the Autumn Calf show with exactly 150 calves through the door. The Show was a hard fought contest with Matthew Dibb of Dob Park, Otley picking Alan Hartley’s 7 week old Bull as Champion over a tremendous Suckler Bred Limousin heifer from John and Tom Carlisle of Cracoe. It was a hard choice to choose a winner, and it was a close run affair in the sale ring also with just £5 between them. The Champion from The Hartley Family of Beamsley saw £555 for their consignment selling to the Judge with the Reserve Champion from the Carlisle Family selling to Jonathon Townley, Clapham for £550.

Forward – 192 head cattle: 44 Bulls, 123 Bullocks & Heifers & 12 Breeding Cattle. 41 Breeding /Store Sheep & Goats. 217 lots of Plants & Shrubs. 492 lots of Reclaim, Stone & Furniture. 334 lots of Machinery.

127 Easy Care Sheep CCM Auctions hosted the Inaugural Sale of Registered Easy Care Sheep at Skipton on Saturday on behalf of members of the Easy Care Sheep Society. Females were a strong trade and bidding was fast with a top call of 130gns achieved for a pen of 5 yearling ewes from Messrs E&F Shepherd of Ainsworth. Good yearlings sold for 120gns plus. Best of the ewes were a pen of 2crops from G&MC Shepherd of Woodplumpton selling for 112gns. Yearlings sold to an average of £112.08, ewes sold to an average of £99.55 Rams sold well with a top call of 400gns for a 3 shear with the Myomax gene from JT&JK Bargh of Walton le Dale with others at 300gns from G&MC Shepher and also from G Lentham Farming Ltd.

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)

Great Annual Show & Sale of North of England Mule Ewe Lambs on behalf of NEMSA Members. Forward: 7,073 head at an overall average of £98.09 per head (+£1.25 up) CCM Auctions conducted their opening Fortnightly Show and Sale of NEMSA members Mule Gimmer Lambs at Skipton Auction Mart, North Yorkshire on Tuesday. As usual there was a great selection of pens of 10’s and 20’s out for show and it was 2 pens from Messrs WA&A Booth, Old Hall Farm that took the eye of both sets of judges when they secured 1st prize in both categories. The 10’s were an outstanding pen and they later sold for £230, whilst the 20’s made £155. Ashley & Rachel Caton from Otterburn Lodge took second prize and they sold for £185 and £180 repectively.

Booth family repeats championship double at Skipton NEMSA opener For the second year running, the Smearsett flock of WA&A Booth, from Old Hall Farm, Feizor, north of Settle, clinched another memorable double when again sending out both the champion pens of ten and 20 at the high profile opening annual ewe lamb show and sale for members of the North of England Mule Sheep Association (NEMSA) at Skipton Auction Mart. (Tues, Sept 5)

90 Prime cattle comprising 33 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 5 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 52 Cast Cattle incl. 2 Mature Bulls 3,635 Prime Sheep comprising 3,372 Prime Lambs & 263 Cast Ewes & Rams 107 Rearing Calves 47 Dairy Cattle 1 Load of produce

Craven Dairy Auction (47 head) The 2nd Yorkshire Holstein Club sale of the Year had a cracking turnout with 40 Milkers in the Shippon with the pre –sale judging ring brimming with heifers for Stephen and Malcom Abbott to Judge, and after much deliberating they chose the heifer from Alan and Susan Throup of Higher House, Silsden Moor.

Solid trade in Skipton prime shows arena Skipton Auction Mart’s September prime cattle show produced an excellent entry of 33 high quality under 30-month butchers’ cattle, which sold to 15 separate customers. (Mon, Sept 4) Judge David Palmer, of Scarborough, found his champion in a pen presented by Willie Timm, of Manor Farm, Selby, a 520kg Charolais-cross heifer imported from Ireland which had done well in the agricultural show arena this year, finishing first in class at both Lincoln and Otley, and runner-up at Kilnsey Show.

Dalesbrad herd bags Yorkshire Holstein Club Skipton title Skipton Auction Mart staged its second show and sale of the year for pedigree and commercial Holsteins on behalf of the Yorkshire Holstein Club, which attracted a robust turnout of 40 milkers in the shippon, notably some strong newly calven heifers. (Mon, Sept 4) The championship fell to the first prize pedigree heifer from Allan and Susan Throup’s Dalesbrad herd at Higher House Farm, Silsden Moor. Their May, 2015, Dalesbrad Hugo Boss Profit is a well-bred daughter of their home-bred Dalesbrad Hugo Boss Bull (EX90), himself a son of the highly regarded Genus dairy sire, Bassingthorpe Bossman.