Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 521 head of cattle Comprising: 516 Feeding Cattle (47 Young Bulls, 65 Beef Feeding Cows & Stock Bulls, 404 Bullocks & Heifers) & 5 Breeding Cattle.

196 BFL Rams & Females: CCM Auctions held their Annual Sale of Blue Faced Leicester Rams and Females at Skipton on Tuesday Evening where trade was said to be good, without seeing some of last years extreme prices.

1971 Forward: CCM Auctions fortnightly sale of breeding sheep, correct & broken mouthed. Breeding sheep of all classes sold tremendously well today.

Threshfield Kitchings clinch top price double at Skipton BFL highlight The Kitching family, from Grisedale Farm, Threshfield, notched up a notable top price double with a shearling ram and ram lamb, both well-bred sons of their prolific and much utilised Smearsett H8 tup, at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual show and sale of Blue Faced Leicester rams and females. (Tues, Sept 29).

Forward: 44 Prime cattle comprising 19 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 24 Cast Cattle 4,383 Prime Sheep comprising 3,716 Prime Lambs, & 667 Cast Ewes & Rams 38 Rearing Calves 19 Dairy

Flying trade throughout at CCM Skipton Monday market Another busy Monday at Skipton Auction Mart produced flying trade across all sections, none more so than the fortnightly Craven Dairy Auction, when eight fresh heifers from regular vendors all sold readily to a solid overall average of £2,011.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 8735 Head, Overall av £78.42 Another large entry of lambs with 8,735 head sold levelling at £78.42 across the board, with trade easily up three notches on the previous fortnight for all classes, with the sale including a large entry of hill lambs with 2200 Mule/Masham Wethers and 500 Horned Wethers in the entry, together with the second sale of drawn Suffolk & Continental Gimmer Lambs.

Second Prize Show & Sale of North of England Mule Ewe Lambs on behalf of NEMSA Members. Forward: 6,185 head at an overall average of £102.26 per head (+25.03 on 2019) CCM Auctions held their 2nd Fortnightly Sale of North of England Mule Gimmer Lambs on behalf of members of NEMSA on Tuesday at Skipton. There was a very good level quality of lambs for this years second sale, with several pens of genuine tuppers still being present, but in the main lambs were of a decent size for running and looking in nice order.

Gimmer lamb trade soars again at 2nd Skipton NEMSA highlight Threshfield Kitchings over the moon to claim first-ever 10’s title Trade stepped up yet another gear when the 6,185 gimmer lambs successfully sold at Skipton Auction Mart’s second annual fixture for members of the North of England Mule Sheep Association (NEMSA) levelled at an impressive £102.26 per head, an increase of £25.03 on the year. Premium prices were once more seen for top end pens. (Tues, Sept 22)

Forward: 43 Prime cattle comprising 26 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 16 Cast Cattle. 4,378 Prime Sheep comprising 3719 Prime Lambs, & 659 Cast Ewes & Rams. 72 Rearing Calves.

CCM Auctions conducted the Northern Area Texel Sheep Breeders Club Sale at Skipton Mart on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September 2020. As ever, this sale was witness to some fantastic runs of sheep for both pedigree and commercial use, and trade was fast for the well fancied types resulting in both shearling ram and shearling ewe averages seeing sizable rises on the year.

Procters Farm hit top price again with 3,000gns shearling ram at CCM Skipton pedigree Texel highlight The 39th Northern Area Texel Sheep Breeders’ annual sale of pedigree rams and females at Skipton Auction Mart again bore witness to some fantastic runs of sheep for both pedigree and commercial use. (Thus & Fri, Sept 17 & 18)

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 574 head of cattle Comprising: 565 Feeding Cattle (83 Young Bulls, 59 Beef Feeding Cows, 423 Bullocks & Heifers) & 9 Breeding Cattle.

Forward: 2,713 Head comp: 2692 Ewes & Shearlings & 21 Pedigree Charollais Rams CCM Auctions held their fortnightly sale of Gimmer Shearlings and Breeding Ewes at Skipton Mart on Tuesday. Another good sale with quality sheep of all breeds in high demand and commercial sorts generally getting away quite nicely, with breed averages for Texels the same as the first sale and Mules just £5 less. Best shearlings of all breeds from £150 to £200, a couple of prize winning pens of continentals just a shade over. Commercials types of shearlings £120 to £145 depending on quality.

Ribble Valley show successes at 2nd Skipton shearling gimmer highlight Skipton Auction Mart’s latest fortnightly sale of 2,692 gimmer shearlings and breeding ewes saw quality sheep of all breeds in high demand, with commercial types also getting away nicely, producing breed averages for Texels virtually identical to the first sale the previous month at £156 per head, while North of England Mules were just £5 cheaper at £143. (Tues, Sept 15)