Ribble Aberdeen-Angus herd Open Day success An open day at Windy Pike Farm, Gisburn, ahead of this coming Saturday’s major sale at Skipton Auction Mart of the entire Ribble Aberdeen-Angus herd from Henry Rowntree, of Rowntree Farms, proved a resounding success. Some 80 Angus breeders viewed a great show of productive cattle. Also meeting interested parties inspecting the cattle before the dispersal sale at Skipton, on Saturday, September 22, were David Leggat, from United Auctions, Craven Cattle Marts’ general manager Jeremy Eaton and Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society chief, Barrie Turner.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep. Forward: 7041 Head, Overall av £63.44. Fortnightly sale of store lambs including sale of Continental x and Suffolk x Gimmer Lambs. Just over 7,000 lambs went under the hammer with a healthy trade throughout the day. Gimmer lambs from Angus Dean of Threshfield topped the day’s proceedings at £102 for a cracking pen of Tex x Mule gimmer lambs. In the Suffolk’s Gimmers, SL&SD Lund of Litton took the 1st prize rosette with a powerful pen of gimmer lambs selling for £92. A healthy ringside of buyers descended for the early September sale with some large runs of store lambs entering the ring in regular succession. Pick of the trade would go to Chris Dawson of Ferryhill, Co. Durham with almost 400 Tex x lambs in his run averaging well into the £60’s for quality mid term lambs. Meated Mule Wethers were good to place all day long with Paul Broughton of Fadmoor, North Yorks Moors finding his pen of 50 wethers peak the days trade £67.50, with more than 500 Mule wether lambs selling for over £60 or more today. Cheviot Wethers coming forward in more numbers and a nice trade too, topping at £63 from Messrs Westall of Briercliffe.

Lund Bros Suffolks claim red rosette at Skipton gimmer lambs showcase Local farming brothers Stuart and Stephen Lund, of West Farm, Litton, won the show class for Suffolk gimmer lambs at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest store lambs show day. (Wed, Sept 5) Their pen of ten, by tups from the Lawn and Reeday families in Skipton and Hetton, went on to sell for £92 per head. While running both Suffolk and Swaledale flocks, the Lunds’ main stock in trade are North of England Mules, with 300 on the ground currently, all hill-bred at between 1,000 and 1,950ft. They keep back the best for breeding, selling others at Skipton’s high profile NEMSA sales each autumn.

Forward: 51 Prime cattle comprising 20 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 31 Cast Cattle. 3,050 Prime Sheep comprising 2602 Prime Lambs & 448 Cast Ewes & Rams. 100 Rearing Calves. 3 Loads of produce.

Rearing Calves to £415 (100) B&W av £81.87 Cont av £307.85 Native av £152 100 calves through the door this morning with a handy trade to meet them. All types would see good averages with British Blue bulls topping the averages at £355 and topping at £415 from J&SA Lancaster.

Red Rose championship double at Skipton prime shows Red Rose sheep and beef farmers consigned both champions at Skipton Auction Mart’s September prime shows, with Whalley father and son, Richard and Mark Ireland, presenting the title-winning lambs and Ben Townsend, of Laneshawbridge, the cattle victor. (Monday, Sept 3)

ANNUAL SALE OF JACOB SHEEP A quite exceptional day of trading at the 43rd Jacob Sheep Society Sale held at Skipton with the breed record price beaten twice and record prices achieved for both male and female sections. It was the ‘Pentretenant’ flock of Mrs DJ Price which took the headlines with their first prize ram lamb a ‘Blackbrook Fire Balls’ grandson bred from their homebred ‘Hope Flash Lad’ bred ewe which with a reserve male championship from the 2018 Royal Welsh Show, and the day’s Skipton Reserve Championship, joined a Scottish consortium for 4600gns.

ANNUAL SALE OF WENSLEYDALE SHEEP At the 127th Annual Show and Sale of Wensleydale Longwool Sheep held on behalf of the Wensleydale Longwool Sheepbreeders Association a shearling ram from the ‘Nipna’ flock of Mrs J Pennell of Redworth won the Championship and commanded the top price of the day. Bred from a ‘Providence Pete’ bred ‘West End’ ewe the ‘Nosterfield Supreme’son had previously won the shearling class at the 2018 Great Yorkshire Show after his success today soon found a ready home with N Hodkinson of Commonside for 560gns.

2nd Annual Dales Blue Sale of Blue Texel & Blue Texel X Rams and Females The 2nd Annual Sale of Blue Texels saw 70 sheep go under the hammer in the craven ring this morning with what seemed like a quiet ringside, however, the people who were there were there to buy. Top call of the day went to Tom Barley for a cracking Blue Texel Ram Lamb selling for 320gns.

BELTEX SHEEP SOCIETY ANNUAL SHOW & SALE OF PEDIGREE RAMS AND FEMALES Females were undoubtedly the trade of the day with a strong enquiry for quality gimmer shearlings and ewes, and also for good ewe lambs, with both shearlings and ewes showing a good rise in averages on the year.

Pennells in peak form at Skipton Wensleydale highlight A standout season in the show arena continued for north-east mother and daughter, Julie and Anna Pennell, of Todd Fall Farm, Redworth, near Darlington, with a championship and reserve championship double at the 127th annual Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeders Association show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart. (Fri, Aug 31 & Sat, Sept 1)

Skipton Jacob highlight produces near-double record breed price of 4,600gns for Pentrenant ram lamb The breed record for a Jacob sheep was shattered not once, but twice, at a scintillating Jacob Sheep Society Northern Region 43rd annual show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart, on Saturday, September 1st.

Local breeders take top billing at Skipton Beltex highlight Local breeders landed the principal honours in both the show ring and on price at the Beltex Sheep Society’s annual early autumn two-day pedigree breed highlight at Skipton Auction Mart. (Fri & Sat, Aug 31 and Sept 1).

ANNUAL SALE OF HAMSHIRE DOWN SHEEP East Anglian coup at Skipton Hampshire Down highlight There was success for East Anglia at the Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders; Association North East Region ewe and ram show and sale staged at Skipton Auction Mart. (Friday, August 31)

East Anglian coup at Skipton Hampshire Down highlight There was success for East Anglia at the Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders; Association North East Region ewe and ram show and sale staged at Skipton Auction Mart. (Friday, August 31) Taking the supreme championship following the long journey north to exhibit at the North Yorkshire venue for the first time was the first prize shearling ram and male champion from Norfolk’s Andrew Jones and his two daughters, 21-year-old Eleanor, and Annabel, 18, who run the Morley flock at Morley St Botolph, Wymondham.