Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 683 head of cattle Comprising: 103 Young Feeding Bulls, 9 Beef Feeding Cows, 543 Bullocks & Heifers, 17 Pedigree Cattle & 11 Breeding Cattle. An increased entry of feeding bulls today as this year’s calves begin to come forward for sale. Strong bulls received plenty of attention with best £1,150 plus up to £1,340 for a cracker from Ben Townsend of Laneshawbridge. In the Store Section, quality of any age sold very well, but a plainer commercial quality type beast was a shade harder to sell. (Beef breeding report below)

FORWARD: 1,308 Breeding Sheep & Rams including Annual Sale of Lleyn Breeding sheep and Gimmer Lambs, Fortnightly Sale of Breeding Sheep and Third Sale of Swaledale Ewes. A mixed show for the fortnightly sale would see Mule, Halfbred and Continental shearlings dearer than the previous, whilst ewes saw better quality a decent trade but plainer sorts harder to cash. LLeyn Gimmer Lamb Show - 1st Caring for Life sold for £89

Forward: 72 Registered Swaledale Rams There was a large crowd gathered at Skipton on Monday Evening at CCM’s Annual Show & Sale of Swaledale Rams where 4 rams sold for 1,000gns but more impressive a 95% clearance rate, 76 rams forward and 72 sold. The first of the four figure prices came for a 3 shear ram consigned by JR Smith of Carleton. Bred by Colin Birbeck and used since a shearling it sold to SM Towler, Malham Moor.

Forward: 87 Prime cattle comprising 22 Cattle (under 30 mos) incl 6 Young Bulls, 8 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 57 Cast Cattle. 4,888 Prime Sheep comprising 4,250 Prime Lambs, 638 Cast Ewes & Rams. 92 Rearing Calves. 31 Dairy Cattle. 72 Swaledale Rams.

Craven Dairy Auction (31 head) Brian Moorhouse of Bell Busk took the Dairy Championship today at the Early October Sale with his Pedigree Heifer calved 14 days and giving 30kg went on to sell for the sale high of £1950 to the Jeanes Family of Sutton In Craven. The reserve champion on the day came from the Calvert Bros of Crathorne with a sweet 40 litre heifer selling to £1680 to the Judge Brain Blezard of Ribchester.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle alongside the Pedigree Sale of Charollais Females. Forward – 135 head cattle: 115 Breeding/Store Sheep 55 Pedigree Charollais Females

Pedigree Charollais Females on behalf of The BCSS The Foulrice Flock property of Messrs Marwood from Whenby led the way at The British Charollais Sheep Society’s Autumn Sale of registered Charollais Females at Skipton on Saturday 8th October. It was a December 14 born shearling by Foulrice Lightening, a Castellau Krypton daughter out of a Head Master ewe that stood champion for the judge Mr David Roberts from Kenley in Shropshire. Having stood 1st prize ewe at both Ryedale & Kilnsey show this summer, she sold carrying twins to Foulrice Osprey, who was the Great Yorkshire Male Champion for 800gns, to the show judge Mr David Roberts.

Forward: 8,171 Head, Overall av £58.18 A good number forward again for the Wednesday Store Lamb sale with an overall average of 58.18 with Texels averaging £60.02 and Suffolks £63.83 right through. Again Mules were on the receiving end of a good trade averaging £55.65 and topping with a pen from James and Deborah Hall of Darnbrook at £62 and Phillip Mudd of Buckden at £60.50 with a lot of strong framed lambs £55+ right through the day. John Smith of Carleton topped the day at £102, £100 with two pens of texel gimmer lambs with handy store lambs £60+ all day long. Suffolk gimmers were topped by Tony Shepherd of Eshton at £84 with Suffolk store lambs averaging £63.83.

Gimmer lambs out in force at Skipton A total of 6,649 ewe lambs, an increase of just over 1,000 head on the year, from over 100 sheep farmers across the region, had their day in the spotlight at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual seasonal fixture, which featured four breed shows for North of England Mule, Masham, Dales Mule and Swaledale lambs, with all four titles falling to local breeders. (Tues, Oct 4)

Robinson title winners head prices at Skipton Swaledale female highlight Swaledale females, 3,602 head in total, flocked to Skipton Auction Mart for the annual Saturday show and sale of draft ewes and gimmer shearlings, when the turnout sold to an overall average of £108.09 per head, an increase of £3.86 on last year’s corresponding fixture.

Caring for Life Lleyn gimmer lambs win first prize at Skipton show Pedigree Lleyn sheep from a flock run by Caring For Life, a Leeds-based registered Christian charity supporting homeless or vulnerable adults, picked up the winner’s red rosette at the annual show of Lleyn gimmer lambs at Skipton Auction Mart. (Tues, Oct 11)

CCM Auctions held their third fortnightly sale of gimmer lambs at Skipton Mart on Tuesday where 6,649 lambs were sold, representing an increase of just over 1,000 head on the year.

Forward: 67 Prime cattle comprising 22 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 4 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 41 Cast Cattle. 4,283 Prime Sheep comprising 3917 Prime Lambs, 366 Cast Ewes & Rams.50 Rearing Calves.

Premium cattle and smart lambs in demand on Skipton prime show day Keelham Farm Shop secures champions in both sections Champion at Skipton Auction Mart’s October prime cattle show was a 555kg British Blue-cross heifer from Jim Baines, of Trawden, which made 253.5p/kg, or £1,407, while the reserve was the red rosette-winning 590kg Blue-cross steer from James Drake, of Carleton, sold at 237.5p/kg or,£1,401. (Mon, Oct 3) Both again fell to James Robertshaw, buying as usual for his family-run Keelham Farm Shops in Skipton and Thornton.

ANNUAL SHOW & SALE OF SWALEDALE EWES & GIMMER SHEARLINGS Forward: 3,602 head. Overall Average was £108.09 (+£3.86) CCM Auctions conducted their Annual Sale of Swaledale Draft Ewes and Gimmer Shearlings at Skipton Mart on Saturday. A superb show of Swaledale Sheep was headed by the Champion pen from Stuart and Debbie Robinson of Foredale whose pen of 10 joined show co judge Mr Kevin Wilson.