CRAVEN NATIVE DAY Forward: 128 head of cattle Comprising: 108 Feeding Cattle, 5 Breeding Cattle & 15 Pedigree Native Cattle Native Store Cattle – A good show of Native bred store cattle with very active competition ringside. Grazing sorts well away with pens of Luing cross Galloway young yearling grazers making £685 with the over year Luings from the same home realising £930.

MARKET REPORT – TUESDAY 4th MAY 2021. May Prize Show & Sale of Geld Gimmer Hoggs & Hoggs with Lambs at Foot, together with Weekly Sale of Ewes with Lambs at Foot. Forward: 2,552 Breeding Sheep.

Bumper entry at CCM Skipton ewes and lambs highlight Stapletons taste further success as show classes return Skipton Auction Mart’s annual May breeding sheep highlight for hoggs with lambs at foot and geld gimmer hoggs attracted a large entry of 2,552 head - well over double the previous year’s turnout - with the usual excellent consignments put forward for sale to a large crowd of eager buyers. (Tues, May 4)

£2K-plus raised at CCM Skipton in memory of Hannah Brown A magnificent total of £2,240 was realised when generously donated sheep were sold at Skipton Auction Mart in memory of young farmer Hannah Brown, whose untimely death in March aged just 26 left the agricultural world in deep shock.

Forward: 31 Prime cattle comprising 15 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 16 Cast Cattle 2,163 Prime Sheep comprising 267 Spring Lambs, 1287 Hoggs & 609 Cast Ewes & Rams 25 Rearing Calves 37 Dairy

Leading honours change hands at Skipton prime cattle show Same frontrunners, though an about turn in principal honours was the order of play at Skipton Auction Mart’s May prime cattle show, when the previous month’s reserve champions, the North Craven Smith family, stepped up to clinch the title, with April victors, the Kitchings, from Threshfield, having to settle for overall runners-up slot. (Mon, May 3)

Chris Craven champion and reserve coup at Skipton prime lambs show Chris Craven, of Kexby, east of York, clinched a first-ever prime lamb championship, supplementing it for good measure with the reserve champion pen at Skipton Auction Mart’s May fixture. (Mon, May 3)

Solid demand at Downs draft dairy sale at CCM Skipton CCM Auctions added an extra fixture to its already busy Spring dairy calendar with a special draft Bank Holiday Monday sale from Keith Downs, who farms with his wife Pam and son, David, at Milnerfields Farm, Bingley. (May 3)