CCM Skipton cements impact in cattle sales arena High health status herds now key to both vendors and buyers Skipton Auction Mart continues to cement its growing impact as a centre of excellence for cattle sales, with a successful 2017 pedigree beef season under its belt and strong fortnightly Wednesday sales being seen across the summer months.

Forward: 68 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 44 Cast Cattle. 2,854 Prime Sheep comprising 2,347 Spring Lambs, 97 Old Season Lambs & Mature Hoggs, 410 Cast Ewes & Rams 46 Rearing Calves

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 659 head of cattle Comprising: 121 Young Feeding Bulls, 18 Beef Feeding Cows, 369 Bullocks & Heifers, & 151 Breeding Cattle. A great sale for June with 659 head of cattle sold. Young Bulls were first to sell and were easily sold to a large contingent of buyers, the stronger sorts were £1100 plus, and an overall average of £1037 showed the strength of the trade. A lighter show of cows topped at £1180 for a nice Limousin from Jonathan Townley of Clapham, closely followed at £1100 for a Charolais x from D Pawson, Billinge.

Heady turnout of 659 at Skipton cattle highlight Cattle numbers passing through Skipton Auction Mart show no signs of letting up and the latest fortnightly Wednesday sale attracted a very high turnout for the time of year with 659 head forward and all successfully sold. (June 21) The fixture incorporated a well-supported sale of 151 beef breeding cattle, including significant standalone consignments of cows with calves at foot, which were eagerly sought by returning buyers.

Another Harehills champion at Craven Dairy Auction Sally Wellock, who runs the Harehills pedigree dairy herd at West House Farm, Oldfield, near Keighley, picked up her second Craven Dairy Auction championship of the year at the second June show at Skipton Auction Mart. (Mon, June 19)

Forward: 53 Prime cattle comprising 19 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 33 Cast Cattle 2,199 Prime Sheep comprising 1814 Spring Lambs, 141 Old Season Lambs & Mature Hoggs, 244 Cast Ewes & Rams 88 Breeding Sheep 45 Rearing Calves 22 Dairy Cattle 1 Loads of produce

Craven Dairy Auction (22 head) A cracking trade for the milkers forward today with the Reserve Champion from the Fort family of Glusburn taking the top price at £2050, giving 26 litres and just calved a week sold to Mark Goodall of Tong. Champion from Sally Wellock of Oakworth was giving 25 Litres and sold again to Mark Goodall of Tong for £1920.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle A strong demand for grazing cattle, with 33 separate buyers on the book. Cattle to suit all preferences from suckler bred to out laid dairy and beef crosses and a number of beef breeding families which topped at £1500 for RJ Scholefield of Wainstalls for an Aberdeen Angus cow with a Blonde x steer calf. Forward – Head: 149 Cattle & 16 Sheep & Goats

Forward: 54 Prime cattle comprising 15 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 36 Cast Cattle 1,879 Prime Sheep comprising 1472 Spring Lambs, 141 Old Season Lambs & Mature Hoggs, 266 Cast Ewes & Rams 67 Breeding Sheep 65 Rearing Calves

Rearing Calves to £515 B&W av £65 Cont av £386.39 Native av £241 £515 was the top price of the day for the Champion calf from the Sowray Brothers of Bishop Thornton, the calf which was 6 ½ Weeks old was bred By Brennand General (A Bull bred JC Walker & Son, Dunsop Bridge) sold to Andrew Houseman of Harrogate. The Sowray’s also saw their first price heifer reach £450 selling to Nigel Garth, Addingham. A handy number of calves were on show today for the Summer Calf Show with Tony Binns of Clint doing the Judging Honours. British Blue bulls saw the best of the trade with 11 over £400 and averaging £406.92. Heifers again were a pleasure to sell with Continental heifers averaging £371, with Suckler buyers bidding fiercly for replacement heifers.

Sowray Bros 2017 hat-trick at Skipton rearing calf show Prolific Skipton Auction Mart rearing calf champions, the Sowray brothers, of Bishop Thornton, rattled up another title at the June show, making it a hat-trick of championship successes for the year after previous wins in February and April.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 439 head of cattle Comprising: 88 Young Feeding Bulls, 42 Beef Feeding Cows, 280 Bullocks & Heifers, & 57 Breeding Cattle.

Craven Dairy Auction (18 head) A cracking trade for milkers today with all selling to a strong trade, Mark Smith of Winterburn had the pick of the trade with his homebred heifer reaching £2020 to Mark Goodall of Tong with Brian Moorhouse watching his heifer also hit the £2,000 mark which headed to Ribchester with Brian Blezard.

Forward: 98 Prime cattle comprising 25 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 71 Cast Cattle including 4 Cast Bulls. 1,721 Prime Sheep comprising 1,270 Spring Lambs, 258 Old Season Lambs & Mature Sheep, 191 Cast Ewes & Rams. 22 Breeding Sheep. 45 Rearing Calves. 16 Dairy Cattle

Reigning champions retain titles at Skipton prime shows Defending champions retained their titles at Skipton Auction Mart’s June prime shows, with the Critchley family from Hutton, near Preston, winning the prime cattle championship for an unprecedented fourth consecutive month and Neil Tattersall, from Ellerton, York, returning to again lead the way with his prime lambs. (Mon, June 5)