Hull House Texel dispersal produces 8,000gns top price A top call of 8,000gns (£8,400) was the highlight of some standout prices achieved at a major dispersal sale staged on behalf of the Mellin family’s Hellifield-based Hull House Texel flock at Skipton Auction Mart. (Sat, Sept 15)

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 677 head of cattle Comprising: 676 Feeding Cattle (110 Young Bulls, 30 Beef Feeding Cows, 536 Bullocks & Heifers) & 1 Breeding Cattle.

Great Annual Show & Sale of North of England Mule Ewe Lambs on behalf of NEMSA Members. 6,064 head at an overall average of £91.22 per head (-£6.87)

NEMSA chairman crowned champion at CCM Skipton Mule gimmer lamb opener Wilson family title-winning pen of 10 sells for £270 per head North of England Mule Sheep Association chairman Kevin Wilson was crowned champion in the flagship pen of 10s show class at Skipton Auction Mart’s opening 2018 gimmer lamb highlight. (Tues, Sept 11)

Moorhouses make hay again with another Craven Dairy Auction champion Brian and Judith Moorhouse’s Aireburn pedigree dairy herd at Hesper Farm, Bell Busk, sent out another Craven Dairy Auction champion at the opening September show and sale. (Mon, Sept 10) Securing another in a long line of title wins at their local mart was the couple’s first prize newly calven heifer, Aireburn Corinthian Stephanie, one of only two daughters in the herd to date by the Genus sire, Ballycairn Corinthian, and the first to come to market. Ten days calved and giving 30 litres, the victor sold for £1,800 to Brian Blezard, of Ribchester

Forward: 68 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 47 Cast Cattle. 3,735 Prime Sheep comprising 3131 Prime Lambs, & 604 Cast Ewes & Rams. 68 Rearing Calves. 32 Dairy. 3 Loads of produce.

Craven Dairy Auction (32 head) The shippon numbers were boosted this morning with a run of 20 Dispersal milkers with 12 entries from usual vendors making the total entry. Frank Wrathall undertook the judging prior to the sale with Brian Moorhouse of Bell Busk taking top honours with his 30kg heifer selling for £1800 to Brian Blezard of Ribchester. However it was the Reserve Champion which caught the eyes of a number of bidders, the 31kg heifer presented by Robin Jennings, South Stainley sold for £1950 to Mark Goodall of Tong.

David Pownall pair head pecking order at CCM Skipton poultry showcase Derbyshire’s David Pownall ruled the roost at the Craven Feather Auction show and sale staged at Skipton Auction Mart. (Sat, Sept 8) Mr Pownall, of Riverside Cottage, Old Glossop, secured another Skipton title – he won his first at the North Yorkshire venue in 2013 – with a pair of 2018 White Wyandotte bantams, out of top show stock and later sold for £70.

Herdwicks top of the flocks at CCM Skipton native and rare breeds highlight Herdwick sheep were top of the flocks when taking both championship and reserve championship honours at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Rare & Native Stock Breeders Auctions of rare, minority and traditional breeds. (Sat, Sept 8) With another wide and diverse variety of sheep penned for both showing and sale - over 500 head were forward in total - judge Margaret Watkinson, of Hutton Sessay, found both her principals in a strong hill and heath show class.

RARE BREEDS The rare breed sale at Craven Cattle Marts at Skipton Auction Mart was once again well supported, with a wide variety of sheep up for grabs at this sale. David and Kath Wilson of Crimple head kindly donated a Teeswater Shearling Gimmer to be auctioned for Parkinsons UK charity. The gimmer made £120 and was bought by Mr Sleightholme. Top price today came from Mr D Booth 240gns. Full report below.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle. Forward – 81 head cattle. 1 Pony. 136 Goats & Sheep. 156 head of Easy Care Sheep. 506 head Rare Breed Sheep. 35 head Goats. 189 Poultry.

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.