Prime Cattle (under 30 mos)

Independent retailers were out in force demonstrating that demand for high quality beef is strong as ever on the High Street and in Farm Shops. Top price at 276.5p/kg was John Fawcett of Barden who sold a 530kg homebred British Blue cross heifer to George Cropper of Baxenden for a top gross of £1466. Keelham Farm Shop of Skipton stepped in to secure the second highest gross a 575kg Limousin cross heifer at £1463 or 254.5p/kg from Mesrs CD&RF Kitching of Threshfield. Top steer p/kg was the second prize steer from Bill Cowperthwaite of Malham Moor which made 239.5p/kg or £135 when selling to Stanforths Butchers of Skipton.

August Monthly Show

Heifers –                1^st & Champion KA&HL Fawcett      2^nd & Reserve CD&RF Kitching          3^rd KA&HL Fawcett

Bullocks –              1^st CD&RF Kitching                              2^nd TW Cowperthwaite                      3^rd SD Bennett

Steers

465-560kg                                             to 239.5p/kg

560kg+                                                   to 235.5p/kg                        av. 227.11p/kg

Heifers

480kg+                                                   to 276.5p/kg                        av. 229.19p/kg

Top Prices £ per head and p/kg

Steers

£ per head: SD Bennett (Limx) 1404, CD&RF Kitching (BBx) 1366,TW Cowperthwaite (Limx) 1305,

p/kg: TW Cowperthwaite (Limx) 239.5, CD&RF Kitching (BBx) 235.5, SD Bennett (Limx) 219.5

Heifers

£ per head: KA&HL Fawcett (BBx) 1465,1440, CD&RF Kitching (Limx) 1463,(BBx) 1432, RT&J Critchley&Sons (Limx) 1432

p/kg: KA&HL Fawcett (BBx) 276.5,259.5, RT&J Critchley &Sons (Limx) 258.5,253.5,252.5, SD Bennett (Limx) 257.5, CD&RF Kitching (BBx) 253.5

prime cattle (over 30 mos)

Overall Average                                   138.5p/kg                             £886.40

Top Prices £ per head and p/kg

£ per head: AP Townsend (Limx) 944, JD Taylor (B&W Hfr) 829

p/kg: AP Townsend (Limx) 147.5, JD Taylor&Son (B&W Hfr) 129.5       

A very light show of cast cows with an odd non UK tag in the mix and once again a good trade.

Overall Average                                   106.26p/kg           £718.34

Black & White                      to 109.5p/kg                        av.101.59p/kg

BBx                                         to 124.5p/kg

Top Prices (£ per head or p/kg)

B&W:

£ per head: JM Smith&Son 788,668, PJ&JE Bolland 726

p/kg: JM Smith&Son 109.5,103.5, PJ&JE Bolland 97.5

Brit Blue:

£ per head: JA Mellin 859

p/kg: JA Mellin 124.5

3,643 Prime Sheep comprising 3,132 Spring Lamb, 511 Cast Ewes & Rams

A grand show of lambs today with over 3,000 head penned for sale and a super overall average of £84.12 per head which is a rise of £5.70 per head on the week, whilst per kilo the average of 194p was 14p up on the week and a great result on the last few days considering the huge show of lambs. Today was the August Show and sale of Prime Lambs and James Dewhirst undertook the judging honours, with his champion pen coming from Robert Fielden of Todmorden, weighing 42kg they sold for £99 each to Hartshead Meat Co, Mossley. Hartshead had a clean sweep of purchases in the continental classes, taking the 2^nd prize lambs 44kg £98 from Scott & Laura Robinson, Barnoldswick and 3^rd Prize from Ellis Bros, Addingham Moorside 41kg at £115 each, these being the top price per kilo on the day at 280.5p/kg. Ellison Butchers from Cullingworth secured first and second prize lambs in the Down cross category from D&A Livestock and Frankland Farms respectively.

Top price per head went to PA&NS Tattersall, York with a pen of 5 Beltex weighing 51kg selling for £119 to GJ Cropper for his shop trading as Sandersons Butchers in Baxenden. Messrs Scrivin of Elslack sold lambs at £117 to Vivers Scotlamb, JC Marshall Dacre sold lambs at £112.50 to Hartshead Meat Co, Adrian Leach of Hebden Bridge made £112 to Kendall Farm Butchers of Pateley Bridge and Harrogate, the same vendor had lambs at £110 to Worsley Wholesale Meats. Michael Hall of Airton made £111 of 43kg lambs to Vivers Scotlamb, MJ Spensley Elslack had a great run of lambs topping at £109 for 51kg Texels selling to Swaledale Foods, and D&J Carlisle made £109 of 57kg to Paul Watson. Other chief prices - Mark & Gemma Dobson, Burnsall 50kg at £108, FW&JM Eddington, Bell Busk 53kg £108, JM Hall Airton 46kg £107, A Jenkinson, Langbar 49kg £107, BL&R Lund, Walshaw 50kg £107.
Per kilo, after Ellis Bros top price, JM Hall at 258p (43kg £111) and 246p (42kg £103.50), S&P Scrivin, Elslack 254p (46kg £117), A&K Kiernan, St Michaels 252p (42kg £106), Ellis Bros 240p (37kg £89).

Another good show of 511 cast sheep again sold well with a bit of last minute buying for Qurbani taking place. As predicted nice lowland ewes were good to sell, tops at £110 from WH Marsden, Cross Gates and others at £109.50 from R Wilson, Beckwithshaw. Better end of the Mules into the £70’s. Overall cast sheep average up by £1 on the week.

August Prime Show. Judge James Dewhirst

Cont x –

1^st F&R Fielden 42kg £99 Hartshead Meats

2^nd S Robinson 44kg £98 Hartshead Meats

3^rd Ellis Bros 41kg £115 Hartshead Meats

Down x –

1^st D&A Livestock 46kg £95 P Ellison

2^nd Frankland Farms 41kg £83 P Ellison

3^rd RA&M Earnshaw 48kg £90 Worsley Wholesale Meats

Mule –

1^st JK Wilson 46kg £76 Andrew Atkinson

Champion: F&R Fielden

Reserve: S Robinson

Spring Lambs – Overall Average £84.12 per head or 194.19p/kg           

36.0kg to 45.5kg to 280.5p/kg         av 194.87p/kg      or £82.44 per head

45.6kg to 52.0kg to 254.3p/kg         av 193.19p/kg      or £91.29 per head

52.1kg and over   to 203.8p/kg         av 180.12p/kg      or £97.72 per head

Beltex average £92.08 per head or 215.29p/kg

£ per head: £119 PA&NS Tattersall; £117 S&P Scrivin; £115 Ellis Bros; £112.5 JC Marshall; £112 AM Leach; £111 JM Hall;

p/kg:280.5p Ellis Bros; 258.1p JM Hall; 254.3p S&P Scrivin; 252.4p T Kiernan; 246.4p JM Hall; 240.5p Ellis Bros;

Texel average £84.63 per head or 192.74p/kg

£ per head: £110 AM Leach; £109 MJ Spensley; £109 D&J Carlisle; £108 FW&JM Eddington; £108 MJ&GC Dobson;

p/kg:232.1p MJ Spensley Ltd; 229.3p FG Throup; 229.1p WH Marsden; 221.3p FM Shepherd & Son; 219.5p TH Mellin

Charollais average £83.52 per head or 196.07p/kg

£ per head: £97 D&A Livestock; £97 J Greenwood; £95 CH&OF Hammond; £88 MJ Spensley; £88 J Greenwood;

p/kg: 219.2 T Kiernan; 208.5p, 206.4p J Greenwood; 202.1p D&A Livestock; 200p KJ Marston; 200p J Greenwood;

Suffolk average £81.96 per head or 186.41p/kg

£ per head: £97 S&PE Bowker & Son; £95 D&A Livestock; £94 E&KM Marshall; £90 TH Mellin; £90 R&AM Earnshaw & Son;

p/kg:206.5p D&A Livestock Ltd; 202.4p Frankalnad Farms; 197.8p TH Mellin; 193.5p B Spensley Ltd; 193p B Spensley ltd

Mule average £72.13 per head or 163.85p/kg

£ per head: £83 J Baines; £82 S Sugden; £78 CD&RF Kitching; £76.5 G&MA Lawn; £76 JK Wilson; £70 FG Throup

p/kg: 170p G&MA Lawn; 169.6p CD&RF Kitching; 167.3p S Sugden; 165.2p JK Wilson; 164.1p JC&N Throup; 162.8p FG Throup

BFL average £62.9 per head or 147.65p/kg

£ per head: £74 Ellis Bros; £65, £60 AJ Mason; £45 JC&N Throup;

p/kg:160.9p Ellis Bros; 154.8p, 136.4p AJ Mason; 112.5p JC&N Throup;

Suffolk to £88.5, Texel to £110, BFL to £67.5, Mule to £75.5, Lleyn to £69.5, Swaledale to £42.5, Masham to £71.5, Gritstone to £35.5, SBF to £38.5,

Top prices:

Lowland: £110 WH Marsden; £109.5 R Wilson

Mule/Masham: £75.5 R&E Pollard; £75.5 K Middleton;

Horned: £42.5 x2 D&S Hollings; £40.5 RG Church Ltd;

Hill: £69.5 RG&SJ Paul; £67.5 G&MA Lawn;  

Cast Rams average £63.86

Texel to £80, Beltex to £90.

Rearing Calves to £400X2 (54)

B&W av £57 Cont av £289

A handy show of calves this morning following a healthy number forward last week too. Best calves still to £400 twice with Joss Lancaster bringing a cracking run of young Blue Bulls ranging from 3-5 Weeks of age. A nice run of Continental calves met a up and down sort of trade with best calves selling well, but down a grade and calves were hard to place, heifers too.

A smattering of black and whites were well contested with a strong calf from Alf Townsend selling £95.

NB:Next week is dairy sale week with a solid entry of Dairy Cattle expected.

Bull Calves

Limousin x (Av £312.5) to £330 RN Verity                    

Brit Blue x (Av £308.35) to £400x2 J&SA Lancaster                                                    

Black & White (Av £57) to £95 AP Townsend                              

Heifer Calves       

British Blue (Av £228) to £285 J&SA Lancaster