The feeding cattle in the bottom ring started with Young bulls and the strong square types were dearer on the fortnight with £1050 to £1150 common place, whilst the nice keeping bulls around 10-11mo were either side of £1000. Trade for the small long keep bulls was a back a tad though with buyers just appearing a bit more cautious than of late.
A large show of feeding cows attracted a strong ringside of 15 active buyers and trade would be just as sharp as the previous sale. A couple of cast bulls away to £1380, and the best feeding cows £1050 to £1200. The genuine ¾ bred grazing types for turning out £950 to £1100, with half bred cows £750 to £950. 

We saw another strong turnout of store cattle for the fortnightly sale with just shy of 600 bullocks and heifers going through the bottom ring. Strong cattle on the whole would be a better trade throughout the day with arguably a better show of quality cattle on offer today. Best bullocks came from the Ellis Family of Addingham Moorside with there  bullocks topping at £1280 and £1260 with Andrew Houseman of Darley seeing £1250 and £1230 for his consignments.

Cattle sold in bunches once again attracted more frantic bidding with groups of 4 from Naylor’s of Middleton, Ilkley seeing there runs of Simmental x or Bazadais x bullocks bred from god Holstein cows realise £1095 and £1050. A better number of dairy bullocks on offer today with Naylor’s again seeing the best of this at £990 for a brace and a run of 40 from Messrs Coup of Bolton By Bowland peaking at £840 for a pen of 10.

Younger, yearling cattle weren’t quite as potent this week compared to a fortnight ago, however retail types cattle still had a very good following, the best of the yearling cattle came from Richard Harker of Grayrigg who saw his 14mth old heifer sell to £1200 and another at £1120. 6- 13mth heifers averaged up respectably at just over £800 with their male counterparts averaging £875

Mid aged cattle 13-18mth found an unpredictable trade today with many commercial type cattle particularly coming of £20 - £40 less than a fornight previously.

The next fortnightly sale sees the final for pedigree bulls with closing fixture of the Spring Pedigree Sales with the Multi Breed Bull Sale being held in the top ring.  

Prices and Averages

Young Bulls – Continental x average £963, Native average £1026

Charollais x (Av £992)

£1240 £1125 J&E Greenhalgh; £1120 R&N Carlisle; £1110 JB&AH Coates; £830 JE&AC Clarke;

Limousin x (Av £975)

£1190 £1180 £1175 JA&JM Wade; £1170 £1165 E&AM Simpson; £1170 J Baines; £1160 WILD & Ellis; £1160 JM Townend; £1160x3 RS Harker;

Brit Blue x (Av £966)

£1190x2 £1080 RS Harker; £1150 EW&JR Parkinson; £1140 J&G Huck; £1120 BL&R Lund; £1080 JM Townsend; £1070 JS Stephenson;  

Ab Angus (Av £1000)

£1020 J&E Greenhalgh; £980 R&SH Stainton;  

Blonde (Av £845)

£960 AA&E Critchley; £935 FM Shepherd; £850 JJ&J Woof; £830 PA&D Wells;

Saler (Av £877)

£890x6 AMS Robinson; £800 JJ&J Woof;

Hereford (Av £1080)

£1080 TH&K Wood;

Pathanaise (Av £841)

£1110 BL&R Lund; £1070 £800 £720x2 LR Thompson;

Top price pen of three or more bulls

Beef Bred Feeding Cows av £880

Limousin              to £1110

AA                          to £940

Brit Blue               to £1200

Blonde                  to £1080

Hereford             to £750

Simmental           to £770

Saler                      to £935

B&W                      to £820

Charollais            to £950

Welsh                   to £620

Beef Bred Feeding Bulls av £1270

Limousin Bull      to £1380

Brit Blue Bull      to £1160

Top prices - £1380 R Holroyd; £1200 L Driver & Son; £1160 J Fortune; £1110 J Baines; £1110 TB Moorhouse; £1110 JA Mellin; £1080 Lambert-Milehouse; £1075 R Jackson;  

Store Bullocks – Continental x average £967, Native average £864

Charollais x (Av £1051)

£1095 A Fawcett; £1075 £1060 David Sandham; £1040x2 J&M Blakey;

Limousin x (Av £981)

£1280 £1260 Ellis Bros; £1250 £1230 £1190 DT Houseman; £1225 N&S Pinder; £1185 CH&OF Hammond;

Brit Blue x (Av £839)

£1210 R Naylor; £1160 C Wellock; £1150 £1030 David Sandham; £1100 CW Sutcliffe; £975 A Fawcett;  

Ab Angus (Av £912)

£1215 David Sandham; £980x3 J&JA Preston; £980 E Pennock; £910x3 MP&SL Tyson;  

Blonde (Av £879)

£1040 £950x2  M Stocks; £1010 K Lister; £980 AV Caton; £900 TB Moorhouse;

Saler (Av £926)

£1050 £1030 J&C Wright; £700 A Parnaby;

Shorthorn (Av £830)

£1045x2 R Naylor; £755x4 S&D Robinson;

Simmental (Av £960)

£1120 £1095x4 R Naylor; £1000 David Sandham; £945x2 AV Caton;

Hereford (Av £851)

£910 AV Caton; £845 GC Pickup; £840 B Mellin;

Baz (Av £1057)

£1095 £1050x5 R Naylor;

Black & White (Av £781)

£990x2 R Naylor; £840x10 V Coupe;

Top price pen of three or more bullocks

Store Heifers – Continental x average £, Native average £

Charollais x (Av £878)

£1190 FC N M Walker; £1100 David Sandham; £1020x2 G&R Bulmer; £940 A Parnaby; £890x3 J&M Blakey;

Limousin x (Av £845)

£1200 RS Harker; £1190x2 E&M Townley; £1170 Ellis Bros; £1150 David Sandham; £1150 J Barrett; £1120 RS Harker;

Brit Blue x (Av £848)

£1175 £1165 £1160x2 £1060 David Sandham; £1070x2 £1055x2 £1045 New Yorks Farms;  

Ab Angus (Av £884)

£1020x2 C Wellock; £990 New York Farms; £940 JA&JM Wade;  £885x2 E Pennock; £840 B&LN Dibb;

Blonde (Av £783)

£960 £800x2 J Butler; £920 TW&I Fawcett; £830x3 £805 K Lister;

Saler (Av £795)

£975 A Belford; £620 JJ&J Woof;

Simmental (Av £840)

£1140x3 R Naylor; £1055 A Fawcett; £835 £790 £710 G Lumb & Son; £700x3 CA Foster;

Hereford (Av £710)

£890 B Mellin; £750 JE&AC Clarke;

Bazadaise (Av £845)

£1055 R Naylor; £750 TB Moorhouse; £730 R Dodson;

Black & White (Av £845)

£1135 R Naylor & Son; £850 B Mellin;

Top price pen of three or more heifers

Breeding Cattle

BB Cow Incalf                                     to £1000

AA Cow Incalf                                    to £920

BB Cow with BB Hfr Calf                 to £1650

AA Cow with AA Hfr Calf                to £1020