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.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 6,357 Head, Overall av £58.23 A good sale today with the largest show of the season so far. More customers around the country are finally reporting grass growth and so there was a wider geographical spread of customers today with more Eastern and Southern buyers in attendance and Welsh buyers also present in larger numbers.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 4,984 Head, 4788 Store Lambs av £60.26. 196 Breeding Sheep. 4788 store lambs through the ring with a definite better stamp of lamb on offer today compared with a fortnight ago. The pre sale Beltex x store lamb sale was won by the Moorhouse family of Dacre with a pen of 25 selling for £81.50. On the whole beltex lambs saw an improved trade with numerous pens between £68- £79 and plenty of buyers to take them there.

Early wedding present for farming couple at Skipton Beltex show There was an early wedding present for soon-to-be-married farming partners Ian Moorhouse and Laura Hammond when they secured first prize in the annual Beltex-cross lambs show at Skipton Auction Mart

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 4,818 Head, Overall av £55.16 A much larger show of store lambs as the grazing situation brings more lambs onto the market to sell. Stronger lambs were a nice trade with feeders relatively keen as the prime sheep trade holds firm, suffolks especially finding a ready market. However a medium to long keep lamb was certainly more buyable with grass at a premium on most farms and making this class of lamb harder to place.

Heartening sale average at Skipton store lamb opener Skipton Auction Mart’s main sheep sale season got off to a flying start when the traditional pipe-opener for store lambs produced a heartening overall selling average of £61.52 per head. (Wednesday, July 11) This represented a fall of just £1.32 on the year, with a good crowd of buyers vying for the 2,126 lambs penned for sale. They were slightly stronger and in better condition than most would have expected, which certainly helped the day’s proceedings.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 2126 Head, Overall av £61.52 A great start to the sheep sale season at Skipton on Wednesday when CCM held their opening sale of Store Lambs. The average for the sale was a heartening £61.52, representing a fall of just £1.32 on the year. A good crowd of buyers was present on the day looking for sheep which gives good encouragement for the next sale. It fair to say that lambs were would dbe slightly stronger and in better condition than most would be expecting and this certainly helped the days proceedings. # At the pre sale show, judge Thomas Walmsley of Haverah Park awarded first prize to AM Leach of Hebden which later sold for £69 each.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 658 Head - 499 Store Lambs av £62.04. 51 Feeding Ewes av £49.55. 103 Inlamb Ewes av £102.05 A fantastic sale to finish the 2017/18 season of Wednesday Fortnightly sales, however please note that Store Lambs, Gimmer Lambs and Inlamb Sheep can now be sold every Monday Lunchtime in conjunction with the Seasonal Weekly Sales of Sheep with Lambs at Foot, entries to the Mart Office by 12 noon Fridays prior to sale.

Forward: 658 Head, Store Lamb av £52.85; Inlamb Ewes av £105.45 A seasonal entry of store sheep met with a very strong trade on the day, best smart continentals to £91, and stronger sorts mid 60’s to mid 70’s. Several lots of nice Lonk Wethers resulted in a breed average of £55 and similar for Mules. Inlamb Sheep sold well this fortnight with a nice dispersal of Correct Texel Ewes 2shear upwards seeing the best end trade at £110 to £120, and smaller types £100-£105.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 1067 Head. Store sheep a very strong trade. Prices easily on a par with previous sale. Inlamb sheep were slow.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 1311 Head, Overall av £50.67 CCM Auctions reports a sharp trade for store sheep at the opening sale of the new year. Best sorts were keenly contested with either side of £70 seen for strong lowland lambs, and Mules topping at £64 for a pen full of 80 wethers. Entries required for next sale with feeders keen to keep fields full due to a good supply of beet.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 2,504 Head (Overall av £53.80) A very mixed show for quality at CCM Auctions fortnightly sale of store sheep at Skipton on Wednesday. Some good top end prices with P Johnson, Trawden selling a pen of 27 Texels at £75.50, the largest lot on the day was a pen of 99 Texels from Ralph Crabtree of Low Snowden which sold for £72 each, R Bailey from Reeth sold 19 Blue Texels at £80 and David Gray of Silsden sold a pen of 25 Beltex at £76 each.

Addingham Sheepbreeders annual charity lambs sale raises close on £3,500 Lambs sold in aid of charity again went under the hammer at Addingham & District Sheep Breeders’ Association’s 11th annual show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart, as big-hearted bidders again ‘raised the baa’ to net almost £3,500 for Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice in Oxenhope, Keighley. (Wed, Dec 13)

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 5,056 Head, (Overall av £51.75) CCM Auctions had a large entry of store sheep for the time of year, when over 5,000 were penned and sold at the fortnightly sale on Wednesday. Strong lambs were in sharp demand with several pens of smart goods making into the 80’s to a top of £86 from RJ Bailey of Reeth, with a list of Suffolk and Continentals making mid 60’s or more. Strong end Mules were in the 60’s, topping at £67.50 from Martin and Vicky Parsons of Giggleswick.