Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 801 head of cattle Comprising: 202 Young Feeding Bulls, 38 Beef Feeding Cows, 490 Bullocks & Heifers, & 52 Breeding Cattle plus 19 Pedigree Beef Cattle.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 908 head of cattle Comprising: 146 Young Feeding Bulls, 38 Beef Feeding Cows, 615 Bullocks & Heifers, & 31 Breeding Cattle. Inc 78 Pedigree Limousin Bulls & Females

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 717 head of cattle Comprising: 191 Young Feeding Bulls, 45 Beef Feeding Cows, 462 Bullocks & Heifers & 30 Breeding Cattle. Inc Blue Wednesday – 16 Pedigree Blue Bulls & Females Plenty of cattle forward today for CCM Auctions fortnightly sale at Skipton Mart, North Yorkshire. A good quality entry of 191 Young Feeding Bulls were sold easily with strong short keep bulls in very good demand.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle Forward – 160 head cattle & 25 head Sheep & Goats.

Harry serves up another Skipton champion for Calderdale farming brothers Calderdale farming brothers David and Stephen Hollings, of Spinks Hill Farm, Pecket Well, Hebden Bridge, claimed another championship at Skipton Auction Mart. (Wed, Apr 12) It came in the Spring store cattle show with the Hollings brothers’ first prize British Blue-cross heifer by Littlebank Harry, who was also responsible for their victor in a young bulls show at Skipton last month.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 466 head of cattle Comprising: 166 Young Feeding Bulls, 13 Beef Feeding Cows, 283 Bullocks & Heifers, & 4 Breeding Cattle. At Skipton Mart on Wednesday, CCM Auctions held their fortnightly sale of Store & Breeding Cattle where a good lambing time entry was forward for sale. Young bulls were a sharp trade in the morning with a full ringside contingent in attendance and keen for cattle. Top was a Pathanaise Bull from Brian Lund selling for £1245. Beef Bred Feeding cows were a good selection, with 13 forward for sale topping at £1170 from James Towler and a great average of £1003 across the board.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 626 head of cattle Comprising: 206 Young Feeding Bulls, 19 Beef Feeding Cows & 401 Bullocks & Heifers.

Blues lead the way Skipton Spring young bull highlight British Blue-cross entries claimed both class wins and top prices at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Spring show and sale of young feeding bulls. (Wed, March 15) In the under 10-months show class, father and son Alan and Gary Lodge, of Westside House, Malham Moor, were on the mark with a home-bred bull by a Scottish-bred sire they shared with fellow Yorkshire Dales breeder James Hall, of Darnbrook.

MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 1st MARCH 2017. Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Beef Feeding Cows, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle, Forward: 708 head of cattle, Comprising: 223 Young Feeding Bulls, 18 Beef Feeding Cows, 461 Bullocks & Heifers, & 6 Breeding Cattle

Forward: 908 head of cattle Comprising: 283 Young Feeding Bulls, 8 Beef Feeding Cows, 579 Bullocks & Heifers, 38 Pedigree & Beef Breeding Cattle. Young bulls witnessed a trade a shade easier to a fortnight ago with the difference being in the 400kg bulls. RS Harker & Son leading the prices with a Limousin bull at £1380 and also took the pen of three top price with three limousin’s at £1170. Overall average for all the bulls was £1006. Still plenty of Spring 2016 bulls making between £850 and £1050.

At the Craven Champions Sale 2017, the pre sale show on Tuesday evening saw a wonderful entry of 81 Cattle for the ten classes, judging was undertaken by one the UK’s leading showmen Mr Phil Sellers of Lincoln who has won virtually every major national show during summer and winter with his show cattle. His expertise was called upon all evening with some very strong classes of cattle placed before him, and the quality on offer was a great reflection of the type of cattle available at Skipton on a regular basis.

Sheila Mason the maestro at Craven Champions showcase Title winner sells for new Skipton record store price North Craven’s Sheila Mason was supreme champion with an eight-month-old British Blue-sired heifer at the Craven Champions’ double-header, the annual opening show and sale of store cattle with show potential at Skipton Auction Mart. The title winner also set a new centre record price for a store animal when selling for £3,200. (Tues & Wed, Feb 14 & 15)

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle FORWARD: 908 HEAD OF CATTLE Comprising: 308 Young Feeding Bulls, 15 Beef Feeding Cows, 571 Bullocks & Heifers & 14 Breeding Cattle. Another tremendous show of cattle forward for CCM Auctions fortnightly cattle Sale at Skipton Mart held on Wednesday. Store Bulls were again a fast selling trade with the 308 head levelling at £1005.66 across the board. Premium Bulls were again good to sell, whilst the nice square Charollais and Limousin types again receiving a great following. The Beef Bred Feeding Cow section continues to attract more cattle, and todays offering was keenly bid for, top price of £990 for Piedmontese cross form Messrs Sandham, levelling at £757 for the 15 forward. In the Store Cattle section there were some tremendous runs of cattle some of which were fit for service as part of the Annual Special Sale of Bulling Heifers. John Walmsley of Woodcock Hill had his Annual Consignment of Homebred Black Limousin Bulling Heifers, shown in great condition and benefitting from being BVD and Lepto Vaccinated they sold to a high of £1,580 and the run averaged £1,472. Other heifers for bulling found a sound trade all day, especially those in health schemes and homebred. Messrs Sandham had a great run of cattle selling Blue Heifers to £1,560, Blue Bullocks to £1,580, Charollais Bullocks to £1,480 and both Limousin and Blonde Bullocks to £1,400. Yearling Cattle were a nice trade with both local and travelled buyers looking for numbers

SKIPTON AUCTION MART MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 19th JANUARY 2017 Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 719 head of cattle Comprising: 240 Young Feeding Bulls, 6 Beef Feeding Cows, 446 Bullocks & Heifers, & 27 Breeding Cattle. Similar ringside of buyers keen to fill pens and another excellent show of spring 2016 cattle met a very similar trade with once again a very high standard of entries. Pick of the runs was 8 blonde cross bulls march/april born from K&GJ Huck of Austwick which averaged £1178. In the bullocks and heifers again strong runs from W Mason and Son from Appletreewick with a packet of 8 at £1300 and David Sandham of Croxton topping at £1330 with a Charolais Bullock led the way in the prices. However young heifers with shape were on the end of a cracking trade today with Limousin and British Blue x Heifers regularly past £1000’s and almost £30 - £50 better than the New Year sale. Black and Whites certainly turning a corner with well framed bullocks up to £880 but a healthy average of £750 for all types. Next fortnight we look forward to the annual sale of bulling heifers with some regular consignors bringing runs of quality heifers perfect for running with the bull.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle Forward – 152 head cattle: 34 Bulls, 112 Bullocks & Heifers & 6 Breeding Cattle.