Forward: 812 Head, 352 Store Lambs & 460 Breeding Sheep Overall av £50.40 Healthy trade for the 352 lambs on sale with mule gimmer lambs from BW Appleton reaching £72 and topping the days trade with a pen of Beltex lambs from AM&HV Brown realising £70. Lambs with frame and shape were easily sold with the Suffolks on offer today averaging £58. Small swale wethers sold particularly well to an average of £27.

Forward: 62 Prime cattle comprising 23 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 38 Cast Cattle. 3326 Prime Sheep comprising 3031 Prime Hoggs, 295 Cast Ewes & Rams. 100 Rearing Calves. 6 Loads of produce.

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

Forward: 56 Prime Cattle comprising 17 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 38 Cast Cattle 2,090 Prime Sheep comprising 1,697 Prime Hoggs, 393 Cast Ewes & Rams 75 Rearing Calves 12 Loads of produce

Scaife Hall Farm charity breakfast a sell-out success The charity breakfast bonanza at Scaife Hall Farm in Blubberhouses, was a sell-out success, as over 180 people tucked into award-winning breakfasts served over three days and six sittings.

Primestock special sales well received at CCM Skipton Special primestock sales to cater for both vendors and buyers were staged between Christmas and the New Year at Skipton Auction Mart, on Thursday, December 28. A small, but select offering of prime cattle saw eight of the 13 under 30-month entries fall to the year’s principal buyer, Keelham Farm Shop, as co-owner James Robertshaw returned to re-stock the meat fridges for his two award-winning shops in Skipton and Thornton.

Annual Sale of Blue Faced Leicester Females. Title and top price coups for Smearsett BFL flock at Skipton The North Craven-based Booth farming family, who run the Smearsett Blue Faced Leicester flock at Old Hall Cottage, Feizor, returned to winning ways when responsible for both the gimmer hogg champion and in-lamb £3,000 top price achiever at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual winter fixture for breed females, also the first registered sheep breed show and sale of 2017

Fortnightly Catalogue Sheep Sale: 1,217 Store Lambs & 13 Blue Faced Leicester Females There was a larger entry of lambs this fortnight, but quality was very mixed with lambs generally smaller than the previous sale. Anything with strength and type was well bid for, whilst the long keep lambs were keenly sought with feeder finishers reporting a good supply of winter forage that needs eating. Sales continue fortnightly, please pre-enter stock with the mart office for the catalogue.

Stainbank heifer is Craven Dairy Auction champion Dairy cattle breeder Robin Jennings, who runs the Stainbank pedigree Holstein herd at Hill House Farm, South Stainley, took the champion’s rosette at Skipton Auction Mart’s second Craven Diary Auction of the year.

Forward: 69 Prime cattle comprising 15 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 53 Cast Cattle 2,806 Prime Sheep comprising 2,415 Prime Hoggs, 391 Cast Ewes & Rams 54 Rearing Calves 11 Dairy Cattle 6 Loads of produce

Rearing Calves to £450 (54) B&W av £80.83 Cont av £328.5 Native av £199.5 A strange trade for calves today with younger calves outstripping the older ones. Fred Houseman topped proceedings at £450 for one of his British Blue calves and all Blue Bulls averaging £384. Black and Whites were dearer today with certainly some better goods on sale and a stronger average at £80.83. A strong number of natives forward at handy money with John and Rob Marshall of Dacre topping proceedings with a Aberdeen Angus Bull at £285 and a mention for Chris Watson with his 3 week old Limousin x MRI bull at £365, it was a little cracker.

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.

Rearing Calves to £460 (81) B&W av £73.06 Cont av £357.49 Native av £212.45 A cracking calf by Chris and Thomas Harrison of Elslack took the top honours at the New Years Calf Show with a Simmental Bull. The calf which was 5 weeks old went on to sell to the Judge Simon Thompson of Driffield for £460. Fred Houseman had a cracking show of bulls on show today also with his 6 Bulls averaging £420 and his 3 British Blue heifers at £420, £410 and £380. Colin Whitelock of Gargrave was also on the receiving end of somke strong bidding with his young calves topping at £410.

Forward: 68 Prime cattle comprising 20 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 46 Cast Cattle 2,988 Prime Sheep comprising 2,511 Prime Hoggs, 477 Cast Ewes & Rams 81 Rearing Calves 4 Loads of produce

First Agri Trader Sale of 2017 was a chilly one but items were sought after. Next full Machinery Sale is Saturday 11th March with Livestock only on Saturday 11th February.