Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 339 head of cattle Comprising: 91 Young Feeding Bulls, 9 Beef Feeding Cows, 236 Bullocks & Heifers, & 3 Breeding Cattle. A decent November show of cattle with quality sorts a very good trade. Strong Bulls good to sell, Messrs Gornall of Croft House, which is right at the top of Dent Dale, topped the section at £1290 with a 13 month Lim Bull. Those rising a year old weren’t too far behind with Messrs Wilkinson of Out Rawcliffe had a great run of Blue bred bulls at 11-12mo from £11990 up to £1280. James Huck of Sowerthwaite, Austwick had a great run of 8-9month old Limousin and Blonde crosses the two best at £1250 £1240 and others at 1200.

Forward: 64 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 40 Cast Cattle including 3 Cast Bulls. 3,746 Prime Sheep comprising 3,523 Prime Lambs, 223 Cast Ewes & Rams. 44 Rearing Calves B&W av £44.42 Cont av £261.3 Native av £221. 7 Loads of produce

Forward: 4344 Head, Overall av £51.69 A good number forward for the time of year with 4,344 through the ring with small long term lambs a strong trade throughout today although larger shorter term lambs did reflect the easing of trade in the prime ring. Still big runs were forward to buy today with 103 Suffolk lambs from RD Metcalfe, Brearton at £61, J&MM Walmsley, Worston with £139 at £60 and 101 Mule wethers from JW Hall, Darnbrook at £55.50. 154 Mule Gimmer Lambs went through the ring today and averaged £62 topping at £82 from JB Taylor, Diggle.

Forward: 97 Prime cattle comprising 24 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 4 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 69 Cast Cattle incl 1 Cast Bull. 4244 Prime Sheep comprising 3788 Prime Lambs, 456 Cast Ewes & Rams. 47 Rearing Calves to £400 (47) B&W av £40.64 Cont av £300.89 Native av £110. 5 Loads of produce.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 439 head of cattle Comprising: 79 Young Feeding Bulls, 4 Beef Feeding Cows, 264 Bullocks & Heifers, 88 Pedigree Cattle & 4 Breeding Cattle. A mixed show of cattle for a late Autumn sale met with a large company of buyers who were a little more cautious than of late. A shortage of stronger cattle were generally good to sell, as were smart younger cattle, but 2nd & 3rd quality sorts were cheaper.

FORWARD: 88 HEAD OF CATTLE 78 Pedigree Beef Shorthorn Cattle Judged by Annette Marshall. 10 Pedigree South Devon Cattle judged by John Hadley.

Scottish partnership shines at Skipton Beef Shorthorn highlight Scottish Shorthorn breeders Thomson, Roddick & Laurie, who run the Shawhill herd in Eaglesfield, Lockerbie, secured a championship and reserve championship double with a pair of outstanding heifers at the seventh annual show and sale of pedigree Beef Shorthorn cattle staged on behalf of the North of England Beef Shorthorn Club at Skipton Auction Mart. (Wed, Nov 9) The title winner also headed the selling prices at 5,900gns, a new centre record price for a Beef Shorthorn.

Forward: 112 Prime cattle comprising 29 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 6 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 77 Cast Cattle incl 2 Cast Bulls. 4,193 Prime Sheep comprising 3,806 Prime Lambs, 379 Cast Ewes & 8 Rams. 68 Rearing Calves. 32 Dairy Cattle.

Craven Dairy Auction (32 head) A healthy show of milkers present this morning with 28 tied up in shippon. Peter Baul of Bishop Thornton took top honours when judge Wick Williams picked his 28kg, 16 day calved pedigree heifer from the Ravensgate herd which went on to sell for £1650 to the judge himself. Reserve Championship went to Robert Crisp of Calton with his big framed light heifer selling to the sale high of £1700 to Alf and Andrew Townsend. Keith Downs from Bingley brought four sweet heifers, all of which looked like very durable heifers and received £1650, £1620, £1400 and £1300 for his consignments.

147 lots of Poultry; 753 lots of Nursery/Plants; 432 lots of Reclaim/Salvage; 428 lots of Machinery & 94 lots of Furniture.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle Forward – 98 head cattle & 42 Sheep/Goats:

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Sheep Forward: 7,786 Head, (Store Lambs Overall av £53.09) Comp: 6,369 Store Lambs, 45 Rams, 1171 Gimmer Lambs & 201 Ewes.

Forward: 75 Prime cattle comprising 29 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 43 Cast Cattle. 4,764 Prime Sheep comprising 4,400 Prime Lambs, 364 Cast Ewes & Rams. 53 Rearing Calves B&W av £30 Cont av £257 Native av £258. 6 Loads of produce.

Welsh and Irish lead the way at Skipton working dogs autumn highlight Welsh and Irish dogs, the latter in particular, had the pick of the trade at Skipton Auction Mart’s autumn working sheep dog sale, the final seasonal fixture of 2016. (Friday, October 28) The day’s top call of 5,800gns (£6,090) fell to a November, 2014, tri-coloured bitch, Llangwm Jen, from North Wales sheep farmer and dog trainer Sion Jones, who runs Cefn Eithin Sheep Dogs in Corwen.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 515 head of cattle Comprising: 86 Young Feeding Bulls, 4 Beef Feeding Cows, 418 Bullocks & Heifers & 7 Breeding Cattle.