Huck family claim Skipton suckled calves championship At Skipton Auction Mart’s annual autumn highlight for this year’s crop of suckled calves and over year store cattle with show potential, Austwick mother and son, Janet and James Huck, presented both the champion and reserve in the 2016-born suckled calf show class. (Wed, Oct 26) The champion was a Blonde heifer, out of a three-quarter Limousin cow, sired by Shapfell Esquire, which made £1,240 when selling to Thomson Bros, of Pickering. The Hucks’ reserve champion, another Blonde, sold for £1,180 to Edwards Farm Butchers in Burnley.

MARKET REPORT – TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER 2016 Good trade for all classes of stock on sale today. Rams saw an 85% clearance rate. FORWARD: 258 Breeding Sheep & Rams.

Forward: 78 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 5 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 52 Cast Cattle. 3,819 Prime Sheep comprising 3,285 Prime Lambs, 526 Cast Ewes & 8 Rams. 83 Rearing Calves. 18 Dairy Cattle.

83 Rearing Calves & 18 Dairy Cattle: Craven Dairy Auction (18 head) A changeable sort of trade today with good heifers selling away well with Brian Moorhouse of Bell Busk topping the day’s trade with his Pedigree heifer giving 32kg and from the Aireburn Miss America family went on to sell for £1850 to Stephen and Eddie Jeanes, Glusburn. Another heifer from Hesper Farm went on to sell for £1750, which had been calved just 10 days and giving 27kgs sold to Brian Blezard of Hothersall Hall Farm.

Another Lawson Jazz heifer hits the high notes at Craven Dairy Auction The Lawson family’s Newbirks pedigree Holstein herd at Mill Farm, Arthington, landed its fifth Craven Dairy Auction title of the year at Skipton Auction Mart’s main October Craven Dairy Auction.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs and Breeding Sheep Forward: 7,399 Head, Overall av £55.88 A great entry of lambs met with a strong trade as buyers were out on force looking for both short keep and long keep lambs. Still a few pens of good drawn gimmers in the sale, making prices £75 to £95, whilst the 4,300 Lowland bred lambs (Texel, Suff, Beltex, Charollais) saw strong and smart lowland bred stores on the day around £64-£72. Medium keep lambs were keenly contested being £60-£63 whilst long keep types were £54-£59. A few pens of small lambs in the 40’s.

DALESBRED SHEEP SALE Top price today was a shearling ram consigned by Messrs JT&J Kelsall of Clapham, which was bred by a Capstick tup out of a Haygarth bred ewe, which sold to Messrs R Jackson & Son of Horton in Ribblesdale for 260gns. Also matching 260gns was the second prize shearling ram from JM Wilson & Son of Beckwithshaw, which was sired by a homebred tup and sold to Martin Brown of Ramsgill. Champion was Trevor & Joe Stoneys shearling ram which was sired by a Huddleston ram and bred from a Longton bred ewe made 80gns. 84% clearance rate.

FORWARD: 2,602 Breeding Sheep & Gimmer Lambs. (2,380 Gimmer Lambs and 222 Dalesbred Sheep) CCM Auctions conducted their fourth fortnightly sale of Gimmer Lambs at Skipton on Wednesday where a good entry attracted a very busy ringside of customers keen for sheep late in the season. A few pens of Mules topped £100 with Kevin Wilson leading the sale at £108, Jack Berry t/a JH Throup at £100, other leading pens in the 90’s. Overall there were 2,152 Mules entered and they averaged £72.41 overall, NEMSA coming in at £74.09 (+£2.33) other Mules at £71.76 (+£1.00).

Skipton Dalesbred rams highlight produces 260gns joint top prices Joint top prices of 260gns and a clearance rate of 84% for the 50-plus ‘gentlemen’ on parade were seen at the annual Dalesbred Sheep Breeders’ Association’s final seasonal show and sale of shearling and aged rams, and females, at Skipton Auction Mart.

Forward: 70 Prime cattle comprising 19 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 48 Cast Cattle. 3,914 Prime Sheep comprising 3,537 Prime Lambs, 377 Cast Ewes & Rams. 81 Rearing Calves. 1 Loads of produce.

26 Beef Breeding Cattle; Including 15 Pedigree Cattle and 11 Breeding Cattle Records were broken for females at the Autumn pedigree event with the “Millers Cote Nook herd” was dispersed. Leading price was Millers Cote Jezabell a Wilodge Fastrac Heifer scanned incalf to Netherhall Jackpot for Jan/feb which sold to Kevin Sunderland of Rossendale for 4200gns. Not far behind was Millers Cote Ivy a 2013 “Carmorn Dauphin” daughter sold with her Wilodge Goldcard heifer calf and carrying a service to Galileo which joined CCM’s field person Janet Sheard.

New record for females at Skipton beef breeding cattle feature A new record for females was set at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Autumn pedigree event for multi-breed beef breeding cattle, which featured a dispersal sale for the Miller family’s Millerscotenook Limousin herd at Cote Meadow Nook Farm, Water, Rossendale. (Wed, Oct 12)

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 683 head of cattle Comprising: 103 Young Feeding Bulls, 9 Beef Feeding Cows, 543 Bullocks & Heifers, 17 Pedigree Cattle & 11 Breeding Cattle. An increased entry of feeding bulls today as this year’s calves begin to come forward for sale. Strong bulls received plenty of attention with best £1,150 plus up to £1,340 for a cracker from Ben Townsend of Laneshawbridge. In the Store Section, quality of any age sold very well, but a plainer commercial quality type beast was a shade harder to sell. (Beef breeding report below)

FORWARD: 1,308 Breeding Sheep & Rams including Annual Sale of Lleyn Breeding sheep and Gimmer Lambs, Fortnightly Sale of Breeding Sheep and Third Sale of Swaledale Ewes. A mixed show for the fortnightly sale would see Mule, Halfbred and Continental shearlings dearer than the previous, whilst ewes saw better quality a decent trade but plainer sorts harder to cash. LLeyn Gimmer Lamb Show - 1st Caring for Life sold for £89

Forward: 72 Registered Swaledale Rams There was a large crowd gathered at Skipton on Monday Evening at CCM’s Annual Show & Sale of Swaledale Rams where 4 rams sold for 1,000gns but more impressive a 95% clearance rate, 76 rams forward and 72 sold. The first of the four figure prices came for a 3 shear ram consigned by JR Smith of Carleton. Bred by Colin Birbeck and used since a shearling it sold to SM Towler, Malham Moor.