Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 8,048 Head - Overall av £59.61 The largest entry of the season so far met with a grand trade that wasn’t much different to the previous sale. Suffolk’s and Texel’s again offered customers a good selection of short and longer keep lambs with both breeds averaging over £60. Tops of £82 per head for Texel’s from CG Dibb of Low Snowden, whilst Steven Wells of Monyash made £81 of the 1st prize pen of Beltex crosses, the 1,127 Beltex crosses averaged £65.10.

Forward: 3,936 head of Gimmer Shearlings. CCM Auctions conducted their Great Annual Prize Sale of Gimmer Shearlings at Skipton on Tuesday. A nice show of sheep were presented to a full ringside of both regular local customers and new customers, some of whom had travelled some distance looking for quality types. Continental sheep were in great demand, especially the good sorts, Texels up £35 on average to stand at £155 across the board. Mule sheep were also better to sell on the year, and a healthy average of £138 was recorded. As a result the overall sale average was £18.24 up on the year to stand at £141.19. Thank you to all our sponsors for supporting the sale, NFU, JACS Trade & DIY, & Top Tags and to our judges for today’s sale.

Forward: 86 Prime cattle comprising 18 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 10 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 58 Cast Cattle. 4,336 Prime Sheep comprising 3720 Prime Lambs, 616 Cast Ewes & Rams. 80 Rearing Calves. 1 Loads of produce.

CCM Auctions held their special sale of breeding ewes (2 shear +) at Skipton on Friday together with rams. A nice entry of sheep attracted a large crowd all keen for sheep. Rams started the sale and found a good enquiry levelling at £350. Ewes were very keenly contested, David Coates presented a good run of Mule 2 shears selling at £155 twice, £150 and £145, whilst Thomas Binns sold the same at £150 and £145. John Wright of Airton sold three pens of Suffolk Mule Shearlings all at £140 each. Older ewes sold well, with broken mouth correct below ewes very good to sell.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 426 head of cattle Comprising: 59 Young Feeding Bulls, 6 Beef Bred Grazing Cows, 342 Bullocks & Heifers, 19 Breeding cattle At CCM’s fortnightly cattle sale a sharp trade was seen across the board. Young Bulls started the sale with 8 of the 59 entries topping £1,200, topping at £1,400. The average across the board was £985.

Forward: 56 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 32 Cast Cattle. 3,799 Prime Sheep comprising 3297 Prime Lambs, 502 Cast Ewes & Rams. 52 Rearing Calves. 35 Dairy Cattle. 1 Loads of produce.

Rearing Calves to £425x3 (52) B&W av £85.30 Cont av £355.33 Native av £236.2 52 calves up for sale this morning with black whites seeing a resurgence in price back to a healthy average of £85.3. Continentals remained a straight average at £355 for all types topping three times at £425 for two bulls and a heifer from Church Farm Enterprises with two more heifers at £415 and £410. Parkers from Bentham saw their sweet blue bull make £380 and John Blackwell have a Simmental at £360.

MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 10th AUGUST 2016 Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs and Breeding Sheep Forward: 6,453 Sheep 6,276 Store Lambs, Overall av £62.25 177 Breeding Sheep

Forward: 44 Prime cattle comprising 20 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 24 Cast Cattle. 4,111 Prime Sheep comprising 3605 Prime Lambs, 506 Cast Ewes & Rams. 127 Rearing Calves.

Rearing Calves to £500 (127) B&W av £60.86 Cont av £328.17 Native av £251.5 Real show of calves today with 127 landing on the docks this morning and a healthy trade to boot, British Blues headlined the very top prices with Church Farm Enteprises taking the top four highest prices with some tremendous calves which topped at £500, 490 x2 and £475. Geoff and Margaret Booth of Lothersdale were not far behind at £475 and Shaun Sowray at £470.

MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 3rd August 2016 Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 475 head of cattle Comprising: 93 Young Feeding Bulls, 361 Bullocks & Heifers, 7 Feeding Cows

Forward: 46 Prime cattle comprising 19 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 25 Cast Cattle. 3,429 Prime Sheep comprising 3037 Prime Lambs, 392 Cast Ewes & Rams. 35 Rearing Calves. 1 Loads of produce.

MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 27th JULY 2016 Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 4,839 Sheep 4,718 Head of store lambs (Overall av £61.68). 121 Breeding Sheep (Average £123.98)

Forward: 50 Prime cattle comprising 17 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 5 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 28 Cast Cattle. 3,495 Prime Sheep comprising 3,177 Prime Lambs, 318 Cast Ewes & Rams. 74 Rearing Calves. 50 Dairy Cattle. 1 Loads of produce.

Rearing Calves to £430 (74) B&W av £110.68 Cont av £332.38 Native av £235 A healthy number forward today with the goods on offer well fought over today. Again friesian’s and Black and Whites were good to sell with plenty of cover for all types and headed to an average of £110.68 for an average of 29.5 days of age. Quality was a bit down on previous weeks in the continental section an steadied the average to £332 for all goods despite Geoff and Margaret Booth of Lothersdale topping at £430 and Fred Houseman not far behind at £425. Fred Houseman topped the heifers however at a high of £400 and £395. Limousin’s were out in stronger numbers than late with Shaun Sowray and Robert Metcalfe topping the report sheets.