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.

Double success for KT Wood at Craven Dairy Auction Broadwood Edge farmer Louise Wood took both Champion and Reserve at Craven Dairy Auction on Monday. (JULY 25) Louise and brother Sam sold their newly-calven heifers to a high of £1,600 and £1,480, the champion being a home-bred heifer giving 32 litres, sold to Alf and Andrew Townsend from Southfield, Burnley and the reserve going to the Sowray brothers from Bishop Thornton.

Kieran, three, takes top prize at Skipton young farmers’ highlight A three-year-old lad from Barnoldswick emerged as supreme champion at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual young handlers’ prime lamb show and sale on Monday. (JULY 25) Kieran Robinson, son of Scott and Laura, won with a well-presented Beltex cross lamb and the three-year-old was smart himself in a shirt, tie and white coat. Laura, who has won the supreme champion award herself twice before, said: “He’s very keen. He loves spending time with his granddad on the farm.”

Shaun Richards top dog at Skipton with 7,200gns bitch North Craven’s Shaun Richards was top dog again at Skipton Auction Mart annual summer sale of working sheep dogs when selling a well-bred two-year-old tri-coloured bitch for 7,200gns (£7,560). (Friday, July 22) Mr Richards, who runs Pen-y-Borough Sheep Dogs in Eldroth, near Settle, in the shadow of Pen-y-Ghent, secured top call with his fully Irish-bred and bought Nell, by the renowned stud dog and multiple trials winner Knockmaa Jack, from Michael Hynes in Belclare, County Galway, out of David Nevin’s Jan.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 399 head of cattle Comprising: 76 Young Feeding Bulls, 6 Feeding Cows, 289 Bullocks & Heifers & 28 Breeding Cattle CCM Conducted their fortnightly cattle sale at Skipton on Wednesday where a bumper summer sale entry of nearly 400 head were forward for sale. The morning saw young bulls set off at a fair rate recording an overall average of £1,025 for all sold, Ian Pratt of Erringdon once again led the market prices with two strong Limousin crosses at £1,270 and £1,250. A mixed bag of feeding cows this week from a nice Blonde topping at £910 down to a lightweight older Angus at £340, plenty of buyers for Beef Bred cows and this section is a good place to sell genuine feeding cows alongside good fleshy types.

Forward: 31 Prime cattle comprising 16 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 15 Cast Cattle. 3,865 Prime Sheep comprising 3,494 Prime Lambs, 371 Feeding Ewes & Rams. 65 Rearing Calves.

Rearing Calves to £490 (65) B&W av £118 Cont av £382 Native av £216.5 Yet again a swift trade in the calf ring for all types. Hayton Stocks topped the day’s trade with some 2 month old Simmentals topping at £490. Mark Houseman was in charge of Church Farm Enterprises’ consignment today with their bulls topping at £460 and 6 between there and £420 from the same home. RM Spence took the top with his Friesian calf at £205 with days average for B&W’s at £118. Natives saw more fierce competition with good show receiving a healthy trade, bulls to £330 for a AA out of a Friesian and Natives averaging £216.5.