Sowrays secure Skipton Christmas rearing calf championship hat-trick The Sowray dairy farming family from Bowes Green Farm, Bishop Thornton, won their third successive Christmas rearing calf title at Skipton Auction Mart. (Mon, Dec 1) It capped an excellent year at the North Yorkshire venue for brothers Peter, Paul and Shaun Sowray, who have reigned supreme with their top-notch British Blue-cross bull calves at all but one of the six seasonal highlights, becoming reserve champions at the other.

Skipton Christmas cull shows popular Annual Christmas shows for cull cows and ewes again featured in the festive line-up at Skipton Auction Mart. Cull cow champion was Brian Lund, of Walshaw Farm, Walshaw, Hebden Bridge, with a home-bred pure 41-month-old Parthenais by the Genus sire Atomic that went on to head the selling prices at £1,361, or 186.5p/kg, when bought by show judge Ross Greenwood, of Carleton. He also paid £1,205, or 155.5p/kg, for his chosen reserve champion, the second prize Continental cow, another Parthenais from M Bentham, of Thornton, Bradford.

The 7th Annual Craven Lingfield Christmas Primestock Show (Updated report with prices and buyers) FORWARD – 35 Prime Cattle 273 Butchers Lambs 40 Lamb Carcasses 35 Prime Pigs

Huntley’s buys reserve champion prime lambs for Christmas Huntley’s Country Stores in Samlesbury will be serving up top-notch prime lamb cuts in its butchery department this Christmas after the award-winning Whalley Road outlet snapped up the reserve supreme champions in the annual Christmas prime lamb show at Skipton Auction Mart. (Sun, Nov 30) The trio of 41kg Beltex-cross lambs, first prize winners in the 40kg or more Continental-cross trimmed class, were shown by Ian and Mary Lancaster, of Coldcoats Farm, Wiswell, in the shadow of Pendle Hill, and their 14-year-old son Richard, who attends Ribblesdale High School in Clitheroe.

FAWCETT FAMILY TRIUMPH AT SKIPTON CHRISTMAS PRIME BEEF SHOWCASE As supreme champion buyer Keelham Farm Shop makes history History was made at Skipton Auction Mart’s prestigious Christmas show and sale of prime cattle when Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton, Bradford, paid a show-topping £3,164, or £5.60 per kilo, for the supreme champion to make it an unprecedented clean sweep of 12 successive prime beef title-winning purchases at every single monthly show this year.

A nice entry forward for sale and a sharp trade too. Any strong lambs were very well bid for as the list of prices below shows, several notable pens including David Walmsley, Worston selling 123 Texels in one pen at £70 each, and James Hall, Darnbrook selling 101 Mule Wethers in one pen at £66.80 each. Strong Horned lambs up around £50. Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 4,854 Head Comprising 4483 Store Lambs, 336 Gimmer Lambs & 35 Breeding Sheep Next Sale is Wednesday 10th December – Entry of 4,000 expected. Entries close Monday 1st December.

Forward: 65 Prime cattle comprising 3 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 5 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 55 Cast Cattle 5,026 Prime Sheep comprising 4,642 Prime Lambs, 384 Cast Ewes & Rams 72 Rearing Calves 43 Dairy Cattle inc Christmas Show 6 Loads of produce

Craven Dairy Auction Christmas Show 42 head to £2500. Weekly Calf Sale 72 head to £400 B&W av £56.46 Cont av £246 Native av £165

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 429 head of cattle Comprising: 128 Young Feeding Bulls, 3 Grazing Cows, 286 Bullocks & Heifers, 12 Breeding Cattle A great November entry of Store cattle were forward at CCM Auctions Fortnightly Sale held at Skipton on Wednesday. A younger entry of bulls were a decent trade with less of the top end strong stuff in the entry, but quality sold well and commercial types had plenty of bidders. In the stores, good older cattle were dearer than the previous sale, whilst suckled calves were forward in good numbers and heifers found a nice enquiry form a full ringside of buyers. To highlight the crowded ringside, there were 70 successful different purchasers on the day drawn from Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire, County Durham, Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire together with the usual good contingent of local men.

Forward: 49 Prime cattle comprising 6 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 43 Cast Cattle 5,102 Prime Sheep comprising 4,705 Prime Lambs, 397 Cast Ewes & Rams 31 Rearing Calves 4 Loads of produce

Forward: 6,517 Head – 5,072 Store Lambs & 1,445 Breeding Sheep Next Sale is Wednesday 26th November – Entry of 6,000 expected. Entries close Monday 17th November Plenty of late Autumn grass and a timely lift in prime sheep prices together with a large company of southern based buyers helped to raise store sheep trade by some £3 to £5 per head today, when good entry ofover 6000 sheep were forward for the early November sale of Store & Breeding Sheep.

75 Rearing Calves 31 Dairy Cattle A packed market full of livestock at CCM Skipton today with all three selling rings in operation and nearly every pen was used at some stage in the day with stock for sale. There were 309 different sellers and buyers present in the mart successfully trading away, so take a look at today’s report then bring your stock next week to Skipton.

Forward: 58 Prime cattle comprising 8 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 6 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 51 Cast Cattle. 5,154 Prime Sheep comprising 4,817 Prime Lambs, 337 Cast Ewes & Rams 75 Rearing Calves 31 Dairy Cattle 6 Loads of produce A packed market full of livestock at CCM Skipton today with all three selling rings in operation and nearly every pen was used at some stage in the day with stock for sale. There were 309 different sellers and buyers present in the mart successfully trading away, so take a look at today’s report then bring your stock next week to Skipton.

Stainbank herd clinches another Craven Dairy Auction championship Robin Jennings, who runs the Stainbank pedigree dairy herd in South Stainley, near Ripon, was champion again at the early November Craven Dairy Auction show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart, repeating his success at the corresponding fixture the previous month. (Mon, Nov 10) He again clinched the title with the first prize newly-calven heifer, Longstar Lavanguard, Franchise, acquired as a stirk from her Lancashire breeder. By Comestar Lavanguard, the victor, 15 days calves and giving 28 litres, sold for £1,820 to Wharfedale-based buyers.

MARKET REPORT – SATURDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2014 Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle. Forward: 262 head of cattle. Comprising: 106 Bull Stirks, 130 Steer & Heifer Stirks, 26 Breeding Cattle.