MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY 2014 PRESS Craven Champions Day, Skipton Auction Mart’s annual show and sale of commercial store cattle with future show potential, proved one of the best on record, attracting an increased entry of 65 up-and-coming bullocks and heifers, with all prize winners achieving four-figure selling prices at an overall average of £1,406.81 per head, a marked improvement on the previous year’s £1,240.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2014 35 Prime cattle comprising 2 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Cattle (over 30 mos) & 31 Cast Cattle 2,598 Prime Sheep comprising 2086 Old Season Lambs, 513 Cast Ewes & Rams 27 Rearing Calves 8 Loads of produce

MARKET REPORT - SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 2014 Head: 119 Cattle & 25 Sheep. Livestock Only Sale.

MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2014 Forward: 549 Head, Overall av £65.98 A cracking trade today for all classes of lambs, some strong sorts getting away at unbelievable prices, whilst Continental cross genuine stores selling at £70 plus. Horned lambs also in good demand with buyers in abundance looking to keep fields and sheds topped up, even in this weather!!

MARKERT REPORT - MONDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2014 DAIRY 45 Rearing Calves 28 Dairy Cattle Once again calves a good even trade with black and whites just back on the previous week.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2014 28 Prime cattle comprising 2 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 26 Cast Cattle 3,299 Prime Sheep comprising 2922 Old Season Lambs, 375 Cast Ewes & Rams 45 Rearing Calves 28 Dairy Cattle 9 Loads of produce

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2014 DAIRY PRESS HOUSEMAN HEADS DAIRY & CALF PRICES @ SKIPTON Reigning Craven Cattle Marts’ Farmers of the Year, father and son Fred and Mark Houseman bagged their first Craven Dairy Auction title of 2014 at the early February show.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 815 head of cattle Comprising: 307 Young Feeding Bulls, 504 Bullocks & Heifers, 4 Breeding Cattle The fortnightly cattle sale again attracted a large entry and with it a good attendance of buyers.

CCM Auctions conducted their weekly Primestock sale at Skipton Mart on Monday together with the Monthly Prize Show of Prime Cattle & Sheep. Cattle championship honours this Month went to Mr Bernard Simpson of Heathfield, Pateley Bridge whose 1st Prize Heifer sold for £1,575 to Keelham Farmshop. In the Prime Sheep ring the championship ticket went to Paul Baines, whose pen of 5 Beltex crosses sold at £103 each to Hartshead Meat Company, Mossley.

Baines’s keep it in the family at Skipton prime lamb show A Pendle father and daughter delivered a family double when exhibiting both the champion and reserve champion pens of five Texel-cross prime lambs at Skipton Auction Mart’s February show.

Nidderdale success at Skipton prime cattle show A home-bred British Blue-cross heifer from Nidderdale’s Bernard Simpson, of Spring House, Heathfield, Pateley Bridge, was champion at the February prime cattle show at Skipton Auction Mart.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store & Breeding Sheep Forward: 1,360 Head – 925 Store Hoggs; 411 Inlamb Sheep & 24 Blue Faced Leicesters. A good show of store sheep were good to sell with plenty of customers assembled. Another nice show of inlamb sheep saw strong older sheep in good demand.

Booths seal BFL females hat-trick at Skipton The North Craven-based Smearsett flock of WA & A Booth clinched its third successive championship at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual registered show and sale of Blue Faced Leicester females. Father and son David and Robin Booth, of Old Hall Cottage, Feizor, secured a memorable hat-trick with their first prize gimmer hogg, by one of their highly regarded stock tups, C1 Shafthill, acquired as a lamb from Northumberland breeder John Smith-Jackson, of Melkridge, near Haltwhistle.

MARKET REPORT -MONDAY 27TH JANUARY 2014 PRIMESTOCK 51 Prime cattle comprising 1 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 5 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 45 Cast Cattle 2,564 Prime Sheep comprising 2,189 Old Season Lambs, 375 Cast Ewes & Rams 55 Rearing Calves 15 Dairy Cattle 7 Loads of produce

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 27TH JANUARY 2014 Rearing Calves to £400 B&W av £92.03 Cont av £292.66 Native av £208.33 Craven Dairy Auction (15 head) BOCM Pauls Dairy Sale once again well supported with plenty of punters ringside and a flying trade to match.