Meonside herd tops at 6,000gns on debut at CCM Skipton Beef Shorthorn highlight Beautry herd wins second consecutive championship A first-time foray south of the border to make its debut at the North of England Beef Shorthorn Club’s 10th annual show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart paid rich dividends for the Meonside herd of Dumfriesshire’s Tom Bradley Farmer when claiming top price of 6,000gns with a prize-winning heifer. (Wed, Nov 6)

Forward: 57 Prime cattle comprising 23 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 32 Cast Cattle. 3,016 Prime Sheep comprising 2752 Prime Lamb, 264 Cast Ewes & Rams. 75 Rearing Calves. 4 Loads of produce.

Ribble Valley success at Skipton prime lambs show Ribble Valley father and son sheep farmers, Richard and Mark Ireland, of Heys Farm, Whalley, warmed up for another tilt at Skipton Auction Mart’s high profile Christmas primestock fixture next month when sending out the prime lamb champions at the November show and sale. (Mon, Nov 4) They secured the title with a pen of five lambs by their highly regarded stock tup, Shamrock Beast, the first ram they bred in their pedigree Beltex flock, established four years ago.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle. Forward – 87 head cattle & 24 sheep/Goats:

PEDIGREE HEREFORD CATTLE - **NEW** SHOW & SALE OF HEREFORD FEMALES Todays Judge Josh Dowbiggin awarded first prize to Lot 2 Halton 1 Emily from David & Iris Boothman selling for 1600gns to DA Butterfield.

**NEW ** SHOW & SALE OF PEDIGREE SUFFOLK FEMALES A solid trader across the board for Suffolk females at Skipton on Saturday when CCM conducted their In Augural Sale. A complete clearance of inlamb sheep topped at 850gns from Pamela Lupton for a Manorhouse Hotspot daughter out of a Rhaeadr Razzle Dazzle ewe, who had show breeding pedigree, which was sold scanned twins to Rhaeadr Jet Set.

Trade sold at inaugural CCM Skipton Suffolk females show Solid across-the-board trade was achieved at a brand-new weekend show and sale for pedigree Suffolk females at Skipton Auction Mart. (Sat, Nov 2) The inaugural fixture made an immediate impact, with a complete clearance of the 17 in-lamb sheep penned for sale, which peaked at 850gns for a shearling ewe from Pamela Lupton’s Kexbeck flock at Greenholme Farm, Galphay, Ripon.

Boothmans lead the way at inaugural Skipton Hereford females fixture The Hereford cattle breed received a timely boost at Skipton Auction Mart with a brand-new weekend show and sale for females. (Sat, Nov 2) Claiming principal honours in the show class for the best haltered heifer on what was their first-ever appearance in the cattle show arena at the mart where they both work were local husband and wife, David and Iris Boothman, of Home Farm, Halton East.

Multiple highlights at CCM Skipton working sheep dogs sale Ross Games on top form with 7,600gns price leader One of the most successful working sheep dog sales ever staged at Skipton Auction Mart produced a record catalogue entry for the autumn fixture of 163, a top price of 7,600gns (£7,980), a brace of 6,000gns-plus sales, one at 5,400gns, eight at 4,000gns and over, a centre record average of £2,910 for broken registered dogs, plus the second highest ever price in the unbroken pen of 2,450gns. (Friday, November 1)

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs. Forward: 6496 Head (Overall av. £56.38). A very useful entry with 883 Horned and 2027 Mule and Masham lambs sold in the entry of 6496 with 48 separate buyers represented at the ringside. First cross Texel and Suffolk lambs worked into a very good trade with strong lambs generally £65-£75 and wintering lambs not far behind at £55-£65. Strong end of the Mules £62-£66 and the horned lambs a similar trade to last fortnight although the run was not as strong with less meat in the mix. Top end Beltex lambs continue to find favour with numerous bidders with an average of £70.58 and lambs both short and long keep comfortably into £70 all day.

FORWARD: 434 Breeding Sheep & Rams. A flying finish at the Final Tuesday Breeding Sheep Sale of Ewes and Rams. Topping the trade of Mule Shearlings was J Brown from Thirsk, selling a pen at £130 and a pen at £122, then J Robertshaw sold a pen of Texel x for £130.

Craven Dairy Auction (7 head) A tidy entry for the twice monthly Craven Dairy Sale sponsored by NMR (represented by Helen Whitaker) and the show judged by Martyn Jennings. The show champion was a lovely pedigree newly calven heifer from M Baul & Sons, Ravensgate Herd in Bishop Thornton. Sired by Welcome Armitage Pesky PLI +£410 and out of the Blossom family, she sold calved 20 days giving 32 litres at £2100 locally to John Howard. Messrs Baul sold another newly calven heifer out of the Honesty family by Model Man giving 32 litres being calved 23 days, she sold for £1800.

Forward: 46 Prime cattle comprising 17 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 28 Cast Cattle. 3,456 Prime Sheep comprising 2929 Prime Lamb, 527 Cast Ewes & Rams. 75 Rearing Calves. 7 Dairy Cattle. 2 Loads of produce

Blossom blooms for Peter Baul at Craven Dairy Auction A fifth Craven Dairy Auction championship of 2019 was clinched by the Ravensgate pedigree herd of Bishop Thornton’s Peter Baul at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest fortnightly Monday show and sale (Oct 28) It fell to Ravensgate Pesky Blossom 199, a 20 days calved, 32 litre heifer by the Genus sire, Welcome Armitrage Pesky, which claimed top call of £2,100 when knocked down to regular local buyer John Howard, of Heslaker.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle. Forward: 584 head of cattle. Comprising: 580 Feeding Cattle (79 Young Bulls, 60 Beef Feeding Cows, 441 Bullocks & Heifers) & 4 Breeding Cattle.