The store cattle sale included the Craven Champions Show & Sale (full results below). Neil Slack kindly judged the show on Tuesday evening. Well done to all exhibitors and thankyou to the show sponsors; NFU Skipton – Top Tags – Thornton Breakers – Craven Farm Vets – Muilberry Asset Finance – Massey Feeds – J Sheard – Fairhurst Concrete – Great Yorkshire Show – Preston Fuels.

East Anglian success at Craven Champions showcase Keasden Head female champion tops sale at £3,000 There was a long distance success at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Craven Champions highlight when Norfolk breeders Henry Harvey & Son, from Waxham Hall, Waxham, took the supreme championship. (Tues & Wed, Feb 19 & 20) At the two-day show and sale of 2018-born store cattle with show potential, Mr Harvey’s April-born British Blue-cross bullock won the first class of the evening show for un-haltered steers, before progressing to become champion steer, then overall supreme champion.

Siddall herd shines at Skipton beef breeding cattle show The Fletcher family’s Siddall pedigree Limousin herd stood champion at the annual early season show and sale of pedigree beef breeding cattle at Skipton Auction Mart. (Wed, Feb 20) Paul Fletcher, who farms with his wife, Tracey, and daughters, Charley, 19, and 12-year-old Bree, at Top O’Th Hill Farm, Birch, Heywood, claimed top spot with his home-bred March, 2017, bull, Siddall Nipper, by the family’s former stock bull, Icarus.

Forward: 50 Prime cattle comprising 25 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 24 Cast Cattle. 3,370 Prime Sheep comprising 3131 Prime Hoggs & 239 Cast Ewes & Rams. 25 Rearing Calves. 7 Dairy Cattle. 29 Breeding Sheep. 13 Loads of produce.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep - Forward: 1,204 Head – 1136 Store Lambs av £63.44. 21 Blue Face Leicester Females & 18 In-Lamb Ewes Another strong show of lambs forward considering the time of year with 1136 through the ring.

BLUE FACED LEICESTERS - At CCM’s Winter Sale of Blue Faced Leicester Females the Blubberhouses based Hewness Flock owned by Kevin Wilson and his son James took championship and top priced honours at £1000 with their gimmer hogg L11. Highly admired by many, this classy hogg with great length and style with a good skin to match sired by the Harland F1, Big Head, fell for the top price of the day to JC&N Throup, Draughton.

NEMSA chair’s champion and top price double at Skipton BFL females highlight North of England Mule Sheep Association (NEMSA) chairman Kevin Wilson and his son, James, who run the Hewness flock in Blubberhouses, secured championship and top price honours at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual winter sale of Blue Faced Leicester females. (Wed, Feb 13)

Forward: 49 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 28 Cast Cattle, 3596 Prime Sheep comprising 3193 Prime Hoggs & 400 Cast Ewes & Rams, 44 Rearing Calves, 14 Loads of produce,

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle. Forward – 133 head cattle & 38 Sheep

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle. Forward: 760 head of cattle. Comprising: 741 Feeding Cattle (267 Young Bulls, 54 Beef Feeding Cows & 2 Cast Feeding Bulls , 418 Bullocks & Heifers) & 19 Breeding Cattle.

Forward: 36 Prime cattle comprising 20 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 15 Cast Cattle. 2551 Prime Sheep comprising 2282 Prime Hoggs & 269 Cast Ewes & Rams. 40 Rearing Calves. 6 Loads of produce.

Rearing Calves to £415 (40) Dairy av £60 Cont av £250.96 Native av £161.33 A mixed entry of calves this morning with some very strong continentals on offer from N&R Sutcliffe and Church Farm Enterprises hitting £415 and £400 respectively, however a lot of young continentals brought the average considerably today. Young 10 to 14 day old continentals sold away to a straight trade of £170 to £200.

Halls of fame at CCM Skipton monthly prime lambs show ‘Halls of fame’ was a phrase that readily sprang to mind when two different local farming families of the same name took principal honours in the flagship Continental show class at Skipton Auction Mart’s February prime lambs show. (Mon, Feb 4) Michael Hall, of Scosthrop Farm, in the Malhamdale village of the same name, won the supreme championship with his first prize pen of five Beltex-cross lambs, all by home-bred tups, which went on to sell for the day’s joint top price per head price of £125, or 277.8p/kg. He was also responsible for the same way bred third prize pen. Both weighed in at 45kg, with Mr Hall adding a third pen at £124.

Critchleys recapture championship form at CCM Skipton prime cattle showcase The Red Rose Critchley beef farming family picked up its first prime cattle championship of the year at the second monthly show at Skipton Auction Mart. (Mon, Feb 4) The multiple past champions, who now bring cattle to the North Yorkshire mart virtually on a weekly basis, the majority bought in and further fattened at their Mercer Farm in Hutton, near Preston, clinched another title with the first prize 590kg Limousin-cross heifer, sold for £1,460, or 247.5p/kg, to Darley’s Nick Dalby, buying on behalf of principal weekly buyer Keelham Farm Shop, who claimed seven entries in total, five for its Skipton shop and a brace for Thornton.

Forward: 2,068 Feeding and Breeding Sheep. 1,837 Store Lambs & Feeding Ewes - Average £63.57 231 Breeding Ewes – Average £111.37 Another tremendous entry of store and feeding sheep for the time of year met with a fast selling trade when put in front of a good crowd of purchasers. Best Lambs topped at £100 form Hannah Brown and £99 from AM&HV Brown, strong lowland lambs on the day in the late 70’s and early 80’s, medium types in 70’s and longer keep types in the 60’s.