Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep Forward: 2126 Head, Overall av £61.52 A great start to the sheep sale season at Skipton on Wednesday when CCM held their opening sale of Store Lambs. The average for the sale was a heartening £61.52, representing a fall of just £1.32 on the year. A good crowd of buyers was present on the day looking for sheep which gives good encouragement for the next sale. It fair to say that lambs were would dbe slightly stronger and in better condition than most would be expecting and this certainly helped the days proceedings. # At the pre sale show, judge Thomas Walmsley of Haverah Park awarded first prize to AM Leach of Hebden which later sold for £69 each.

Forward: 36 Prime cattle comprising 12 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), & 24 Cast Cattle 2,939 Prime Sheep comprising 2264 Prime Lambs, 15 Hoggs & 660 Cast Ewes & Rams 10 Rearing Calves 2 Loads of produce

Harehills herd champion again at Craven Dairy Auction Sally Wellock, who runs the Harehills pedigree herd at West House Farm, Oldfield, near Oakworth, bagged back-to-back championships at July’s opening Craven Dairy Auction show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart.

Fawcett family double at Skipton prime cattle showcase On one of their occasional forays into the prime cattle show arena at Skipton Auction Mart, Yorkshire Dales father and son farmers, John and Joe Fawcett, achieved a notable championship and reserve championship double at the July show with a brace of home-bred British Blue-cross heifers.

Coar blimey! Darwen couple clinch inaugural prime lamb show double at Skipton Lancashire husband and wife sheep farmers, David and Laura Coar, of Yew Tree Farm, Darwen, landed their first-ever prime lambs championship at Skipton Auction Mart’s July show, also picking up the reserve championship for good measure with a brace of five home-bred Beltex-cross pens.

It’s “Thumbs up for Charlie” as charity lamb nets £1,500 at Skipton mart A single prime lamb that went under the hammer at Skipton Auction Mart raised a staggering £1,500 for the “Thumbs up for Charlie” campaign to fund potentially life-saving treatment for two-year-old Charlie Robinson.

Ireland’s Michael Gallagher top dog again with 6,200gns Skipton sale Prices for record entry in unbroken pen peak at 1,600gns County Antrim’s Michael Gallagher, from Armoy, was top dog on price with a 6,200gns sale for another impeccably bred dog rising two-years-old at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual summer sale of working sheep dogs.

ON-FARM DISPERSAL SALE - Upon the instructions of Mrs Jane Jarvis and Family, CCM Auctions conducted an on-farm dispersal sale of Vehicles, Machinery and implements at Priestcarr Lodge Farm, Marton Cum Grafton, York on Wednesday 27th June. Following the family’s tenancy of this holding, which had stretched over 80 years, a wide range of items were auctioned off to a large crowd of purchasers who had gathered on a hot and sunny June evening. The leading prices were as follows:

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle. Forward: 710 head of cattle Comprising: 604 Feeding Cattle (109 Young Bulls, 46 Beef Feeding Cows, 449 Bullocks & Heifers) & 106 Breeding Cattle.

Forward: 73 Prime cattle comprising 35 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 36 Cast Cattle 3,072 Prime Sheep comprising 2,451Prime Lambs, 25 Prime Hoggs & 596 Cast Ewes & Rams 31 Rearing Calves 11 Dairy Cattle 2 Loads of produce

Craven Dairy Auction (11 head) Sally Wellock of Oakworth took honours once again at the Craven Dairy sale with a tremendous dairy heifer giving 31kg, which sold for £2100 to the Naylor family of Langbar. “There was very little between the Champion and the Reserve” commented Judge Shaun Sowray, and he wasn’t wrong as Wilson Stewart’s 40kg heifer also rocketed to £2100 selling to the same home with Mr Stewarts other 40kg heifer which was 3rd Prize and sold for £2,000.

Housemans home in on another Skipton rearing calf title Another top-notch youngster from the Houseman dairy farming family’s Senterprise pedigree Holstein Friesian herd at Burton Top Farm, Burton Leonard, was crowned champion at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest rearing calf show and sale. (Monday, June 25) Trading as Church Farm Enterprises, the Housemans, who run a 350-strong dairy herd, with 300 currently in milk, secured the title with their first prize British Blue-cross bull calf, shown by regular consignee Fred Houseman.

Forward: 39 Prime cattle comprising 13 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Young Bulls, 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 22 Cast Cattle. 1,397 Prime Sheep comprising 1161 Prime Lambs, 41 Prime Hoggs & 195 Cast Ewes & Rams. 47 Rearing Calves - B&W av £73.43 Cont av £364 Native av £189. 30 Breeding Sheep.

Rearing Calves to £435 x2 (47) B&W av £73.43 Cont av £364 Native av £189 Fred Houseman of Church Farm Enterprises took the championship at the June’s calf show with a cracking British Blue bull by Genus bull Dev. The 6 ½ week old bull calf took top honours in a strong class of calves selling for £435 to Tony Binns the judge. Reserve Champion, another british blue calf but this time from Bishop Thorntons, Sowray Brothers sold away for the top price of the day at £460 to Abbott Bros of Dacre.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle. Forward: 670 head of cattle Comprising: 489 Feeding Cattle (145 Young Feeding Bulls, 48 Beef Feeding Cows, 296 Bullocks & Heifers) & 181 Breeding Cattle.