CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle A strong demand for grazing cattle, with 33 separate buyers on the book. Cattle to suit all preferences from suckler bred to out laid dairy and beef crosses and a number of beef breeding families which topped at £1500 for RJ Scholefield of Wainstalls for an Aberdeen Angus cow with a Blonde x steer calf. Forward – Head: 149 Cattle & 16 Sheep & Goats

Forward: 54 Prime cattle comprising 15 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 36 Cast Cattle 1,879 Prime Sheep comprising 1472 Spring Lambs, 141 Old Season Lambs & Mature Hoggs, 266 Cast Ewes & Rams 67 Breeding Sheep 65 Rearing Calves

Rearing Calves to £515 B&W av £65 Cont av £386.39 Native av £241 £515 was the top price of the day for the Champion calf from the Sowray Brothers of Bishop Thornton, the calf which was 6 ½ Weeks old was bred By Brennand General (A Bull bred JC Walker & Son, Dunsop Bridge) sold to Andrew Houseman of Harrogate. The Sowray’s also saw their first price heifer reach £450 selling to Nigel Garth, Addingham. A handy number of calves were on show today for the Summer Calf Show with Tony Binns of Clint doing the Judging Honours. British Blue bulls saw the best of the trade with 11 over £400 and averaging £406.92. Heifers again were a pleasure to sell with Continental heifers averaging £371, with Suckler buyers bidding fiercly for replacement heifers.

Sowray Bros 2017 hat-trick at Skipton rearing calf show Prolific Skipton Auction Mart rearing calf champions, the Sowray brothers, of Bishop Thornton, rattled up another title at the June show, making it a hat-trick of championship successes for the year after previous wins in February and April.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 439 head of cattle Comprising: 88 Young Feeding Bulls, 42 Beef Feeding Cows, 280 Bullocks & Heifers, & 57 Breeding Cattle.

Craven Dairy Auction (18 head) A cracking trade for milkers today with all selling to a strong trade, Mark Smith of Winterburn had the pick of the trade with his homebred heifer reaching £2020 to Mark Goodall of Tong with Brian Moorhouse watching his heifer also hit the £2,000 mark which headed to Ribchester with Brian Blezard.

Forward: 98 Prime cattle comprising 25 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 71 Cast Cattle including 4 Cast Bulls. 1,721 Prime Sheep comprising 1,270 Spring Lambs, 258 Old Season Lambs & Mature Sheep, 191 Cast Ewes & Rams. 22 Breeding Sheep. 45 Rearing Calves. 16 Dairy Cattle

Reigning champions retain titles at Skipton prime shows Defending champions retained their titles at Skipton Auction Mart’s June prime shows, with the Critchley family from Hutton, near Preston, winning the prime cattle championship for an unprecedented fourth consecutive month and Neil Tattersall, from Ellerton, York, returning to again lead the way with his prime lambs. (Mon, June 5)

Commercials in command at Craven Dairy Auction Commercial newly calven heifers bagged the leading honours at Skipton Auction Mart’s opening June Craven Dairy Auction, with the championship awarded to the first prize winner from Bingley’s Keith Downs and the reserve going to the runner-up from Addingham Moorside’’s Mark Stapleton. (Mon, June 5)

Forward: 21 Prime cattle comprising 14 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 6 Cast Cattle 1,211 Prime Sheep comprising 570 Spring Lambs, 489 Old Season Lambs, 152 Cast Ewes & Rams 532 Breeding Sheep 36 Rearing Calves

A very good show of 215 outfits with 319 lambs at foot forward for the weekly sale which incorporated the Annual Show & Sale of Single Sheep with Lambs at foot. Hill sheep were kindly judged by Mr Charles Kitching, whilst lowland sheep were judged by Mr R Donaldson and Mr Howard Kitching.

John Bland four-timer at Skipton ewes with lambs show Skipton Auction Mart’s late season bank holiday show and sale of single ewes with lambs at foot is a happy hunting ground for Derbyshire’s John Bland, who notched up a notable achievement in the hill sheep section when winning it for an unprecedented fourth year in succession. (Mon, May 29)

Beef Breeding Cattle The drinks were on Oddacres Landlord at the final multibreed showdown of CCM’s Pedigree month. Terry and Elaine Priestely’s charge purchased from John and Claire Mason’s, Oddacres Herd and has been used on the pedigree Limousin “Prietec” Herd, the 2015 Gallois Son was picked out by judge Andrew Fisher before selling to David White of Horton In Ribblesdale.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 801 head of cattle Comprising: 202 Young Feeding Bulls, 38 Beef Feeding Cows, 490 Bullocks & Heifers, & 52 Breeding Cattle plus 19 Pedigree Beef Cattle.

Landlord sets bar with championship and top price double at Skipton multi-breed beef showcase Terry and Elaine Priestley, who run the Prietec pedigree Limousin herd at Lane House Farm, Mewith, near Bentham, were crowned supreme champions at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual multi-breeds show and sale of beef breeding cattle. (Wed, May 24)