78 Rearing Calves to £410 X2: B&W av £60.11 Cont av £325.48 Native av £195.48. Dairy Cattle: 1st Quality Heifers: av £1720 to £2020: 2nd Quality Newly Heifer: av £1320 to £1380.

Forward – 102 head cattle: 19 Bulls & 83 Bullocks & heifers. 20 Sheep & Goats. 300 lots of Plants/Trees/Shrubs. 103 lots of Furniture. 542 lots of Reclaim & Stone. 705 lots of Machinery.

Another super Saturday at CCM Skipton Skipton Auction Mart’s latest monthly Saturday livestock collective sales and Agri-Trader auctions of machinery, reclaim and salvage, furniture and collectives again created widespread interest and a solid turnout of hundreds of vendors and prospective purchasers. (March 11) The machinery section was particularly well supported, with a total of 705 lots offered for sale, topping at £2,000 for an Arctic Cat quad bike, while a cow catcher caught the eye at £1,900, followed by a Honda quad bike at £1,700, a feeder trailer at £1,500, an IW flat trailer and a Toyota Landcruiser, which both made £1,400.

Breeding Sheep (314) Numbers on the rise quickly with 2 Alley’s full of ewes with lambs at foot presented for sale. Richard Umpleby had top price of £208 per outfit for Texels with twins. Anything with strong lambs was keenly contested. A run of correct mule ewes with twin Charollais lambs around two – three weeks old selling at £180 - £190 the outfit, from James and Deborah Ogden, Austwick. Sheep with younger lambs also selling well , but the premium prices are for sheep with slightly older lambs.

Forward: 55 Prime cattle comprising Clean Cattle 21 (under 30 mos), 4 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 30 Cast Cattle. 4116 Prime Sheep comprising 3,703 Prime Hoggs, 413 Cast Ewes & Rams. 40 Rearing Calves. 11 Loads of produce.

Prime sheep show produces great prices at Skipton Skipton Auction Mart saw a much larger entry of sheep for its prime show and sale this month with over 4,100 penned for sale, on Monday, March 6. James Towler, of Grindleton, was awarded champion pen by show judge Luke Swales. His home-bred Texel-cross lambs scaled 39kg and sold for £120 per head to the judge for his family shop, Knavesmire Butchers in York. The judge also picked up the third prize Continental pen, from Tim Robinson, Longridge, Preston, for £110.

MARKET REPORT – WEDNESDAY 1st MARCH 2017. Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Beef Feeding Cows, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle, Forward: 708 head of cattle, Comprising: 223 Young Feeding Bulls, 18 Beef Feeding Cows, 461 Bullocks & Heifers, & 6 Breeding Cattle

Craven Dairy Auction (31 head) A small show of milkers today but a boat load of buyers for them. Milkers found some fierce bidding with Peter Baul’s week calved heifer topping proceedings at £1720 giving 25 litres. Incalf cattle were good to sell with D&P Brown of Ramsgill seeing their heifer top the section at £1250 with Duncan Holme next at £1180. Incalf cows from the Brown family of Earby found their 6th Calver incalf cows harder to place topping at £720.

An increased entry of Ewes with Lambs @ foot for this week’s sale attracted a larger ringside of buyers a similar trade was also see to the week before. Best single outfits equivalent of £75-£90 per life. Best twins £65 per life and commercial types £50-£60 per life. Top price for twins today was £200 for a correct Charlollais x Ewe with Beltex lambs from Stephen Pepper of Oxenhope, the same vendor sold Beltex x Charollais Ewes with single Cont x lambs for £180. Messrs Shepherd of Pateley Bridge sold Suffolk ewes with singles for £160 and texel ewes with twins for £180 on two occasions. Richard Umpleby of Killinghall sold two pens of Suffolk ewes with twins for £180.

Forward: 92 Prime cattle comprising 20 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 69 Cast Cattle. 2,703 Prime Sheep comprising 2392 Prime Hoggs, 311 Cast Ewes & Rams. 92 Breeding Sheep. 45 Rearing Calves. 31 Dairy Cattle. 10 Loads of produce.

Peter Baul bags first Craven Dairy Auction title of 2017 Peter Baul’s Ravensgate pedigree Holstein Friesian dairy herd bagged its first Craven Dairy Auction championship of the year at the main February show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart. (Mon, Feb 27)

Pup sets new record price of 2,000gns at Skipton working dogs sale Ireland leads the way, as broken dogs sell to 4,700gns A 4,700gns (£4,935) top call for a broken dog and a 2,000gns (£2,100) new record high for a youngster sold in the unbroken pup pen were the dual highlights of another highly successful working sheep dog sale, the annual winter and opening 2017 fixture at Skipton Auction Mart. (Fri, Feb 24)

Forward: 493 Head, 419 Store Lambs & 74 Breeding Sheep. Overall av £54.26................... Last Wednesday Sale saw a healthy trade for most lambs through the ring with some strong prices right the way through the sale. The long keep lambs looked the strongest trade of the day with short term lambs topping at £68 for some Texel lambs from Ian Mounsey with Texel gimmer lambs topping the day at £82 from D Sayer, Threshfield.

Sowrays on song again in Skipton rearing calf arena Prolific Skipton Auction Mart rearing calf champions, the Sowray dairy farming family, landed yet another title at the February show and sale with their first prize British Blue-cross heifer calf that also went on to make top price in the sale ring of £490. (Mon, Feb 20)

Forward: 47 Prime cattle comprising 18 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 28 Cast Cattle 2,929 Prime Sheep comprising 2515 Prime Hoggs, 414 Cast Ewes & Rams. 64 Breeding & Store Sheep. 90 Rearing Calves. 13 Loads of produce.