Craven Dairy Auction (32 head) A healthy show of milkers present this morning with 28 tied up in shippon. Peter Baul of Bishop Thornton took top honours when judge Wick Williams picked his 28kg, 16 day calved pedigree heifer from the Ravensgate herd which went on to sell for £1650 to the judge himself. Reserve Championship went to Robert Crisp of Calton with his big framed light heifer selling to the sale high of £1700 to Alf and Andrew Townsend. Keith Downs from Bingley brought four sweet heifers, all of which looked like very durable heifers and received £1650, £1620, £1400 and £1300 for his consignments.

147 lots of Poultry; 753 lots of Nursery/Plants; 432 lots of Reclaim/Salvage; 428 lots of Machinery & 94 lots of Furniture.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle Forward – 98 head cattle & 42 Sheep/Goats:

SPECIALS LINGFIELDS FAIR SALE OF BREEDING SHEEP, GIMMER LAMBS AND RAMS. Forward: 1,417 Head Comp: 45 Rams, 1171 Gimmer Lambs & 201 Ewes.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Sheep Forward: 7,786 Head, (Store Lambs Overall av £53.09) Comp: 6,369 Store Lambs, 45 Rams, 1171 Gimmer Lambs & 201 Ewes.

Forward: 75 Prime cattle comprising 29 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 43 Cast Cattle. 4,764 Prime Sheep comprising 4,400 Prime Lambs, 364 Cast Ewes & Rams. 53 Rearing Calves B&W av £30 Cont av £257 Native av £258. 6 Loads of produce.

Welsh and Irish lead the way at Skipton working dogs autumn highlight Welsh and Irish dogs, the latter in particular, had the pick of the trade at Skipton Auction Mart’s autumn working sheep dog sale, the final seasonal fixture of 2016. (Friday, October 28) The day’s top call of 5,800gns (£6,090) fell to a November, 2014, tri-coloured bitch, Llangwm Jen, from North Wales sheep farmer and dog trainer Sion Jones, who runs Cefn Eithin Sheep Dogs in Corwen.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 515 head of cattle Comprising: 86 Young Feeding Bulls, 4 Beef Feeding Cows, 418 Bullocks & Heifers & 7 Breeding Cattle.

Huck family claim Skipton suckled calves championship At Skipton Auction Mart’s annual autumn highlight for this year’s crop of suckled calves and over year store cattle with show potential, Austwick mother and son, Janet and James Huck, presented both the champion and reserve in the 2016-born suckled calf show class. (Wed, Oct 26) The champion was a Blonde heifer, out of a three-quarter Limousin cow, sired by Shapfell Esquire, which made £1,240 when selling to Thomson Bros, of Pickering. The Hucks’ reserve champion, another Blonde, sold for £1,180 to Edwards Farm Butchers in Burnley.

MARKET REPORT – TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER 2016 Good trade for all classes of stock on sale today. Rams saw an 85% clearance rate. FORWARD: 258 Breeding Sheep & Rams.

Forward: 78 Prime cattle comprising 21 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 5 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 52 Cast Cattle. 3,819 Prime Sheep comprising 3,285 Prime Lambs, 526 Cast Ewes & 8 Rams. 83 Rearing Calves. 18 Dairy Cattle.

83 Rearing Calves & 18 Dairy Cattle: Craven Dairy Auction (18 head) A changeable sort of trade today with good heifers selling away well with Brian Moorhouse of Bell Busk topping the day’s trade with his Pedigree heifer giving 32kg and from the Aireburn Miss America family went on to sell for £1850 to Stephen and Eddie Jeanes, Glusburn. Another heifer from Hesper Farm went on to sell for £1750, which had been calved just 10 days and giving 27kgs sold to Brian Blezard of Hothersall Hall Farm.

Another Lawson Jazz heifer hits the high notes at Craven Dairy Auction The Lawson family’s Newbirks pedigree Holstein herd at Mill Farm, Arthington, landed its fifth Craven Dairy Auction title of the year at Skipton Auction Mart’s main October Craven Dairy Auction.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs and Breeding Sheep Forward: 7,399 Head, Overall av £55.88 A great entry of lambs met with a strong trade as buyers were out on force looking for both short keep and long keep lambs. Still a few pens of good drawn gimmers in the sale, making prices £75 to £95, whilst the 4,300 Lowland bred lambs (Texel, Suff, Beltex, Charollais) saw strong and smart lowland bred stores on the day around £64-£72. Medium keep lambs were keenly contested being £60-£63 whilst long keep types were £54-£59. A few pens of small lambs in the 40’s.

DALESBRED SHEEP SALE Top price today was a shearling ram consigned by Messrs JT&J Kelsall of Clapham, which was bred by a Capstick tup out of a Haygarth bred ewe, which sold to Messrs R Jackson & Son of Horton in Ribblesdale for 260gns. Also matching 260gns was the second prize shearling ram from JM Wilson & Son of Beckwithshaw, which was sired by a homebred tup and sold to Martin Brown of Ramsgill. Champion was Trevor & Joe Stoneys shearling ram which was sired by a Huddleston ram and bred from a Longton bred ewe made 80gns. 84% clearance rate.