Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle.
Forward: 367 head of cattle
Comprising: 360 Feeding Cattle (47 Young Bulls, 58 Beef Feeding Cows & Bulls, 255 Bullocks & Heifers) & 7 Breeding Cattle.
Feeding Bulls – 70% of todays entry 2021 calves and a good trade. January, February and March calves £1100 if shapey and in forward condition. Smaller end of the entry £950 to £1050 and the very youngest calves £900. Calves in hard natural condition generally £800-£900. The few late autumn 2020 bulls in the entry tended toward the leaner condition and were £1100 to £1200.
Feeding Cows – a good entry of cows and competition strong for cattle to finish and sell in the New Year. One or two special cows in the entry with Limousins to £1780 from R Holroyd. Cast bulls also well sold with a 2012 Limousin at £1470 from WP&B Walker & Son.
Stores - similar again on the previous sale with flesh and power in very high demand. Best ended suckler bred feeding steers £1350-£1420 with a few real big sorts of Lims £1420-£1500. Top price steer from JW Stockdale & Sons, Burnsall at £1500. Nicely bred 12–14-month Lim and Blue steers regular £920-£1050 with some outstanding goods £1100-£1220. Continental heifers with retail spec ends and wide loins about them met a fierce trade ringside with 6 beasts selling from £1500-£1620. Top price of £1620 from R Holroyd, Hebden Bridge. Good retail spec cattle with flesh and size £1300-£1420 nice feeders bit leaner or not just as large meeting a trade around £1180-£1250 with some 12–14-month Lims selling £1020-£1120. Dairy bred blue bullocks selling up-to £1390 from KM&L Throup, Silsden Moor. Size and flesh dairy bred blue bullocks £1200-£1350 and nice feeding sorts £1140-£1220. Some smaller goods £920-£1070. Blue heifers a solid trade again with size and flesh £1075-£1160. Feeding goods £1050+ and dairy bred hard farmed growers £730-£900. Sim bullocks sold to £1200 from N&J Thwaite, Hellifield. A nice show of Natives forward for the 2nd Sale of Native cattle. Both growers and feeders all met an exceptional trade, D&J Coates, Coniston Cold sold Angus bullocks to £1325. Flesh and size £1200-£1245. Good lean feeders £1080-£1160. Some soggy 14 month bullocks either side of £1000 and 6 month old suckled calves £650. Char X Suckled steer calves 9/10 month old sold at £845-£975 from Fleets Farms, Rylstone. Young Suckled Heifer Calves in nice demand and more needed for clients looking to winter cattle.
NEXT SALE – WEDNESDAY 8th DECEMBER 2021.
**CHRISTMAS SHOW & SALE**
Classes for Best Bull, Best Cow, Best Heifer & Bullock.
450 HEAD comprising 100 Young Bulls, 50 Beef Bred feeding Cows,
300 Bullocks and Heifers & Breeding Cattle
Catalogue Entries close 4pm Wednesday 1st December
Prices and Averages
Young Bulls Continental x average £988, Native average £934
Limousin x (Av £985)
£1230 T&LM Goad; £1180 Turner Farms; £1175 JB&AH Coates; £1160 £1150 £1135 DW&CJ Towler; £1140 JR Fothergill; £1110 Turner Farms;
Brit Blue x (Av £965)
£965 T&S Blades;
Blonde (Av £1080)
£1080 T Atkinson;
Pathanaise (Av £938)
£950 £935 £930 R&E Pollard;
Shorthorn (Av £1063)
£1100 £1055 £1035 Bob Lancaster;
Beef Bred Feeding Cows av £888 Bulls av £1396
Simmental to £925 av £661
Limousin to £1780 av £976
Blonde to £1050
AA to £1020 av £896
Shorthorn to £1010 av £966
Devon to £870
Brit Blue to £905 av £1090
Charolais to £780
Hereford to £875 av £737
AA Bull to £1260
Lim Bull to £1470 av £1465
Top prices - £1780 £1700 R Holroyd; £1610 £1180 L Driver; £1470 WP&B Walker; £1460 DW&CJ Towler; £1260 M Ryder; £1180 J Barrett; £1150 AJ Haggas;
Store Bullocks – Continental x average £1148, Native average £969
Charollais (Av £954)
£1420 G&R Bulmer; £1220 B Mellin; £975 £895 £880 £845 Fleets Farm; £875 WJ&M Greenwood;
Simmental x (Av £1078)
£1200 N&J Thwaite; £1045 B Mellin; £990 Beeston Hall Farm;
Limousin x (Av £1194)
£1500 £1460 JW Stockdale; £1490 £1340 P&E Fox; £1480 £1450 £1440 F&A Walmsley; £1380 G&R Bulmer; £1340 B Mellin;
Ab Angus (Av £1030)
£1325 £1245 £1240 D&J Coates; £1200 J&C Wright; £1175 £1160 B Mellin; £1120 JA&JC Throup; £1070 SR&DJ Petty; £990 J&JA Preston;
Saler x (Av £1020)
£1020 Beeston Hall;
Brit Blue x (Av £1220)
£1410 P&E Fox; £1390 £1260 £1235 KM&L Throup; £1370 £1350 £1335 £1285 DT&LA Houseman; £1280 £1255 Whalley Corn Mills;
Hereford (Av £966)
£1110 £1085 JA&JC Throup; £840 £460 T Walker;
Shorthorn (Av £907)
£1140 £950 New York Farms; £1045 RH&EA Close; £700 DC&T Wood;
B&W (Av £730)
£1070 JA&JC Throup; £680 £610 A^SL Throup;
Store Heifers – Continental x average £1013, Native average £941
Charollais x (Av £885)
£1120 D&A Livestock; £950 Beeston Hall Farm; £870 £840 £840 Fleets Farms; £710 WJ&M Greenwood;
Simmental (Av £1145)
£1290 N&J Thwaite; £1000 WM&JE Shuttleworth;
Limousin x (Av £1028)
£1570 JH Throup; £1540 £1500 R Holroyd; £1510 £1470 JW Stockdale; £1505 £1450 M Ryder & Son; £1400 P&E Fox; £1400 G&R Bulmer;
Blonde (Av £1105)
£1120 £1090 JH Throup;
Ab Angus (Av £999)
£1130 JT Dobson; £1080 D&J Coates; £1010 £935 FG Throup;
Hereford (Av £860)
£1140 G&R Bulmer; £890 HJ&KL Blackwell; £800 T Walker; £730 RD Shaw;
Brit Blue x (Av £1010)
£1620 R Holroyd; £1200 £1100 R&M Towell; £1160 £1110 £1075 BF Blezard; £1050 G&R Bulmer; £900 S&D Robinson;
7 BREEDING CATTLE
AA Cow Incalf to £1050
Blue Hfr with Lim Calf to £1680
BSH Hfr with AA Calf to £1760
CONTACT DETAILS
Skipton Auction Mart
Gargrave Road
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 1UD
Tel 01756 792375
Jeremy Eaton 07747 780481
Ted Ogden 07855 958211
Kyle Hawksworth 07538 539077