MARKET REPORT – MONDAY 1st DECEMBER 2014 Forward: 78 Prime cattle comprising Clean Cattle 3 (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 73 Cast Cattle. 3,359 Prime Sheep comprising 2,906 Prime Lambs, 453 Cast Ewes & Rams. 92 Rearing Calves (inc Christmas Show). 6 Loads of produce. Todays Sale incorporated the Christmas Prize Shows and Sales of Rearing Calves, Cast Cattle and Cast Sheep. All sections were very well supported and the prize awards and prices are contained within the following report.

Skipton Christmas cull shows popular Annual Christmas shows for cull cows and ewes again featured in the festive line-up at Skipton Auction Mart. Cull cow champion was Brian Lund, of Walshaw Farm, Walshaw, Hebden Bridge, with a home-bred pure 41-month-old Parthenais by the Genus sire Atomic that went on to head the selling prices at £1,361, or 186.5p/kg, when bought by show judge Ross Greenwood, of Carleton. He also paid £1,205, or 155.5p/kg, for his chosen reserve champion, the second prize Continental cow, another Parthenais from M Bentham, of Thornton, Bradford.

The 7th Annual Craven Lingfield Christmas Primestock Show (Updated report with prices and buyers) FORWARD – 35 Prime Cattle 273 Butchers Lambs 40 Lamb Carcasses 35 Prime Pigs

Huntley’s buys reserve champion prime lambs for Christmas Huntley’s Country Stores in Samlesbury will be serving up top-notch prime lamb cuts in its butchery department this Christmas after the award-winning Whalley Road outlet snapped up the reserve supreme champions in the annual Christmas prime lamb show at Skipton Auction Mart. (Sun, Nov 30) The trio of 41kg Beltex-cross lambs, first prize winners in the 40kg or more Continental-cross trimmed class, were shown by Ian and Mary Lancaster, of Coldcoats Farm, Wiswell, in the shadow of Pendle Hill, and their 14-year-old son Richard, who attends Ribblesdale High School in Clitheroe.

FAWCETT FAMILY TRIUMPH AT SKIPTON CHRISTMAS PRIME BEEF SHOWCASE As supreme champion buyer Keelham Farm Shop makes history History was made at Skipton Auction Mart’s prestigious Christmas show and sale of prime cattle when Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton, Bradford, paid a show-topping £3,164, or £5.60 per kilo, for the supreme champion to make it an unprecedented clean sweep of 12 successive prime beef title-winning purchases at every single monthly show this year.

Forward: 65 Prime cattle comprising 3 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 5 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 55 Cast Cattle 5,026 Prime Sheep comprising 4,642 Prime Lambs, 384 Cast Ewes & Rams 72 Rearing Calves 43 Dairy Cattle inc Christmas Show 6 Loads of produce

Forward: 49 Prime cattle comprising 6 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 43 Cast Cattle 5,102 Prime Sheep comprising 4,705 Prime Lambs, 397 Cast Ewes & Rams 31 Rearing Calves 4 Loads of produce

Forward: 58 Prime cattle comprising 8 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 6 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 51 Cast Cattle. 5,154 Prime Sheep comprising 4,817 Prime Lambs, 337 Cast Ewes & Rams 75 Rearing Calves 31 Dairy Cattle 6 Loads of produce A packed market full of livestock at CCM Skipton today with all three selling rings in operation and nearly every pen was used at some stage in the day with stock for sale. There were 309 different sellers and buyers present in the mart successfully trading away, so take a look at today’s report then bring your stock next week to Skipton.

Forward: 76 Prime cattle comprising 17 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 56 Cast Cattle. 5,037 Prime Sheep comprising 4506 Prime Lambs, 531 Cast Ewes & Rams. 43 Rearing Calves. 4 Loads of produce.

Forward: 53 Prime cattle comprising 2 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 53 Cast Cattle 4,789 Prime Sheep comprising 4174 Prime Lambs, 615 Cast Ewes & Rams 59 Rearing Calves 22 Dairy Cattle 2 Load of produce

Forward: 30 Prime cattle comprising 7 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 22 Cast Cattle 4,147 Prime Sheep comprising 3,581 Prime Lambs, 566 Cast Ewes & Rams 76 Rearing Calves 1 Load of Produce

Forward: 68 Prime cattle comprising 3 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Young Bull & 64 Cast Cattle 4,176 Prime Sheep comprising 3940 Prime Lambs, 236 Cast Ewes & Rams 85 Rearing Calves 33 Dairy Cattle 2 Loads of produce

Forward: 51 Prime cattle comprising 4 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 46 Cast Cattle 1843 Prime Sheep comprising 1718 Prime Lambs, 125 Cast Ewes & Rams 95 Rearing Calves 3 Loads of produce

Another prime time Skipton double for Keelham Farm Shop A West Yorkshire farm shop is well on its way to buying every single prime cattle champion at Skipton Auction Mart’s monthly shows in 2014 – and is not that far behind in purchasing the monthly prime lamb champions. James Robertshaw, co-owner of Keelham Farm Shop in Brighouse and Denholme Road, Thornton, Bradford, made it an unprecedented clean sweep of monthly prime cattle title winners so far this year when securing the title winner.

Forward: 52 Prime cattle comprising 9 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 42 Cast Cattle. 6,105 Prime Sheep comprising 5,079 Prime Lambs, 1,026 Cast Ewes & Rams. 94 Rearing Calves. Dairy Cattle. 4 Loads of produce.