MONDAY 18th AUGUST
FORWARD
67 PRIME CATTLE inc 56 Feeding Cattle
3087 PRIME SHEEP inc 2801 Lambs & Cull Ewes
37 DAIRY
68 CALVES
PRIME CATTLE:
CULL COWS - Good trade for cull cows. A Gawthorpe (Chellow Heights Farm) sent out the leading price per head, a Black & White cow which came to £918.
Holstein Friesian Cows, dry and well fleshed, were able to make 115p with ease.
Over thirty month steers to 126p (HW Bell & Son) and Black & White OTMS heifers to 111p/kg to FA Holmes & Son (Pool).
Overall average for cows 99.3
OTMS heifers 108.24
OTMS steers 124.00
CLEAN CATTLE & YOUNG BULLS - Andrew Greenwood from Great Hammerton continues to top the finished bulls at 152p. Increasing numbers of Aberdeen Angus cattle in the market saw DW Hardy of Barkisland achieve the leading price at 131p.
Bulls Hvy to 152 Top Price from A Greenwood, Kirkhammerton
Steers Hvy to 115 Top Price from DW Hardy, Barkisland
Cull Cows: Contx to 115 av 108.3
B/W to 115 av 97.8
PRIME SHEEP:
Numbers over the last 5 weeks have been very consistent with once again just over 3,000 head forwrd for sale. A very sharp trade, nearly 5p/kg dearer on the week. Commercial sheep 40kg plus, easily sold at £10-£15 over the weight and butcher's lambs at £20 to £25 over. A larger number of mule lambs at 115-120p/kg and light Swaledales 110-115p. Todays Top Spots: 15 pens over £60 each, including WM Hall, Grassington with Texels at £68.50, JH Throup, Silsden Moor with Texels at £68,, ST Foster, Newfield Grange with Suffolks at £65, EJ Fort, Silsden Moor with Texels at £64.80 and J Turner, Draughton with Texels at £64. Also Mules at £55.50 from FW Eddington, Bell Busk & £55 from WM Hall, Grassington. Gritstones to £52.80 from A Guy & Son, Elslack and Horned Lambs £50 from WM Hall, Grassington.
Cast Sheep: a shortage of heavy ewes, but light ewes with a reasonable rub of meat were easily sold. Best Swales £25-£32, second quality £18-£23.
CALVES:
Black & White Bull calves holding up reasonably well to average £39.55 despite lack of export markets (top price Richard Spence £146). Angus Dean led the Continental bulls with a British Blue at £268. Heir=fers were in great demand, the Limousin average of £182 confirming that more calves are required to meet the demand (top price JI & MP Greenwood £222)
Limousin Bull Calf to 198 Limousin Heifer Calf to 222
British Blue Bull Calf to 268
Simmental Bull Calf to 250 Simmental Heifer Calf to 164
Friesian to 146
Top Price and Calf of the Week £268, British Blue Calf, AL Dean & Son, Threshfield.
DAIRY:
A quality show, with a particularly strong class of newly calven heifers gave judge David Calvert a difficult task. However his champion, a home bred "Smellows" heifer for Jeremy Taylor, Broughton topped the sale at £2100. Generally, trade slightly easier, following the national trend, but good heifers consistently sold for between £1600 and £1800. Good, high yielding young cows still sought after, with a top of 1800 from Malcolm Swires.
Jeremy Taylor, Broughton took the championship a the August Show with Smellows Buddlia 5, a Feb 06 home bred heifer by Smellows , with her grandson from the Fortland Herd, and impressive figures behind her, she topped the sale at £2100, to G Abbot & Sons, Dacre. Jeremy's third placed heifer realised 1880, whilst Malcolm Swire's second placed heifer sold to E Moss, Congleton for 1820.
Best of the new calved cows were presented by T & E Simpson which Messrs Abbots purchased for 1800.
PRIZE AWARDS:
New Calved Heifer 1/3 JE Taylor
2 M Swires
New Calved Cows 1 T & E Simpson
2/3 M Swires
In Calf Heifer 1 JW Pickard & Son
2 J Moore
3 JR & EL Mawson
New Calved Heifer 1st quality to 2100 av 1770
2nd quality to 1400 av 1234
New Calved Cow to 1800 av 1348
In Calf Heifer to 1100 av 1000
WEDNESDAY 13th AUGUST
FORWARD
314 STORE CATTLE
inc 97 Young Bulls
57 Steers
130 Heifers
30 Head of Suckler Cattle
YOUNG BULLS
A good quality show met with terrific demand helped with additional custmers at the ringside who were previously in clear areas. Stronger bull all £800 plus upto £902, whilst smaller bulls were easily traded. Continental x young bulls averaged £688.27. Potential vendors are strongly recommended to take advantage of the current trade.
Lim to 902 (678)
British Blue to 840 (754)
Charolais to 820 (730)
Simmental to 870 (654)
Blonde to 800 (689)
Angus to 625 (415)
Top price C Nelson & Sons, Bordley
STORE CATTLE
A hugh ringside of buyers were present and produced a marvellous trade for Store Cattle. There were may highlights with 52 bullocks and heifers selling over £700 and a further 43 head at between £600 adn £700, giving an overall average of £602.76 for all sold. Top spot of £970 was paid to JM & DE wood, Horton-in-Ribblesdale for a wonderful White British Blue Bullock. A new cash prize has been introduced at the fortnightly sale for the highest priced pens of 3 or more bullocks and heifers. Prizes were awarded as follows:-
Top priced pen of 3 or more bullocks
1st TE Ridding, Kirkby Lonsdale 3 Charolais x at £878
2nd TE Ridding, Kirkby Lonsdale 3 Charolais x at £875
Top priced pen of 3 or more heifers
1st E Simpson & Son, Pateley Bridge 5 Limousin x at £732
2nd T Lohan, Riddlesden 3 British Blue at £702
STEERS
Limousin to 855 (589)
British Blue to 970 (621)
Charolais to 878 (776)
Simmental to 795 (565)
Angus to 642
Hereford to 400
Friesian to 472 (466)
Top price JM & DE Wood, Horton-in-Ribblesdale
Top priced pen of 3 or more bullocks
1st TE Ridding, Kirkby Lonsdale 3 Charolais x at £878
2nd TE Ridding, Kirkby Lonsdale 3 Charolais x at £875
HEIFERS
Limousin to 860 (593)
British Blue to 905 (681)
Charolais to 698 (550)
Simmental to 882 (532)
Blonde to 812 (615)
Saler to 400
Angus 805 (526)
Top price AN Throup, Silsden
Top priced pen of 3 or more heifers
1st E Simpson & Son, Pateley Bridge 5 Limousin x at £732
2nd T Lohan, Riddlesden 3 British Blue at £702
SUCKLER BREEDING CATTLE
Lim x Hfr + Lim x Str 940
Lim x hfrs + Lim Bull Calf 900
Lim x Cow BB Bull Calf to 1220
Here x Cow + Lim x Hfr to 860
BB x Cow + Lim x Hfr to 840
Lim x in-calf Cow due Sept 760
Lim x in-calf Cow due Oct 720
Top price B Rathmell, Halifax 1220
MONDAY 11th AUGUST
FORWARD
83 PRIME CATTLE inc 69 Feeding Cattle & 6 OCDS
3036 PRIME SHEEP inc 2566 Lambs & 470 Cull Ewes
77 CALVES
PRIME CATTLE
A shortage of smart cattle for retail customers, Aberdeen Angus heifers 150p/Kg twice from GM & SC Pickles, Laycock to Ross Greenwood, Carleton and Dick Binns, Saltaire. If you have cattle to sell please contact Jeremy Eaton.
Strs Med to 145 (141.5)
Hvy to 142
Top price DW Hardy, Barkisland
Hfrs Hvy to 150 (147.1)
Top price GM & SC Pickles, Laycock
CULL COWS
Numbers increasing and a firm average of 99.39p/Kg for 69.
Top value £856 for a Holstein Cow from GB Moorhouse, Bell Busk whilst highest price B & W Cow per Kg was MJC & VA Staveley, Eshton at 116p. Top price per Kg 118p a Limousin Cow sold by Messrs T & A Hird of Yockenthwaite. Highest price over thirty months heifer 127p/Kg J Butler, Newhay. Good to see two additional cow buyers at the ringside with the change in Blue Tongue Protection Zone doundaries and a strong demand for the plainer types.
Cont x to 118 (105)
Native to 98 (93.5)
B/W to 116 (96.6)
PRIME SHEEP
Another show of over 3000 head of sheep were forward for sale at Skipton on Monday, and like other sections customers returned to the ringside with the helpful changes to the blue tongue zones. All sections were dearer on the week, up 5p/Kg to level at 124.36p/Kg for 2566 lambs. Several notable prices J Clay, Draughton sold 6 Texel lambs at 149.2p/Kg to Nick Dalby. Jeremy Taylor of JD Taylor & Son, Broughton sold 6 Texels at 147.6p/Kg, Harry Raw, Eastburn sold Suffolk x lambs at 133.3p/Kg. Top price of £65 was acheived twice by C & GA Guy, Colne and AL Dean & Sons, Threshfield. Also at £64 JM Townsend, Laneshawbridge. Cast sheep were froward in droves, 470 head altogether and were easily cashed upto £65 from DG Boothman, Halton East.
Note for Vendors
Even with large numbers of sheep, todays sale commenced at 1.30pm and finished at 4.25pm.
Lambs to 32Kg to 116 (112.3)
35Kg to 134 (116.5)
45Kg to 149 (124.9)
52Kg to 141 (126.4)
Top price £65 AL Dean & Son, Theshfield & C & GA Guy & Son, Colne or 149p/Kg J Clay, Draughton
Suffolk to 133 (120)
Texel to 149 (126.3)
Mule to 120 (113.4)
Ewes to £65 (24.21)
Swaledale to 29
Mule to 42
Texel to 65
Suffolk to 46
Cheviot to 31
BFL to 52.50
Lleyn to 45
Rams to 54
CALVES
Increased numbers with the welcome return of a number of previously clear area buyers and vendors. A good run of calves from D & C Cockburn Bros, Warsill peaked at £260 for a Limousin bull and £204 for a Limousin heifer. Roger Wright of RL Wright & Sons, Airton sold a useful British Blue Bull calf at £260. Black and White bull calves without the alternative of the export market were reasonably good to sell with an average of £21 - 49 with only a handful failing to make in excess of bobby price.
Lim Bulls to 260 Hfrs to 204
British Blue Bulls to 260
Simmental Hfrs to 188
Angus Hfrs to 140
Friesian Bulls to 100
Top price & calves of the week Lim Bull/British Blue Bull £260 D & C Cockburn & RL Wright & Sons.
Friesian Bull Stirks 228
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