Pedigree Limousin Cattle Report

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 692 head of cattle Comprising: 607 Feeding Cattle (114 Young Bulls, 54 Beef Feeding Cows & Bulls, 439 Bullocks & Heifers) & 4 Breeding Cattle also 81 Pedigree Limousin Cattle (separate report)

MARKET REPORT – TUESDAY 11th MAY 2021. Weekly Sale of Ewes with Lambs at Foot. Forward: 632 Breeding Sheep. A flying trade today with prices increased on the week, aided by the weeks’ worth of showery rain and slightly warmer days bringing out more purchasers. Texel Hoggs with singles from E Crisp, Calton selling to £255, £252.

Forward: 40 Prime cattle comprising 10 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 29 Cast Cattle. 3,942 Prime Sheep comprising 412 Spring Lambs & 2,597 Hoggs & 933 Cast Ewes & Rams. 45 Rearing Calves. 4 Dairy.

PEDIGREE BREEDING CATTLE Top price of the day at the Craven Native Day was 2000gns ‘Yearsley Royal Lion’ a well grown Rawburn Jackson Eric son bred from one of the Yearlsey herds best cow families Yearlsey Royal Lady and shown by TA&P Johnson from Brandsby selling to Robert Gemmell.

CRAVEN NATIVE DAY Forward: 128 head of cattle Comprising: 108 Feeding Cattle, 5 Breeding Cattle & 15 Pedigree Native Cattle Native Store Cattle – A good show of Native bred store cattle with very active competition ringside. Grazing sorts well away with pens of Luing cross Galloway young yearling grazers making £685 with the over year Luings from the same home realising £930.

MARKET REPORT – TUESDAY 4th MAY 2021. May Prize Show & Sale of Geld Gimmer Hoggs & Hoggs with Lambs at Foot, together with Weekly Sale of Ewes with Lambs at Foot. Forward: 2,552 Breeding Sheep.

Bumper entry at CCM Skipton ewes and lambs highlight Stapletons taste further success as show classes return Skipton Auction Mart’s annual May breeding sheep highlight for hoggs with lambs at foot and geld gimmer hoggs attracted a large entry of 2,552 head - well over double the previous year’s turnout - with the usual excellent consignments put forward for sale to a large crowd of eager buyers. (Tues, May 4)

£2K-plus raised at CCM Skipton in memory of Hannah Brown A magnificent total of £2,240 was realised when generously donated sheep were sold at Skipton Auction Mart in memory of young farmer Hannah Brown, whose untimely death in March aged just 26 left the agricultural world in deep shock.

Forward: 31 Prime cattle comprising 15 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 16 Cast Cattle 2,163 Prime Sheep comprising 267 Spring Lambs, 1287 Hoggs & 609 Cast Ewes & Rams 25 Rearing Calves 37 Dairy

Leading honours change hands at Skipton prime cattle show Same frontrunners, though an about turn in principal honours was the order of play at Skipton Auction Mart’s May prime cattle show, when the previous month’s reserve champions, the North Craven Smith family, stepped up to clinch the title, with April victors, the Kitchings, from Threshfield, having to settle for overall runners-up slot. (Mon, May 3)

Chris Craven champion and reserve coup at Skipton prime lambs show Chris Craven, of Kexby, east of York, clinched a first-ever prime lamb championship, supplementing it for good measure with the reserve champion pen at Skipton Auction Mart’s May fixture. (Mon, May 3)

Solid demand at Downs draft dairy sale at CCM Skipton CCM Auctions added an extra fixture to its already busy Spring dairy calendar with a special draft Bank Holiday Monday sale from Keith Downs, who farms with his wife Pam and son, David, at Milnerfields Farm, Bingley. (May 3)

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle Forward: 680 head of cattle Comprising: 659 Feeding Cattle (184 Young Bulls, 55 Beef Feeding Cows & Bulls, 420 Bullocks & Heifers) & 12 Breeding Cattle & 9 Pedigree Blue Cattle.

Top Side Orion soars to 5,100gns top call at CCM Skipton Blue Wednesday highlight Dean Saunders claims championship coup on pedigree debut Two Cumbrian exhibitors making their first-ever appearances in the pedigree cattle arena at Skipton Auction Mart landed principal honours with July, 2019, bulls born just two days apart at the annual ‘Blue Wednesday’ fixture for British Blue bulls and females. (Wednesday, April 28)