MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY 2014 Forward: 1095 head of cattle Comprising: 408 Young Feeding Bulls, 680 Bullocks & Heifers, 7 Breeding Cattle A great show of cattle at Skipton to start the new year, with 150 head more sold than in 2013 and surprisingly the overall average up by £15 per head on the year. The bulls were good to sell with clients cramming the ringside, whilst as the end of the day, the ringside was still 2 or 3 deep with customers ensuring a good level right to the end. It was a mammoth sale but the last pen was sold at 5.37pm.

MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 8TH JANAURY 2014 PRESS A mammoth entry of 1,095 head of cattle produced a bovine bounty not seen since the late 1990s at Skipton Auction Mart’s opening Great New Year cattle sale, with the beef ring packed to the gunnels all day long from the first sale at 9.30am right through until the final hammer fell at 5.37pm.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2014 CALF SHOW Forward : 135 Rearing Calves to £500 av £209.55 B&W av £115 Cont av £305 Native av £195 Mesrs A Sowray & Son, Bishop Thornton started 2014 in fine style wining bothe Championship and Reserve. Their champion the first prize British Blue Bull a 34 day old calf by Fleuron sold to Lincolnshire buyers N&M Mason for £470. The reserve champion consigned from Mesrs Sowray was also awarded the first prize in the British Blue heifer calf and the 33 day old calf by a Norbreck Greenhill sire joined South Yorks buyer S Vodden for £350.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2014 93 Prime cattle comprising 12 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 2 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 79 Cast Cattle 2,381 Prime sheep comprising 2,115 Prime Lambs, 261 Cast Ewes & Rams 135 Rearing calves 6 Loads of produce

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 6TH JANUARY PRESS CALVES The new rearing calf year at Skipton Auction Mart began as it had ended at January’s opening show and sale when brothers Shaun and Peter Sowray, of Bowes Green Farm, Bishop Thornton, followed up on their championship success at the final show of 2013.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2014 PRESS Brand-new year, brand-new prime cattle and lamb champions and trade branded as “strong throughout” all combined to make the opening primestock shows of 2014 at Skipton Auction Mart a runaway success. (Mon, Jan 6)