MARKET REPORT - SATURDAY 14TH DECEMBER 2013 INLAMB BELTEX & TEXELS CHRISTMAS POULTRY SHOW COLLECTIVE CATTLE

MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2013 Forward: 2330 Head Av £54.57 The fortnightly sale produced a good end to the year. A large crowd of purchasers decended upon Skipton to source store lambs with grass in good supply country wide. The entry was made up generally of long keep lambs and these found favour with buyers, The strong lowland lambs generally mid £60’s, medium lambs £58 to £62 and the smaller sorts in the early £50’s.

MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2013 PRESS MULES RAISE MONEY FOR MANORLANDS The seventh annual charity sheep show and sale of predominantly Mule wether lambs staged by Addingham & District Sheep Breeders’ Association at Skipton Auction Mart raised a resounding £4,500 for Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice in Oxenhope, Keighley.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2013 40 PRIME CATTLE comprising 7 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 3 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos), 4 Young Bulls & 26 Cast Cattle 4,111 PRIME SHEEP comprising 3,774 Prime Lambs, 337 Cast Ewes & Rams 70 REARING CALVES 1 LOADS OF PRODUCE

MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2013 FORWARD: 414 HEAD OF CATTLE Comprising: 205 Young Feeding Bulls, 201 Bullocks & Heifers, 8 Breeding Cattle A large show of cattle for the Christmas Show & Sale sold to a huge company of buyers who decended on Skipton to top up feeding sheds for the Christmas period.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2013 PRESS CULL Gambles strike it lucky with Christmas double at Skipton Ken and Hazel Gamble, of Brickyard Farm, Easingwold, achieved a notable championship double in the annual Christmas shows of cull cows and cast sheep at Skipton Auction Mart.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2013 43 PRIME CATTLE comprising 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 42 Cast Cattle 3,782 PRIME SHEEP comprising 3,447 Prime Lambs, 335 Cast Ewes & Rams 51 REARING CALVES 5 LOADS OF PRODUCE

MARKET REPORT - SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2013 PRESS PIGS Calderdale’s John Midgley, of Dean House Farm, Ludendenfoot, landed his third prime pig championship in four years at Skipton Auction Mart’s sixth annual Lingfield Christmas primestock shows and sales.

MARKET REPORT - SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2013 PRESS PIES There’s no keeping a champion pie-maker down! Farmhouse Fare in Skipton won its fourth successive championship at the fifth annual Great Northern Pork Pie Competition, which ran alongside the 2013 Christmas primestock shows at Skipton Auction Mart.

MARKET REPORT - SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2013 A seven-strong haul of prize-winning prime beef cattle, among them the overall supreme champion and the male champion, fell to Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton, Bradford, at Skipton Auction Mart’s sixth annual Lingfield Christmas primestock shows and sales.

MARKET REPORT - SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2013 PRESS LAMBS The Brown family – husband and wife Martin and Val, and their daughter Hannah, of Beechwood House Farm, Newton-le-Willows, Bedale – retained their 2012 supreme champion prime lamb championship at Skipton Auction Mart’s sixth annual Lingfield Christmas primestock shows and sales.

MARKET REPORT - SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2013 PRESS CARCASS A total of 51 lamb carcases were put forward for judging in a standalone competition class that again proved an integral and highly popular feature of Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Christmas primestock shows and sales.

MARKET REPORT - SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2013 CHRISTMAS PRIMESTOCK SHOW Full results and prices from the Sunday Show

MARKET REPORT - WEDNESDAY 27TH NOVERMBER 2013 Forward: 3,969 Head A decent entry for the time of year, but a lot of smaller lambs about as people tidy up the end of this season’s crop of lambs and sell their last lots. Trade not just as sharp as the previous sale, but still looking well sold when placed against the current prime trade.

MARKET REPORT - MONDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2013 47 PRIME CATTLE comprising 4 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 43 Cast Cattle 3,989 PRIME SHEEP comprising 3,714 Prime Lambs, 275 Cast Ewes & Rams 98 REARING CALVES 102 DAIRY CATTLE 4 LOADS OF PRODUCE