Calderdale Lunds stand champion and reserve in Skipton prime lambs show The Calderdale-based Lund family, from Walshaw Farm, Walshaw, Hebden Bridge, clinched a championship and reserve championship double with a brace of home-bred Beltex-cross pens of five at Skipton Auction Mart’s February prime lambs show and sale

Kilnsey champion and reserve coup at Craven Dairy Auction Ian Hall, who trades at J Dibb at Old Northcote Farm, Kilnsey, scooped his first championship success, supplementing it with the reserve championship for good measure at February’s opening Craven Dairy Auction show and sale with a pair of robot ready cubicle-trained fresh second calvers.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle Stirks - A touch dearer on the month with a more packed ringside with numerous buyers for all classes of goods. 46 Black and Whites sold today with all goods selling between £330 and £545. 5/6-month-old soft goods £330-£400. 8/9-month-old goods with frame £470-£545.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle. Forward: 517 head of cattle, Comprising: 510 Feeding Cattle (210 Young Bulls, 43 Beef Feeding Cows, 257 Bullocks & Heifers) & 7 Breeding Cattle.

Forward: 24 Prime cattle comprising 12 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos), 1 Clean Cattle (over 30 mos) & 11 Cast Cattle. 3,968 Prime Sheep comprising 3,354 Prime Hoggs & 614 Cast Ewes & Rams. 64 Rearing Calves.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs. Forward: 1338 Head, Store Lambs Forward: 1235 Overall av £87.46 Breeding Sheep Forward: 103 Ewes & Shearlings

Forward: 19 Prime cattle comprising 9 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 10 Cast Cattle. 3677 Prime Sheep comprising 3266 Hoggs & 411 Cast Ewes & Rams. 38 Rearing Calves. 17 Dairy.

Fortnightly Sale of Young Feeding Bulls, Store Bullocks & Heifers, Breeding Cattle. Forward: 611 head of cattle. Comprising: 509 Feeding Cattle (162 Young Bulls, 48 Beef Feeding Cows, 299 Bullocks & Heifers) & 102 Breeding Cattle.

Forward: 40 Prime cattle comprising 17 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 23 Cast Cattle. 2,314 Prime Sheep comprising 1,813 Hoggs, 501 Cast Ewes & Rams. 64 Rearing Calves.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 1,911 Head, Overall av £87.51 An excellent start to the New Year Store Sheep Sales with medium and short keep lambs in good demand. A busy ringside of regular buyers from the local area together with from counties the length of the Welsh Borders, and a good contingent from Eastern Counties on the A1 corridor present ringside to bid for all classes.

Forward: 47 Prime cattle comprising 28 Clean Cattle (under 30 mos) & 19 Cast Cattle. 3,281 Prime Sheep comprising 2564 Hoggs & 717 Cast Ewes & Rams. 86 Rearing Calves. 17 Dairy, Fresh & Incalf.

Robert Crisp in command again at opening Craven Dairy Auction Skipton Auction Mart’s first Craven Dairy Auction of 2022 presented both local and travelled buyers with a solid selection of 17 head, comprising seven fresh heifers, six fresh cows and a quartet of in-calf cows and heifers, over half of those forward making £2,000-plus.

North Craven Smiths strike again at CCM Skipton prime cattle opener The privilege of consigning the first prime cattle champion of the New Year at Skipton Auction Mart, fell, as it also did at the 2021 opener, to North Craven father and son hill farmers, Francis and Andrew Smith, of Lodge Farm, Masongill, close to the Yorkshire-Lancashire border above Ingleton.

CCM Auctions Conducted their Monthly Sale of Stirks, Weaned Calves and Young Store Cattle A nice entry of Stirks forward with trade solid for most goods with size and sweet goods selling very well. Younger Black and Whites a touch less with buyers wanting more flesh and size with weather conditions.

Winter Sale of Pedigree Texel, Badger Face Texel and Blue Texel Sheep. Forward 142 Head.