Prime Sheep 271220
On Monday Penrith & District Farmers’ Mart LLP held their weekly sale of 3,235 prime sheep, comprising 2,303 prime lambs & 932 cast ewes & rams.
A much sharper trade was witnessed across the board today with an SQQ average of 234ppk being achieved, 219ppk overall.
The sale topped at 308ppk for a 37kg Beltex lamb from Messrs Lowis, Galloper Park, realising £114, purchased by Yorkshire Halal. This run of thirty-three Texel cross lambs averaged £107/265ppk for 40kg.
Messrs AJ & FM Harrison, Grange Hall, sold a run of forty-seven Texel cross lambs to average a staggering 271ppk/£109.04 for 40kg.
The whole sale averaged £98.08, topping at £118 for 42kg Beltex lambs from Messrs R & JM Ridley, Ranbeck, purchased by Vivers Scotlamb. This run of forty-four lambs averaged £105.18/248ppk.
A run of 138 Texel cross lambs from Messrs RW & G Dickinson, High Knipe, averaged £107.38/235ppk, with 53kg lambs realising £113 & £112, purchased by Mr J Blenkhorn.
Light weight lambs achieved some fantastic returns with Mr N Gill, Stonethwaite Farm, selling 34kg Herdwick cross lambs to £78, purchased by Mr A Dawson and pure-bred lambs to 217ppk/£76 for 35kg purchased by Pak Mecca Meats.
A smaller show of cast ewes was forward with all classes achieving recent returns, horned ewes were considerably dearer and a sale average of £81.02 was achieved.
The sale topped at £164 for Texel ewes from Greenacres, purchased by Mr J Tucker. Plenty of Continental and Suffolk ewes realised in excess of £110 per head, with Irish Suffolk ewes topping at £125, purchased by Mr W Jewitt.
Scotch Mule ewes sold to £101 for a pen of twelve from Riverview, purchased by Yorkshire Halal, with all Mules sold averaging £85.34.
Horned ewes achieved some serious demand with Swaledales topping at £75 per head from Messrs Richardson, Low Garth, and averaging £57.19 for all sold.
Happy New Year to all of our customers, old and new.
Our next sale will be held on Wednesday 6th January 2021 with Cast Ewes at 8am and Prime Lambs following at 10am. Please advise all entries to Andrew Maughan on 07717 611952.
Leading Prices
Prime Lambs p/kg
Beltex – 308.0 Galloper Park; 293.0, 285.0, 281.0, 280.0 & 278.0 Ranbeck; 282.0 Low Garth; 262.0 Glaslyn House
Texel – 297.0 & 263.0 Woodfoot; 285.0, 280.0, 275.0 (2), 272.0 & 264.0 Grange Hall; 285.0, 278.0 & 262.0 Waterside Farm; 285.0 & 277.0 Galloper Park; 285.0 & 265.0 Brockwoodlees Farm; 278.0, 268.0 & 262.0 High Knipe; 272.0 Holme Wrangle; 269.0 & 261.0 Howgill; 268.0 Glaslyn House; 265.0 East Cliff; 264.0 West View (Davidson); 263.0 Crindledyke; 262.0 Sleddale Hall
Continental – 285.0 & 266.0 Galloper Park; 282.0, 279.0, 271.0, 269.0, & 267.0 (2) Low Row (Brass); 264.0 Sherriff; 260.0 Clea Mire
Cheviot – 243.0 & 239.0 Thrang Crag; 236.0 & 234.0 Greenbank Farm
Charollais – 230.0 Basco Dyke Head
Herdwick – 229.0, 226.0 & 210.0 Stonethwaite Farm; 224.0 Stoddah; 217.0 High Lodore Farm
Suffolk – 228.0 Greening; 227.0 Black Leases; 226.0 West View (Davidson); 223.0 Brockwoodlees Farm
Mule – 211.0 & 209.0 Howrigg; 209.0 Gooselands View Barn; 207.0 Low Garth; 205.0 Dalemain
Prime Lambs £/head
Beltex - £118, £117 (2), £115 & £111 Ranbeck; £114 Galloper Park; £111 & £110 Low Garth; £110 Glaslyn House; £109 Tara; £106 Black Leases
Continental – £117, £114, £113 & £107 Low Row (Brass); £114 Galloper Park; £109 South View (Wilson)
Texel - £116 & £108 Woodfoot; £114, £113, £112, £110 (4), £108 & £106 High Knipe; £114, £111 & £110 Waterside Farm; £114 Brockwoodlees Farm; £112, £111 (2), £110 (2), £108, £107 & £106 Grange Hall; £111 & £108 Galloper Park; £110 Glaslyn House; £110 Sleddale Hall; £109 Fenton Farm; £107 Low Garth; £107 Yew Tree; £106 (2) East Cliff; £106 Smallthwaite Farm
Suffolk - £107 Broomhill; £104 South View (Wilson); £103 Crindledyke; £102 & £100 Black Leases; £102 Scratchmere Scar; £100 East Cliff
Cheviot - £98 Ranbeck; £98 Black Leases
Mule - £96 Fawcett Park; £95 (2) & £90 Low Mill; £95 Town Head (Potter); £94 (2) & £90 Old Parks; £93 & £90 Howrigg; £92 Crindledyke; £91 Low Garth; £90 Sleddale Hall; £90 Applegarth; £90 Low Snab
Herdwick – £88 Stonethwaite Farm; £85 Stoddah
Swaledale – £80 (2) High Croft
Cast Ewes £/head
Texel (av £110.69) – £164, £114 & £111 (2) Greenacres; £162, £140, £132 & £128 Tarn End; £150 High head Chapel; £148 High House (Norman); £145 Drumreach Farm; £129 Espland House; £125 Backmuir Farm; £124, £114 (2) & £110 Holme Wrangle; £122 Colstons; £119 Clea Mire; £116 & £110 Cromer; £116 Glaslyn House; £114 Sleddale Hall
Charollais (av £119.73) - £140 Greenacres; £116 (2) & £108 Tarn End
Beltex (av £115.00) - £135 Tarn End; £132 & £126 Espland House
Continental (av £91.89) - £130 (2), £122, £108 (2) & £106 Black Leases; £130, £129, £117, £111 & £108 Tarn End; £110 Greening
Suffolk (av £100.05) - £123, £115, £110, £108 (2) & £100 Tarn End; £120 Riverview; £111 & £110 Cromer; £110 Greening; £109 Greenacres; £103 Black Leases; £100 Backmuir Farm
Zwartble - £108 Backmuir Farm; £107 Greenacres
Bluefaced Leicester - £104 & £101 Old Parks; £100 Croft House
Mule (av £85.34) - £101 Riverview; £97 Clea Mire; £96 Holme Wrangle; £93, £91 & £89 Croft House; £92 & £88 Ireby Hall; £91 Greening; £88 Backmuir Farm; £85 Greenacres; £85 Cromer
Cheviot (av £75.96) - £91 & £88 Greenacres; £90 Ranbeck; £90 Black Leases
Swaledale (av £57.19) - £75 Low Garth; £66 Wintershields; £64 Scales Farm (Braithwaite); £62 Gale Hall; £60 Old Parks
Scotch Blackfaced (av £60.30) - £70 Greenacres; £70 Backmuir Farm; £64 Riverview; £63 Drumreach Farm; £62 (2) Bluebell Cottage; £62 Black Leases
Cast Rams £/head
Charollais - £138 Tarn End
Continental - £130, £120 & £100 (2) Tarn End
Texel - £130 Tarn End; £110 Backmuir Farm
Bluefaced Leicester - £128 Croft House; £112 The Faulds; £106 Old Parks; £104 Howburn; £100 Scales Farm (Braithwaite)
Beltex - £120 Ellonby Hall
Suffolk - £105 Greenacres