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On Wednesday Penrith & District Farmers’ Mart LLP held their weekly sale of 4,377 prime sheep, comprising of 44 prime lambs, 1,738 prime hoggs & 2,595 cast ewes and rams.
An increased show of prime lambs met a much sharper trade with local butchers and wholesalers now looking to swap from hoggs. The sale topped at £166/405ppk for a 41kg Texel cross lamb from Messrs ES & D Noble, Mill Farm, purchased by Cranston’s Quality Butchers’. This consignment of well turned out, fed lambs averaged £155.60/346ppk.
Suffolk cross Texel lambs, weighing 51kg, achieved £160 per head from Messrs WE Strong & Partners, Midtown Farm, purchased by West Scottish Lamb, with this consignment averaging £154.75/327ppk for 47kg.
A very mixed show of prime hoggs was forward with meat being in short supply. The sale topped at 335ppk for a pair of 40kg Beltex hoggs from Mr MH Elliott, Espland House, realising £134, purchased by Mr J Khan, with this consignment averaging 328ppk.
The sale topped per head at £157 for a 53kg Texel cross hogg from Messrs W & SE Dickinson, Kirkbarrow Hall, purchased by Mr R Skelton, with this consignment averaging £136/278ppk for 48kg.
Heavy hoggs sold to a sharper trade throughout the sale with numerous pens achieving £140-£145 per head. Messrs JG & RW Nevinson & Son, High House Farm, sold a consignment of 60kg hoggs to average £140.11.
Handy weights with meat were short of buyers’ requirements, Cheviot hoggs weighing 39kg achieved £120 per head from Messrs Iredale, Greenbank Farm. A pen of 38 Scotch Blackfaced hoggs, weighing 39kg, realised £113 from Messrs Smith, Towiemore Farm, purchased by Pickstock Foods.
Swaledale hoggs weighing 44kg achieved £117/266ppk from Messrs Lightfoot, Gillside, purchased by Mr R Skelton. A pen of 28 Herdwick hoggs, weighing 37kg, achieved £102/276ppk from Auchengray Farm, Dumfries, purchased by Mr W Shearer.
A marvellous show of cast ewes were forward to an extended ringside of buyers with demand being as strong as ever.
The whole sale averaged a staggering £130.37, with a total of 104 ewes and rams selling in excess of £200, topping at £300 for a Continental ewe from Messrs G & JE Bell, Far Broom, purchased by Mr J Tucker. This consignment of 17 outstanding ewes averaged £257.41.
Heavy ewes once again met some rare returns with Messrs WE Strong & Partners, Midtown Farm, selling a pen of 3 pure Suffolks to £219, also purchased by Mr J Tucker. Mule ewes with weight regularly achieved £140-£150 per head.
Horned ewes were in short supply, a ring full of 21 Scotch Blackfaced ewes achieved £132 from Holme House, and a pen of 30 from the same home achieved £129, all purchased by Pickstock Foods.
Cast rams met the dearest trade ever seen with all sold averaging £157.36. A total of 24 sold in excess of £200, topping at £290 for a pair of Texels from WR Wilson, South View, purchased by Mr N Lomax.
Leading Prices
Prime Lambs p/kg
Texel – 405.0 Mill Farm
Continental – 368.0 Mill Farm; 359.0, 343.0 Plumpton Foot; 343.0, 338.0 Crewgarth
Suffolk – 333.0 Midtown Farm (Strong); 322.0, 320.0 Plumpton Foot; 320.0 Mill Farm
Prime Lambs £/head
Texel - £166 Mill Farm; £143 Plumpton Foot
Continental - £162 Mill Farm; £161, £158 Plumpton Foot; £144, £135 Crewgarth
Suffolk - £160, £153 Midtown Farm (Strong); £148, £147 Plumpton Foot; £144 (2) Mill Farm
Charollais - £141, £139 Brick House
Prime Hoggs p/kg
Beltex – 335.0, 322.0 Espland House; 328.0, 323.0, 308.0, 305.0 Ranbeck; 302.0 Black Leases
Continental – 333.0, 320.0, 311.0 Kirkbarrow Hall; 318.0 Reagill Grange; 312.0 Waterside House; 311.0 Belmont; 311.0 Dalemain; 308.0, 302.0 Sycamore Rise; 308.0 Greenbank Farm; 308.0 Greenacres; 305.0 Lower Gate Farm; 305.0 Howgill; 305.0 Auchengray Farm; 305.0 South Dyke; 303.0 Thrang Crag; 302.0 Petteril Green; 300.0 Backmuir Farm; 300.0 Brownrigg Hall Farm
Texel – 320.0, 307.0, 305.0 Sickergill; 304.0, 300.0 Auchengray Farm; 300.0 Drumreach Farm; 300.0 Bromley Green
Cheviot – 308.0, 295.0 Greenbank Farm; 297.0 Dalemain; 295.0, 284.0 Towiemore Farm; 295.0 Balgray Hill; 294.0, 290.0, 287.0 Capplegill; 293.0, 285.0 Brownrigg Hall Farm; 293.0 Ranbeck; 284.0, 281.0 Parkdargue
Suffolk – 300.0 Dalemain; 293.0 Thrang Crag; 278.0 Towiemore Farm; 276.0 Longlands
Scotch Blackfaced – 290.0, 285.0 (2) Towiemore Farm; 278.0, 271.0 Sky House
Mule – 278.0 Thrang Crag; 263.0 Low Side; 261.0 Pear Tree House; 259.0 Sky House; 259.0 Waterside House; 258.0 Parkdargue; 257.0 Street House (Maughan)
Herdwick – 276.0 Auchengray Farm; 274.0 Low Side
Swaledale – 266.0 Gillside; 264.0 Street House (Maughan)
Prime Hoggs £/head
Continental - £157, £149, £145, £142 Kirkbarrow Hall (Dickinson); £150 (2), £141 Crossfield Farm; £149 Reagill Grange; £148, £142, £140 Greenacres; £148, £142 Sycamore Rise; £145 Kirkbarrow Hall (Fabi); £144, £143 Clifton Moor Farm; £142 (2), £141 High House Farm (Nevinson); £142 Wintershields; £141 (2), £140 East Cliff; £141 Backmuir Farm; £140 Dalemain
Texel - £154, £144, £136 Riverview; £149, £138, £135 Auchengray Farm; £145, £143, £142, £140, £139 (2) Petteril Green; £142 Stoneybeck Farm; £138 The Croft; £135 Bromley Green
Beltex - £152, £145, £131 Ranbeck; £144, £134 Espland House; £140, £139 Black Leases
Suffolk - £150 Plumpton Old Hall; £142 Highrigg; £138 East Cliff; £137 Stoneybeck Farm; £136 Belvedene; £135 Appleside Farm; £132 Dalemain; £132 Auchengray Farm; £131 Scales Farm (Pollock); £131 Petteril Green; £130 (2) Greenacres; £130 Sceugh Dyke; £130 Backmuir Farm
Cheviot - £141 The Croft; £130, £128 Greenacres; £129 Brownrigg Hall Farm; £127, £120 Greenbank Farm; £127 Sceugh Dyke; £125, £123 Ranbeck; £125 Capplegill; £125 Black Leases; £124 Dalemain; £124 Sycamore Rise; £122 Towiemore Farm; £122 Balgray Hill
Cheviot Mule - £140 Highrigg
Mule - £131, £120 Waterside House; £131 Street House (Maughan); £128, £126 East Cliff; £128 Pear Tree House; £125 Thrang Crag; £124 Belvedene; £122 Riverview; £120 Sceugh Dyke
Swaledale - £121 Ghyll House; £117 Gillside; £117 Dalemain; £116 Street House (Maughan)
Scotch Blackfaced - £114, £113, £111 Towiemore Farm
Herdwick - £106 Low Braithwaite Farm; £104 Low Side; £102 Auchengray Farm
Cast Ewes £/head
Continental (av £133.84) - £300, £290, £282, £275, £272, £245, £242, £235, £200 Far Broom; £260 Backmuir Farm; £250, £180 Brow Top; £250, £180 Sickergill; £222 Inglewood Edge
Texel (av £171.65) - £295, £285, £245, £212, £184 (2) Holme House; £280, £230, £180 Clifton Moor Farm; £265, £185 Dalvorich Cottage; £265 Greenacres; £260 High & Low Buildings; £252, £216, £191 Glaslyn House; £240 Tilery Farm; £215 Backmuir Farm; £210 The Croft; £210 Kirkbarror Hall (Fabi); £190 Scarrow Hill; £185 Belvedene; £180 Clickham
Charollais (av £171.11) - £295, £210, £200, £185 Holme House; £220 Thethwaite Farm; £182 Belvedene; £180 Swallow Heights
Beltex (av £194.16) - £270, £268 Espland House; £238, £220, £190 (2) Inglewood Edge; £185 Belvedene
BDM - £240 Thethwaite Farm
Suffolk (av £156.03) - £219 Midtown Farm; £200, £174 East Cliff; £190 Green Farm (Hodgson); £184, £182, £174, £172 Holme House; £180, £174 (2) Brow Top; £180, £170 Backmuir Farm; £180 Hallgarth; £178 (2) Thethwaite Farm; £176 Dalvorich Cottage; £174, £170 Wreay Hall Farm; £172, £172 Clickham; £170 Redgate; £170 High & Low Buildings
Bluefaced Leicester (av £149.29) - £186 Backmuir Farm
Cheviot (av £109.62) - £157, £130, £128 Riverview; £150, £126 Holme House; £148, £142, £138 Backmuir Farm; £138, £134 Pallet Hill; £138 Balgray Hill; £138 Drumreach Farm; £137 Inglewood Edge; £136, £132, £130 (2), £128 Backmuir Farm; £134 Cairnbridge Farm; £132 Black Leases; £130 Low House (Dickinson); £130 Reagill Grange; £128 Drumreach Farm; £128 Kirkbarrow Hall; £128 Greenacres
Mule (av £124.12) - £150 Beeches Farm; £150 South View; £148, £136 Park Head (Hird); £148 Longlands; £148 Osmond Flatt; £148 Tilery Farm; £146 Sceugh Dyke; £146 Hallgarth; £145 Clickham; £142 Town Head (Hird); £142 Home Farm (Metcalfe); £140 Woodhall; £139 East Cliff; £138 Low House (Dickinson); £138 Riverview; £138 Backmuir Farm; £138 Bells View; £136 Barrock End; £136 Fog Close; £136 Drumreach Farm; £135 Greengill Bank
Cheviot Mule (av £119.22) - £148 High & Low Buildings; £146 Barrock End
Zwartble - £180, £152 Backmuir Farm
Scotch Blackfaced (av £96.88) - £132, £129, £118, £104 Holme House; £123 Backmuir Farm; £115 Drumreach Farm; £114 Balgray Hill; £110 Sky House
Swaledale (av £82.39) - £118 Green Farm (Hodgson); £115 Low Mill; £111, £90 Woodhall; £110 Milburn Grange; £109 Waterside House; £108, £97 Hole House (Ivinson); £107 Redgate; £98 Field Garth; £98 Hollins Farm; £96 Pear Tree House
Jacob - £96 Drumreach Farm
Cast Rams £/head
Texel - £290, £280 South View; £242, £180 Holme House; £215 Shield Hill Top; £190 Thethwaite Farm
Continental - £265 Clickham; £222 School Hill; £208 Backmuir Farm; £200 Dalvorich Cottage; £200 Low House (Dickinson); £195 Holme House; £180 Green Farm (Hodgson); £180 Mill Farm
Charollais - £245 Far Broom; £218, £215 Holme House
Suffolk - £230 Holme House; £210 Backmuir Farm; £190 Riverview; £180 Hallgarth
Bluefaced Leicester - £198 High Crossgill