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On Monday Penrith & District Farmers' Mart LLP held their Annual May Special prize show & sale of 644 Store Cattle, kindly sponsored by PFK Land Agency.
The prize show was kindly judged by E Sedgewick, Long Myres Farm, Durham, who awarded the champion honours to a fantastic British Blue cross heifer from Mr B Duffton, Bogie Street, this selling for £1880 purchased by Mr F Towers, Lancaster.
Reserve honours also went to Mr B Duffton for his first placed Limousin bullock which later sold for £1800, again selling to Mr F Towers.
Show Results
Class 1 - Any Breed Bullock
1st & Reserve Champion - Mr B Duffton, Bogie Street (lot 164, Limousin)
2nd Messrs R & JM Ridley, Ranbeck (lot 389, Limousin)
Class 2 - Any Breed Heifer
1st & Champion - Mr B Duffton, Bogie Street (lot 175, British Blue)
2nd Mr B Duffton, Bogie Street (lot 172, Limousin)
One of the finest shows of store cattle was forward to a first-class ringside of buyers, looking to purchase all categories of stock. Rumour was heard that the demand had dropped, but that definitely wasn’t the case here today. A sale average of £1206.25 was achieved.
Heifers were leading in front on the day with 318 in the sale selling to average £1228.43, topping at £2100 for a Blonde heifer for from B Duffton, Aberdeen, selling to Mr D Barker. This consignment averaged £1523.77. Bullocks topped overall at £2155 for a Limousin cross from Mary Wilson, Hardrigg Hall, also selling to Mr Barker.
A total of fifty-five cattle sold in excess of £1500, with dairy bread cattle topping at £1645 for Normande X bullocks from Mr J Findlay, Moorside, selling to Mr Frank Towers.
Messrs JE & DL Hodgson, Soulby Grange sold a consignment of Limousin X and Aberdeen Angus X Friesian bullocks to average £1521, peaking in the Angus section at £1595.
Young cattle met some rare returns, with a consignment of twenty-five 11 to 12-month-old Limousin bullocks and heifers from Messrs R and JM Ridley, Ranbeck, averaging a staggering £1255.80, topping at £1485 for a thirteen-month-old Limousin bullock.
An outstanding consignment on the day was a run of thirteen, outwintered, Fleckvieh and Simmental heifers, 20 to 22-months-old from Mr JR Holliday Town Foot Farm, Hunsonby, averaging £1264.23, topping at £1405 with several achieving in excess of £1300.
Leading Prices
Bullocks
Limousin - £2155 Hardrigg Hall; £1985, £1800, £1775, £1665, £1585, £1365 (2), £1325 Bogie Street; £1695, £1495, £1365 Demesne; £1575, £1545, £1475 Soulby Grange; £1485, £1455, £1435, £1395, £1385, £1275 (2), £1265, £1245 (2), £1215 Ranbeck; £1415, £1385 Friendship Farm; £1395 (4) Blands Farm; £1375, £1215 Barton Hall; £1315 (2), £1285, £1265, £1245 (2), £1235 Undercragg; £1315 Whygill Head; £1295 Bloan Farm; £1295 Thorneycroft; £1295 Town Head Farm (Holliday); £1275 Gill Head; £1275 Woodfoot (Hodgson)
Beef Shorthorn - £1705 Bogie Street
Simmental - £1645 Moorside Farm; £1275 Thorneycroft
Normande - £1625, £1535, £1465 (2), £1435 (3), £1375 (2), £1345, £1285 (3), £1235 (3) Moorside Farm
Aberdeen Angus - £1595, £1415 Soulby Grange; £1515, £1445, £1375 Demesne; £1495, £1445 Nelson Hill Farm; £1235 Bolton Mill; £1235 Arnold House; £1215 South Dyke
British Blue - £1555, £1505 Far Close Farm; £1465, £1435, £1405, £1365, £1325 (3) Whygill Head; £1425, £1295 Moorside Farm; £1345 Friendship Farm; £1235, £1215 Town Head Farm (Holliday)
Charolais - £1445 Bogie Street; £1265, £1235 (2) Arnold House; £1265 Scar Side Farm
Blonde D'Aquitaine - £1285 Ranbeck
Black & White - £1255 Demesne; £1175 (4), £1085 (5) Whygill Head
Hereford - £1125 Fair Bank Farm
Heifers
Blonde D'Aquitaine - £2100 Bogie Street; £1385, £1235 Newlands Mill
Limousin - £2055, £1965, £1915, £1895, £1885, £1865 (2), £1835, £1815, £1795 (2), £1695 (3), £1635, £1615, £1595, £1575 (3), £1545 (2), £1455 (3), £1445 (4), £1395, £1355, £1335, £1255, £1205 (6) Bogie Street; £1735, £1655, £1595 (2), £1585, £1555, £1515, £1475 (4), £1465, £1425 (6), £1345, £1335 (6), £1285, £1245 (2), £1215 Newlands Mill; £1675, £1335, £1255 Low Row; £1545 Far Close Farm; £1455, £1385 Friendship Farm; £1435, £1385, £1315, £1305 Ranbeck; £1395, £1325 Hebblethwaite Hall; £1375 (2) Blands Farm; £1375 Demesne; £1375 Hardrigg Hall; £1355, £1285 (2), £1255, £1235 Hollins Farm; £1345 Bloan Farm; £1325, £1225 Thorneycroft; £1295, £1225, £1215 Undercragg; £1295 Town Foot Farm; £1285 High Howe; £1245 Arnold House; £1235 (3) Hacra; £1235 Barton Hall; £1215 Tilery Farm; £1205 Woodfoot (Hodgson)
British Blue - £1880, £1815, £1685, £1575, £1455, £1325 Bogie Street; £1655 Far Close Farm; £1485, £1475, £1415, £1355 (2) Newlands Mill; £1475 (2) Whygill Head; £1415 Town Head Farm (Holliday); £1345, £1255 Gooselands View Barn; £1325 (2) Arnold House; £1315 Low Row; £1315 Hewer Hill; £1275 Nelson Hill Farm; £1255 Home Farm (Metcalfe)
Charolais - £1765, £1265 Bogie Street; £1495 Friendship Farm; £1295 Scar Side Farm
Simmental - £1485 Bogie Street; £1425, £1415, £1305 Nelson Hill Farm; £1415 Newlands Mill; £1405, £1385 (2) Town Foot Farm; £1385, £1265 Thorneycroft
Aberdeen Angus - £1355 Demesne; £1325, £1195 Friendship Farm; £1245 (3), £1165 (4) Low Row; £1175 South Dyke; £1145 (3) Mellgates
Fleckvieh - £1305 (3), £1175 (6) Town Foot Farm
Hereford - £1145 (2) Friendship Farm