Monday 19th August – Darlington Auction Mart had forward:
41 Cast Cows sold to 262ppk & £1848
3 Cast Bulls sold to 192ppk & £2147
12 Store Bulls sold to £1350
41 Store Steers sold to £1535
63 Store Heifers sold to £1435
2 Cows & Calves sold to £1450
1129 Store Lambs sold to £175
149 Feeding Ewes sold to £150
206 Breeding Sheep sold to £230
Cast Cattle (44) A lighter show of cast cattle on the week, amongst these only a handful of dairy bred girls. Trade would be just as buoyant, returning a whole market average of 190ppk & £1228 per head. The top price continental cow – selling for 262ppk was a Limousin from The Gallon Family, High Crows House which grossed £1606 with the lead grossing continental cow, also a Limousin weighing 924kg sold by DK Barker, Little Ketton Farm for 200ppk totalling £1848. Top of the native section was a 29mth pure Hereford from W&R Kemp & Son, Wigdon Walls selling for 228ppk & £1552 and Holstein Friesian’s from AR&C Booth, Village Farm sold for 153ppk & £1126 making them top of the dairy section. Of the 3 Stock Bulls forward, the top slot ppk went to AJ Marr & Son, Old Ravensworth Farm whose Limousin sold for 192ppk & £1916, while fellow Tyneside farmers AJ Gibson Farming, Cut Thorn Farm was in front for the top grossing value with a 1161kg Shorthorn selling for £2147.
Cast Cows – Top prices ppk 262 M Gallon. 260 M Robinson & Sons. 244 204 202 200 196 194 R Mortimer. 234 228 210 G Nelson. 228 MW Reed. 228 W&R Kemp. 226 T Ducker. 225 198 190 KO Stones. 220 Mill Pond Farm. 219 JD Bentley. 217 216 200 DK Barker. 215 GH Farms. 190 S Beeforth. 190 M Watson. 192 Angram Livestock Ltd. 180 I Newton & Son. 168 163 I&RA Watson. 164 TT Hall & Son.
Lead Grossing Cast Cows £1848 £1816 £1743 DK Barker. £1744 T Ducker. £1606 M Gallon. £1586 £1290 £1224 G Nelson. £1554 MW Reed. £1552 W&R Kemp & Son. £1482 £1458 £1360 KO Stones. £1481 £1361 £1296 £1281 £1222 £1181 R Mortimer. £1435 M Robinson & Sons. £1434 JD Bentley & Son. £1355 Angram Livestock Ltd. £1267 S Beeforth. £1250 M Watson. £1126 £1118 AR&C Booth. £1117 Mill Pond Farm.
Cast Bulls – Top prices ppk 192 AJ Marr & Son. 185 AJ Gibson Farming. 176 WO Alderson.
Lead Grossing Cast Bulls £2147 AJ Gibson Farming. £1916 AJ Marr & Son. £1268 WO Alderson.
Store Cattle – A plainer show of cattle forward – trade however was as dear as ever with stronger cattle being the easiest to sell. 8 steers from RJ Bradshaw, Hawthorne Farm Ellerby – all dairy bred sold to an average of £1455, with a Limousin steer realising the top store price of the day selling for £1535. DR Smith, East Roughlea bagged top spot with the heifers, selling to £1435. Grix of Hill Head Farm sold the best of the bulls on the day – 3 Blode D’ Aquitaine for £1350 each followed by T Ducker, Coppice House, Rivelin with 2 Limousins which sold for £1335 & £900. Just the 2 Hereford Cows & Calves forward, courtesy of B Hutchinson, Field House, Greatham each selling to £1450
Cows & Calves £1450×2 B Hutchinson.
Store Bulls £1350×3 Grix. £1335 £900 T Ducker. £770 R Peart. £680WO Alderson.
Store Steers £1535 £1520 £1495 £1485 £1445×2 £1390 £1325 RJ Bradshaw. £1485 £1380 DR Smith. £1450 KO Stones. £1395 £1190×2 £1170 £1165 BJS Farms. £1270×3 W Walker & Sons. £1265 Jack Sewell. £1165 £1070 W Love Ltd. £1100×4 RL Dent. £1080×3 £1075×2 R&W Todd.
Store Heifers £1435 £1425×2 £1405 DR Smith. £1395 £1390 £1385×2 Mill Pond Farm. £1370 KO Stones. £1260 £1190×4 £1110×4 £1070 BJS Farms. £1225×3 £1150 R Valks. £1190×2 W Love Ltd. £1180×2 £1110×4 £1000×3 £970 £960×4 Oliver. £1130 £900 TT Hall & Son. £1060×3 P Leese. £940 CG Barraclough.
With the store lamb trade still going strong, the sale averaged £100 across the board, with a mix of quality throughout. Leading price of the day goes to B Lowson, Podge Hole Farm, with two cracking Texel lambs at £175 and another one at £155, closely followed by PJ Anderson & Son, Lydgate, with four Texel lambs making £152. Continental Lambs from N Gill, Moorey Lea, made a fantastic price of £152, with another pen of theirs following at £128. TE Dobson, Unthank Farm, had sixty-four terrific mules at £121.50, followed by GH&RG Stobbs, High Wiserley, with a pen of six mules at £95. In the lead of the Suffolk section was GH&RG Stobbs, making £112, closely followed by RA Patterson & Son, with a pen full, making £111.
Store Lambs-
Texel- £175 £155 £115 B Lowson. £152 £110.50 PJ Anderson & Son. £138 £118 £114 £110 K Sayer. £133 £109 CE Smith. £126 £112.50 £111 £109 AF Smith. £120 RA Patterson & Son. £117 x2 £111 x2 I&A Holmes. £116 J&JA Wilkinson. £113 £111 JR&J Crowe. £110 x2 S Pybourne. £110 Christopher Readshaw. £110 KM Sayer.
Continental- £152 £128 £109 £104 N Gill. £112 £93 £91 £90 GS Dixon. £99 RB Watson. £93 £90 Rebecca Appleton. £85 J Swale & MJ Milner. £81 JE&AJ Mitchell.
Mule- £121.50 TE Dobson. £95 GH&RG Stobbs. £94.50 JE&AJ Mitchell. £88 J Featherstone. £87 JJM Lonsdale. £85 Rebecca Appleton. £85 SK Wilson. £82 S Straughan.
Suffolk- £112 GH&RG Stobbs. £111 RA Patterson & Son. £108 T&C Smith. £107 CG Barraclough. £96 S Pybourne.
Halfbred- £86 £76 Rebecca Appleton.
Cheviot- £80 £67 JV Hodgson & Son.
Breeding sheep prices are still very good for the time of year, and today a good show of quality was forward. Top price Shearlings of the day went to SG Harrison & Son, Rectory Farm, with some strong continental shearlings making £230, following closely was AE&FS Glaves, Brompton, with some super Suffolk x shearlings reaching £225. CM&TF Seymour, Dromonby Farm, had Texel Shearlings to £215, with a second pen making £200. G Gall, Gillahill Farm, showed a strong packet of Continental sired, 3 crop Ewes, which topped at £212.
Breeding Sheep-
Shearlings- £230 x2 SG Harrison & Son. £225 £220 x2 £208 AE&FS Glaves. £215 £200 CM&TF Seymour.
Ewes- £212 £210 £205 £200 £196 £190 £188 £184 G Gall.
Feeding Ewes slightly back however still a good trade. Starting off with J&JA Wilkinson, Walesmoor Farm, with a fantastic Texel ewe, making £150. Following within the Texel section, was J Kelly, Eastfield Farm, with another strong ewe making £142. Mules topped at £120 from Christopher Readshaw and Continental Ewes topped at £108 from JV Hodgson & Son, Piercebridge Farm. Swale Ewes topped at a terrific £85 from JJM Lonsdale, Smailes Burn.
Feeding Ewes – £150 J&JA Wilkinson. £142 £83 J Kelly. £120 Christopher Readshaw. £108 £80 £78 £76 JV Hodgson & Son. £91 £76 C Harle & Sons. £85 JJM Lonsdale. £79 T Nesbitt & Son. £75 £74 W Coatsworth.
