Darlington Farmers Auction Mart held their weekly sale of cast cattle, store and breeding stock on Monday 2nd October 2023. Forward were 428 Cattle and 3090 Sheep.
98 Cast Cows/OTM sold to 278ppk or £2005
9 Stock Bulls sold to 264ppk or £2409
20 Stirks sold to £2050
18 In Calf Cows sold to £3900
8 Cows & Calves sold to £4300
3 Breeding Bulls sold to £3450
35 Young Bulls sold to £1780
83 Store Steers sold to £1990
146 Store Heifers sold to £1590
2742 Store Lambs sold to £117
348 Feeding Ewes sold to £139
Breeding Cattle – A big Monday across all sections with some massive returns but the only place that seems fitting to start is with the dispersal of the suckler herd of Heather Marks, Gilly Flatts Farm, Bishopton. A wonderful send off was always on the cards for this special bunch of cattle and a huge gallery of buyers guaranteed them the tremendous trade they so richly deserved; top of the lot was a stunning Limousin heifer with her April born heifer calf at foot when she sold for £4300 to R A & S L Wearmouth, Middletown Farm. The rest of the herd saw the back in calf cows sold separately from their predominantly February and March born calves; top priced cow at £3900 was a phenomenal 2016 born British Blue which was bought by T N Callender, Ox Eye Farm. No less than four other cracking cows followed over £3000 as the eighteen in calf cows averaged an excellent £2707. The fifteen calves each followed their mother under the hammer and they averaged a mesmerising £1309, best of them all was a March born Limousin crossed steer selling for £2050 to F Watson, Sedgefield; incidentally his wonderous 2016 born mother sold for £3650 to J Caldwell, Doncaster. The stock bulls from Gilly Flatts also found new homes with a young British Blue reaching £3450 and a six-year-old Limousin £3050.
Breeding Cattle – Cows & Calves £4300 HD Marks. £2050 £1920 £1500 £1250 SJ Savile & Sons.
In Calf Cows – £3900 £3650 £3500 £3450 £3300 £2950 £2800 £2700 £2600 £2550 £2500 £2450 £2400 £2300 £2100 £1900 £1680 HD Marks.
Breeding Bulls £3450 £3050 HD Marks. £2100 RM Reed & Son.
Calves & Stirks £2050 £1740 £1520 £1420 £1380×2 £1340 £1320 £1270 £1140 £1120 £1080 £980×2 £920 HD Marks. £810 L Brown. £800 £750 L Booton. £425 £385 T Grix.
Cast Cattle – Bigger numbers forward and signs that Autumn is upon us as a lot more lean cows were in attendance, the green market status helps massively on days like this as all classes remain good to sell and keenly bid for; the sale averaged 161ppk and £1080. A top price per kilo of 278 pence went to Northfield Farms, Bowes with an excellent British Blue OTM heifer. Best older cow of the day came from T N Callender, Ox Eye Farm when a brilliant 920kg Limousin sold for 218ppk and £2005. Of the thirty-three dairy breeds this week it was the Holstein Friesians in the top spots as a youngster from R Tookey & Son sold for 228ppk and a fleshy sort from A R & C Booth led the gross values at £1290. Rare mention must go to the Highland cattle this week as W Young, Cliff House Farm, Whitby sold both OTM heifers and bulls over 200 pence per kilo. Finally to the bulls and it was a successful sale for R A Patterson & Son, White House Farm who topped with their young Limousin at 264 pence but nothing could live in the bull ring with the incredible 1255kg Aberdeen Angus from D A & M A M Brown, Agglethorpe which totted up to a mighty £2409.
Cast Cows/OTM – Top Prices PPK 278 208 182 166 164 x2 Northfield Farms. 268 GK KN&GJ Hird. 228 R Tookey & Son. 218 TN Callender. 218 N Wilson. 214 208 200 180 D&M Lowes. 210 180 T Ducker. 208 W Young. 200 192 W Lodge & Sons. 189 168 I&RA Watson. 188 C Hird & Son. 188 184 174 Leslie Brown. 186 172 MW Reed. 180 176 M Metcalfe. 178 B&L Wilkinson. 178 W&J Herbert. 176 N&N Foster. 176 L Booton. 174 172 166 x2 Skelton Farming LTD. 172 C Binks & Son. 170 PT Stephenson & Son. 166 164 GW&M Singleton & Sons. 166 AR&C Booth.
Lead Grossing Cast Cows/OTM – £2005 TN Callender. £1740 £1576 W Lodge & Sons. £1698 £1464 £1128 Northfield Farms. £1698 N Wilson. £1608 GK KN&GJ Hird. £1556 £1280 £1097 Leslie Brown. £1436 £1383 £1378 £1206 £1204 D&M Lowes. £1379 £1312 T Ducker. £1320 B&L Wilkinson. £1290 £1288 AR&C Booth. £1285 R Tookey & Son. £1244 W&J Herbert. £1242 JD&IW Sayer & Tallentire. £1233 C Hird & Son. £1231 £1170 £1153 £1134 Skelton Farming LTD. £1201 £1138 L Booton. £1184 N&N Foster. £1167 C Binks. £1162 £1097 PT Stephenson & Son. £1153 DA&ME Welford. £1140 £1113I&RA Watson. £1111 Matthew Watson.
Cast Bulls- Top Prices PPK 264 RA Patterson & Son. 230 EA&N Thompson & Son. 218 JG&EM Welford. 210 W Young. 200 A Harland & Son. 192 DA&MAM Brown. 180 DA&ME Welford. 174 Skelton Farming LTD. 170 MR Souter.
Lead Grossing Cast Bulls- £2409 DA&MAM Brown. £2151 JG&EM Welford. £2146 RA Patterson & Son. £1904 DA&ME Welford. £1782 EA&N Thompson & Son. £1712 Skelton Farming LTD. £1572 A Harland & Son. £1513 MR Souter. £1121 W Young.
Store Cattle – What a time to sell feeding cattle, some staggering returns this week; kicking things off were an excellent show of young bulls largely thanks to a brilliant run of 12 to 17-month-old predominantly British Blonde crosses from the Appleton family, Pudding Poke Farm which topped twice at £1780 and saw their nineteen average £1463. On to the store cattle, take a bow Howard Johnson of White Lea Farm who produced a sublime run of forward Charolais steers. The top pair from White Lea sold for £1990 apiece with fifteen phenomenon’s in the run averaging a stunning £1885. Seldom are the Limousin breed left out of the store cattle top prices and they were rescued today by Hughes Brothers, Sockburn Hall topping the heifer section at £1590 with a smart 22-month-old, just £10 adrift in the heifer race were D & H M Hodgson, Dyke Nook with an excellent British Blue.
Store Steers- £1990 x2 £1940 x2 £1915 x2 £1890 x3 £1880 x2 £1790 x4 JH Johnson. £1545 x3 £1520 £1470 x2 B&L Robson. £1480 £1290 P&N Tattersall. £1475 £1445 x3 £1170 LW Richardson. £1375 £1290 x2 W Denham. £1350 x3 R Errington & Son. £1260 F Crawford. £1245 x2 D Walker. £1205 £1190 £1175 x2 £1170 £1170 £1150 £1140 x2 F Ward. £1190 £1175 GS Bainbridge. £1190 D&M Lowes. £1105 x2 £1070 R&W Todd. £1100 G Beadle.
Store Heifers- £1590 £1210 Hughes Bros Farms LTD. £1580 £1500 D&HM Hodgson. £1560 £1420 x2 £1330 x4 £1250 £1170 x4 £1090 x3 LW Richardson. £1380 x2 R Errington & Son. £1375 W Denham. £1365 £1280 £1200 x2 £1120 F Ward. £1310 D&M Lowes. £1300 x2 F Crawford. £1290 J Dent. £1260 £1240 £1200 WB Rutter & Sons. £1260 £1145 £1140 GS Bainbridge. £1255 x4 G&JH Tomlinson & Son. £1230 £1095 x2 JE&S Ward. £1190 x2 £1140 x2 £1100 D Walker. £1160 JR Allan. £1130 x2 TB Walton. £1100 x4 BJS Farms. £1095 PT Stephenson & Son.
Store Bulls- £1780 x2 £1760 £1610 £1600 £1590 £1580 £1490 £1485 £1440 £1400 £1390 £1300 x2 £1190 IR Appleton. £1530 £1450 Rebecca Appleton. £1445 Lucy Appleton. £1195 RA Patterson & Son. £920 £790 £760 Barrs of Broughton. £770 x2 JR Allan.
Store Sheep – The biggest yarding of sheep so far this season and with it came more travelling buyers, a shortage of the very best lambs combined with 300 Mule’s and 300 Swaledale lambs still left a sale average of a pleasing £80. Top of the trade at £117 were two vendors when ten terrific Beltex from D & M Lowes, Wilson House matched a quartet of tremendous Texel lambs from Tom Bell of Belsay, Newcastle. Suffolks sold to £110 from G W Dobson & Son, Wood Close and the strong Mule’s regularly reached the £80’s. Final mention to the Swaledale lambs and the stand out run came from first time vendors G H & K W Boddy, Hartoft with 169 topping at £50 and averaging £46.44. Feeding ewes remain good if fleshy but the leaner old girls took a drop this week, tops of £139 went to the Texel’s of S Straughan whilst a thumping run of Swaledale’s from T E Dobson, Unthank look well sold as the fifty-seven of them full of flesh averaged £54.
Texel- £117 £97 Tom Bell. £108 £97.50 £93 £92 IW Cairns. £107 £104 £91 D&M Lowes. £107 £95 £93 GC&KJ White & Son. £102 £94 L&BM Kidd & Son. £100.50 GH&RG Stobbs. £100 K Buckle. £99.50 £94 JM Sayer. £99 WH Brown. £99 £91 Foxton Livestock. £99 W Wearmouth & Son. £97 JR Mann. £97 B&J Bainbridge. £97 £96 £95.50 £94.50 JH Johnson. £95 £93 C&M Burnett. £95 S&D Ferrie. £95 Simon Hobson. £94.50 E Peacock. £94 N Armstrong. £94 Kelvin Thompson. £94 G Williamson. £93 C Longstaff. £91.50 £91 JD&MS Mortimer. £91 K Buckle. £91 D Alderson.
Beltex- £117 D&M Lowes. £103.50 LD Laws. £95 N Armstrong. £94 B Lowson. £90 W Burton. £88 £70 M Radford. £75.50 A Toward.
Charollais- £113 £86 £77 N Demuschamp. £98 £66 G Hodgson. £96.50 RRC Andrew.
Suffolk- £110 £89 GW Dobson & Son. £108.50 £77.50 A Rooke & Sons. £100 £84 £60 T&C Smith. £97 £95 £90 A&B Herworth. £94.50 £72 E Anderson. £91 IW Cairns. £87 D Alderson. £87 D Alderson. £78 RA Patterson & Son.
Continental- £96 £91 JR&J Crowe. £95 £77 A Rooke & Sons. £91 £84 S&D Ferrie. £86 £69 Allison Devereux Farms. £85 £70 AW Sanderson. £85 W Burton. £84 £82 WH Brown. £79.50 £73 £70.50 £65 T&AE Miller. £79 £75 £68 C Moffett. £78 GW Dobson & Son. £78 S Sanderson. £75 x2 J&VM Bussey. £73 £71 N Demuschamp. £65 JJM Lonsdale. £63 RA Patterson & Son. £63 A Rooke & Sons. £63 C Hall.
Mule- £88 £86.50 S Harrison. £85 S Straughan. £84 GC&KJ White & Son. £81 JD Heavisides. £79 £65 K Sayer. £79 LD Laws. £79 JJM Lonsdale. £78 GA&C Jopling. £74.50 James Burns. £74 D Alderson. £68 R&M Scott. £63 E Anderson. £57 A Toward.
Cheviot- £83.50 S&D Ferrie. £66 £65 A Rutherford.
Swale- £58 WH Brown. £50 £47 £46 £43.50 GH&KW Boddy. £30 R&M Scott. £23 JP Richardson.
Herdwick- £30 HG Spensley & Son.
Other Breeds- £80 N Demuschamp. £78 C Moffett. £75 £65 WK Wilkinson & Sons.
Feeding Ewes- £139 S Straughan. £117 £68 RA Patterson & Son. £107 £105 £96.50 £81 £77.50 R Worthy. £104 Simon Hobson. £100 £68 W Coatsworth. £97 £82 £73 £71 GH Lister. £92 £69 T&C Smith. £89 £80 £79 GW Dobson & Son. £88 £70 HS Hutchinson. £88 LF&HC Wood. £85 JM Sayer. £85 N Armstrong. £80 £70 D Rutter. £79 £71 P Armstrong. £76 RL Carter. £69 WK Wilkinson & Sons. £69 J Kelly. £68 S&D Ferrie.
