Darlington Farmers Auction Mart held their weekly sale on Thursday 29th December 2022. Forward were 2327 Head.
1846 Prime Lambs sold to 346ppk or £145
481 Cast Ewes & Rams sold to £162
Prime Lambs (1846) – The lamb trade today resembled a turkey sandwich, still alright but not as tasty as it was last week. As in the previous 51 weeks all the lambs over our bridge were weighed straight and averaged today 241ppk with an SQQ of 245ppk. Out in front per kilo at a whopping 346 pence were a quality quartet of Beltex from W Ramsay & Sons, Wingate which sold to Yorkshire Halal, Keighley; best of the rest after his honourable mention in the ewe ring last week was the Durham dipsomaniac William Tindale. This week the gross values reached £145 on three occasions, firstly a fantastic five Texel’s weighing 56kg from Richard Bailes, Cole Hill Farm, Elwick which sold to Roots Farm Shop, East Rounton; they were twice matched at £145 by trios of belting Beltex from the excellent Askwiths of Crook which headed to Castlebank Butchers and J A Jewitt Ltd respectively. Heavyweight pens from A C Simpson & Son, Witton-le-Wear joined in the photo finish and twice sold to £144 on a day which saw 22 pens of lambs sell beyond £130.
Lambs- Top prices ppk 346 308 302 287 W Ramsay & Sons. 313 310 290 257 256 x2 William Tindale. 115 285 279 256 JD Brannen. 295 289 257 Askwiths. 294 262 WA Wardman LTD. 287 G Thompson & Sons. 283 I Burn & Sons. 278 266 x2 256 PJ&MP Gilhespy. 272 268 258 Cole Hill Farm LTD. 272 261 C Binks & Son. 270 J Gray. 268 261 PJ Tindale. 266 263 AS&G Donaldson. 262 K Hall. 262 260 JR Knox & Son. 262 261 260 J&A Layfield. 261 x2 P Wall. 260 GF Whitfield. 260 AC Kemp. 258 257 K Tallentire. 258 256 W Kirk & Sons.
Lead grossing Lambs £145 x2 £140 £139 £135 £133 Askwiths. £145 £125 £121 £120 Cole Hill Farm LTD. £144 x2 £140 £135 x2 £133 £133 £132 £130 £127 £126 AC Simpson & Son. £140 £136 JD Brannen. £138 £118 William Tindale. £138 £121 G Thompson & Sons. £135 £127 £119 W Ramsay & Sons. £133 JH&D Wise. £128 x2 C Binks & Son. £126 £120 x2 D&PH Brown. £126 £120 x2 J&A Layfield. £125 £120 PJ&MP Gilhespy. £125 £121 £120 DK Barker. £122 AC Kemp. £121 PJ Tindale. £120 AS&G Donaldson. £120 £118 JR Knox & Son. £120 W Love LTD.
Cast Ewes & Rams (481) – The ewe trade signed off 2022 in good form, a leaner show averaged a pleasing £82. Top of the pile was P J Tindale, Shadforth with an excellent Charollais tup reaching £162. On a day which saw over 100 ewes reach £100 or more it was perhaps the heavy Mule’s which enjoyed the biggest lift, top of the breed from W A Wardman Ltd, Yearby sold for £128 with plenty of the popular breed this week nicely into three figures. For the second week running it was a Commondale consignor topping the horned ewes, today’s star turns a terrific trio of Blackface from L W Martin, Wayworth Farm at £82.
£162 PJ Tindale. £150 LR Butler. £150 £106 DK Barker. £140 £110 £108 PJ&MP Gilhespy. £138 £134 £128 £118 £103 WR Thompson. £135 £134 £131 £128 £120 £118 £108 £89 P Tindale. £130 £90 £90 Anthony Tindale. £130 M Dawson. £129 £128 x3 £114 £90 WA Wardman. £128 CW Cutler. £128 £120 W Ramsay & Sons. £128 £120 x3 £108 AC Simpson & Son. £126 A Graham. £124 £102 MJ Blacklidge. £120 x2 A Pearson. £120 £118 £105 PRE Marwood. £117 C&M Burnett. £116 £100 William Tindale. £108 ACM Spalding. £104 £102 G Thompson & Sons. £100 PJ&AJ Browell. £98 JW&DW Laing. £95 J&B Stanwix & Son. £91 J&A Layfield. £90 J Milbank & Sons. £86 B Storey.
From all here at DFAM we wish you a peaceful, prosperous and healthy 2023. We return on Monday 2nd January with our weekly sale of cast cows, store and breeding stock ahead of next Thursday (5th January 2023) and a back to normal ‘red’ dedicated slaughter sale.
