Weekly Report and Newsletter - 11th March 2022 Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Hoggs and Cast Sheep, 7th March 2022 Prime Hoggs It was great to have more numbers today with 651 forward, meeting more demand and trade with a busy ring of buyers at Lancaster. Handy weighted hoggs were in the highest demand once again averaging 255p/kg, with an overall market averaged of 246p/kg to include 310 heavy weigh lambs, which were a noticeably sharper trade. £140 was the top price achieved today for 57kg Texels from J Bargh & Son, Heaton with Oxcliffe. The next call was £139 achieved by Cardwell Farms, Stalmine with others from the same home to £136 and £134. A run of heavy weight hoggs from WN&D Smith & Sons, Cockerham sold Suffolks to £139 and Beltexs to £138. Andrew Butler’s weekly consignment peaked at £134 twice. The £134 mark was also matched by J Oddie & Son, Blackburn, JE Parkinson & Son, Quernmore and Suffolks twice to this price from P Kaye, Chorley. Plenty more sold around the £130 mark. The Mule trade peaked at £127.50 for a pen of 58kg hoggs from WI&A Atkinson & Son, Bleasdale, with others from the same home achieving £120. Top pence per kilo this week was 320p for Texels from Cardwell Farms, Stalmine. Plenty of pens of nice confirmation handy weighted hoggs sold in the 280’s – 290’s.
Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Texel: £140 North Farm, £139 Inverbervie, £136 Inverbervie, £135 North Farm, £134 Inverbervie, £134 Park Farm Barn. Suffolk: £139 Cocker House Farm, £134 Breworth Fold Farm, £134 Breworth Fold Farm, £134 Cheetham House Farm, £130 Inverbervie, £123 Maddison Avenue. Beltex: £138 Cocker House Farm, £121 Park Farm, £110 Highgate Farm, £100.50 Breworth Fold Farm. Charollais: £134 Park Farm, £128 Little Fell Farm, £123 Inverbervie, £122 Inverbervie, £122 Park Farm Barn, £121 Park Farm Barn. Continental: £132 Cocker House Farm, £131 Higher Fair Snape Farm, £128 Cocker House Farm, £115.50 Park House Farm, £112 Moss House Farm, £107.50 Oak Avenue. Mule: £127.50 Holme House Farm, £120 Holme House Farm, £115.50 Breworth Fold Farm, £110 Knowsley Farm, £107 Burrow Heights Farm, £105.50 Fell End Farm. Cheviot: £118 Inverbervie, £114 Oak Avenue, £113 Wavers Farm, £111.50 Oak Avenue, £111 Little Fell Farm, £108.50 Waevers Farm. Masham: £113 Moss House Farm, £106 Cobble Hey Farm, £101 Cobble Hey Farm. Horned: £106 Brabiner House Farm, £90 Moss House Farm. Leicester: £105 Ouzelthorn, £100 Yates Farm. Dalesbred: £98 Fell End Farm. Swaledale: £97 Ouzelthorn Farm, £88 Ouzelthourn Farm, £88 Ouzelthorn Farm, £79 Yates Farm. Herdwick: £97 Moss House Farm.
Cast Sheep The cast ewe trade continues to go from strength to strength, in which more easily could be handled on a Monday morning to fulfil buyers requirements. Leading the way today was a consignment from Andrea Gardner, Bay Horse seling pure Suffolk ewes to £180 and the consignment averaging £172. Suffolk x ewes sold to £155 from WD&D Smith & Sons, Cockerham. Texel x ewes sold to £150 from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, followed by others to £148 from JW Cornall & Sons, Bleasedale. Plenty more Texel x and Suffolk x ewes sold in the region of £130. Big Mule ewes sold to £134 from WN&D Smith & Son, Cockerham with other big Mules to £131 from RH&C Ayrton, Abbeystead. Plenty of strong Mule ewes sold in the £120’s. Swaledale ewes sold to £101 from JW Cornall & Sons, Bleasedale. Dalesbreds sold to £98 from FK&F Woodhouse, Scorton. Continental tups sold to £159 from JC Morphet, Hale.