Weekly Report and Newsletter - 29th December Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs and Cast Sheep, 20th December 2021 Prime Lambs It was the Monday before Christmas and all through the mart, a sharper trade was seen much to vendors delight. The entry forward may have been smaller but the trade and market average was certainty higher with an average of 278p/kg attained. The top price today was achieved not once or twice but an incredible four times, firstly by our own Christmas shepherd Andrew Butler, Hambleton who sold 50kg Texels to £156 and 54kg Texels achieving the same. Also achieving the £156 mark was 53kg Texel lambs from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby and final at £156 was a pen of 46kg Texel lambs which sold to the top pence per kilo of the day of 340p/kg from J&R Waller, Killington. Plenty more pens of lambs sold into the £140’s, it was great today to have numerous pens of good quality lambs selling in excess of the 300p/kg mark. As to be expected for the time of year, more upland lambs were on the market, topping with 56kg Cheviots at £143 from P Prickett, Hutton Roof, this was followed by Mules peaking at £135 weighing 52kg from WI&A Atkinson & Son, Bleasdale. Many pens of Mule lambs oftener sold over the £120 mark. Horned lambs peaked at £119 for 47kg Dalesbreds from S&J France, Over Wyresdale with Swaledales to £105.50 at 42kg from KM&KJ Curwen, Abbeystead. Lancaster wise men of buyers will all be in attendance next Monday, wanting to fill their sleighs with lambs from thee. Prime Lamb Top Prices Texel: £156 (2) Park Farm Barn, £156 Humblescough Farm, £156, £151 Hallbeck, £148 Park Farm Barn. Cheviot: £143, £133 Hutton Roof Hall, £130.50 North Farm, £127.50 Hutton Roof Hall, £112 Marshaw Farm, £111 Hutton Roof Hall. Mule: £135 Holme House Farm, £124 Castle Mill Farm, £122 Fell End Farm, £118.50 Cragg End, £118 Kays Farm, £116 Holme House Farm. Charollais: £134 High Hallbeck, £133 Park Farm Barn, £128, £124 High Hallbeck, £114 North Farm. Suffolk: £126 Stonehead, £122 North Farm, £111 Oak Avenue. Masham: £121.50 Holme House Farm, £118 Kays Farm. Dorset: £120 Beckside Farm. Dalesbred: £119 Kays Farm. Swaledale: ££105.50, £95.50 Marshaw Farm, £95 Yates Farm. Leicester: £90 Dunkenshaw Farm.
Cast Sheep The time of year has come for more cast sheep to come forward, with a market average today of £104.60. Top spot today was £142 for a Texel ewe from J&H Huddleston, Annasghy. Next call was £141 from TM Townley, Over Wyresdale with a big Dorset ewe. Plenty of Continental ewes oftener sold in the £130’s. Mule ewes today peaked at £115 from TM Townley, Over Wyresdale with others to £113 from CF Hargreaves, Overton. Many of pens selling easily over the £100 mark. Horned ewes today sold to £78 for Dalesbreds from FK&F Woodhouse, Scorton with others to £74 from WI&A Atkinson & Son, Bleasedale. Cast tups sold to a top of £130 for Texels from R&DL Cornthwaite, Nateby, followed by Leicester to £126 from AC&K Pye, Abbeystead.