Report & Newsletter - 5th June 2026
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale ofSpring Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot. Monday 1st June 2026.
SPRING LAMBS
The call for lambs was answered with largest entry of the season so far, keep these lambs coming. New buyers once again in attendance and keen to return. All sold today averaged 475p/kg.
Todays sale topped at £251 and 595p/kg for Texel cross from D & K Swarbrick, endless better bred and well finished pens of lambs £220 to £240 and 520p/kg to 560p/kg.
Top Price Per Head:
£251 46kg D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcli e.
£250 42kg D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcli e.
£240 54kg D R Preston, Caton.
£239 44kg D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcli e.
£239 49kg W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe.
£239 47kg D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcli e.
£238 50kg C J Metcalfe, Ingleton.
£235 40kg WA & LM Jenkinson, Stalmine.
£235 45kg S Wilson & Son, Scotforth.
£230 43kg D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcli e.
Top Price Per Kilo:
595p/kg 42kg D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcli e.
588p/kg 40kg WA & LM Jenkinson, Stalmine.
563p/kg 40kg P D Anderton, Scorton.
561p/kg 41kg WA & LM Jenkinson, Stalmine.
554p/kg 41kg T & S Blades, Carnforth.
553p/kg 40kg K A Purtill, Wigan.
549p/kg 41kg K A Purtill, Wigan.
549p/kg 41kg WA & LM Jenkinson, Stalmine.
546p/kg 46kg D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcli e
545p/kg 42kg K A Purtill, Wigan.
Spring Lamb Top Prices: TEXEL: £251 Bensons Farm, £239 Ackenthwaite Farm, £239 Bensons Farm, £238 Yarlsber, £235 Burrow Heights Farm, £235 Woodlands Farm. BELTEX: £250 Bensons Farm, £230 Bensons Farm, £229 Oak Avenue, £229 Bensons Farm, £225 Wyre Farm, £185 West Lodge. SUFFOLK: £240 Ellers Farm, £214 Hazleslack Towers Farm, £201 Cocker House Farm, £195 Hazleslack Towers Farm, £180 Old Parkside Farm. CHAROLLAIS: £239 Bensons Farm, £209 Burrow Heights Farm, £200 Bensons
Farm, CONTINENTAL: £218 Bensons Farm, £205 Cocker House Farm, £199 Burrow Heights Farm, £188 Burrow Heights Farm, £185 Hollins Farm. DORSET: £214 Abbotson Farm, £212 Burnhead Farm. ZWARTBLE: £195 Millstones, £183 Millstones. DUTCH SPOTTED: £187 Fern Bank Farm.
PRIME HOGGS
A very respectable SQQ average of 404p/kg with all Hoggs easily sold. Best of the heavies to £250 for Texel cross from J & K Burr, standards to £185 and lightweights £165. Well fleshed hoggs to 456p/kg from Barker Farms, better end 425p/kg to 445p/kg with grass finished 295p/kg to 415p/kg. Hoggs will continue to be wanted throughout June.
Prime Hoggs Top Prices: TEXEL: £250 Greenlot Farm, £248 Parkside Farm, £206 Mill House Farm, £182 Annasghyl, £170 Cotestone Farm, £170 Annasghyl. DUTCH SPOTTED: £228 Four Lane End Farm, £200 Four Lane End Farm. BLUE TEXEL: £226 West View Farm. SUFFOLK: £185 Myerscough Hall. CHEVIOT: £178 Cotestone Farm, £174 Cotestone Farm, £170 Cotestone Farm, £150 Cotestone Farm, £120 Cotestone Farm. CONTINETNAL: £172 The Hawthorns, £168 Lee End Farm. HERDWICK: £140 Lee End Farm. SWALEDALE: £108 Shaws Farm.
CULL SHEEP
A full row of cull sheep forward with buyers keen for all classes and types. Strongest ewes to £268 for Texels from D & K Swarbrick with others £220-£250 with better end mediums £185-£210 and smaller meated £160-£180. Mules to £188 from D Wightman with strongest £172-£185 and mediums £158-£170. All ewes sold averaged £175. Cull rams to £296 for Texels from G Hargreaves. Stronger continentals £220-£250 with smaller and leaner rams £170-£200.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: TEXEL: £260 Bensons Farm, £248 Woodlands Farm, £218 Bensons Farm, £216 West View, £210 Woodlands Farm, £200 Millstones. BELTEX: £220 Parkside Farm, £170 Parkside Farm. DUTCH SPOTTED: £214 Hill Farm. CHAROLLAIS: £214 Oak Avenue, £198 Oak Avenue. SUFFOLK: £200 Oak Avenue. MULE: £188 West Lodge, £180 Oak Avenue, £178 Yarlsber, £176 Beckside Mews, £174 Yarlsber, £172 Burrow Heights Farm. CONTINENTAL: £172 Oak Avenue, £168 Oak Avenue, £140 Oak Avenue. DORSET: £172 Fern Bank Farm.
Cast Ram Top Prices: TEXEL: £296 Ivy Bank Farm. CONTINENTAL: £176 Ivy Bank Farm.
SHEEP WITH LAMBS AT FOOT
As the season draws to a close these were a few less forward but still a high level of interest from a large crowd of buyers. Dutch Spotted ewes with twins from Myerscough College sold to £330, £325, £320 with singles to £305, £285. Regular supporter Ian Richardson sold aged ewes with twin to £320 and singles £290 and £285.
Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: DUTCH SPOTTED: £330, £300, £270, £250 Myerscough Hall. CONTINENTAL: £320, £290, £270, £235 West View Farm.
Shearling & Lamb Top Prices: DUTCH SPOTTED: £325, £320, £305, £285, £255, £250 Myerscough Hall.
Hogg & Lamb Top Prices: TEXEL: £285 West View Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale ofSheep with Lambs at Foot, Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep, Tuesday 2nd June 2026.
SPRING LAMBS & PRIME HOGGS
Lambs rockin and rollin
Prime lambs sell to £290 for a cracking trio from Messrs RJ Stott
More lambs gradually coming forward now at J36 to a very inviting trade. All shapes and sizes keenly bid for and a large appetite from buyers for numbers. Trade topped from Messrs RJ Stott for Texel lambs at £290. Su olks topped at £260 from Messrs M & RW Stirzaker. A further pen of 8 from Messrs Stott also hitting £260. Blue Texel topped at £250 from Messrs GR Geldard. The lighter end also shifting on. 38kg Texels from Messrs HP Blackwell selling for 515.8ppk. A pen of 5 from D & DW Prickett making 513ppk.
Messrs RE Ladds also selling to 513ppk twice for Texels at 47kg. 33kg to 60kg and all wanted resulting in an overall average of 462ppk.
Hoggs also still very much wanted as they start to dry up, topping at 450.8ppk or £260 from Messrs A & CM Carter.
More sheep required next week to meet buyer’s demand. Competitive trade and prompt payment guaranteed. Contact Joel McGarva on 07920009097.
Spring Lamb Top Prices: TEXEL: £290 Crosscrake Farm, £260 Crosscrake Farm, £256 Crosscrake Farm, £256 Head House, £241 Benson Hall. SUFFOLK: £260 Station Hotel Farm, £251 Station Hotel Farm, £240 Station Hotel Farm, £238 Lane Ends Farm, £228 Patton Hall, £219 Station Hotel Farm. BLUE TEXEL: £250 Low Foulshaw Farm, £246 Low Foulshaw Farm, £234 Crosscrake Farm. DORSET: £238 Hallbeck, £223 Hallbeck, £214 Hallbeck. HAMPSHIRE: £236 Endmoor Farm. MULE: £220 Station Hotel Farm. CHEVIOT MULE: £216 Low Foulshaw Farm. CONTINENTAL: £209 Endmoor Farm, £200 Preston Patrick Hall, £170 Oakfield Farm, £169 Cinderbarrow Farm, £168 Sunnybank Farm, £165 Sunnybank Farm. ZWARBTLE: £201 High Farm.
Prime Hoggs Top Prices: TEXEL: £266 Black Bull Farm, £254 Head House, £253 Holly Cottage, £231 High Fell Gate, £230 Black Bull Farm, £185 Nether Hall Farm. LLEYN: £230 Low Foulshaw Farm. CHEVIOT MULE: £220 Hall Bank, £220 Preston Patrick Hall, £186 High Fell Gate, £138 Bradlow Farm. CONTINENTAL: £220 Holly Cottage, £178 High Fell Gate, £173 Inverbie. HORNED: £196 New Hall, £150 Guest Ford, £147 New Hall, £140 Guest Ford, £136 Holly Cottage. CHEVIOT: £199 Dalton Old Hall, £167 Dalton Old Hall. CHARMOISE: £181 Crake Hall. SUFFOLK: £173 Bradlow Farm. SWALEDALE: £172 Thorn Cottage, £160 New Hall, £150 New Hall, £148 Thorn Cottage, £105 The Old Vicarage, £78 High Green Farm. SCOTCH BLACKFACE: £170 Inverbie, £159 Inverbie, £119 Inverbie. HERDWICK: £155 New Hall. GRITSTONE: £140 Inverbie. HEBRIDEAN: £98 Holly Cottage, £80 Holly Cottage.
CAST SHEEP
300 farmer cast ewes and types in today, selling to £250 for Texels from Harry Geldard, Levens, with other stronger end ewes £220+. Mules to £196 from Andrew Allen, Barker Knott with other best end mules £165-£170. Horned ewes to £152 for Rough Fells from NW & EM Mason & Son, Middleton with plenty of pens north of £125. Ewes
• Texel to £250 from Harry Geldard, Levens
• Beltex to £230 from D & DW Prickett, Farleton
• Charolais to £230 from W Harrison, Ings
• Hampshire to £220 from J & O Galbraith, Endmoor
• Cheviot to £216 from RE Briggs, Wennington
• Mule to £196 from JA & SM Allen, Windermere
• Charmoise to £168 from CM Jennings, Selside
• Rough Fell to £152 from NW & EM Mason, Middleton
• Swaledale to £140 from JA & SM Allen, Windermere
Rams
• Texel to £216 from JE & D & JER Wightman, Lupton
• Beltex to £210 from JE & D & JER Wightman, Lupton
• BFL to £170 from Forest Hall Farm, Selside
All enquiries to Will on 07506 283587
Cast Ewes Top Prices: TEXEL: £250, £232 Whitbarrow View, £230 Farleton House, £230 Park House Farm, £226 Oakfield Farm, £212 Bank End Farm. CHAROLAIS: £230 Low House, £202 The Old Vicarage, £196 Warth Sutton Farm, £172 Low House. HAMPSHIRE: £220, £198 Endmoor Farm, £190 Cantsfield Hall. CHEVIOT: £216 Old Hutton Farm, £184 Cinderbarrow Farm, £176 Hall Bank, £174 Cinderbarrow Farm, £172 The Old Vicarage, £154 Orchard View. SUFFOLK: £202 Head House, £182 Warth Sutton Farm, £164 Kiln Beck, £160 Black Bull Farm. MULE: £196 Barker Knott, £170 Bradlow Farm, £170 Swallowmire, £168 Orchard View, £166 Bank End Farm, £162 Orchard View. CHEVIOT MULE: £190 Park House Farm, £180 Orchard View, £180 Waltham Nursery, £172, £158 Warth Sutton Farm, £152 Black Bull Farm. MASHAM: £186 Hill Cottage. RYELAND: £170 Sewell Houses, £170 Old Byre Barn, £156 (x2), £142 Sewell Houses. CHARMOISE: £168 Crake Hall. HORNED: £164 Tock How Farm, £134 Manor House Farm. BELTEX: £156 Farleton House. ZWARTBLE: £146 High Farm, £110 Patton Hall. GRITSTONE: £144 Swallowmire. SWALEDALE: £140 Barker Knott, £120 Old Scholl House, £118 Skelwith Fold Farm, £112 Thursgill, £112 Ghyll Farm, £106 Thorn Cottage. DALESBRED: £140 Bank End Farm. SHETLAND: £140, £128 Holly Cottage. ROUGH FELL: £130 High Green Farm, £98 Marsh Grange Farm, £78 High Green Farm. HEBRIDEAN: £118, £100 Holly Cottage. CONTINENTAL: £110, £70 Manor House Farm. HERDWICK: £108 Ghyll Farm.
Cast Ram Top Prices: TEXEL: £216, £210 Crabtree Farm. BELTEX: £182 Bradlow Farm. LEICESTER: £170 Thorn Cottage. ROUGH FELL: £152 High Green Farm. CHAROLAIS: £140 Bradlow Farm. SWALEDALE: £134, £124 High Green Farm.
SHEEP WITH LAMBS AT FOOT
Trade for sheep and lambs remains strong with a show of 42 families, trade was especially strong, particularly for quality, all this with the season being very close to finishing.
Topping todays trade came from Messrs Strickland, Whinfell with a pen of Texel ewes with twins at £390 followed by pens at £385, £380 & £370.
Swaledale ewes with single Mules were similar trade to the previous week, trade came out at £105 with Messrs Bennison, Lazonby topping the trade.
!Sheep & Lambs still wanted!
All enquiries welcome, do not hesitate to contact us with entries Rob – 07867 000244
Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: TEXEL: £390, £385, £380, £370 The Borrans, £275 Leigh Croft Farm, £230 The Borrans. CONTINENTAL: £270 Old Hutton Farm, £260 The Borrans, £210 Leigh Croft Farm. DUTCH SPOTTED: £245 Leigh Croft Farm. SWALEDALE: £210, £205, £195 Leigh Croft Farm. MULE: £205, £185, £180 Greenbank Farm. HERDWICK: £170 (x2), £165, £140 (x2), £135 Noran Bank Farm.
Shearling & Lamb Top Prices: HORNED: £320 The Borrans.
Hogg & Lamb Top Prices: TEXEL: £225 Old Hutton Farm.
Lancaster Auction Mart: Weekly Sale of Calves, Stirks, OTM Cattle & Store Cattle. Friday 5th June 2026.
REARING CALVES/WEANED CALVES
Some heat in the calf trade this morning, with rearers selling to £880 for a British Blue bull from J&G Thornley, Kirkham. Other bull calves sold to £800 for Aberdeen Angus again from J&G Thornley, Kirkham. Youngest bulls sold to £760 for British Blues from JP&C Robson, Brock or £720 for Charolais from JE&SM Seedall, Mellor with nice month old Herefords to £590 from JR Newsham & Son, Lancaster. Black and whites sold to £360 from C&J Smith, St Michaels.
Heifer calves sold to £760 for a British Blue from Drinkall Bros, Lancaster with Herefords from this home to £660 and £650 and Aberdeen Angus to £620. The youngest end saw British Blues to £690 from JP&C Robson, Brock or three week old Aberdeen Angus to £380 from Brades Farm, Hornby.
A nice entry of weaned heifers from AT Burrow, Gressingham sold to £1260 on eight occasions for British Blues at seven to eleven months, with Limousins to the same age £1240 and £1220.
Heifer Calf Top Prices: BRITISH BLUE: £1260 High Snab. LIMOUSIN: £1240 High Snab, £1220 High Snab. HEREFORD: £660 Catshaw Hall Farm, £650 Catshaw Hall Farm, £600 Catshaw Hall Farm. ANGUS: £620 Catshaw Hall Farm, £610 North Farm, £550 North Farm, £450 Brades Farm, £430 Brades Farm, £380 Brades Farm.
Bull Calf Top Prices: BRITISH BLUE: £880 Derby Lodge Farm, £790 Catshaw Hall Farm, £780 Wyre Bank, £760 Roe Farm, £760 Catshaw Hall Farm, £740 Roe Farm. ANGUS: £800 Derby Lodge Farm, £690 Wyre Bank, £440 Brades Farm, £295 Brades Farm. CHAROLAIS: £720 Bolton Fold Farm. HEREFORD: £710 Catshaw Hall Farm, £590 Sellerley Farm, £560 Sellerley Farm, £550 Sellerley Farm, £540 Sellerley Farm, £510 Sellerley Farm. SHORTHORN: £500 Bolton Fold Farm. FRIESIAN: £360 Wyre Bank, £350 Newhouse Farm, £330 Sellerley Farm, £260 Sellerley Farm. FLEKVIEH: £300 Sellerley Farm.
STORE CATTLE
Lancasters weekly store cattle sale saw a strong show of cattle with trade definitely sharper on the week with new faces round the ring seeing a pleasing average of steers at £2030 and heifers at £1901 which included 20 cattle under 14 months old.
A trio of well grown Aberdeen Angus steers topped the stores at £2450 from JS Clark & Sons, Preston with KH & D Holden, Pilling not far behind at £2380 also for Aberdeen Angus. British Blue steer to £2350 from J Lamb, Glasson, other British Blue at £2300 from H Halhead & Son, Nether Kellet. Limousin steers to £2280 from J & H Bland & Son, Levens other Limousin from EJ Hodgson & Son, Lambrigg to £2200. J & H Bland continued his good days trading with Herefords to £2220 and his dairy bred steers to £1900 for Friesians. Plenty of continental bred steers today trading in the £2100-£2200 mark.
Good show of store heifers today with at top price of £2200 firstly from Andrew & Charlie Butler, Hambleton for a stylish Blonde heifer and secondly from H Halhead & Son, Nether Kellet this time for a British Blue, other British Blues at £2180 from JW & DL Park, Ellel. Aberdeen Angus heifers always easily sold at Lancaster and today would be no exception with KH & D Holden & Son, Pilling to £2180 for a pair with Tom Barron Farms, Woodplumpton not far behind at £2120. Other Aberdeen Angus heifers to £2050 from JW & DL Park, Ellel. Simmental heifers to £1980 from AT Burrow & Son, Lancaster. Vendors urged to enter store cattle with confidence for next weeks sale. Entries please to the o ice on 01524 63308 or Andrew on 07966556592.
Store Bullock Top Prices: ANGUS: £2450 Godson House Farm, £2380 Chestnut House, £2300 Old Glasson Farm, £2250 Ninezergh, £2150 Cheetham House Farm, £2150 Grange Farm. BRITISH BLUE: £2350 Old Glasson Farm, £2300 Lawsons Farm, £2220 Barn Hill Farm, £2200 Old Glasson Farm, £2180 High Snab, £2120 Park House Farm. LIMOUSIN: £2280 Ninezergh, £2200 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1880 Ninezergh, £1880 Cottam Farm. CHAROLAIS: £2220 Ninezergh, £2150 Carlingwha. HEREFORD: £2220 Ninezergh, £2200 Ninezergh, £2050 Parkside Farm, £2020 Carlingwha. SIMMENTAL: £2220 Ninezergh. FRIESIAN: £1900 Ninezergh, £1900 Lambrigg Head Farm, £1720 Hall Farm. BROWN SWISS: £1880 Lambrigg Head Farm. WELSH BLACK: £1480 Plumpton Hall Farm.
Store Heifer Top Prices: BRITISH BLUE: £2200 Lawsons Farm, £2180 Hare Field House, £2100 Wood Nook Farm, £2080 Lawsons Farm, £2020 Park Farm, £1980 Park House Farm. BLONDE: £2200 Park Farm. ANGUS: £2180 Chestnut House Farm, £2120 Ambrose Hall Farm, £2050 Hare Field House, £1980 Gaskell House, £1980 Hare Field House. SIMMENTAL: £1980 High Snab. CHAROLAIS: £1950 Windy Hill Farm. HEREFORD: £1020 Outfield. LIMOUSIN: £1720 Cottam farm.
Lancaster weekly OTM sale saw trade very similar on the week with numbers well short of buyer’s requirements with ten buyers ring side all eager for cattle. Topping the OTM ring today per head and per kilo was GR&A Foy, Conder Green for a Shorthorn cow achieving 324.5p/kg or £2219.58. Other beef bred cows achieved £1954 or 264.5p/kg for a Hereford from N Barker, Burton in Kendal. Friesian cows topped at 289.5p/kg firstly from R Packham & Sons, Docker and secondly from Richmond Hall Farms, Cockerham with top price per head coming from GR Park & Sons, Whinfell. All OTM cows today averaged 235p/kg.
Cast steers saw J Oddie & Sons, Balderston to £2207.75 or 319.5p/kg, with an average of 302p/kg achieved.
OTM heifers from EW&RM Towers, Hornby to £2016 or 324p/kg for Friesian, with beef bred OTM heifers to 314.5p/kg for Aberdeen Angus from R&D Kellet, Cockerham. All OTM heifers averaged 303p/kg.
Just one cast bull today at £2090 from MA&JA Winn, Burneside.
OTM Cow Top Prices: SHORTHORN: 324.50 Parkside Farm. FRIESIAN: 289.50 Docker Hall, 289.50 Richmond Hall, 249.50 Low Deepslack, 234.50 Lower Brow Top, 229.50 Elm Tree Farm, 229.50 Low Deepslack. HEREFORD: 264.50 (x3) Dalton Old Hall. AYRSHIRE: 254.50, 234.50 Half Way House. ANGUS: 249.50 Cragg Farm, 219.50 Rye Close.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: FRIESIAN: 324.50, 319.50 Holme Head, 289.50 Cragg Farm, 289.50 Norbreck Farm, 284.50, 279.50 High Snab. ANGUS: 314.50 Mill House Farm. FLECKVIEH: 314.50 Holme Head. BRITISH BLUE: 299.50 Mill House Farm.
Cast Steer Top Prices: ANGUS: 319.50 Cheetham House Farm, 274.50 Mill House Farm.
Cast Bull Top Prices: CONTINENTAL: 244.50 High Underbrow Farm.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Monday 8th
Lancaster: 10am Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep
11am Sheep with Lambs at Foot
J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Viewing
Tuesday 9th
J36: Online Machinery Sale concludes 10:30am Pigs
11am Sheep with Lambs at Foot
1pm Spring Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep
Wednesday 10th
J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection
Thursday 11th
J36: 10am OTM/Cast Cattle
10:30am Store Cattle & Beef Breeding Cattle followed by Stirks 11am Calves
Friday 12th
Lancaster: 10:15am Calves & OTM Cattle
11:15am Store Cattle
J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection
