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North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 10th June

NWA J36 Special Beef Breeding Sale Thursday 4th June The June sale of Beef Breeding Cattle saw a full ringside of buyers in attendance from the Northern counties and Midlands.

The sale commenced with breeding bulls which saw all except one finding new homes. Young bulls sold to £1820 for a Limousin from RH & C Ayrton, Aberdeen Angus £1600 from JF Batty & Son and Simmental £1250 from EJ Edgar. Mature bulls saw a top price of £1550 for a 3 year old Limousin from FW Woof and £1500 from, NA & J Temple.

Heifers with calves at foot sold to £1980 for a Limousin x with a bull calf from JS & S Atkinson who sold others at £1900 with heifer calves. The annual consignment from EJ Hodgson & Son sold to £1780 with others at £1750. Older cattle saw cows with calves at foot peak at £1720 from the dispersal on behalf of GM & R Whitaker. Others sold to £1650 from RI Dixon and £1620 from KM & KJ Curwen.

The consignment of Stabiliser x cows from A Dixon & Son sold to £1420 with others generally £1320 to £1400.

Lim X Cow with Lim X Steer Calf from KM & KJ Curwen

In-calf British Blue x heifers from T,L,B & J Knowles sold to £1200 with bulling heifers to £1360 for Pedigree Limousins from J & MB Birkett.

Top Prices: Heifers with Bull Calves £1980, £1900, £1780 Heifers with Heifers Calves £1900, £1750, £1700 Cows with Bull Calves £1720, £1620, £1600, £1580 Cows with Heifer Calves £1650, £1620, £1600, £1550 Bulling Heifers £1360 twice, £980 Full Ringside of Buyers

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NWA Lancaster , Wyresdale Road, Golgotha, Lancaster, LA1 3JQ

In-calf Heifers

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£1200, £1150 twice, £1120

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Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 5th June Following the previous week’s large numbers of Cast/OTM cattle forward and the better weather this week, led to a reduced number of cattle forward as 49 passed through the ring. Cast steers sold to a top of 201.5ppk from A & E Clarkson of Thurnham with an Angus with others selling around 190ppk. Well fleshed beef cows sold in the early 150ppk topping at 154.5ppk from JE Bracken of New House Farm with a nine year old Limousin. Better types of OTM Black and white cows sold to 139.5ppk from R & A Jolleys of Marlholes with other better types easily selling in the 130’s. Black and whites averaged 116ppk with all cattle in the OTM ring selling to an average of 120ppk.

Cast Cow Top Prices: OTM COW – FR: 139.5 Marlholes Farm; 137.5 Tills Farm; 137.5 Derby Lodge. AA: 144.5 Yealand Manor; 139.5 Eskew Beck; 131.5 Mosergh Farm. LIM: 154.5 New House Farm; 131.5 Mosergh Farm; 129.5 Intack Farm. BA: 151.5 Coastal Road.

OTM HEIFER – FR: 157.5 High Snab; 144.5 Blackwood End; 129.5 Endmoor Farm.

OTM STEER – AA: 201.5 Cock Hall Farm; 191.5 Intack Farm. BRB: 124.5 Croppers Farm.

A good trade throughout today with all vendors going away well satisfied with their trade with twice as many cattle could easily have been sold today at Lancaster to vendor’s advantage. In keeping with recent trends, younger and grazing Store Cattle sell extremely well. The trade for older and cattle nearing finished was noticeable stronger today plenty of steers and heifers selling in excess of £1,200 with steers topping at £1320 from J Bargh of Old Woodhouse with a Limousin as a Quartet of heifers sold to £1240 from EJ Ward & Sons of Intack Farm.

Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – FR: £1010 Barn Owl Farm; £1000 Cragg Farm; £910 Ivy Farm. AA: £1240 Middle Grange Farm; £1200 High Green; £1180 Ivy Farm. LIM: £1320 Old Woodhouse; £1300 Dunningwell Farm; £1290 Millbeck. WS:£1050 Cock Hall Farm. HE: £1120 Moss View; £1040 Old Woodhouse. SIM: £1280 Old Woodhouse; £1070 Windy Hill Farm; £980 Moss View. BRB: £1240 Croppers Farm; £1170 Dunningwell Farm; £1110 Brow Foot Farm. BAZ: £1070 Clawthorpe Lodge.

BA: £1290 Millbeck.

STORE HEIFERS – FR: £970 Crook Farm; £830 Intack Farm; £790 Marlholes Farm. AA: £1120 Low Levens; £1120 Manor House Farm; £1080 Bouthwaite Farm. WB: £990 Croppers Farm. LIM: £1240 Intack Farm; £1120 Low Levens; £1090 Pasture Barn Farm. CH: £1240 Intack Farm. HE: £1070 Windy Hill Farm; £980 Manor House Farm; £900 Brow Foot Farm. SIM: £970 Whinney Garth. BRB: £1120 Cragg Farm; £1100 Manor House Farm; £1070 Bouthwaite Farm.

BULL – LIM: £860 Brunstow.

A smaller entry of Calves this morning with farmers making the most of the better weather, however those who found time were met by a very strong trade throughout with buyers keen to secure numbers. Blue bulls sold to a top of £398 from WD & RD Walmsley of Cockerham, with blue heifers to £350 from the same home and RT Halhead and Son. Black and white calves once again above and beyond vendors expectations, topping at £182 for an 8 week old from TD & V Whitaker, Forton. Best sorts in excess of £135, with younger sorts £58-£75. Overall average of £112.15. Stirks sold to £600 for Blue bulls from A Shepherd, Pilling.

Calf Top Prices: BULL CALF – FR: £182 Park Lane Farm; £168 Tills Farm. AA: £348 Newhouse Farm; £230 Gibsons Farm. BRB: £398 Beechwood Farm.

HEIFER CALF – AA: £188 Gibsons Farm. BRB: £350 Norbreck Farm; £350 Beechwood Farm.

HEIFER STIRK – BRB: £555 Muffys Platt Farm.

BULL STIRK – FR: £370 Knittleton Farm. BRB: £600 Muffys Platt Farm.

Monday 8th June A sharper trade for all types of Prime Lambs today with a good entry of well fleshed prime lambs forward. An overall market average of 193ppk with better types of lambs easily selling over 200ppk topping at 221ppk from D & DW Prickett of Farleton House with plenty of pens of lambs selling around £80.

An entry of just 37 Prime Hoggs in the market this week averaging 149ppk. Handy weight fit hoggs good too sell well topping at 173ppk from ST Birkett of Hall Croft.

Prime Spring Lamb & Hogg Top Prices: Prime Spring Lambs – HAMP: £73 Redfields. SUFF: £88 Keepers Cottage; £84 Hall Croft Barn; £82.50 Hill Top; £82 Brown Edge. CH: £85 Moss Side Farm; £82.50 Jacksons Farm; £83 Oak Head Farm; £81.50 Parks Farm Barn. TEX: £87.50 Parks Farm Barn; £86 North Farm; £84 Old Glasson; £84 Tarnwater Farm; £84 Birch Croft.

Prime Hoggs – SUFF: £75 The Cottage; £61 Castle o Trim. TEX: £73 Hall Croft; £70 Inverbervie; £64 The Cottage. GRIT: £77 Inverbervie. HERD: £68 Lee End Farm. ZWART: £57 Hall Croft Barn.

A big entry of Cast Sheep saw 173 forward. Topping the day was the last sheep through the ring, a Texel tup from B & SE Carter, Ellel achieving £139. Ewes sold to a top of £116 for a Charollais from A & E Clarkson, Thurnham. Mules sold to £94 for a pair from PD Anderton, Scorton. Swales sold to £75 from J & CW Metcalfe, Quernmore with others to £63. Cast sheep in general a fraction easier on the day, averaging £79.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: SUFF: £108 Moss Side Farm; £101 Wellington View; £95 Windmill Farm. MULE: £94 Wyre Farm; £84 Burrow Heights Farm; £83 Old Glasson. HRN: £75 Hare Apple Tree; £61 Cragg End. HRN: £75 Hare Apple Tree; £61 Cragg End. CH: £116 Cock Hall Farm. TEX: £139 Cragg End; £134 Old Glasson; £115 Goose Green; £97 Farleton House. HERD: £58 Lee End Farm. ZWART: £89 Wyre Farm.

Breeding Sheep Sale A small entry of Hoggs with lambs at foot as the season draws to an end, Texel Hoggs from Stockdale Farms with strong lambs sold to £170 and £165 twice.

Land Sale Result NWA Property offered two lots of land for sale by public auction on Thursday, 4th June and after spirited bidding the following prices were achieved.

Land at Hubbersty Head - 36.30 acres of pasture land sold for £180,000, an average of £4,958 per acre

Bishops Allotment – 100.30 acres of upland open access land sold for £156,000, an average of £1,559 per acre

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J36 Sale Reports Thursday 4th June Fresh Calved Dairy Heifers sold to £1110 from E & K Bland of Cotegill, calved 14 days giving 6 gallon. Bulling Heifers sold to £700 from J & PA Jackson, Winter Tarn.

The weekly sale of Calves and Stirks saw a very disappointing number forward due to many people taking advantage of the good weather. The calves that where forward sold to a very strong trade with young Angus heifer calves all selling in excess of £250 with bulls topping at £265 from Barker Farms.

Stirks keenly sought after, with British Blue steers selling to £420 from RJ & KR Wilkinson of High Foulshaw, Stabilisers from the same home sold to £405.

Calf Top Prices: Bull Calves – Fr: £240 & AA: £250 Warton Grange Farm.

Heifer Calves – AA: £255 Warton Grange Farm.

Bull Stirks – AA: £410 Capplerigg. Stab: £405 & BRB: £420 High Foulshaw Farm .

First Anniversary of NWA Architectural It has been a busy first year for our architectural and farm building design service. There have been changes of legislation, government and planning to contend with and no doubt more to come.

In this first year we have successfully obtained planning or building regulation consent for a significant number of projects, and wish to extend our thanks to those clients that have instructed us to do this on their behalf. The NWA website will soon be updated with photographs of completed projects.

The list of successful applications is long and diverse including, a number of buildings converted to flats, around 15 new farm buildings consented, some already built and earning their keep. We have obtained consent for 6 different house projects, some earlier in the year that are nearing completion and others that are to start soon and we have obtained consents for a variety of alterations, extensions or conversions to listed buildings.

We are presently working on detailed site layouts for housing land in the area that will soon be on the NWA website for sale to housing developers and are working on a couple of farm diversification projects which will be submitted in the summer.

It has been a successful first year and we hope to extend our service to clients old and new this next year.

We carry out an initial site visit free of charge to assess your project and the site, and offer fixed fee quotes for work including planning applications, conversion notifications, extensions, new buildings, and farm diversification assessments.

Please contact Greg Guilding on 015395 66248 or 07969994945

Tuesday 9th June Prime Lambs sold to £92 twice for Suffolk x from J J & M Metcalfe and D E & S M Moorhouse. Well finished lambs generally £78-£85, with Farm Assured selling at a premium.

Texel x lambs from E J & S Postlethwaite sold to the top price of 210p/kg, closely followed by A E Atkinson & Son at 209p/kg.

A market average of 185p/kg saw rise on the week with buyers requesting more lambs to fill orders.

Prime Hoggs sold to £77 from E D Robinson and 183p/kg from B R Butterfield & Son.

Prime Spring Lamb & Hogg Top Prices: Prime Lambs Hamp: £73.50 Endmoor Farm. Dors: £73 Warth Sutton. Suff: £92 High House Farm, Orchard House; £89 Cracalt Farm; £88 Garnett Folds; £87.50 Ackenthwaite Farm. Char: £77.50 Garnett Folds. Tex: £88.50 High House Farm; £87.50 Benson Hall; £87 Cantsfield Hall, Garnett Folds; £86.50 Stubb Farm.

Berr: £75.50, £75 Patton Mill Farm.

Prime Hoggs Suff: £82, £72 Overplains; £73 Clawthorpe Lodge. Swale: £66 Moss House Farm; £62.50 Higher Salter. RFell: £63 Moss End Farm. Tex: £77, £70.50 Clawthorpe Lodge; £73 Haveriggs Farm; £70 Moss House Farm. Herd: £71.50 Greenbank Farm; £57 Moss End Farm; £55 Moss House Farm.

The trade for Cast Sheep was in keeping with national trends, with the prices being less than seen over previous weeks, although many buyers saying the trade for cast sheep was ahead of many local competitors. Lean ewes looked exceptionally dear in comparison to over-fat ewes that buyers where extremely cautious of. A larger entry of 461, and more ewes on the market nationally also contributing to the reduced trade. Cast tups sold to a top of £119 for a Teeswater from DC Miller of Cobble with other large tups selling £110 plus. Beltex ewes sold to £108 with other big continental ewes selling in the nineties and around £100. Mule ewes sold in the seventies.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: Suff: £111, £107, £92 Ackenthwaite Farm; £88 Cooilingel Farm. Mash: £75, £71 Cobble Hey Farm. Mule: £78 Ackenthwaite Farm, The Height; £77 Ackenthwaite; £75, £73 Benson Hall. Swale: £50 Moser Hill; £48 The Height. RFell: £90, £80 Boundary Beck; £74, £62 Croft Foot Farm; £62 Patton Mill Farm. Char: £104 Kirket Nook; £94, £83 Cooilingel Farm. Chev: £88 Cooilingel Farm; £76 Strickland Tenement; £69 Green Lane End. Tex: £112 Ackenthwaite Farm; £109, £101, £100 Cooilingel Farm; £100 Beckfoot Farm. Lleyn: £68 Red Lodge. Leic: £90, £87, £82, £78 Boundary Beck. Tees: £119, £110 Cobble Hey Farm. Herd: £54 Moss End Farm, Greenbank Farm.

Belt: £108, £103, £94 Cooilingel Farm. Berr: £98, £62 Patton Mill Farm.

Breeding Sheep Sale A good entry of sheep with lambs at foot for the time of year. A good trade from start to finish considering the sheep forward. Mule hoggs sold to £162 for hill bred types from J & T Hunter of Moser Hill, with other pens selling around £160. White faced hoggs sold to a top of £150 from L Farish of Barrow. Very few ewes available today, saw young Texel ewes with Twin lambs sell to £140 from S Penellum of Swinside Farm. A consignment of aged Herdwick ewes with pure Herdwick twins from P Crompton of Greenbank Farm sold to £100, with singles making £85.

Monthly Pig Sale The monthly sale of pigs saw 112 forward with more buyers in attendance. Prime pigs were regularly £100 +, topping at £142 from P K & R Woof and £135 from A Routledge.

Store pigs sold to £58 from K F Sweeting and weaners £25 for Saddleback from J A Noble.

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Major Reduction Sale of Fell Ponies on behalf of the Murthwaite Fell Pony Stud

NWA Property 015395 66222

Saturday 4th July J36 Rural Auction Centre

Helsington Moss, Lyth Valley 2.00 acres/0.81 hectares or thereabouts of land For Sale by Informal Tender

Pictured is Lot 19 at the sale Murthwaite Strong Winds a 9 year old Mare

The land extends to 2.00 ac/0.81 ha or thereabouts with access from Howard Lane Closing date for tenders is 3pm on Wednesday 8th July

Catalogues available online or by request For more information please contact Ian Atkinson on 07766 521472

Coming up at North West Auctions‌

J36 Rural Auction Centre Tuesday 16th June Weekly Primestock

Thursday 18th June Weekly Sale of Calves & Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle

Lancaster Auction Mart Monday 15th June Weekly Sale of Primestock & Monthly Sale of Dairy Cattle

Friday 19th June Weekly Cattle Sale

Please see our website for full fixtures and catalogues

EID Tagging & Farm Assurance Please note that all Lambs born from 2015 and onwards will need to be identified with a single EID slaughter tag (yellow).

If your consignment of Hoggs are Farm Assured, please place a sticker on the pink paper of the License so that we can keep buyers fully informed of the FABBL status

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