North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 12th August
Breeding Sheep Sales at North West Auctions NWA J36 NWA Lancaster Saturday 22nd August
Show & Sale of 4500Mule, Masham & Continental Ewes & Gimmer Shearlings
Wednesday 19th August Show & Sale of Mule, masham & Continental Ewes & Gimmer Shearlings
Monday 31st August
14th Annual Production Sale of the Whiteley Hey Flock on behalf of Mr P Slater
Friday 4th September Sale of 1800 Mule, masham & Continental Ewes, Gimmer Shearlings & Rams
Thursday 3rd September
Evening prize Show & Sale 500 of Breeding Rams Plus 100 individual Females
Store Lamb Sales
Saturday 5th September
Friday 14th & 28th August Friday 11th & 25th September Friday 9th & 23rd October
Sale of Rare & Minority Breed Livestock & Poultry
Monday 7th September
Evening sale of pedigree Texel & Charollais Rams & Females plus Other Pedigree Breeds
Store Lamb Sales Weekly on Thursdays
For entry forms, closing dates, catalogues and any other information please visit our website
Last Years Winners from the Breeding Ewe & Gimmer Shearling Sale at J36
1st prize Mule Shearlings and overall Champions from JK & BE Townley, Mearsbeck Farm
1st prize Ewes from F & SA Edmondson who won the Derek Cleasby Memorial Cup
Gimmer Lamb Sale Dates Friday 11th September Ambleside Fair Sale at J36 Rural Auction Centre Saturday 12th September Kendal NEMSA Branch Association Sale of 8000 Mule Gimmer Lambs at J36 Rural Auction Centre Wednesday 16th September Sale of 4000 Gimmer Lambs at Lancaster Auction e. info@nwauctions.co.uk t. 01524 63308 (Lancaster) t. 015395 66200 (J36 Kendal)
NWA Lancaster , Wyresdale Road, Golgotha, Lancaster, LA1 3JQ
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NWA J36, J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, LA7 7FP
Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 7th August A busy day at NWA Lancaster with Store Bullocks averaging £1052, Store Heifers average £995. Blue Bull Calves averaging £407 and Blue Heifers averaging £382. A fantastic show of strong Store Cattle forward this morning at Lancaster. The downturn in current deadweight prices, along with a few missing buyers due to harvest commitments, just took the edge off the high prices seen over the last few weeks. Trade topped at £1370 for an Angus and Charolais bullock from M Allen, Yealand. Limousins bullocks sold to £1310 for a trio from Jim Whitworth, Bolton le Sands. A run of 19 smart stores form John Whitfeild, Cowan Bridge sold to £1290 for 5 Angus Bullocks, with another four close behind at £1280. Heifers sold to a top of £1240 for a single British Blue from J & M Cottom, Hill Top. Native bred heifers to £1200 from Chris Hewitt of Forton. Heavy weight Friesians sold to £1150 from J Lamb, Old Glasson.
Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS- AA: £1370 Yealand Manor; £1290 Longlands Farm; £1270 Wyre Farm. CH: £1370 Yealand Manor; £1130 Stirzakers Farm; £1000 Knotts Farm. LIM: £1310 The Bungalow; £1170 King Bank Farm; £1030 Lodge Farm.BRB: £1270 Hill Top; £1190 King Bank Farm; £1070 Faleton House. BA: £1170 King Bank Farm. BAZ: £1170 King Bank Farm. FR: £1150 Old Glasson Farm; £1080 Newsham Hall Farm; £1030 Low Levens. HE: £1120 Windy Hill Farm; £680 Low Bendrigg Farm. SHO: £1100 Cock Hall Farm. FKV: £1060 Carlinghwa. MO: £940 Carlingwha. CON: £780 Middle Ridge Farm. STORE HEIFERS – BRB: £1240 Hill Top; £1190 Liscoe Farm; £1150 Greenlands Farm. AA: £1200 Forton Bank Farm; £1100 Docker Hall Farm; £1100 Liscoe Farm. SIM: £1100 King Bank Farm. LIM: £1090 Highthorn Farm; £1060 Croppers Farm; £1040 King Bank Farm. CH: £1070 Newsham Hall Farm; £1030 Lane House; £950 Knotts Farm. HE: £1040 Brow Foot Farm; £770 Bull Bank Farm MO: £1010 Lane House. FR: £870 Liscoe Farm. LNGH: £610 Highthorn Farm. BULL – LIM: £1000 Houlker Barn Farm. FR: £880 Barn Hill Farm.
A middling show of Cast Cows forward, with a real shortage of meaty cows today at Lancaster. Numbers low, with only 45 put before a ringside of buyers. Trade topped at 159.5ppk for an OTM Heifer from I & ME Askew, New Hutton and also from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale, with a Friesian Heifer, which also realised the top price per head, at just shy of £1050. Black and White cows sold to a top of 144.5ppk from GB & EA Metcalf & Son, Mansergh. Best sorts of dairy cows forward today regularly between 112-120ppk.
Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COW – HE: 144.5 Highthorn Farm. FR: 134.5 Oxenforth Green Farm; 119.5 Holme House Farm; 114.5 Tunstall Hall. FKV: 124.5 Holme House. BRB: 119.5 Raw Head. MO: 117.5 Lane House. MRI: 111.5 Village Farm. CAST HEIFER – FR: 159.5 Catshaw Hall Farm; 149.5 Newhouse Farm; 144.5 Holme House Farm. HE: 159.5 Raw Head.
A bigger entry of Calves than seen over the last few weeks, with 71 passing through the ring. The vast majority being black and whites, selling to a top of £215 for a 15 week old from Ken Kelsall, Brown Brook. Younger strong calves sold between £130-£165. Montbelliardes from TD & V Whitaker sold to £390. Continental calves in strong demand, with Blue bulls selling to £450 from regular vendor Steven Robinson, Blue bulls averaged £407. Blue heifers sold to £430 from TD & V Whitaker, Winmarleigh with all Blue Heifers averaging £382. Both considerably dearer than other local centres. Limousins sold to £410 for heifers again from S & IA Robinson. Stirks to £600 for a 7month old Blue Bull from A Shepherd. More calves needed to meet buyers demand here at Lancaster. The July Dugdale Calf Competition was a tie, with both TE & M Kidd, Quernmore and HJ Robinson & Son, Kendal selling Blue Bulls to £390, both purchased by JB, L & I Ellis.
Calf Top Prices: BULL CALF – LIM: £500 Hudsbrook Farm; £355 Hatters Farm. AA: £460 Hudsbrook Farm. BRB: £450 Longber Farm; £410 Tills Farm; £390 Hudsbrook Farm. MO: £390 Park Lane Farm; £290 Hatters Farm; £275 Birkland Barrow. FR: £215 Brown Brook; £165 Tills Farm; £152 Catshaw Hall Farm. BULL STIRK – BRB: £600 Muffys Platt Farm. HEIFER STIRK – BRB: £400 Hudsbrook Farm. BULLOCK STIRK – LIM: £480 Hudsbrook Farm.
Monday 10th August A nice entry of 1315 Spring Lambs this morning at Lancaster. Trade sharper than last week, averaging 151.2ppk, 6ppk up on the week. Top price per kilo was achieved on two occasions of 174ppk, firstly from Chris Alty, Warton with 40kg Texels, followed by Linda Dawson, Dolphinholme, with 34kg Texels. Majority of well fleshed Texel lambs, 40-44kg achieved £20-£24 above their weight. Suffolks sold to a top of £72 for heavy weights from J Singleton, Great Eccleston and 45kg Suffolks to £67 from MJ Waller, Killingon. Mashams sold to a top of £68 for a pen of 8 46kg lambs from DC Miller, Claughton on Brock. Mules sold to £65.50 at 50kg from D France. Standard weight mules from B & SE Carter at 44kg realised £64.
Prime Lamb Top Prices: ZWART: £77 Catshaw Hall Farm. TEX: £76.50 Hallbeck; £75 Moss Side Farm; £73.50 Clay Gap Farm.CH: £72.50 Parks Farm Barn; £70 Moss Side Farm; £62.50 Yarlsber. SUFF: £72 Stonelands; £70 Lentworth Farm; £69.50 Old Woodhouse. CONT: £69.50 Moss House Farm; £67.50 Fleetwood Road; £64.50 Wyre Farm. MASH: £68 Cobble Hey Farm; £59 Yarlsber. MULE: £67 Catshaw Hall Farm; £65.50 Isle of Skye Farm; £64 Cragg End. HAMP: £56.50 Redfields; £56 Upper Greenbank.
A good entry of 135 Cast Ewes and Tups this morning with all buyers eagerly bidding. Trade topped at £118 for a pair of big Suffolk ewes from TA Blair, Thornton. Texels sold to £93 from P Cummings, Holme. Mules sold to a top of £85 for a pair from R Collinge & Son, Newton with others to £78 from K & DE Woodhouse, Ellel. Mules averaged £67/head. Horned sheep sold to a top of £64 for 6 swale ewes from M & L Preece, High House. Swale tups to £76 from JA & MM Taylor, Lots House. Overall average of £67 for all cast sheep forward.
NWA Property
Cast Sheep Top Prices:
Catch 23, Borwick
SUFF: £118 Fleetwood Road; £98 Wellington View; £65 Moss House Farm.TEX: £93 Holme Field; £78 Moss Side Farm; £72 Newhouse Farm. CH: £88 Moss House Farm. MULE: £85 The Dingle; £78 Kitchen Ground Farm; £77 Conder Green Farm. SWALE: £76 Lots House Farm; £75 Catshaw Hall Farm; £64 High House Farm. CHEV: £69 Parks Farm Barn. ZWART: £59 Conder Green Farm. CONT: £58 Conder Green Farm.
Six Prime Bulls forward this morning, topping at 163.5ppk for a Blue from E & N Wright & Son, Allcocks. Angus’ from the same home to 162.5ppk. Montbelliardes from GA Haston & Son sold to 143.5ppk.
Prime Beef Top Prices: AA: 162.5 Allcocks Farm; 147.5 Village Farm. BRB: 163.5 Allcocks Farm. MON: 143.5 Lane House. BS: 145.5 Village Farm
For Sale by Informal Tender A superb opportunity for anyone seeking to Invest in land and fast developing leisure business. Extending in total to some 55 acres or thereabouts, it comprises approximately33 acres of well stocked fishing lakes with the increasingly popular Catch 23 restaurant ideally sited to take advantage of the scenic views over open water
Guide Price - In excess of £1,000,000 CLOSING DATE FOR TENDERS – 3.00 p.m. ON THURSDAY, 3rd SEPTEMBER
Lancaster - 01524 63308
J36 Sale Reports Thursday 6th August The weekly sale of Calves and Stirks had an entry of 59 forward. Good beef calves continue to sell in excess of £400 but the edge was slightly off the strong trades which have been enjoyed at J36 over past weeks. J36 continues to be the place to sell beef calves as two month old British Blue bulls sold to £450 from V & EJ Chadwick & Sons of St Michaels with British Blue Heifers to £440 from Messrs Sowerby of Appleby. Plenty of beef calves still reaching £400 and no beef calves selling under £300. Black and Whites a similar trade to that of previous weeks but weanlings were slightly back. Better rearing types sold between £120 and £155 with younger calves between £90 and £105. Black & Whites averaged £91.
Calf Top Prices: BULL CALVES – BRB: £450 Sowerby Lodge; £445 Town Head; £380 Brackenfold; £365 Sunny Bank; £350 Ravens Lodge. Lim: £400 Spout House; £350 Low Audlands. Char: £400 Sowerby Lodge. AA: £375 Sowerby Lodge; £315 Natland Mill Beck. Fr: £220, £210, £160, £150 Ormside Lodge; £155 Far Audlands; £140 Brackenfold; £130 Town Head. HEIFER CALVES – BRB: £440 Sowerby Lodge. Lim: £400 Spout House; £300 Beck House. BULL STIRK – AA: £510 The Lodge. HEIFER STIRK – AA: £530 The Lodge.
Store Cattle sold to a top price of £1080 for Lim x steers from DJ Clarke with heifers £1000 for Lim x from J Alderson & Son. An entry of predominantly younger cattle saw 9 month old steers sell to £820 and heifers £780. Native bred cattle sold to £870 for British White steers with 8 month old Aberdeen Angus steers £685 and Hereford heifers also £685.
Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – Lim: £1080 Orphan Crag. Char: £800 Hartrigg. Sim: £820 Todds Farm. AA: £685 Rash Mill. STRORE HEIFERS – Lim: £1000 Beckfoot Farm; £955 Coolna Marra; £850 Orphan Crag. Hfd: £685 Natland Mill Beck. BRB: £760 Low Audlands. STORE BULLS – British White: £870 Bellat Howe. Lim: £805 Bannerigg Farm.
Cast / OTM Cattle sold to a top price 139 p/kg for a Lim x cow from JM Case & Son and then a British Blue x from RA & C Benson. Dairy cows peaked at 121p/kg from M Wilson. Top per head was £930 for a British Blue cow from RA & C Benson with dairy cows £864 from Mason/Birkland Barrow. An overall market average of 108p/kg archived with over half the entry being dairy cows.
Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COWS – Lim: £139.5p/kg & 129.5p/kg Dendron Farm. BB: 139.5p/kg Gamswell Farm. Blo: £121.5p/kg Low Lowscales Farm. Char: 117.5p/kg Low Lowscales Farm. Hfd: 111.5p/kg Luneside. Fr: 121.5p/kg Ormside; 114.5p/kg Birkland Barrow; 107.5p/kg Far Audlands.
The weekly sale of Store Lambs saw a top price of £57 for Texel x from TJ Beaty with others £55 from JH Strickland, Suffoks £54 from JR Bell. Medium lambs generally £48 - £51 with smallest long keep lambs £35 - £42. Please ensure that Ram Lambs are declared at time of sale. Store lambs are sold every week at NWA J36. Please advise of entries by Friday for the following Thursday sale.
Store Lamb Top Prices: Tex: £57 Long Green Head; £55 Grandy Barn; £52.50 Mint View. Suff: £64 Sunny Brow; £48.50 Grate Farm. Mule: £41 Long Streets; £40.50 Mouse Syke; £40 Beckside Farm
Tuesday 11th The monthly sale of Pigs saw several new customers in attendance with a wide variety of pigs once again on offer. Best prime pigs sold to £125 from AJ Horn with others £100-£112. Store pigs sold to £65 for Pietrain Cross from Rourke Farms with others £48-£62. Very few weaners forward selling to £18 for younger sorts. Prices of Interest Prime Pigs (White) Prime Pigs (Coloured) Store Pigs Weaners
£125, £111, £106, £100 £95, £82, £76 £65, £61, £60, £56 £18, £17, £12
Please advise entries for the next pig sale which is on Tuesday 8th September. Wanted on behalf of a Customer in-pig Sows please contact Mathew Probert on 07760 557932 The weekly sale of Prime Lambs saw a full ringside of buyers competing for all types but showing caution towards under finished and Non-Farm Assured Lambs. Best Lambs sold to 178p/kg for Texel Cross from J & D Chapman and £75.50 from W Kipling. Most lambs generally £20-£25 over weight averaging 150p/kg, this being ahead of other local centres. Hill lambs sold to £65 (151p/kg) for Mules. Light lambs in short supply with more 32kg-36kg required each week provided they are meated.
Prime Lamb Top Prices: TEX: £75.50 Mid Town House; £71 Greenwood Haw; £72 Clawthorpe Lodge; £71.50 Wray Farm; £70.50 Nook Farm. SUFF: £71 Greenwood Haw; £70 Milstones Cottage; £70 Hill Park; £69 Smithy Green Farm; £70.50 Swainshead Hall Farm; £69 Low Woodedge Farm; £68.50 Swainshead Hall Farm. MULE: £65 Yarslber; £61.50 Cooper House. CH: £64.50 Kate Farm; £60 Lodge Bank Farm. CHEV: £57.50 The Park.
The weekly sale of Cast Ewes saw a similar number on offer with just shy of 500 forward. A lot more leaner ewes forward today with a lot less big Continental ewes through the ring. Heavier Continental ewes sold between £83 and £90 topping at £97 from Messrs Boyren of Hill Park. Heavier Mule ewes sold to £72 from J,BL & I Ellis of Hawkrigg End with other meaty Mule ewes selling in the late sixties and lean, plainer sorts in the fifties. Less big fit quality horned ewes forward today. Meatier Swaledale ewes sold to £59 from Fishwick Bros of Middle Sadghyll with fit Swaledales selling between £40 and £47 with plain ewes in the thirties.
Cast Sheep Top Prices: TEX: £97 Hill Park; £90 Highfield; £86 Fourwinds; £84 Moss End Farm; £81 Matson Ground. SUFF: £83 & £80 Thwaitrigg End; £63 Burton Hill. MULE: £72 Hawkrigg End; £67 Green Lane End; £66 Raw Head, Borrans Farm. CHEV: £70 Low Tarn Green. R.F: £64 Moss End Farm. LLEYN: £46 Gaitbarrow. SWALE: £59 Middle Sadghyll; £47 Holme House; £46 Thursgill. ZWART: £46 Crook Hall.
NFU Dairy Crisis Meeting Thursday 27th August 7.30pm at J36 Rural Auction Centre Speakers are Chairman - Mike Gorton, Rob Harrison, Chairman of NFU Dairy Board, David Handley from FFA, Stephen Wyrill, Chairman of TFA
J36 - 015395 66200
NWA Property Nunfield Farm, Cumwhitton, Brampton, Carlisle To Let By Informal Tender
A rare opportunity to take, by informal tender, a productive, fully equipped livestock farm extending to 187 ac/75.68ha or thereabouts on a Farm Business Tenancy of between 10 and 15 years. Available from 1st November 2015 CLOSING DATE FOR TENDERS 3.00 p.m. on 14th September Particulars available on application at a cost of ÂŁ15
Poultry & Rare Breeds Sale
Farmers Market
Saturday 5th September
Saturday 5th September 10-3pm
Entry forms available online or by request
Trade Stands Available
Poultry entries close on Monday 24th August Rare Breed entries close on Saturday 22nd August
Please contact either Olivia on 015395 66220 or Amy on 01524 63308
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Coming up at North West Auctions‌
J36 Rural Auction Centre Tuesday 18th August Weekly Primestock at 1pm
Thursday 20th August Weekly Sale of Calves & Store Lambs Fortnightly Sale of Cattle Sale Starts at 10.15am
Saturday 22nd August Breeding Ewes & Gimmer Shearlings Catalogue available online in due course
Lancaster Auction Mart Monday 17th August Weekly Sale of Primestock at 9am Monthly Sale of Dairy Cattle at 11am
Wednesday 19th August Breeding Ewes & Gimmer Shearlings Catalogues available online
Friday 21st August Weekly Cattle Sale at 10.15am
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