Weekly Report and Newsletter - 13th June 2025
Lancaster Auction Mart: Sale of Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep. Monday 9th June 2025.
PRIME LAMBS (498)
Those that drew lambs were duly rewarded, with buyers keen to fill existing orders and start new ones. Well bred and fed lambs were 360p/kg to 380p/kg, topping at 433p/kg from WA&LM Jenkinson, Stalmine with others to 420p/kg from KA Purtill, Wigan. Several pens of lighter weights lambs coming forward, selling to 366p/kg from D Wightman, Burton in Kendal. Topping the market today selling several pens of Texel cross at £174 was D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe. Closely followed by KA Purtill, Wigan and A&E Clarkson, Cockerham achieved £172. Standard weigh in specification lambs were in the keenest demand, with light weight selling to £139. An overall market average of 339p/kg and SQQ of 342p/kg was achieved got all sold.
Prime Lambs Top Prices: TEXEL: £174 (x2) Bensons Farm, £172 Cock Hall Farm, £169 Woodlands Farm, £161, £160 Bensons Farm. BELTEX: £172 Oak Aveune. SUFFOLK: £161 West Lodge, £158 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £150 Potters Hill Farm, £149, £148 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £147 West Lodge. CONTINENTAL: £160 West Lodge, £147 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £146 Moss Gate Farm, £137, £125 Lundholme Farm. DOSET: £146 Abbotson Farm, £138 Oak Aveune. MULE: £127 North Farm, £124 Burrow Heights Farm.
PRIME HOGGS (66)
Just a handful of end of season hoggs forward selling to a top price of 329p/kg for a Texel cross from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe and £140 for Cheviots from the Isle of Man.
Prime Hoggs Top Prices: TEXEL: £140 IOM, £131 Burrow Heights Farm, £102 Bensons Farm, £94, £72 Burrow Heights Farm. CONTINENTAL: £133, £118 IOM, £96 Bensons Farm, £93, £80 IOM. CHEVIOT: £105 Cotestones Farm, £100 Moorcock Hall Farm, £96, £80 Cotestones Farm. DUTCH SPOTTED: £102 Moorcock Hall Farm. MULE: £92 Moorcock Hall Farm, £70 Burrow Heights.
CULL SHEEP (90)
No let up in the trade for all classes and types of cull sheep. Better continentals were £195 and £230, topping at £240 was WA&LM Jenkinson, Stalmine with mediums £170 to £190. Mules peaked at £184 from D&K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe with another stronger end ewes £165 to £180, and the next draw down £140 to £160. Hill ewes sold to £170 for Cheviots.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: TEXEL: £240 Woodlands Farm, £212 Oak Aveune, £206 (x2) Hall Croft Barn, £200 Lingrow, £196 Oak Aveune.
DORSET: £202 Oak Aveune. CONTINENTAL: £186, £178, £176 Oak Aveune, £162 Bensons Farm, £142 Ochard Cottage, £122 Wyre Farm.
MULE: £184 Bensons Farm, £176 Hall Croft Barn, £166 Bensons Farm, £154, £130, £106 Wyre Farm. SUFFOLK: £178 Oak Aveune. CHEVIOT: £170 Oak Aveune, £98 Hall Croft Barn, £88 IOM, £88 Moorcock Hall Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Pigs, Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs, Cast Sheep & Sheep with Lambs at Foot, Tuesday 10th June 2025.
Pigs
A good buzz down the pig alley this morning, with trade showing a slight increase on last sale.
Prime pigs sold to £230 for a pair of gilts from local producer Peter Woof, Stainton. A trio sold to £205 from J&JR Stott, Kingsland which achieved the days top pence per kilo at 241p/kg.
Boars sold to £185 from W Stamper, Chipping with the best of the steers achieving £142 from DA&AM Chalmers, Appleby. Weaners perhaps the trade of the day, selling to £100 for five from M Berry, Endmoor with others to £90 from HA Sawrey, Ulverston.
Sheep with Lambs at Foot
Trade holding up as the season winds down.
A tidy show of ewe and hogg families, consisting mainly of Mule hoggs, all achieving £285.
Texel cross ewes with Texel lambs reached £260 from Messrs Metcalfe, Ravenstonedale. The same vendor topped the hill sheep section with a pen of Swaledale ewes with Mule and Texel lambs making £200.
Sale statistics:
Swaledale ewes with twins, averaged £200.
Texel ewes with twins, averaged £260.
Texel ewes with singles, averaged £225.
Mule hoggs with singles, averaged £285.
A few families expected for next week, as trade rises for spring lambs. Don’t miss out on getting some stock on the ground. You can’t pay bills on fresh air!
Ewe & Lamb Top Prices: SWALEDALE: £190 High Greenside.
Shearling & Lamb Top Prices: CONTINENTAL: £260, £225 High Greenside.
Hogg & Lamb Top Prices: MULE: £285 Shuttleworth Hall.
Prime Lambs
Lots of demand for lambs at Junction 36. Numbers of spring lambs starting to come forward now, however a lot more are required to meet the current demand on a Tuesday.
Suffolks sold to a top of 400p/kg from D&J Woof, Sedbergh while Texels hit £196 per head from J&JR Stott, Crosscrake. Once again, the lighter end of springers attracted the most attention ringside, however heavier lambs were noticeably dearer on the week again. 39kg Texels from HR Holmes, Inskip sold to £152 or 389.7p/kg for a pen of four. Lighter Texels from D&J Woof, Sedbergh sold to just shy of this at 387.1p/kg. 44kg lambs from E Dodgson, Kendal soared to £181 for good quality sheep, with the same home then selling 47kg lambs to £181 or 385.1p/kg.
An overall market average of 352p/kg was achieved, with lambs ranging from 29kg to 60kgs. More lambs are wanted on a weekly basis here at Junction 36 to match buyers appetite. Please contact Joel McGarva on 07920009097 for any enquiries.
Prime Lamb Top Prices: TEXEl: £196 Kingsland, £181 Spital Farm, £180 Head House, £176 Ackenthwaite Farm, £175, £174 Kingsland.
CONTINENTAL: £184 Endmoor Farm, £162 Keepers Cottage, £161 Head House, £159 Hodgkinson Farm, £156 Ackenthwaite Farm, £154 Station Hotel Farm. SUFFOLK: £179 Station Hotel Farm, £167 Birkrigg Park Cottage, £164 Cockrigg Farm, £161 Tunstall Hall, £161 Lane Ends Farm, £161 Tunstall Hall. HAMPSHIRE: £172, £168 Cantsfield Hall, £157 Endmoor Farm, £149 Oak Aveune, £145, £144 Endmoor Farm.
CHAROLLAIS: £144, £121 The Old Vicarage. DORSET: £142, £141, £140, £135 High Biggarsbank. CHEVIOT: £130 Kirket Nook.
Prime Hoggs
Less hoggs around today, however an improved trade was achieved all round. An overall average of 310p/kg and SQQ of 325p/kg was welcomed for vendors selling today. Handy weight Cheviots topped at 352p/kg from Stockdale Farms, Sedbergh. A pen of eight Texels, again at handy weights, sold to just shy of this at 351.3p/kg. Dutch Spotted hoggs topped at £175 from J&H Bland & Son, Levens.
Next weeks sale of prime sheep starts at the usual time of 1pm, with the ballot to be drawn at 12 noon.
Prime Hoggs Top Prices: DUTCH SPOTTED: £175 Ninezergh. TEXEL: £159 Newcross House Farm, £157 Head House, £144 Fell View, £142 High Cark Farm, £141 Tock How Farm, £140 Fair Highfield. DORSET: £150 Fell View. CONTINENTAL: £150 Tock How Farm, £146 Fell View, £120, £106 Low Woodedge Farm. CHEVIOT: £143 Hill Farm, £140, £137 Bowers Farm. MULE: £120 Hobkin Ground Farm.
Cast Sheep
As to be expected less forward this week, no let up on trade with all buyers keen to fill orders. A handful of pure ewes forward selling to £245 for Suffolks from JH Towers & Sons, Texels to £238 from JT&A Armistead, £230 E Dodgson. Other heavier and better end £190 - £220, with first cross £180 - £210. Mules sold to £190 from KA Purtill with other stronger Mules £170-£185, mediums £148-£160 with the leaner end £125-£140. Kill ewes sold to £154 from Cheviots, £142 Rough Fells, £130 Swaledales, mediums £98-£105 with the smaller and leaner end generally £55-£70 with some less at realisation. Heavy rams sold to £240 for Hampshires from P&H Clough with Texels £235 from RJ&R Holden, mediums £180-£210. Hill rams to £225 for Cheviots from MW&M Hodgson and Rough Fells £170 from BJ Bainbridge.
Cast Ewes Top Prices: Suffolk: £245 Tunstall Hall, £192 Low House, £185 Oak Avenue, £178 Low Stangerthwaite, £178 Tailbert. Texel: £238 Bouthwaite Farm, £230, £225 Spital Farm, £225, £212 Far Highfield, £208 Spital Farm. Mule: £190 Oak Avenue, £178 Oak Fold, £172 Far Highfield, £172 Tailbert, £168 Bensons Farm, £168 Rakesmoor Farm. Hampshire: £188 Cantsfield Hall, £172, £126 High Farm. Leicester: £185, £142 Meadow Wood. Continental: £172 Redbank Farm, £170 Oak Fold, £168 Ninezergh, £168 High Biggarsbank, £156 High Low Wood, £142 Ninezergh. Dorset: £158 High Biggarsbank, £120 Fell View. Cheviot: £154 Rakesmoor Farm, £136 Bowers Farm, £130 Farleton House, £124 Tock How Farm, £110, £104 Oak Fold. Cheviot Mule: £146 Redbank Farm. Rough Fell: £142 Bowers Farm, £118 The Howes. Swaledale: £130 Long Green Head.
Cast Ram Top Prices: Hampshire: £240 High Farm. Texel: £235 Newcross House Farm, £190 Spraot Ghyll, £168 The Howes. Cheviot: £225 Swollowmire. Suffolk: £200 Newcross House Farm. Lleyn: £188 Ninezergh. Rough Fell: £170 Steps Farm.
J36 Rural Auction Centre: Sale of Calves, Stirks, Beef Breeding Cattle, OTM Cattle & Store Cattle. Thursday 12th June 2025.
Calves
With Will away pool side, rostrum duties were placed upon Matthew Probert. There was no let up in trade with plenty of farmer buyers ring side today. Bull calves sold to a top of £860 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from TW & CA Long, Ulverston. Closely followed by another Aberdeen Angus at £840 from SW&K Metcalfe & Son, Whittington. The best of the rearing bull calves sold to £760 on two occasions for British Blue cross from A Pickthall, New Hutton with others at £730 from HJ Robinson, Preston Patrick and Limousin to £670 from Langley Park, Millom. Others were generally £580 to £640. A large number of native sired rearing calves saw the best sell to £620 for Hereford cross from Lawkland Hall Farm, Lawkland who sold others at £600 and regularly £570 to £590, younger native sired bull calves were £380 to £460.
Just a handful of dairy bulls today saw the strongest black and whites to £390 from SW&K Metcalfe & Son, Whittington with others regularly £270 to £340. An eye catching month old Fleckvieh from RG&JA Clark, Endmoor sell at £320.
Heifer calves saw a keen interest from farmer buyers looking to secure suckler replacement. The strongest selling to £750 for Charolais cross from CR Dickinson, Thurnham with Limousin £720 from CM&CS Chapplehow, Penrith and Hereford cross £600 Lawkland Hall Farm, Lawkland. The better end of the young rearing heifers £470 to £550, with mediums £360 to £420.
Bull Calf Top Prices: ANGUS: £860.00 Old Hall Farm, £840.00 Holme House Farm, £700.00 Throstle Croft, £590.00 Strickland Hill, £580.00 Elm Tree, £580.00 Lawkland Hall. BRITISH BLUE: £760.00, £760.00 Borrans Farm, £730.00 Elm Tree Farm, £660.00 Borrans Farm, £660.00 Hallbeck, £470.00 Elm Tree Farm. CHAROLAIS: £700.00 Hole House Farm, £640.00 Throstle Croft. LIMOUSIN: £670.00, £650.00 Langley Park, £630.00 High Grounds Farm, £580.00 Langley Park, £530.00 High Grounds Farm, £500.00 Langley Park. HEREFORD: £620.00, £600.00, £600.00, £580.00 £580.00, £560.00 Lawkland Hall Farm. SHORTHORN: £440.00 Far Audlands. FRESIAN: £390.00 Holme House, ££320.00 Natland Park, £290.00 Hallbeck, £290.00 Natland Park Farm, £250.00 Natland Park. FLEKVIEH: £320.00 Far Audlands.
Heifer Calf Top Prices: CHAROLAIS: £750.00 Throstle, Croft, £560.00 Holme House. LIMOUSIN: £720.00 High Grounds Farm, £600.00, £560.00, £540.00, £490.00, £490.00 Langley Park. HEREFORD: £600.00, £550.00, £520.00, £500.00 Lawkland Hall. BRITISH BLUE: £540.00 Elm Tree Farm, £500.00 Hallbeck. ANGUS: £530.00 Throstle Croft, £520.00 Holme House Farm, £500.00 Hallbeck, £500.00 Hallbeck, £450.00 Elm Tree Farm, £400.00 Hallbeck. Stirks
Another fast and competitive trade for all classes and types of stirks, with buyers eager to secure replacement stock. Steers sold to a top price of £1420 for an Aberdeen Angus from S Thompson, Flookburgh. A pair of 9 month old Limousin cross from PJ Holt, Blackpool achieved £1380, with others at £1370 for British Blue cross from MW & MR Black, Staveley and Simmental from G GU & D Swarbrick, Meathop. Other younger suckler bred steers (7-9 month old) were generally £1000 to £1200. A ring full of 9-11 month old black and white from Bellart Howe Farm, Grange Over Sands sold at £900. Younger dairy bred steers sold to £770 for 5 month old Aberdeen Angus cross from Messrs Young, Lindal. Heifer stirks were abundant in number today, selling to £1320 for Aberdeen Angus and Beef Shorthorn cross from MT Howarth, Field Broughton. Nice suckler bred 9-10 month olds sold to £1230 from MW &M Black, Staveley with Aberdeen Angus cross to £1220 from S Thompson, Flookburgh. First cross heifers sold to £1090 for a 10 month old Aberdeen Angus cross from Bellart Howe, Grange Over Sands. Other younger dairy bred heifer sold to £790 for 5 month old Charolais cross from CM&CL Bowe, Penrith who also sold a ring full of 6 month old Aberdeen Angus cross at £730.
A handful of bull stirks forward sold to £1280 for a four month old Charolais cross from R&BJ Cleasby, Boughton in Furness with RC Wharton & Son, Appleby selling 8 month old Limousin cross at £1160 and five month old British Blue cross £1130. Five other month olds achieved £1110 from RJ&J Gardner, Kendal.
A large number of stirks forward today were unentered, it is to the vendors advantage to enter stirks for the catalogue, to assist with canvassing buyers and assist with sale day logistics. The next sale of stirks is Thursday 26th, catalogue entries close at 5pm on Wednesday 18th June.
Bull Stirk Top Prices: CHAROLAIS: £1280.00 Lower Hawthwaite. BRITISH BLUE: £1130.00 High Field. LIMOUSIN: £1160.00 High Field, £710.00 Tricket Drive. HEREFORD: £1110.00, £1050.00, £780.00 Mill Beck Farm. ANGUS: £980.00 Hawes Fram, £700.00 Moss End Farm. GALLOWAY: £400.00 High Wallabarrow Farm.
Heifer Stirk Top Prices: ANGUS: £1320.00 Woodlea Farm, £1220.00 Somme Avenue, £1160.00 Somme Avenue, £1090.00 Bellart Howe, £730.00 Bank Farm, £720.00 Bank Farm. SHORTHORN: £1320.00 Woodlea Farm, £650.00 Tricket Drive. BRITISH BLUE: £1300.00 Shaw Paddock, £1230.00, £1140.00 Scroggs Farm. £1100.00 Hawes Farm, £1080.00 Scroggs Farm. OTHER: £1090.00 Bellart Howe. LIMOUSIN: £910.00 Breedy Butts Farm, £870.00 Trcket Drive, £650.00 Tricket Drive, £590.00 High Farm. SIMMENTAL: £960.00 Kate Farm. HEREFORD: £860.00 High Field, £850.00 Tricket Drive, £770.00 High Field, £680.00 Bank Fram, £650.00 Tricket Drive. CHAROLAIS: £790.00 Bank Farm, £760.00 North Walney. BLONDE: £730.00 Bank Farm.
Steer Stirk Top Prices: ANGUS: £1420.00, £1250.00, £1030.00 Somme Avenue, £770.00 Moss End Farm, £520.00 West View Farm. LIMOUSIN: £1380.00, £1290.00 Breedy Butts Farm, £1160.00 High Field, £1160.00 Tricket Drive, £1020.00 Bellart Howe, £830.00 High Fram. SIMMENTAL: £1370.00 Somme Avenue, £1370.00 Kate Farm. BRITISH BLUE: £1370.00 Scroggs Farm. HEREFORD: £1120.00 High Field, £820.00 Tricket Drive. FRESIAN: £900.00 Bellart Howe, £410.00 Moss End Farm. SHORTHORN: £790.00 Tricket Drive. GALLOWAY: £640.00 Wallabarrow Farm
Store Cattle
Red Hot Ring: Store cattle trade surges at J36
Spirited bidding from the offset saw a tremendous trade throughout. Prices for many classes of cattle up notably on the fortnight. Number of cattle also up significantly for all selections compared with the same day last year. Messrs D Jackson sold a pair of Shorthorn bullocks to £2160. A Hereford bullock from J L Bird also sold for £2160. A slightly younger pair of bullocks from JA Airey made £2000. J M Haddow topped the heifer trade today with a pen of 3 Blondes making £2110 and a pen of 4 Charolais from the same good home making £2000 per head. More numbers could quite easily have been sold on the day with plenty of buyers going home empty handed. The sale concluded with a late entry of dairy bulling heifers from RH&RA Fawcett, which attracted wide spread buyer interest, selling to a top of £1740 with others at £1700. Date for your diary; Monday 14th July - special collective dairy sale at NWA J36 to include the sale of the milk portion on behalf of WB Winder, Broughton in Furness. Anticipated entry 120 to 150 head. Next store cattle sale is in two week’s time.
Store Bullock Top Prices: SHORTHORN: £2160.00, £2160.00 Summer Close Farm. HEREFORD: £2160.00 West Plain Farm, £1740.00 Skiddaw View, £1270.00 West Plain Farm. LIMOUSIN: £2000.00 Old Croft, £1980.00 ST Annes Farm, £1820.00 Orchard House, £1680.00 Old Croft, £1680.00 Nook Farm, £1580.00 St Annes Farm. ANGUS: £1990.00 Blea Tarn Rd, £1840.00 Nook Farm, £1840.00 Tarnside Farm, £1820.00 Orchard House, £1800.00 Birks Farm, £1800.00 Barkin House Barn. BRITISH BLUE: £1880.00, £1820.00 Orchard House, £1680.00 Tarnside Farm, £1350.00, £1160.00 Orchard House, £1100.00 Birch Bank. CHAROLAIS: £1820.00 High Lane, £1790.00, £1720.00 Viver Mill Farm, £1690.00 High Lane, £1620.00 Angerton Farm, £1600.00 Viver Mill Farm. SALER: £1680.00 Hazelgrove Lodge. FRESIAN: £1350.00 Orchard House. DAIRY SHORTHORN: £1350.00 Orchard House. SIMMENTAL: £1020.00 Welcome Nook.
Store Heifers Top Prices: CHAROLAIS: £2110.00, 2000.00 Viver Mill Farm, £1500.00 Orchard House. BLONDE: £2110.00 Viver Mill Farm. ANGUS: £1990.00 Greenbank Farm, £1880.00 Blea Tarn Road, £1720.00 Tarnside Farm, £1640.00 Greenbank Farm, £1420.00 Birks Farm, £1410.00 Bouthwaite Farm. HEREFORD: £1920.00 West Plain Farm, £1700.00, £1700.00, £1580.00 Tarnside Farm, £1410.00 Bouthwaite Farm. BRITISH BLUE: £1900.00 Tarnside Fram, £1740.00 Tarnside Fram, £1600.00 Orchard House, £1370.00 Bouthwaite Farm, £1280.00 Orchard House. SALER: £1800.00 Nook Farm. LIMOUSIN: £1770.00 Birks Farm, £1750.00 Burton Hill, £1700.00 Tarnside Farm, £1630.00, £1580.00 Birch bank, £1550.00 Burton Hill. FRESIAN: £1740.00, £1700.00, £1680.00, £1640.00, £1580.00 Green Dragon. FLEKVIEH: £1700.00 Tarnside Farm. DAIRY SHORTHORN: £1280.00 Orchard House. SIMMENTAL: £1020.00 Welcome Nook.
Store
Bull Top Prices: SHORTHORN: £1180.00, £1090.00 Bandrake Farm.
Beef Breeding Cattle
Beefy Business: Cow & Calf trade gets a moo-ving boost.
Breeders kicked off in style with a 21-month-old Charolais bull selling to £6200, this was from Messrs JE Gaunt who then sold a younger one for £4800. A Limousin heifer with a 2-month-old Limousin calf at foot fetched £4300 from Messrs EJ Hodgson. A Limousin again with a 2 month old fetched £4200 this time from J Woodburn & Partners. The same home then sold another good outfit for £3800. In calf heifers topped at £2200 from G&C Rylands while bulling heifers hit £2400 for a cracker from DE&SM Moorhouse. Older 5th & 6th calvers hit £3200 from A Hodgson and £3100 again from Messrs Rylands. Our mid summer sale of beef breeding cattle will be on Thursday 10th July, to include the dispersal of 15 in calf and cows with calves at foot from a local farm. Additional entries welcomed.
Breeding Bull Top Prices: CHAROLAIS: £6200.00, 4800.00 West View. LIMOUSIN: £3000.00 Old Croft. SHORTHORN: £800.00 Tricket Drive. HEREFORD: £400.00 Tricket Drive.
Heifer & Calf Top Prices: LIMOUSIN: £4300.00 Lambrigg Head, £4200.00, £3800.00 Mansrigg Hall. £3750.00, £3700.00, £3700.00 Lambrigg Head. BRITISH BLUE: £3500.00 Yew Tree Farm. £3100.00 Lambrigg Head. £3100.00 Tullithwaite Hall Farm. £3100.00, £2950.00, £2900.00 Ackenthwaite Farm.
In Calf Heifer Top Prices: BLONDE: £2200.00 Tullithwaite Hall.
Bulling Heifer Top Prices: LIMOUSIN: £2400.00 High House Farm.
Cow & Calf Top Prices: LIMOUSIN: £3200.00, £2900.00 Borwick Lodge, £2550.00 Tullithwaite, £2500.00 Borwick Lodge Farm, £2050.00 Fell House, £1780.00 Tricket Drive. BRITISH BLUE: £3100.00, £3000.00, £3000.00 Tullithwaite Hall Farm, £2950.00 Borwick Lodge Farm, £2750.00, £2700.00 Tullithwaite Hall Farm. DAIRY SHORTHORN: £2850.00 Tullithwaite Hall Farm. ANGUS: £2750.00 North Walney Nature Reserve. SALER: £2700.00, £2650.00, £2650.00, £2600.00, £2600.00, £2600.00 Fell House. CONTINENTIAL: £2700.00, £2600.00, £2500.00, 2250.00 Fell House, £1400.00 Arnside Tower Farm. SHORTHORN: £2000.00, £1600.00 Arnside Tower Farm. GALLOWAY: £1680.00, £1500.00, £1220.00 Tricket Drive. CHAROLAIS £1750.00 Tricket Drive.
Feeding Cow Top Prices: LIMOUSIN: £1100.00, £1100.00, 900.00, £900.00, £880.00, £850.00 Tricket Drive. GALLOWAY: £900.00, £900.00, £850.00 Tricket Drive. WHITEBRED SHORTHORN: £900.00, £900.00 Tricket Drive.
OTM / Cull Cows
An animated ring side of buyers saw all cull cows today selling to a market average of 255p/kg, with all classes and types keenly competed for. The strongest beef cows sold to 299.5p/kg for a Limousin cross from JT Stables, Grange Over Sands. Others achieved 289.5p/kg again from JT Stables, J Norman, Burton in Kendal, N Cooper & Son, Broughton in Furness and S Whitehead, Middleton. Others were regularly 255p/kg to 270p/kg, with leaner feeding types 220p/kg to 240p/kg. Top grossing being a British Blue cross from N Cooper & Son, Broughton in Furness at £2040.
Well meated dairy cows peak at 269.5p/kg for black and whites from I&ME Askew, New Hutton with others 250p/kg to 265p/kg and parlour type cows 220p/kg to 240p/kg. Top grossing dairy cows was a Black and White from Strickland Hill, Witherslack totalling £2177.
OTM heifers sold to a top of 309p/kg and £1829 from JW Hargreaves, Broughton in Furness with OTM steers to 314p/kg and £1711 from N&W Smith, Yealand Redmayne.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 299.5, 289.5, 284.5, 279.5 Tricket Drive 289.5 Low Waterside, 274.5 Tongue House.British Blue: 289.5, 279.5 Troughton Hall, 259.5 Moss Side Farm, 244.5 Lower Hawthwaite, 224.50 Moss Side Farm. Shorthorn: 279.5 Bandrake Farm.Angus: 274.5, 239.5 Mislet Farm, 229.5 High Farm.Hereford: 274.5 Tricket Drive, 259.5 Moss Side Farm, 249.5 Somme Avenue.Friesian: 269.5 Raw Head, 264.5 Cockrigg Farm, 264.5 Strickland Hill, 259.5 Tarnside Farm, 259.5 Cockrigg Farm, 259.5 Strickland Hill.Fleckvieh: 264.5 Far Audlands, 249.5 Hawkrigg Farm, 244.5 Far Audlands, 229.5 Hawkrigg Farm.Simental: 239.5 Long Green Head.Swedish Red & White: 224.5 Wall End Farm.Norwegian: 194.5 Hawkrigg Farm. OTM Heifer Top Prices: Friesian: 309.5, 264.5 Bridge End Farm.Saler: 289.5 Fell House.British Blue: 289.5 Station Lane.Longhorn: 289.5, 239.5 Station Lane.
Cast Bull Top Prices: Saler: 314.5, 304.5, 299.5 Hazelgrove Lodge. Limousin: 259.5 Tricket Drive.
Lancaster Store Cattle: Sale of Calves, OTM Cattle & Store Cattle. Friday 13th June 2025.
Calves
Trade maintained prices of recent months with all buyers keen to secure calves of all classes and types. Best rearing bull calves sold to £910 for a Limousin x from D & M Foster closely followed by a Charolais x from Wallbank Farms selling to £900. Other stronger bull calves £740-£880 and mediums to £500-£620. Native sire bulls sold to £780 for Herefords x from D & M Foster with Aberdeen Angus x to £720 from C & J Smith. Dairy bulls were extremely good to sell with 8-week-old British Friesian selling to £450 from JR Newsham with others regularly £340-£400. Only a handful of heifer calves forward with the best to £740 for British Blue x from JP & C Robson with others generally £580-£640 and younger month old to £510 for Limousin x from D & K Haworth.
Just a handful of stirks today selling to £930 for British Blue x 6-month-old steers and heifers to £900 all from D & J Hay.
Heifer Calf Top Prices: British Blue: £740 Roe Farm, £610 Manor House Farm, £600 Poplar Grove Farm, £580 Manor House Farm, £540 Poplar Grove Farm, £290 Roe Farm. Angus: £600 Tills Farm, £410 Roe Farm, £220 Richmond Hall Farm. Limousin: £510 Rose Farm. Hereford: £490 Church Farm, £350 Church Farm. Shorthorn: £480 Poplar Grove Farm, £440 Poplar Grove Farm.
Bull Calf Top Prices: Limousin: £910 Church Farm. Charolais: £900 Tills Farm, £810 Tills Farm. British Blue: £820 Derby Lodge Farm, £790 Roe Farm, £790 Derby Lodge Farm, £770 Derby Lodge Farm, £770 Roe Farm, £680 Manor House Farm. Hereford: £780 Church Farm, £550 Sellerley Farm, £460 Sellerley Farm, £340 Sellerley Farm. Angus: £720 Wyre Bank, £640 Tills Farm, £600 Wyre Bank, £540 Poplar Grove Farm,
£500 Kirkwood Lodge Farm, £500 Rose Farm. Friesian: £450 Sellerley Farm, £420 Sellerley Farm, £330 Derby Lodge Farm, £320 Kirkwood Lodge Farm, £310 Derby Lodge Farm, £310 Sellerley Farm.
Heifer Stirk Top Prices: British Blue: £900 Brich House Cottage, £820 Birch House Cottage, £800 Birch House Cottage, £760 Birch House Cottage.
Steer Stirk Top Prices: British Blue: £930 Birch House Cottage, £890 Birch House Cottage Store Cattle
Buyers firing on all cylinders with all sold today averaging £2183. Steers sold to £2580 for a trio of Aberdeen Angus x from RH Dodgson with others at £2500 from JS Clark & Sons, £2480 J Lamb and J & S Winstanley Ltd. Others nicely £2200 - £2450. Dairy steers sold to £2400 for Fleckvieh from JH Bland & Sons Ltd with Norwegian Red to £2350 from T & E Garlick. Heifers sold to £2420 for a pair of Limousin x from AT Burrow & Son with £2250 achieved by LE & A Ridding selling British Blue x and Aberdeen Angus x from FJ & R Coar, other stronger end generally £1950 - £2150. Keep the numbers coming as buyers look to keep sheds full.
Store Bullock Top Prices: Angus: £2580 Kilburn House, £2500 Godson House Farm, £2420 Kilburn House, £2400 Godson House Farm. British Blue: £2480 Old Glasson Farm, £2380 Ninezergh, £2380 Pasture House Farm, £2300 Savick Brook Farm. Charolais: £2480 Savick Brook Farm, £2400 Ninezergh, £2250 Windy Hill Farm. Flekvieh: £2400 Ninezergh. Montbelliarde: £2350 Ninezergh, £2100 Ninezergh, £2100 Grange Farm. Norweigian: £2350 Grange Farm. Limousin: £2300 Ninezergh, £2150 Ninezergh, £1750 Park Farm, £1700 Windy Hill Farm. Hereford: £2280 Ninezergh, £2100 Godson House Farm. Simmental: £2280 Intack Farm. Friesian: £1950 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1800 Steel Croft, £1350 Green Dragon Farm.
Store Heifer Top Prices: Limousin: £2420 High Snab, £1780 Park Farm, £1700 Low Deepslack. Angus: £2250 Higher Lees Farm, £2220 High Lees Farm, £2200 Grange Farm, £2050 Gaskell House, £2050 High Snab, £1900 Higher Lees Farm. British Blue: £2250 Steel Croft, £1850 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1680 Moss House Farm, £1550 Moss House Farm. Hereford: £1950 Holly House Farm. Friesian: £1750 Tunstead Farm, £1300 Richmond Hall Farm.
OTM Cattle
A few less about today as farmers take advantage of the dry with getting field work done, all cast cattle forward averaged 265p/kg. The best beef cows sold to 294p/kg for a Limousin from M&L Preece, Kirkby Lonsdale with others 289p/kg for another Limousin from PJ Holt, Blackpool. Other beef cows were generally 265p/kg to 280p/kg, top grossing being a British Blue cross from M&L Preece, Kirkby Lonsdale at £2042.
The best dairy sold to 279p/kg for black and whites from both MJ Fell, Whittington and Kelsall and Wood, Scotforth. Others were regularly 260p/kg to 275p/kg, with parlour types 230p/kg to 250p/kg and only the lightest and leanest less. Top grossing dairy cow was a black and white from MJ Fell, Whittington at £2199.
OTM heifers sold to 334p/kg and £2110 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from JD EM JA Atkinson, Kendal. Dairy heifers sold to 324p/kg for black and whites from WN&D Smith, Cockerham and £2108 from AT Burrow & Son, Gressingham.
Just a handful of OTM beef steers forward selling 384p/kg for a Limousin from EJ Ward, Nether Kellet and Aberdeen Angus cross selling to £2271 from JD EM JA Atkinson, Kendal.
OTM Cow Top Prices: Limousin: 294.50 High House Farm, 289.50 Breedy Butts Farm, 274.50 Breedy Butts Farm. British Blue: 284.50 High House Farm. Friesian: 279.50 Lower Langthwaite Farm, 279.50 Chapel House, 274.50 Lower Langthwaite Farm, 269.50 Lower Langthwaite Farm, 269.50 Green Dragon Farm, 269.50 Richmond Hall Farm. Angus: 264.50 Breedy Butts Farm. Hereford: 249.50 Little Crimbles, 219.50 Little Crimbles. Flekvieh: 244.50 Angerton Hall Farm.
OTM Heifer Top Prices: Angus: 334.50 Low Groves Farm, 279.50 Forgelands. Friesian: 324.50 Cocker House Farm, 319.50 High Snab, 304.50 High Snab, 299.50 Myers Farm, 294.50 Cocker House Farm, 239.50 Tunsteads Farm. British Blue: 304.50 High House.
Cast Steer Top Prices: Limousin: 384.50 Intack Farm. Simmental: 369.50 Intack Farm. Angus: 349.50 Low Groves Farm.
Next Week's Upcoming Sales
Monday 16th
Lancaster: 10am Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep
Tuesday 17th
J36: 11am Sheep with Lambs at Foot 1pm Prime Lambs, Prime Hoggs & Cast Sheep
Friday 20th
Lancaster: 10:15am Calves & OTM Cattle
11:15am Store Cattle
J36: 9am-4pm Machinery Collection
