NWA Newsletter 1st July 2015

North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 1st July 2015

Lancaster Auction Mart Friday 26th June

Contact Details Bill Nelson - Livestock Manager 07785 542738

Weekly Cattle Sale

Gary Capstick - Auctioneer 07970 830518

STORE CATTLE

Matthew Probert - Auctioneer 07760 557932

Compliments must go to the vendors for pu ng a very good show of store ca le forward this morning at Lancaster.

A stronger trade was witnessed throughout the sale, with vendors leaving more than sa sfied with returns.

Trade topped at £1500 for a pair of Angus Bullocks from J & H Davis, Cabus. Closely followed by RH Dodgson, Burton in Lonsdale with a pair of strong Simmental Bullocks realising £1450. Heifers sold to £1330 for a pair of Angus’ from D & N Davis, Nateby. Bullocks averaged a respectable £1058 and heifers £980.

Ian Atkinson - Auctioneer 07766 521472 Will Alexander - Fieldsman & Trainee Auctioneer 07976 646035 Richard Gardiner - Fieldsman 07713 787510 George Harryman - Fieldsman 07759 278741

Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – FR: £1090 Hallbeck; £1090 Downlands; £1050 Bensons Farm. AA: £1500 Weavers Farm; £1280 Park Farm; £1160 Cock Hall Farm. SLR: £1200 Cross House Farm. LIM: £1290 Bensons Farm; £1280 Greenbank Farm; £1280 Cock Hall Farm. BS: £970 Pilling Lane; £850 Willow Farm.

HE: £1210 West Lynn; £1200 Windy Hill Farm; £1070 Bradlow Farm. SIM: £1450 Kilburn House; £1340 Greenbank Farm. BRB: £1440 Abrahams Farm; £1390 Greenbank Farm; £1370 Pasture House Farm. LH: £1060 Sta on Lane.

STORE HEIFERS – FR: £880 Wall End Farm. AA: £1330 Cragg Farm; £1120 Jolley Fold Farm; £940 Ivy Farm. SLR: £1080 Rowell Farm.

LIM: £1210 Cross House Farm; £1180 High House; £1170 Cockrigg Farm. CH: £1170 Jolley Fold Farm; £1140 S rzakers Farm; £1020 Intack Farm.

HE: £1080 Rowell Farm; £1020 Bouthwaite Farm; £980 Windy Hill Farm. SIM: £1170 Jolley Fold Farm; £1140 Brow Foot Farm.

BRB: £1240 Gibraltar Farm; £1240 Pasture House; £1240 Abrahams Farm. BA: £1280 Intack Farm.

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Helsington Moss, Lyth Valley

Michael Mashiter 07713 787511

2.00 acres/0.81 hectares or thereabouts of land For Sale by Informal Tender

John Hughes 07970 830517 Rodney Coward 07717 548966 Carole Hodgson 07717 817051 Sarah Ettridge 07795 048511 Katie Grieve 07837 000725

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 e. info@nwauctions.co.uk t. 01524 63308 (Lancaster) t. 015395 66200 (J36 Kendal)

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Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 26th June cont…...

CAST/FEEDING COWS, OTM & CLEAN CATTLE A buoyant trade in the cast cow ring this morning, topping at 199.5ppk for a Blue Heifer from JB, L & I Ellis, New Hu on. Top price cow was again a Blue, achieving 189.5ppk from WE Nelson, Carlisle. Black and whites sold to 159.5ppk for a cast heifer from JT & B Fox, Quernmore and JG Thornley Ltd, Kirkham. Black and white cows to 149.5ppk from Richard & Johnny Hoggarth, Slyne. Overall average of 132.1ppk for all forward.

More numbers required to sa sfy demand.

Cast Cow Top Prices: OTM COW –FR: 171.5 New Ashley Farm; 149.5 Manor House Farm; 147.5 Pilling Hall. LIM: 184.5 Brow Foot Farm; 154.5 Yates Farm; 154.5 Green Dragon. SIM: 149.5 Friars Moss.

ST: 154.5 Park House Farm. BRB: 189.5 Low Sorbies; 154.5 Dunkenshaw Farm; 144.5 Goose Green.. MO: 127.5 Quarry House. JE: 124.5 Ripon Hall.

OTM HEIFER – FR: 159.5 Blackwood End; 159.5 Derby Lodge; 154.5 Ripon Hall. BRB: 199.5 Hawkrigg End; 179.5 Low Sorbies.

OTM BULL – LIM: 154.5 Boundary House.

OTM STEER – LIM: 169.5 Boundary House; 109.5 Downlands Farm.

CALVES & STIRKS Another nice entry of 59 calves this morning started with a nice run of 12week old Limousins from Clive & Liam Baxter of Morecambe selling Bulls to £460 & £440 and heifers to £420. Blues sold to £455 for Bulls and £430 for heifers from regular vendor Stephen Robinson, Burton in Lonsdale.

Angus Heifers to £310 from Wallbank Farms and Montbelliarde Bulls to £232 from JR Pye. Black and whites are frac on easier on the week, however the show of calves was not quite the same. Black and whites topped at £160 from Drinkall Bros, Abbeystead. Best calves over the £100 mark, young rearing calves, £42-£78 dependent on size.

A good show of s rks sold to £645 for a pair of heifers from regular vendor A Shepherd. Angus s rks to £540 from JR & J Gorst.

Black and White s rks to £290 at 4months from I Atkinson & Son. Calves & Stirks Top Prices: BULL CALF – FR: £160 Catshaw Hall Farm; £155 Tills Farm; £132 Ha ers Farm. LIM: £460 Newbrows Farm. BRB: £455 Longber Farm; £380 North Farm; £340 Pump House Farm. MO: £232 Ha ers Farm. SRW: £132 Sandvilla.

HEIFER CALF – AA: £310 Tills Farm. WB: £235 Pump House. LIM: £420 New Brows Farm. HE: £455 Low Sorbies. BRB: £430 Longber Farm; £420 New Bros Farm.

HEIFER STIRK – AA: £540 Appletree Farm. BRB: £645 Muffys Pla Farm; £575 Boon Town Farm BULL STIRK – FR: £290 Boon Town Farm. BRB: £635 Muffys Pla Farm; £460 Boon Town Farm.

How sheep poo can save you money

Monday 29th June PRIME LAMBS A bumper entry of just shy of 2000 lambs. With the trade easing all last week and a lot of lambs available on the market, a tougher trade was endured. An overall average of 152ppk. Heavy weight and light weight lambs in demand and eagerly bid for. Be er sorts of lambs good to sell with buyers cau ous of lambs lacking finish.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: SUFF: £73.50 Raw Head; £71 Brown Edge; £68. CH: £77 Parks Farm Barn; £67.50 Beaumont Gate; £60.50 Springfield Farm. TEX: £86 Blackleach House Farm; £78 North Farm; £76.50 Humblescough Farm. SUFF: £88 Booth Hall; £78 Lodge Farm; £70.50 Booth Hall. CH: £67 Burrow Heights Farm; £66 Gibraltar Farm; £64 Scronkey Farm.

CAST SHEEP Good show of over 150 ewes. Which sold to a top price of £125 for a trio of Texel ewes from T & CM Kelsall & Sons. Horned sheep to £78 from S Park, with a pen of 13 swales selling to £45 from the same home. In general, fit sheep a good trade with buyers cau ous of over fat sheep. Overall average of £74.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: MULE: £95 Conder Green Farm; £78 High Field Farm, Old Grange Farm; £75 Burrow Heights Farm; £74 Springfield Farm. TEX: £125 Brown Brook £101 Friars Moss; £100 Curwen Hill Farm; £98 Red Lodge. SUFF: £95 Stanley Farm; £78 Beaumont Gate; £75 Burrow Heights Farm.

SWAL: £57 Brown Brook. HRN: £57 Brown Brook. CH: £97 Curwen Hill; £96 Wyre Farm.

PRIME BEEF A good show of prime beef this morning, with eight passing through the ring.

All sold to pull poten al. Bri sh Blue steers sold to 199.5ppk from P & A Bell, Village Farm. More beef needed at Lancaster to meet demand of buyers.

This year lamb prices are nothing to write home about, so we need to look at maximising production with lower input costs. One way to help is to reduce the number of times you are worming your lambs. Another benefit of worming lambs less often is that you will slow wormer resistance in the worm population on your farm. Remember with worm resistance the sheep have nothing to do with it, it is the worm population that gets resistant to the drugs, not the sheep.

So when do you need to worm lambs? When they are scouring?

3 weeks after the last time you wormed them? When they are not growing? Don’t second guess! A more accurate way to find out is by taking a dung sample from lambs and looking for worm eggs. Faecal egg counting (FEC) tells us if the lambs have worms in their guts and roughly how many worms there are. The end of June/start of July is the time to start sampling lambs to check the levels of worms in them.

To make this process easier for you, Farm Gate Vets have sample bags in the lairage of both Lancaster and J36 auctions, so that you can get some dung samples from your trailer before you wash it out.

Label these samples with your name and address; there is a box in the auction office to put them in. We will test the sample and get back to you with the results, simples! £10 + VAT per FEC sample tested.

Another time to check worm levels in lambs is 2 weeks after you worm them to make sure the drug has done the job. If the worm levels are 20% of what they were pre worming, then you need to look at using another wormer, as an effective wormer should kill 95% of the worms.

For more information have a word with your veterinary surgeon for the best impartial worming advice.

GRAZING AVAILABLE for Cattle or Sheep

Prime Beef Top Prices: Prime Ca le - FR: 109.5 Slack Farm. HE: 169.5 Village Farm. SIM: 174.5 Village Farm.

BRB: 199.5 Village Farm.

Prime Bulls – BRB : 181.5 Northwoods. FR: 89.5 Slack Farm.

Headage Basis for details Contact Matthew on 07760 557932

Lancaster - 01524 63308

J36 Sale Reports Thursday 25th June BEEF BREEDING CATTLE The second sale of beef breeding ca le saw a top price of £1950 achieved twice for Bri sh Blue heifers with Limousin Bull calves at foot from Messrs Case of Barrow in Furness who also sold Angus x heifers with calves at £1600. Limousin x heifers with AA x calves sold to £1650 from HW Robinson & Son of Gatebeck. Cows with calves sold to £1550 for a Luing with Sim x heifer calf from PM Simpson of Troutbeck, other older cows with calves sold for £1100 - £1350. A pair of smart black Limousin x bulling heifers sold at £1180 again from Messrs Case with Blue x heifers a £1020.

Breeding Cattle Top Prices: BREEDING CATTLE – FR Cow with Twin LIM Bull & Heifer Calves £1480 Midtown Farm.

AA Heifer & LIM Heifer Calf £1600 Walnut Hill.

AA Heifer with AA Bull Calf £1580 High Bracken Hall. BRB Heifers with LIM Bull Calves £1950.

LIM Heifer with AA Bull Calf £1650 High Bracken Hall.

SLR Cow with LIM Bull Calf £1280 Stribers Farm.

LUING Cow with SIM Heifer Calf £1550 Poole Bank Farm.

LIM In-calf Heifer £1060 Longlands Farm.

LIM Bulling Heifers £1180 Walnut Hill; £1000 Helm CroK. BRB Bulling Heifers £1020 Walnut Hill.

STORE CATTLE An entry of mainly younger store ca le were put before an ac ve ringside of buyers with several returning faces keen to make purchases. A top price of £1075 was achieved for a run of 10 month old Limousin steers from DJ & MJ Hoggarth who also sold others at £1070, followed by N Cooper & Sons at £1005. Other Con nentals reached £865 for 7 month old Charolais x steers from NJ Strickland & Son, Whinfell. Na ve breed steers sold to £885 for Hereford x from JE Wightman and £795 for a run of 10 month old Saler x steers from D N Smith. Heifers forward all under 12 months old selling to £880 for Bri sh Blue x from N Cooper & Sons followed by JA Airey selling Limousin x at £845.

Next Sale of Store Ca le is Thursday 9th July entries for catalogue requested by Thursday 2nd July.

Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE STEERS – LIM: £1075 Old Hall; £1005 Troughton Hall; £840 Stribers Farm. CHAR: £865 The Borrans; £780 Fell House. HERE: £885 Crabtree Farm. SLR: £795 Fell House.

STORE HEIFERS – BRB: £880 Troughton Hall. LIM: £845 Old CroK; £740 Troughton Hall; £730 Stribers Farm; £680 Longlands Farm.

DAIRY CATTLE An entry of 3 bulling heifers sold to £790. The next Fortnightly Sale (9th July) will include the Summer Show of New Calved Cows & Heifers.

Please advise Will on 07976 646035 of any entries as soon as possible.

REARING CALVES & STIRKS A strong trade from start to finish for all types of calves and s rks with calves selling to prices in excess of other local centres, vendors and poten al vendors are strongly advised to forward their calves to J36 for full financial benefit. The trade topped at £500 for an 8 week old Bri sh Blue bull from R & J Dodgson of Cracalt Farm. Once again some good consignments of Calves with six to eight week old Bri sh Blue bulls and heifers from JW & TE Sharpe of Flodder Hall selling to £445 and averaging £441.25. Another strong consignment of 4 to 6 week old Limousin bull and heifer calves from Brian Wilson of Spout House sold to a top of £455 for bulls and the consignment averaged £425. Bri sh Blue bulls sold to an average of £446.25 and heifers £427 with Limousin bulls averaging £393 and heifers £390. Young beef calves met a strong demand with good sorts easily over £300.

Once again Black and Whites eagerly sought aKer selling to a top of £195 from J & O Galbraith & Son of Endmoor with other well grown calves £120 plus.

A larger propor on of young calves forward sold easily between £50 and £80. A larger number of s rks in the market today. Black and White young bull s rks from M Wilson of Appleby sold between £210 and £245 at 4 to 5 month old. Stronger Bri sh Blue and Hereford s rks sold around the £600 mark from HG Spensley & Son of Barnard Castle.

Calves & Stirks Top Prices: BULL CALVES – BRB: £500 Cracalt Farm; £445 & £440 Flodder Hall; £400 Hollins Farm. AA: £360 Hollins Farm. LIM: £455 & £430 Spout House; £335 Espford; £320 Audlands Park.

FKV: £260 Far Audlands. FR: £250 Espford; £195 Endmoor Farm; £165 Elm Tree Farm; £160 Rakesmoor Farm.

HEIFER CALVES – LIM: £390 Spout House. BRB: £440 Flodder Hall; £430 West Hall; £415 Cloudside.

BULL STIRKS – BRB: £460 Helm CroK. FR: £350 Clarke House Farm; £245 Ormside Lodge. LIM: £240 Clarke House Farm.

HEIFER STIRKS – HERE: £600 Sleatburn Farm. CHAR: £525 Fell House.

STEER STIRKS – BRB: £605 & £600 Sleatburn Farm. LIM: £370 Clark House Farm. FR: £275 Almar Co age.

CAST COWS An increased ringside ensured all ca le met a truly phenomenal trade to average 133.26p/kg. Black & White cows topped at 149.5p/kg from RJ Holden of Broughton-in-Furness selling to Mr L Fell of Se le. Plenty of good meated cows 130-140p/kg. Con nental cows sold to a fantas c trade toppng at 174.5p/kg for a Limousin x cow from RHM & S Boyren of Colton with Messrs Boyren’s run of cows averaging 167.32p/kg. Plenty of Con nental cows full of flesh selling in excess of 150p/kg. The top price per head on the day was for an 8 year old stock bull from Messrs Winder of Ravenstonedale grossing £1,513.66. Many more cows could have been sold to advantage. The next sale will be on Thursday 9th July, but don’t forget, if you are caught under Six Day Stands ll Rules or under TB Restric ons, we always have Deadweight op ons available for all classes of stock. Please contact us for more details.

Cast Cows Top Prices: CAST COWS – FR: 149.5p/kg Syke House; £141.5p/kg Kiln Hall; 129.5p.kg Far Audlands. SHORT: 117.5p/kg Castle Howe. LIM: 174.5p/kg Hill Park; 159.5p/kg Greenside Farm; 159.5p/kg Ashstead; 154.5p/kg Helm CroK. SIM: 147.5p/kg Low Fell. STAB: 144.5p/kg Helm CroK. MONT: 139.5p/kg Low Sizergh. DEV: 119.5p/kg Stribers Farm.

BRB: 167.5p/kg Hill Park.

CAST HEIFERS – FR: 159.5p/kg Greaves Farm; 154.5p/kg Kiln Hall; 149.5p/kg Stubb Place. CONT: 131.5p/kg High House Farm.

CAST BULLS – LIM: 159.5p/kg Greenside Farm. AA: 131.5p/kg Syke House Farm; 121.5p/kg Capplerigg.

J36 - 015395 66200

Tuesday 30th June

SPOTLIGHT ON SPONSORS

Many farmers were taking advantage of the fine weather to make hay.

Also with the reports of a na onal over-supply of lambs to the market, vendors were, understandably, cau ous. Those who drew lambs were rewarded with a firmer trade, producing an average of 156p/kg.

This was ahead of expecta ons for the day.

PRIME LAMBS A top price of £79 was achieved for a smart Texel lamb from J E Wightman, with Suffolk x lambs reaching £76.50 from the same home. Well bred lambs con nue to lead the market, topping at 184p/kg for Beltex x from J R Armitstead, with first cross Suffolks and Texels generally 155p/kg-160p/kg.

Prime Lambs Top Prices: Tex: £79 Crabtree Farm; £74 Birks Farm; £71.50 Low Stangerthwaite, Cautley Farm; £71 Birks Farm. Suff: £76.50 Crabtree Farm; £71 Lane Ends Farm; £70.50 Hawes Farm; £69.50 Moss End Farm; £68.50 Park House Farm, Hollins Farm. Belt: £66.50 Whinney Haw. Hamp: £64.50 Brow Head. Char: £60.50 Gowan Bank.

Thank you to Laurence Pierce Wool Merchants Ltd who will be kindly sponsoring our Prime Lamb Shows & Sales at Lancaster on Monday 6th July and at J36 on Tuesday 7th July details of show classes below CARNFORTH CENTRE Tel: 01524 701335 or 07831 711608

Coming up at North West Auctions…

Lancaster Auction Mart Monday 6th July Weekly Primestock Sale to include

Prime Lamb Show Pens of 10 Continental Lambs & Pens of 10 Suffolk Lambs (Judging: 8.30am - Sale: 9am)

PRIME HOGGS S ll a few prime hoggs around this week, selling to £71.

Sale of Prime Lambs (9am) followed by Cast Sheep Prime Bulls & Clean Cattle (10.30am)

Prime Hoggs Top Prices: Swale: £71, £65 Grayrigg Hall. Leic: £70 Havera. Suff: £67, £66 Mislet Farm.

Mule: £53 Havera.

CAST SHEEP Cast Sheep sold to £105, for a pen of Texel ewes from E Dodgson, with other heavy ewes £85-£95. Mule ewes were generally £67-£74, with hill ewes £75 for Rough Fell and £76 for Cheviots. Cast rams were in short supply with more needed to meet demand.

Friday 10th July Weekly Cattle Sale Rearing Calves & Stirks 10.15am Cast/Feeding Cows & OTM Clean Cattle 10.15am Store & Breeding Cattle 11.15am

Friday 17th July Opening Sale of Store Lambs (early entries invited)

Cast Sheep Top Prices: Tex: £105 Spital Farm; £96, £93 The Park; £95, £90 Red Lodge. Suff: £93 Overplains; £90 Red Lodge. Leic: £89 Park Co ages; £87 Havera. Chev: £76, £71 Green Lane End Farm. Rgh Fell: £75 Howes Lodge; £72 Low Garths; £68, £61 Lundholme Farm.

Mule: £74 Red Lodge, Lawsons Farm; £72, £70 Crook o Lune Farm; £70 Cracalt.

Swale: £60, £57 Strickland Hill; £57, £53 Grayrigg Hall.

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 Sheep are Farm Assured, please place a sticker on the white part of the License and if you have recently joined a Farm Assurance Scheme please let the Office know in order for us to up-date our records so that we can keep buyers fully informed of your FABBL status.

FORTHCOMING SALES

Friday 24th July Early Sale of Breeding Ewes, Shearlings & Breeding Rams (catalogue entries close Wed 15th July)

J36 Rural Auction Centre Saturday 4th July Major Reduction Sale of

40 Fell Ponies from the Murthwaite Stud on behalf of Mr TB Capstick (Sale at 12 Noon) catalogues available on-line or by request Notice: The BBC will be filming on the 4th July during the Murthwaite Fell Pony sale. Anyone wishing not to appear on film please make the film crew aware.

ALSO THIS DAY

Sale of Poultry, Waterfowl, Hatching Eggs & Equipment (Sale at 10.30am) Entered birds only - entries now closed catalogues available on-line or by request

Tuesday 7th July Prime Lamb Show

Monday 6th July - 10am Household & Interiors Monday 20th July - 10am Household & Interiors J36 Auction Centre Crooklands Milnthorpe Cumbria LA7 7FP Phone

0845 812 1818 or

015395 66201

Saturday 1st August - 10am Architectural & Garden Antiques, Rural Bygones and Salvage Items etc. in association with NWA Plants & Shrubs

Two Day Catalogued Specialist Auction Tuesday 4th August - 10am Wednesday 5th August - 10am Including, Pictures, Ceramics, Glassware, Coins & Medals, Books and Ephemera, Collector's Toys, Silver & Jewellery and Furniture.

www.1818auctioneers.co.uk

Pens of 10 Continental Lambs & Pens of 10 Suffolk Lambs (Judging: 12.30pm

- Sale: 1pm)

Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs (1pm) followed by Cast Sheep

Thursday 9th July Weekly Sale of Calves & Stirks 10.15am Fortnightly Sale of Cast Cows, OTM’s & Clean Cattle 10.30am

Fortnightly Sale of Dairy Cattle (11am) to include Prize Show Followed by Fortnightly Sale of Beef Breeding & Store Cattle to include 8 Cows with Calves at Foot (please advise entries for catalogue by Thurs. 2nd July)

Thursday 16th July Weekly Sale of Calves & Stirks 10.15am Opening Sale of Store Lambs (11am)

www.nwauctions.co.uk

(early entries invited)