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North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 4th January

NWA Lancaster Young Handlers Show & Sale Monday 2nd January The first Prime Hogg sale of the New Year included the annual young handlers show and sale of prime Hoggs.

Thanks goes to our judge Martin McIntyre of Hawes for his time and expertise in judging the young handlers show. It was fantastic to have over a dozen entrants with over 20 Hoggs out for show. The championship rosette was awarded to John Ridding of Selside with a Texel Hogg weighing 42kg selling to £102 or 227p/kg, which was purchased by Lancashire Halal Meats. The reserve champion was awarded to Matthew Jackson of Ingleton with a Texel Hogg selling to £84 also purchased by Lancashire Halal Meats. The young handler’s trade topped at £103 from Cath Foy of Conder Green with a Beltex lamb. Thanks goes to all our buyers for their continue support of this great event and it was fantastic to have the young handlers present at the auction this morning.

An entry of over 600 prime Hoggs forward sold to a lesser trade than seen at last week’s sale with buyers expecting large entries of Hoggs nationwide following the Christmas break last week. The trade topped at £84 from LE & A Ridding of Selside with Texel lambs. A market average of 158p/kg was achieved for all lambs forward.

The Cast Sheep trade remains firm at Lancaster with Texel ewes from MY & K Ayrton of Bambers Farm selling to a top of £103 with first cross Texel Ewes out of the mule selling to £80 from the same home. Stronger mule ewes regularly selling on the mid-sixties.

Show Results Judge: Martin McIntyre, Hawes Class 1 – Single Lowland Lamb (Under 12 years) 1st Matthew Jackson, Springs Farm £84 2nd Rachel Phillips, Hallbeck £90 3rdGeorge Kelsall, Brown Brook £79 Class 2 – Single Lowland Lamb (Over 12 years) 1st John Ridding, Steel Croft £102 2nd Cath Foy, Parkside Farm £103 3rd Alasdair Prickett, Hutton Roof Hall £81 Class 3 – Single Hill Lamb to include Mule/Masham (Under 12 years) 1st Ella Jackson, Springs Farm £80 2nd Jonathan Ayrton, Yates Farm £79 3rd George Kelsall, Brown Brook £65 Class 4 – Single Hill Lamb to include Mule/Masham (Over 12 years) 1st Amy Ayrton, Yates Farm £82 2nd Alasdair Prickett. Hutton Roof Hall £79 Champion John Ridding, Steel Croft £102 Reserve Champion Matthew Jackson, Springs Farm £84

Prime Hogg Top Prices: BEL: £103 Parkside Farm. TEX: £102 Steel Croft; £90 High Hallbeck; £84 Springs Farm. MULE: £82 Yates Farm; £80 Springs Farm; £68 Burnt House. CH: £79 Brow Brook; £73 Old Woodhouse; £69 Park Farm Barn. CHEV: £79 Huttton Roof Hall. SWALE: £76 Yates Farm. SUFF: £73.50 Park Farm Barn; £73 Old Grange Farm; £69 Sycamores. MASH: £66 Holme House Farm; £65 Brown Brook. HRN: £65.50 Rigg Farm. DORS: £64 Corney Hill Farm. GRIT: £63 Moss House Farm. HAMP: £62 Upper Greenbank.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: TEX: £103 Bambers Farm; £77 Parkside Farm. DORS: £69 Corney Hill Farm. MULE: £66 Bambers Farm; £64 Forgelands; £60 Rigg Farm. ZWART: £45 Upper Greenbank.

CAST TUP – TEX: £49 Askew Hill. LEI: £40 Thornbush Farm

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J36 Sale Reports Tuesday 3rd January 991 Prime Hoggs sold to a buoyant trade throughout the sale, with all types keenly bid for.

Hitting the high spot today was Fishwick Farms, Silverdale, for a pair of superb Beltex scaling 52kg, and realising £104. Top price per kilo of the day went to RH, M & S Boyren, Hill Park for his 42kg cracking Texels, making 209.5p/kg.

Suffolks peaked at £94 for a pair of lengthy 57kg Hoggs, from MJ Waller, Carlingwha. TS & SM Park, Millom Castle sold away at £90 for a pair of well-bred 54kg Texels with W & J Parkinson from Cross House Farm having a super run of Beltex Hoggs with his top pen of 20 selling to £86.50 (206p/kg) for 42kgs Hoggs. A pen of 10 Cheviot Hoggs scaling 44kg realised £77 from TE & A Galbraith, Crooklands Farm and a consignment of 22 Mules from R & EA Gardner, Barrowfield, weighing 50kg and sold to £74.50. Williamson Brothers, Greenhills Farm had a show of tidy Blackface Hoggs, with his top pen realising £69.00 which scaled 40kg. Swaledale's from JA Alderson, Barras Farm, had a pen of 12 Hoggs scaling 41kg and sold to £68.00.

R & YE Pennington, Greenbank Farm had a pair of Dorset's selling to £70.00 and a pen of Charollaiss from RH, M & S Boyren, Hill Park sold to £79.00.

Heavy Hoggs were in stronger demand, with 45.5-52kg averaging 160.93p/kg, good meaty light Hoggs weighing between 32.1-39kg were also firmer, averaging 168.98p/kg, and the SQQ Hoggs weighing 39.5-44kg averaged 172.46p/kg.

Prime Hoggs sold to an average of 167.97p/kg.

Prime Hogg Top Prices: Bel £104 Bank House Farm, £86.50, £76.50 Cross House Farm. Suff £94 Carlingwha, £9.50 Guides Farm, £93 Crabtree Farm, £93, £90.50 Guides Farm. Tex £90 Millom Castle, £89.50 Mint Close, £88 Hill Park, £87 Mint Close, £86 Bank House Farm. Char £79 Hill Park, £73, £72.50 Longmire Farm, £64 High Greenside. Chev £77, £70.50 Croolands Farm, £70.50 Greenhills Farm, £69 Hartrigg, Greenhills Farm. Mule £74.50 Barrowfield Farm, £62.50 Tongue House, £61.50 Braida Garth. Dors £70 Greenbank Farm. Sco £69, £68.50 Greenhills Farm. Swale £68 Barras Farm, £62 Middle Sadghyll, £60.50 Ashstead, £59 Bradia Garth, £56.50 Barras Farm. Con £61 Hutton Roof Hall. Rough £60.50 Low Fold.

The Cast Ewe trade was back to normal this week with a busy ring of buyers looking for all types of ewes. A better trade was enjoyed this week with ewes selling £8 to £10 dearer on the week.

An entry of 400 forward saw strong pure bred ewes selling in excess of £100 topping at £121 for a Beltex from AW Crowe of Ashtree Cottage with Texel ewes from PK & R Woof of Storth End selling to £116. Mule ewes sold into the mid-sixties with the stronger ewes selling over the sixty mark quite regularly. Horned ewes sold to a top of £56 from PJ Onions of Keer Falls.

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Cast Sheep Top Prices: Cast Ewes: Bel £121 Ashtree Cottage, £85 Keer Falls. Tex £116, £114, £106, £99 Storth End Farm, £85 St Annes Farm. BFL £81 Helm Croft, £75 Moss Head, Ashstead. Suff £80 Garnett Folds, £70, £65 Brown Edge. Chev £74 Ashtree Cottage, £67 Moss End Farm, £48 Harbarrow Farm. Mule £68 Ashtree Cottage, £66 Carlingwha, £65 Garnet Folds, Edenbrook House, Grayrigg Foot. Llyen £65 New Hutton. Horned £63 Harbarrow Farm, £56 Keer Falls, £55, £52 Harbarrow, £51 Keer Falls. Cont £60 Fairbank Farm. Rough £52 Low Deepslack, £41 Applegarth.

Cast Rams: Tex £100, £77, £55 Moss End Farm. Char £90 Guides Farm, £74 Applegarth, £65 Moss End Farm. Bel £88 Guides Farm. Llyen £84 Cragg Farm. Grit £77 Moss End Farm. BFL £63 Brown Edge, £58 Moss End Farm, £51 Braida Garth, £50 Audlands Park.

J36 Rural Auction Centre

Sheep Annual Inventory

Saturday 7th January 10.30am Collective Sale of 1000 lots of Tractors, Machinery, Implements & Small Tools Inc. Ifor Williams Trailers, Livestock Trailers, Suzuki Ennis, Feeders, Vauxhall Van, Sheep Handling Equipment, Quad Bike, Feed Barriers, Straw Choppers. See web for more entries

Don’t forget that you should complete and return your form with all your sheep Numbers as of the 1st December. You must also note the numbers in your flock register in case of inspection by RPA.

Thursday 12th January Fortnightly Sale of Store Hoggs plus monthly sale of InLamb Breeding Sheep

Temporary Holding Numbers and links

Thursday 19th January SPECIAL SHOW & SALE OF STORE CATTLE Entries close Wednesday 11th January

Helpful Reminders

The new initiative from DEFRA is causing a lot of confusion and headaches, particularly at BCMS links are no longer being renewed. If you need any help please call and see Kathryn or Rodney.

Agricultural Waste Exemptions Many of these will have expired in the last few months and although we did lots of applications three years ago, we have done a few renewals. If you have renewed your own exemptions that is good, but if not please contact us and we will help.

Saturday 28th January Annual ROUGH DIAMONDS Show & Sale of In-lamb Rough Fell Females sale to inc Show & Sale of Bluefaced Leicester Females & Multi-Breed In-lamb Females Entries close Friday 13th January

Basic Payment Scheme 2016

Lancaster Auction Mart

Although there are still clients who have not been paid fully in 2015, the payment window for 2016 opens on the 1st December. RPA are still saying they will pay 90% of farmers by the end of December, but whether this payment will actually be correct we are not sure. If you receive any money this is wonderful and we expect payments to be 17% higher that 2015. If there is much difference please let us know and we can check to see if your 2015 payment was actually correct, as many we were not.

Monday 16th January

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Friday 13th January 10.15am Weekly Distinguished Sale of 60 CALVES 100 CAST COWS & 300 STORE CATTLE

RENOWNED JANUARY DAIRY SALE Including Show & Sale of Breeding Bulls Entries close Friday 6th January Wednesday 18th January 10.30am Collective Sale of Tractors, Machinery, Implements & Small Tools