NWA Newsletter 4th November 2015

North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 4th November

NWA J36 Show & Sale of Suckled Calves Thursday 29th October An entry of 368 ca le were forward at the fortnightly sale which comprised of 302 suckled calves, 66 store ca le which included the second show and sale of suckled calves. The championship rose e was awarded to NA & J Temple for a BB x steer which sold for ÂŁ900.

Show Results Sponsors Yorkshire Bank Judges Messrs Rutter, Greengill Farm Suckled Heifer Calf 1st Lot 151 NA & J Temple, Black Hall 2nd Lot 74 D Clark, Challon Hall 3rd Lot 181 CA & JA Alty & Son, Moss House Farm Suckled Bullock Calf 1st Lot 149 NA & J Temple, Black Hall 2nd Lot 153 NA & J Temple, Black Hall 3rd Lot 182 CA & JA Alty & Son, Moss House Farm Suckled Bull Calf 1st Lot 184 CA & JA Alty & Son, Moss House Farm Champion Lot 149 NA & J Temple, Black Hall Reserve Champion Lot 151 NA & J Temple, Black Hall

Top Prices Suckled Steers - Lim ÂŁ1060 Ellerbeck. Shorthorn ÂŁ 960 The Parsonage. Sim ÂŁ940 High House. BB ÂŁ900 Black Hall. Char ÂŁ900 High Wray.

Suckled Heifers - BB ÂŁ1000 Parkside. Cont ÂŁ940 The Parsonage. Sim ÂŁ920 The Parsonage. Lim ÂŁ940 Masongill Suckled Bulls - BB ÂŁ850 Parkside. Lim ÂŁ840 Birk Howe. Cont ÂŁ840 Valley View

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Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 29th October Store Cattle today at Lancaster had a packed ring side of buyers, well fleshed cattle continued to sell to a good price. Top price Charolais bullock was £1380 J.D Bracken.

Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – FRI: £1140 Old Glasson Farm; £1110 Braeslacks. ANG: £1260 Warth Sutton Farm; £1240 Raw End Farm. LIM: £1210 Endmoor Farm; 1190 Station Hotel. CHAR: £1380 Greenlands Farm; £1030 Low Woodedge Farm. HERE: £1060 Low Fell End; £1030 Hall Bank; £1010 Oddlands Farm. SIM: £1170 Scotch Green Farm. BRIT BLUE: £1290 Parkside Farm; £1290 Greenlands Farm. MON: £1280 Cock Hall Farm; £1150 Fanny House Farm. BAZ: £1070 Oak Head Farm. FKV: £1070 White Lund Farm.

STORE HEIFERS – FRI: £910 Holmes Farm. ANG: £1120 Ivy Barn Spout House. LIM: £1100 Cross House Farm; £1050 Endmoor Farm. CHAR: £1040 Bouthwaite Farm.

HERE: £1020 Fell End Farm. SIM: £1010 Thornton Barn Farm; £900 Ivy Farm. BRIT BLUE:£1240 Pasture House Farm; £1200 Greenlands Farm; £1110 Wyre Farm.

BULL-FRI: £850 Barn Hill Farm.

There was 56 Young Calves and Stirks, A shortage of beef calves today, resulting in a nice trade. Top price was £400 for a month old British Blue Bull Calf from Wallbanks Tills Farm.

Calf Top Prices: HEIFER CALF – WB: £260 Cocker House Farm. HE: £195 Birkland Barrow; £190 Billinge Hall. AA: £185 Tills Farm; £180 Birkland Barrow.

BULL CALF – BRB: £400 Tills Farm; £320 Knowsley Farm. AA: £280 Park Lane Farm. FR: £185 Cocker House Farm; £155 Tills Farm; £140 Catshaw Hall Farm. SRW: £140 Sandvilla. MRI: £135 Sandvilla.

BULL STIRK – SRW: £230 Sandvilla. FR: £295 Sandvilla

109 Cast Cows averaged 104.8per kilo and sold to top price of 174.5 per kilo for a Friesian Heifer off Hazel Slack Tower Farm.

Cast Cows Top Prices: CAST COWS – FR: 139.5 Ridding Lane Farm; 124.5 Pilling Hall; 124.5 Woodhouse Farm. LIM: 134.5 Braida Garth; 119.5 Holme House Farm; 119.5 Thornbush Farm. BRB: 119.5 Holme House Farm; 117.5 The Old Mistle. MON: 119.5 Lane House. AA: 119.5 Stirzaker House. HE: 117.5 Boundary House. SIM: 114.5 Low Fell End; 107.5 Jonty Lee Stables.

CAST HEIFER – FR: 174.5 Hazelslack Tower Farm; 137.5 Holme House; 134.5 Pilling Hall. SIM: 147.5 Parkside Farm. AA: 129.6 Stirzaker House.

CAST BULL – MO: 107.5 Hatters Farm. BB: 104.5 Yates Farm.

A small number of Store Lambs sold from Croziers Croft.Texel x averaging £40.

Monday 2nd November A noticeably sharper Prime Lamb trade at Lancaster today with once again an active ring full of buyers forward. The SQQ of 149 with an overall market average 147 with a lot more lambs required. The trade was topped by a smart lamb from Andrew Wilson of Burrow Heights selling to £82. Plenty of pens of continental lambs weighing 41kg and 42kg selling between 155ppk and 160ppk. Hill bred lambs selling three to five pound more than lambs on the previous week with 44kg, mules from RH & C Ayrton of Ouzelthorn selling to £63 with mules averaging 136ppk. Horned lambs sold to £59 from BD Gill at 42kg.

Prime Lamb Top Prices: TEX: £82 Burrow Heights Farm; £77.50 Lentworth Farm; £72.50 North Farm. SUFF: £74.50 North Farm; £71.50 Fell End Farm; £69.50 Lentworth Farm. CHAR: £96 Low Kit Brow; £67 Burrow Heights Farm; £64 Cragg Farm. CONT: £69 North Farm. CHEV: £65.50 Old Woodhouse; £62 North Farm. MULE: £64 North Farm; £63 Ouzelthorn Farm; £62.50 Wyresdale Park. DALES: £59 Yarlsber.

A better show of Cast Ewes this morning, with 125 passing through the ring. Topping the day was T & CM Kelsall, Chipping with a pure Texel ewe realising £95. Mules sold to £64 for a pen of 9 from WTC Farms, with others to £62 from the same home. Lean sheep looking dear in comparison to fat ewes with buyers penalising of over-fat sorts. A large show of hill sheep saw big well fleshed swales sell to £46 from KM & KJ Curwen, Marshaw and £44 from the same home, to average £40.54 for all forward. All sheep looking dearer on the week, to average £49.60 for all forward.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: TEX: £95 Brown Brook; £77 Old Grange Farm; £67 Low Kit Brow. MULE: £64 Old Grange Farm; £58 Brown Brook; £58 Low Kit Brow. SWALE: £46 Marshaw Farm.

A smaller entry of two Prime Bulls forward saw Suckler bred Limousin bulls sell to 199.5ppk and 184.5ppk from JA Airey of Old Croft.

Prime Bull Top Prices: LIM: 199.5; 184.5 Old Croft.

NWA Property 015395 66222 Staveley, Near Kendal For Sale by Auction Sale by auction of 8.50 acres/3.44 hectares of fertile and productive meadow and pasture land on Thursday, 10th December, 2015 at J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Milnthorpe, LA7 7N at 7.00 p.m.

The land is situated in the centre of the village of Staveley which is about 5 miles from Kendal and 4 miles from Windermere and has roadside access and a mains fed water supply. The land also, possibly, has long term potential for development.

Note – The Contracts and Conditions will not be read out at the auction but will be available for inspection at the Solicitors and Auctioneers offices.

Viewing – By arrangement Solicitors – Messrs. Milne Moser, 100 Highgate, Kendal. LA9 4HE. Tel: 01539 729786

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J36 Sale Reports Monthly Machinery Sale Wednesday 28th October North West Auctions held its monthly collective sale of farm machinery and equipment on Wednesday 28th October which saw 924 lots offered for sale.

Modern equipment saw keen interest with several new buyers in attendance for the larger items attracted by the early entries which certainly benefited from being advertised for several week prior to the sale.

Modern equipment included a Claas 3100c Mower selling at £3900, Vicon round bale wrapper and a Hardi sprayer both selling for £3000 followed by a MAJOR 1600 tanker £2350 and a Marshall muck spreader £1550.

A selection of tractors and vehicles saw a 2WD MF350 sell at £3400 with a 2WD Ford 5000 sell for £2800 and a 2WD Ford 4000 achieve £1600. Farm vehicles sold to a top price of £1600 for a 55 Plate Mitsubishi L200 and a 53 Plate Isuzu Trooper £900. A Honda BIG RED quad bike achieved £700.

Seasonal livestock equipment is now selling well which included sheep hay racks at £150, feed troughs £30, hanging hay racks £70 and heavy duty gates £85.

PLEASE NOTE THEN NEXT SALE WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 5th December, WHICH WILL BE THE FINAL MACHINERY SALE OF 2015. PLEASE ADVISE OF EARLY ENTRIES TO ASSIST WITH ADVERTISING

Thursday 29th October The weekly sale of Calves and Stirks had an entry of 75 forward with all types very keenly bid for in front of another busy ring full of buyers. The calf trade was topped at £440 twice from JW & TE Sharp of Flodder Hall with good quality British Blue bulls with British blue heifers selling to £425 from the same home. All beef calves eagerly bid for with more required and could have easily been sold today. A brisk trade for the quality of Black and whites forward with better calves easily over £100 topping at £150. An overall average of £66 for all black and whites which was strong for the show of calves forward.

Plenty of people in the market looking for stirks with once again a mixed show in terms of quality but all vendors leaving satisfied with their trade.

Calf Top Prices: Bull Calves – BRB: £440 & £415 Flodder Hall; £395 Nether Hall Farm; £330, £300, £295 Town Head. Lim: £330 & £300 Langley Park. AA: £220 Low Stanger Thwaite. Fr: £150 High Foulshaw, Hagg Farm; £120 Syke House; £100 Greaves Farm; £90 Wraysholme Tower.

Heifer Calves – Lim: £460 Capplethwaite Hall; £370 Spout House; £340 High Foulshaw; £315 Langley Park. Stab: £315 High Foulshaw. BRB: £425 Flodder Hall; £390 High Foulshaw; £320 Town Head.

Bull Stirks – Fr: £300 Low Field Farm Heifer Stirks – AA: £330 Railway Cottage. Lim: £480 Railway Cottage. Hfd: £435 Low Sorbies.

65 Cast Cows averaged 106.8p/kg, top price was 157.5p/kg for a Lim Heifer from B & HM Wilson, Ashstead Farm, Selside.

Cast Cow Prices: Cast Cows: Char 147.5, 144.5 Patton Hall. Lim 141.5 Tilberthwaite. AA 139.5 Mislet Farm. Cont 137.5 Dubside. Sim 134.5 Patton Hall.

Cast Heifers: Lim 157.5 Ashstead. Fri 134.5 Capplerigg. Holstein Fri 134.5 Town Head. Mont 127.5 Capplerigg.

Cast Bullocks: Gall 137.5, 134.5 Birkknowe Cast Bulls: Lim 114.5 Green Lane End. Lim X 111.5 Low Gill Farm

The only downfall with today’s Dairy trade was a lack of numbers forward with numerous byers around the ring looking to purchase cattle with more desperately required and could have easily been sold. Second calved non pedigree cows giving 35 litres from JH Woof & Son of Underhelm sold to £1750 with third calved cows giving 40 litres from the same home making £1500. An in calf cow due in November to the beef bull due for her fourth lactation sold to £1020 from D & A Travis of Manor Farm.

NWA had 42 Beef Breeding cattle forward. The top price of £1900 was achieved twice for black Lim x heifers (Irish Bred) with young Limx calves from W McCord, Perth whose entry of 13 heifers and calves averaged £1853.

Beef Breeding Top Prices: Heifers & Calves - Lim x & Bull calf £1900 x2, £1875 x 6 Craigends. BB x & Hfr calf £1850 Craigends Cows & Calves - BB Cow & BB Hfr calf £1500 Low Sorbies. Cont Cows & Hfr calf £1280 Low Sorbies Breeding Bulls - Hereford £880 Low Sorbies

NWA Property 015395 66222 Grasmere, Lake District For Sale by Auction Sale by auction of 2.38 acres/0.96 hectares of fertile and productive meadow and pasture land situated on the outskirts of Grasmere and being formerly part of Broadrayne Farm, Grasmere on Thursday, 10th December, 2015 at 7.00 p.m. at J36 Rural Auction Centre Crooklands, Milnthorpe LA7 7FP (SatNav LA7 7NU) The land has access off the A591 and off a side road.

There is a mains fed water trough on the land.

Note – The Contracts and Conditions will not be read out at the auction but will be available for inspection at the Solicitors and Auctioneers offices.

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J36 Sale Reports Tuesday 3rd November The weekly sale of prime sheep saw 2632 forward with Prime Lambs achieving an SQQ of 146.9p/kg. Well finished lambs ranging 42-44kg were easiest sold to an active ringside of 12 buyers. Best lambs regularly achieving 155-165p/kg, topping at 178p/kg for Charollais cross from T L & S Cross.

Mules averaged 138p/kg for all sold with the standards weights 140-148p/kg. Lightweight lambs achieved an overall average of 152p/kg, with more needed each week to meet buyers’ demands.

Top price of £77 was achieved for best Texels from D, J & A Freeman, with other heavy weight lambs regulary £70-£75.

Hill lambs sold to £64 for Mules, £60.50 Cheviots, £58.50 Rough Fell and £53.50 Herdwicks.

Lightweight lambs sold to a top price of £59.50 for a pen of 35kg Texels, with other pens 30-33kg , achieving £45-£52.

Please note: The sale commences at 1 pm with Light Lambs and these do benefit from being in the appropriate section.

Prime Lamb Top Prices: Tex: £77, £76.50 Town End; £74 Stoneyhead Hall; £72.50 The Galleon. Suff: £74.50 Dunningwell Farm; £74, £70 Smithy Green Farm. Char: £72.50 Myers Farm; £71.50 Trees Farm; £67, £65.50 Dunningwell Farm. Mule: £64 High Loanthwaite Farm; £63.50 Heaton Hall Farm; £63 Braida Garth, Yoad Pot. Chev: £60.50 Hall Bank; £57 Howriggs; £56, £55.50 Seedhowe Cottage. RFell: £58.50 Seedhowe Cottage; £58, £52.50 Steps Farm. Dors: £58 Brow Head; £54.50 Warth Sutton Farm.

Hamp: £57.50 Brow Head Herd: £53.50 Low Fields; £50 High Biggarsbank.

The weekly sale of Cast Sheep had another entry of over 450 forward. A stronger trade this week with all types of ewes, four to five pound dearer on the week. Cast rams sold to £111 for a Leicester from PE & M Capstick of Whicham Hall, with Suffolks selling to £95 from GB JE DJ Platts of Greenbank Farm.

Stronger continental ewes around the eighty pound mark, topping at £83 from AW & AM Clarke of Low Longmire. Stronger mule ewes sold in excess of £60, with best ewes topping at £66 and all mule ewes forward averaged £55.

Once again a large show of hill bred ewes forward, saw better swales easily selling in the forties and lean pens of ewes in excess of thirty pound. An overall average of £47.06 reflected a strong trade for the sheep forward.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: Leic: £111 Whicham Hall; £79 Low Longmire; £74 Low Newton Farm. Tex: £83 Low Longmire; £80, £76 Underley Estate; £76 High Greenside. Suff: £95, £74 Greenbank Farm; £79 Ninezergh. Chev: £81, £73 Underley Estate; £73 Gowan Bank Farm; £68 School House. Mule: £66 Gowan Bank Farm, Wreay Syke; £65 Toadpool Farm; £64 Mint Close. Mash: £66 Brow Head. Swale: £66 Whicham Hall; £46 Longwell; £44 Yoad Pot; £43 Moss End Farm. Grit: £59 Moss End Farm. RFell: £58 Howriggs; £56 Woodside; £50 Riverside House. Herd: £55 Moss End Farm; £44 Nook Farm.. Char: £49, £47 Moss End Farm. Lleyn: £39 Penrose Cottage.

Christmas Carol Concerts J36 Rural Auction Centre

Farm to Farm Trading There is a wide range of stock and equipment available through our farm to farm trading service, please visit our website to view the whole list nwauctions.co.uk

Monday 7th December at 7pm with the Kendal Branch of NFU Adults £5 and Children £1 in aid of R.A.B.I Tickets available from J36 Rural Auction Centre and NFU Kendal Coming up at North West Auctions

Lancaster Auction Mart The Lancaster Christmas Concert organised by The Ayrton Family will be on Saturday 12th December at 7.30pm followed by refreshments.

Tickets are £5 in support of Wyresdale Childrens Home in India and The Farming Community Network, and will be available from Lancaster Auction.

J36 Rural Auction Centre Tuesday 10th November Weekly Sale of Prime Sheep Plus Monthly Sale of Pigs

Thursday 12th November Weekly Sale Calves & Store Lambs Fortnightly Sale of Cast/OTM Cattle & Beef Breeding & Store Cattle

NWA Property

Thursday 19th November Evening Sale of In-lamb Suffolk & Multibreed Females Entries close Monday 10th November

Between Newby Bridge & Cartmel For Sale by Private Treaty

Saturday 21st November Poultry & Waterfowl Sale Entry forms available online

Saturday 28th November Monthly Machinery Sale

Lancaster Auction Mart Monday 9th November Weekly sale of Primestock

5.50 acres/2.23 hectares or thereabouts of amenity pasture and meadow land.

Available in two lots

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Friday 13th November Weekly Sale of Store Cattle