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North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 7th January

Weekly report & newsletter NWA Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 2nd January An entry of 47 OTM Cattle forward made up mainly of parlour cows saw fit cows sell to a strong trade with very plains sorts slightly harder to place with an overall brisk trade throughout. Just a handful of beef cows in sold to 147.5ppk from JJ Woof & Sons of Millbeck for a Limousin with others from AR Edmondson of Hawkswell selling to 144.5ppk and 139.5ppk for Limousin cows. Better fleshed dairy cows eagerly sort after selling to 124.5ppk with other cows carrying flesh selling easily over 105ppk. A market average of 97.8ppk was achieved.

Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COWS – FR- 124.5 Allcocks Farm; 124.5 Bank End Farm; 124.5 Cocker House Farm. SHO- 91.5 School House. CON- 84.5 Old Grange Farm. LIM- 144.5 Hawkswell Farm. PAR- 147.5 Millbeck. BA- 117.5 Millbeck.

The weekly sale of Store Cattle at Lancaster had a reduced entry forward but sold to an equally strong trade as previous weeks. British Blue steers sold to a top price of £1320 from Cowell & Moore of Woodplumpton with Hereford Steers from TE & BM Makinson of Holmgarth selling to £1220. A trio of British Blue heifers sold to £1160 from P Lawrenson of Walmsley Fold. Black and white steers sold to a brisk trade with buyers eager to buy steers in all conditions.

Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – FR- £1080 Rowell Farm; £990 Newsham Hall Farm; £970 Ivy Farm. LIM- £1150 Thornbush Farm; £1070 Newsham Hall Farm. HE- £1220 Holmgarth. SIM- £1160 Holmgarth. BRB- £1320 Newsham Hall Farm. SRW- £900 Wyre Farm; £760 Buck Bank Farm.

STORE HEIFERS – LIM- £1060 Rowell Farm; £1020 High Tenement Farm; £960 Walmsley Fold. CH- £1080 Newsham Hall Farm. BRB- £1160 Walmsley Fold.

A small entry of Calves and Stirks for the start of 2015, with only 39 forward, however trade for all classes was well above expectations. Topping the calf trade was Dave Harrison of Wray with a cracking run of calves topping at £450 for a 12 week Blue Bull, a pair of Charollais Bulls sold to £430 with all 5 of the consignment over the £400 mark. Native bred calves sold well again today topping at £285 for a 3week Hereford heifer from Steve Mason of Over Kellet.

Angus sold to £200 for 5week old heifer from TM Townley, Knowsley. Black and White calves saw the best trade of the day topping at £152 at 6weeks from Wallbank farms with others from the same home at £130 and £120. Strong calves were £70-£95 with an overall average of £92 for all forward.

Stirks sold to full value, topping at £535 for a blue bull at 5months from A Shepherd with a pen of 3 Angus Heifers at 6months selling to £505.

Calf Top Prices: BULL CALF – BRB- £450 Birks Farm. CH- £430 Birks Farm. LIM- £300 Sandvilla. FR- £152 Tills Farm; £140 Thornbush Farm; £130 Tills Farm. AA- £152 Sandvilla.

HEIFER CALF – BRB- £405 Birks Farm. HE- £285 Birkland Barrow. AA- £200 Knowsley Farm; £142 Sandvilla.

BULL STIRK – BRB- £535 Muffys Platt Farm. AA- £350 Sandvilla.

HEIFER STIRK- BRB- £505 Muffys Platt Farm. AA- £505 Muffys Platt Farm.

Monday 5th January 2015 GETS OFF TO A STRONG START The weekly sale of Prime Hogg’s & Cast Sheep saw an active ringside of buyers competing for all classes.

667 Prime Hoggs to £94 & 205.0p/kg Weights Top Av. Standard 32 ½ -39 205.0 192.5 Medium 39 ½ -45 ½ 204.0 185.0 Heavy 46 - 51 ½ 200.0 176.0

Prime Hogg’s regularly 190p/kg-200p/kg topping at 205p/kg for best continental from D Cockett and £96 for Texel x from J Bargh & Son. Mules sold to £82 from J Simpson with horned lambs £74.50 from Fell End Farm.

Prime Hogg Top Prices: SUFF- £90 Walker House Farm; £87 Fell End Farm; £83.50 Bamber Farm. MULE- £82 Millstones; £80 Moorville; £79 Fell End Farm. HORNED- £83.50 Lundholme Farm; £74.50 Fell End Farm; £72.50 Brown Brook.

CHA- £94 Brown Brook; £86 Walmsley Fold. CHEV- £87 North Farm. TEX- £96 North Farm; £84.50 Walker House Farm; £83.50 Hutton Roof Hall.

Cast Sheep sold in excess of seller’s expectations with best meated sorts regularly £110 to £120.

Mules to £111 (average £103), Swaledales £73 with Cast Rams £165 from A Shepherd.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: MULE- £111 Middle Lee Farm; £111 Stanley Farm; £109 Booth Hall. HORNED- £73 Middle Lee Farm.

TEX- £165 Muffy’s Platt Farm; £140 Lots House Farm; £132 Ellers Farm. TEES- £110 Middle Lee Farm.

HERD- £71 Lee End Farm.

Only Dairy Bulls forward today with Holstein Friesian to 151p/kg 2 Prime Cattle to 151.5p/kg, £968.07 from A & FM Bolland.

Class Top Av. Prime Cattle Top Prices: Other 151.5 146.6 SRW- 151.5, 141.5 Yeat House

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January Monday 12th Weekly Prime Stock Sale at 9am Friday 16th Weekly Cattle Sale Calves & OTM 10.15am Store Cattle 11.15am Including Store Hoggs Monday 19th January Weekly Prime Stock Sale at 9am Followed by The Renowned NWA Lancaster January Dairy Sale

Catalogued Entries close Friday 9th January

February Saturday 7th

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Collective sale of Tractors, Farm Machinery, Equipment, Tools & Timber Early entries invited

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NWA J36 Sale Reports Tuesday 6th January North West Auctions held their opening sale of the New Year at J36 with 2,162 prime sheep forward to a full complement of buyers.

Fewer Prime Hoggs than anticipated were forward with a very respectable overall averaged of 186.44p/kg achieved, considering there was a large show of light and hill breed hoggs in the Market. The majority of hoggs were a good trade with only the light weight and Horned hoggs being a shade easier on the week.

Hoggs peaked at £103 for a single Texel x from S & J & A Freeman of Troutbeck.

Prime Lamb Top Prices: Suff £102 & £97 Netherhouses Farm; £92 Low Tarn Green, Underley; £90 Walnut Hill. Mule: £88 Brown Edge; £84 Netherhouses Farm; £82 High Tenement Farm; £81 Walnut Hill. Swale: £69.50 Town End; £66.50 Thornton Hall; £66 Red Lodge; £65 High Borrowbridge. Rough Fell: £70 High Borrowbridge. Char: £95 Myers Farm; £86.50 Yealand Manor; £85.50 Broughton House Farm; £85 Dunningwell Farm; £82.50 New Close. Chev: £80 Ashstead; £76 Brow Head; £74 High House Farm. Texel: £103 Town End; £94 Little Guards, Underley; £93 Netherhouses Farm; £92.50 Heaton Hall; £91 Mint Close. Lleyn: £86 Low Foulshaw Farm. Herdwick: £65 High Low Wood; £58 Cow Bank. Beltex: £84 The Dell.

All classes of Cast Sheep met an absolutely phenomenal trade. There was a shortage of the best Continental sheep today with these topping at £138 for a Texel from T Ayrton & Sons of Over Wyresdale.

Plenty of ewes sold for £125 - £135. Mule ewes were a particularly strong trade regularly £95 - £105 topping at £110 per head for a pen of twenty good meated ewes. Horned ewes were to £89 for Rough Fells and £92 for Swaledales.

Cast Sheep Top Prices: Suff £110 Woodhouse; £108 Riggthwaite; £98 High House. Mule: £110 Riggthwaite; £107 Moss House Farm, Gibraltar Farm; £106 Myers Farm; £104 High Wray. Swale: £92 Middale Farm; £89 High Green; £80 Sowermire. Rough Fell: £89 Sowermire; £88 High Swinklebank. Scotch: £68 Audlands Park; £64 Mowbray Farm. Char: £132 Kingsland; £128 Low Foulshaw Farm. Chev: £106 Underley. Texel: £138 Yates Farm; £135 Moss End Farm, Gibraltar Farm; £128 Underley. Lleyn: £109 Low Foulshaw Farm; £100 Corney Hill; £96 Cragg Farm. Leicester: £122 Kate Farm, Farm Cottage; £108 Town End; £100 Brown Edge; £98 Sowermire. Gritstone: £95 Moss End Farm. Herdwick: £77 High Loanthwaite Farm; £68 Scar Sykes; £66 Moss End Farm.

***Attention all Prime & Cast Sheep Vendors*** Due to demand, from 13th January 2015 we will commence the Tuesday sale at J36 at 1pm with the sale of a number of CAST SHEEP, followed at approx. 1.30pm the usual sale of PRIME HOGGS, and concluding with the remaining Cast Sheep.

1650 Prime Lambs to £103 & 215.9p/kg Weights Top Av. Standard 32 ½ -39 205.9 184.9 Medium 39 ½ -45 ½ 215.9 191.1 Heavy 46 - 51 ½ 198.1 180.0

NWA J36 January Tuesday 13th Monthly Sale of Pigs at 10.30am & Weekly Prime Stock Sale at 1pm Thursday 15th Weekly Calves & Store Hoggs sale at 10.15am Saturday 24th Multi-breed in-lamb sheep to include BFL, Texel, Beltex & Annual Rough Diamond Sale for RFSBA also this day Poultry, Waterfowl, Hatching Eggs & Equipment Entry forms available online

Plant & Shrub Auction Simply Local Farmers Market Wednesday 28th Collective sale of Tractors, Farm Machinery, Equipment, Tools & Timber Early entries invited

Changes to sheep identification and recording from 1st January 2015 From 1st January 2015 all sheep over 12 months old which move from your holding must have an individual number as well as the flock (UK) mark on the tag * Unless you remain the keeper** (the sheep are remaining in your day to day supervision and control) the individual numbers of sheep over 12 months of age moving to another holding (including “green” markets) must be recorded in the holding register* If your sheep are EID and moving through a CPRC (market) the ID numbers may be read at the market and supplied to you within 48 hours for inclusion in your register, however you as keeper are responsible for the accuracy of information held in your flock registers - including missing / incomplete information or discrepancies.

If your sheep are not electronically tagged a CPRC will not be able to read and pass any ID information back to you. You as keeper will be responsible for manually reading the tag numbers before departure, recording them in full in your register and passing that information to the destination keeper by recording it in full on the movement documentation.

Alternatively, for ease of management and recording of sheep over 12 months of age, you may choose to replace “old style” plastic tags with “full EID” (double) tags. If the sheep was born on your holding you may apply a yellow EID tag with coloured match up tag, if the sheep was not born on your holding you must apply a RED EID and match up tag. When you remove a tag for re-identification you must record the numbers on the tag you remove in your register and cross reference this to the replacement number used. * These rules do not apply to sheep tagged before 2010 which are moving direct to an abattoir or slaughter collection which may be recorded by the number of animals in the register and movement document. ** If you remain the keeper, sheep moving from a holding can be recorded in the register and movement document by the number moving with no reference to ID on the document or register If you are unsure about what to do contact Cumbria Trading Standards Animal Health team who will be pleased to advise, phone 01539 713137 email animalmovements@cumbria.gov.uk or speak to the animal health inspector on duty at the market.

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