North West Auctions Weekly Report and Newsletter – 7th September
NWA J36 Lads Night Out Thursday 1st September A fantastic entry of over 600 terminal sire breeding rams and individual females were forward for the "Lads Night Out" sale. The auction was packed throughout the evening with faces, old and new, and with buyers from throughout the North of England and Wales. There was a fantastic trade from start to finish with purchasers looking to purchaser strong powerful replacement rams. This sale continues to grow from strength to strength and is fast gaining a strong reputation with sheep breeders each year. A strong pre-sale show was well supported with solid numbers forward in every Overall Champion Ram from ST Birkett & Son Old Croft show class saw the overall Champion awarded to ST Birkett & Son of Old Croft with a very stylish Beltex shearling ram. The reserve champion was awarded to JH Towers & Son of Tunstall Hall with a powerful Suffolk shearling ram. The trade topped at £1,200 for the sale champion the Beltex shearling ram from ST Birkett & Son of Old Croft with Texel rams selling to a top of £1,050 from W & MM Case of Plumpton. Beltex cross rams sold to a top of £1,000 from ME Wannop & Son of Heaton Hall, with buyers looking for powerful rams with plenty of conformation and these were easiest to sell. Suffolk rams sold to a top of £950 for the reserve champion from JH Towers & Son of Tunstall Hall. The individual female sale continues to be a success with a consignment of Suffolk gimmer shearlings from Messrs Ellwood of Heathwaite selling to £380 and regularly selling in the three hundreds. Show Results Suffolk Class
Charollais Judging
Suffolk Judge James Dixon
Charollais Judge Richard Cleasby
Suffolk Shearling Ram 1st Lot 531 JH Towers, Tunstall Hall 2nd Lot 643 ME Petherbridge, Kirkfield 3rd Lot 509 PJ & EA Wharton, High Hall
Charollais Shearling 1st Lot 377 Messrs Wales, Thackwood 2nd Lot 371 JA & R Geldard, Low Foulshaw 3rd Lot 376 Messrs Wales, Thackwood
Suffolk Ram Lamb 1st Lot 526 TA Blair, Thornfleet 2nd Lot 690 Messrs Howson, Brough Head 3rd Lot 489 Messrs Howson, Brough Head
Charollais Ram Lamb 1st Lot 382 JD & V Towers, Camp House Farm 2nd Lot 387 Galtres Farming, Manor Cottage 3rd Lot 403 J Stott, Kingsland
Champion Lot 531 JH Towers, Tunstall
Charollais Champion Lot 377 Messrs Wales, Thackwood
Texel Judging
Beltex Judging
Texel Judge Jack & Keith Allen
Beltex Judge Martin Fishwick
Texel Shearling Ram 1st Lot 171 Messrs Ladds, Benson Hall 2nd Lot 176 S Cunliffe, Seatle Hall 3rd Lot 266 E & CA Shuttleworth
Beltex Shearling 1st Lot 109 ST Birkett, Hall Croft 2nd Lot 104 K Armistead, Eskdale Drive 3rd Lot 2 F Joel, Westhouse Lodge Farm
Texel Ram Lamb 1st Lot 666 P Holden 2nd Lot 192 S Cunliffe, Seatle Hall 3rd Lot 193 S Cunliffe, Seatle Hall
Beltex X Shearling 1st Lot 47 JA & R Geldard, Low Foulshaw 2nd Lot 70 ME Wannop & Sons, Heaton Hall Farm 3rd Lot 57 Messrs Lads, Benson Hall
Champion Lot 171 Messrs Ladds, Benson Hall
Beltex Champion Lot 109 ST Birkett, Hall Croft Texel Champion photographed with (L-R) Texel Judges Keith & Jack Allen and Vendor Tom Ladds
Overall Champion Lot 109 ST Birkett, Hall Croft
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Overall Reserve Champion pictured with (L-R) Vendor Ben Towers and Suffolk Judge James Dixon
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Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 2nd September Cast Cows saw well fleshed cows sell to a strong trade with a plainer entry in general, plainer types harder to sell. Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COW – BA: 179.5 The Bungalow; 134.5 Winder. LIM: 154.5 Poppy Farm; 144.5 Lane Head Farm; 134.5 Hazelslack Tower Farm. BRB: 144.5 Dove Cote Farm. 124.5 Barker Knott; 124.5 Fellside Farm; 121.5 Stoneybank. CH: 129.5 Fellside Farm. FR: 127.5 Lane End Farm; 124.5 Dove Cote Farm; 121.5 Tunstall Hall. SHO: 111.5 School House. CAST HEIFER – FR: 144.5 Docker Hall Farm; 139.5 Tunsteads Farm; 134.5 Westfield House Farm. LIM: 149.5 Hazelslack Tower Farm. CAST STEER – BRB: 169.5 Green Close. CAST BULL – FR: 91.5 Beechwood Farm.
Store Cattle was a mixed entry in general with well fleshed and quality cattle still very good to sell with other a touch easier on the week. Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – AA: £1350 Upp Hall; £1260 Yew Tree Farm; £1220 High Green. LIM: £1310 Old Glasson Farm; £1300 Red Scar; £1220 High Green. BRB: £1260 Old Glasson Farm; £1230 Pasture Barn Farm; £1230 High Underbrow. SLR: £1200 High Green. HE: £1190 Hill Top; £1100 Fellside Farm; £970 Cockrigg Farm. SIM: £1150 Windy Hill Farm; £1100 Fellside Farm; £1090 Sykes Fold Farm. FR: £1140 Ellers Farm; £1120 Godson House Farm; £1000 Old Glasson Farm.CH: £1080 Fell End Farm. BAZ: £1060 The Old Stable. BA: £910 Kendal House Farm. STORE HEIFER – BRB: £1270 Red Scar; £1080 High Underbrow Farm; £1050 Red Scar. BAZ: £1200 The Old Stable . LIM: £1190 Cross House Farm; £1120 Farleton House; £1050 Manor House Farm. AA: £1180 Church Street; £1090 Adamsons Farm; £1080 Underhelm Farm. HE: £1100 Hill Top. CH: £1070 High House Farm; £1060 Cross House Farm; £940 Black Bull Farm. BA: £1020 Cross House Farm. FR: £950 Downlands Farm.
Calves saw a very selective trade with best types of beef calves a good trade as ever with the others type slightly harder to sell this week. Calf Top Prices: HEIFER CALF – BRB: £420 Tills Farm; £400 Chapel House. CH: £375 Blackleach House Farm. AA: £280 Tunstall Hall; £200 Blackleach House Farm; £180 Pump House Farm. BULL CALF – BRB: £495 Chapel House; £430 Catshaw Hall Farm; £350 Hagg Farm. AA: £320 Tunstall Hall. LIM: £280 North Farm; £250 Poppy Farm. FR: £150 Tills Farm; £130 Birkland Barrow; £95 Tunstall Hall.
The second Breeding Ewes and Shearlings incorporating breeding rams was held on Friday 2nd September at Lancaster. A very selective breeding tup sale with buyers looking to purchase good quality breeding rams. Tups topped at £480 for a Beltex cross tup from Frank and Sue Towers of Curwen Hill. Suffolk cross Texel tups sold to £420 from Andrea Gardner of Bay Horse with Texel’s selling to £400 from B & J Preston of Ellers. Ewes and gimmer shearlings sold to a strong trade and eagerly bid for with buyers once again looking to purchase string replacement breeding sheep, pure bred Texel gimmer shearlings sold to £165 from B & J Preston of Ellers. Mule gimmer shearlings sold to a top of £140 twice from EI, EA & TW Wilson of Guides farm.
Monday 5th September Lamb trade remains good at Lancaster The first Prime Sale of the month at Lancaster of September and a better number forward of 1,260 prime lambs. A slightly disappointing average of 174ppk but lambs well finished and within specification selling to a strong trade with them vendors leaving well chuffed with their trade. Heavy lambs good to sell and topping at £96 from AJ & JB Rhodes & Son of Kit Brow with plenty of heavy weight lambs selling around £90. Export type lambs sold in excess of 200ppk topping at 208ppk from Ian T Richardson of Woodplumpton. Mule lambs sold to a top of £75 from FA Nowell & Partners of Bentham. Prime Lamb Top Prices: TEX: £96 Low Kit Brow; £88 Mearsbeck Farm; £87 Ouzelthorn Farm. SUFF: £92.50 Booth Hall; £84.50 New Close. CHAR: £85 Park Farm; £83.50 New Close; £81.50 Gibraltar Farm. BEL: £84 Forgelands Estate; £79 Beech Grove House. MULE: £75.50 Red Lodge; £75 Oak Head Farm. LLEYN: £75.501 Rye Close. CONT: £74 Rooten Brook; £52.50 Upper Greenbank. MASH: £67.50 Yarlsber. SWAL: £58 Yates Farm. HAMP: £57 1 Rye Close. RYEL: £52 Keerfalls.
Prime Cattle are needed for a Monday sale, please contact Ian 07766521472 for more information. A larger entry of 160 Cast Sheep today at Lancaster sold to a sharper trade then the previous week with buyers defiantly keener to purchaser all types of ewes today. The trade topped today for Texel ewe from Josh Capstick of Fell End selling for £90. Mule ewes topped at £83 from TE & MM Kidd of Both Hall selling to £83 with plenty of pens of mule ewes selling to the late sixties. Cast Sheep Top Prices: TEX: £90 Fell End; £75 Low Kit Brow; £64 1 Rye Close. CHAR: £84 The Old Stable; £66 Moss Side Farm. MULE: £83 Booth Hall. CONT: £77 11 Oak Avenue. SUFF: £76 Cockerham Hall; £63 High House Farm. BEL: £76 Parkside Farm. HAMP: £49 Upper Greenbank. DALES: £40 yarlsber. SWAL: £36 Rooten Brook. LEIC: £35 Cragg Farm. MASH: £35 Ellers Farm.
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J36 Sale Reports Thursday 1st September Store Cattle saw Steers (17) - averaged £708.24, and sold to a top price of £920 for Limousins from M. Maloney, 1 Old School, Troutbeck. Heifers (21) - averaged £676.67, and sold to a top price of £870 for Limousins from D J & E A Park, Hollin Hall Farm, Crook. Bulls (4) - averaged £680, selling to a top of £820 for Limousins, consigned by J Twigge, Holmelands, Grange over Sands. Store Cattle Top Prices: Store Bullocks: £860 Lim Old Croft, £840 Lim Holmelands, £830 AA Capplerigg, £800 Lim Old Croft, £800 AA Capplerigg, £800 Her Holmelands Store Heifers: £850 BB Hollin Hall Farm, £790 BB Holmelands, £780 BB Moss Side Farm, £750 BB Holmelands
Cast Cows and Bulls (49) A good show of beef cows in today, buyers not keen on cows being too overfat. A plainer show of Black and White cows on offer, making an overall average of 96.8ppk. Top price was 155.5p (twice) for a Limousin x cow from R H M & S Boyren, Hill Park and M J & J D Handley, Archers Hall, Millthorp. Cast Cow Top Prices: 155.5p Lim Hill Park and Archers Hall, 153.5p BB Hill Park, 135.5p Sim West Plain, 125.5p Con West Plain (x2), 125.5p BBx Forest Hall and Water Blean, 115.5p Gal Forest Hall, 113.5p AA Archers Hall, 115.5p Cha Dawson Fold, 121.5p Fri High Bracken Hall, 109.5p Hol Beckside, 105.5p Hol Bridge End
The weekly sale of Claves and Stirks had in excess of 50 forward this week. It was good to have more beef calves in the market with once again a busy ring of buyers looking to purchase both beef and black and white calves. A consignment of British Blue bulls from JW & TE Sharpe of Flodder Hall sold to £450 twice. A consignment of British Blue heifers from VE & J Chadwick of Sowerby Lodge sold to £380 and £370 defiantly worth travelling all this way to sell calves. Plenty of beef calves over that month of age selling easily in excess of £300. Once again a very young entry of black and white calves with very few over a month old. They sold to £90 from JW & TE Sharpe of Flodder Hall with plenty two to three week old calves around £50. An entry of just black and white stirks today saw three month old black and whites sell to £285 and £235 from DS & H Fell of Millom.
Saturday 3rd September - Machinery Sale On Saturday 3rd September North West Auctions held the monthly collective sale of Farm Machinery, tools and equipment. Despite the really wet weather a good crowd gathered to ensure items sold to their full value. Leading prices of the day were Case JX85 with loader £12,300 Abbey Muck Spreader £2,800 Quad Bike Trailer £400 International 434 Tractor £1,500 David Brown Tractor £1,450 Ifor Williams Trailer £1,400 Twin Axel Bale Trailer £420 Honda 350 Quad Bike £1,500
Tuesday 6th September NWA J36 had forward 1410 Prime Lambs, including the ‘Perfect Pairs’ Show & Sale. Also 627 Cast Sheep. Perfect Pairs Show and Sale Class 1 – Beltex 1st K M & K M Baxter, Bibbys Farm 45 kg - £109 (242.2p/kg) - Reserve Champion K M & K M Baxter, Bibbys Farm, 42 kg - £91 (216.7p/kg) 2nd rd 3 A G Butler, Park Farm Barn, 38 kg - £78 (205.3p/kg) Class 2 – Texel J Allonby & Son, Greenhead, 44 kg - £134 (304.5p/kg) - Champion 1st 2nd A G Butler, Park Farm Barn, 42 kg - £82 (195.2p/kg) 3rd Fishwick Farms, Brackenthwaite, 47 kg - £103 (219.1p/kg)
With an excellent presentation of show lambs forward, the judging was in the capable hands of Mr John Geldard, who went on to purchase the lambs for £134 for Plumgarths Farm Shop. Out with the show, the top price per head for lambs was £105 for 52 kg Charollais consigned by P W Rhodes Ltd., Floraire, West End Lane, Cumbria. Top price per kilo was 213p for 45 kg Charollais consigned from A R & C A Fawcett, Silverhow Farm, Gosforth. All classes of sheep were very keenly bid for, especially the heavy, shapely butcher types, £95-£105. Lambs 39-44kg, sold exceptionally well from 200p-220p. The overall lamb averaged for the sale was 185.16p. Prime Lamb Top Prices: Belt: £134 Green Head; £109, £91 Bibbys Farm; £101 Poppy Farm. Tex: £107 Dunkirk Avenue; £103, £100 Bank House Farm; £98 Orchard Barn. Char: £105 Floraire; £96 Silverhow Farm; £94 Gibraltar Farm; £90 Yealand Manor. Suff: £97 Lawsons Farm; £92 Crabtree Farm; £91 Ackenthwaite Farm; £89 Howriggs. Zwart: £92, £91 Wild Duck Hall. Chev: £83.50 Green Lane End; £80.50 Green Head. RFell: £78.50 Grange Farm; £74 Steps Farm. Mule: £78 Hall Drive; £73 Brown Edge; £71.50 Yoad Pot. Hamp: £74 Brow Head. Ryel: £71, £66.50 Vicarage Road. Mash: £55 Steps Farm.
We had a good entry of 627 Cast Ewes and Rams. A better show of heavy ewes in today’s sale, especially good tight-skinned sheep were keenly bid for!! Top price was £119 for Texel Ewes from J Robinson, Dunkirk Avenue, Carnforth. Cast Rams sold to £117 for a Texel Ram off J C Dunning, Low Chapel Farm, Orton. Fell ewes sold to £58 for a pen of 12 Swale ewes from Drinkall Bros., Catshaw Hall Farm. Overall average was £48.25 for Cast Ewes and £70.88 for Cast Rams. Cast Sheep Top Prices: Ram: Tex: £117 Low Chapel Farm; £111 Park End. Dors: £83 Cooilingel Farm. Chev: £84 Cooilingel Farm. Leic: £77 Low Hundhowe. Swale: £46 Hazel Head Farm. Ewes: Tex: £119 Dunkirk Avenue; £99, £98 Poppy Farm; £89 Spital Farm. Suff: £85, £84, £79 Ninezergh; £84 Poppy Farm. Leic: £82 Catshaw Hall Farm. Zwart: £75, £51 Crook Hall Farm; £57 Catshaw Hall Farm. Mule: £72 Hawkrigg Farm, Dunkirk Avenue; £68 Singleton Park; £67 Myers Farm. Char: £71 Clawthorpe Lodge. Chev: £67 Spital Farm; £52 High Arnside Farm. Swale: £58, £48 Catshaw Hall Farm; £43 Bramaskew. RFell: £56 Low Deepslack. Mash: £48 Low Woodhouse.
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Westmorland County Show We would like to invite all customers, old and new, to our stand on at the Westmorland County Show on Thursday 8th September to enjoy complimentary refreshments
Coming up at North West Auctions J36 Rural Auction Centre NWA J36 Two Day Sale of 12,875 Gimmer & Store Lambs
Friday 9th September ‘Ambleside Fair’ Show & Sale of 3400 Mule, Masham, Rough Fell Mule & Continental Gimmer Lambs followed by 1000 Store Lambs Show at 9am Sale at 10am followed by Evening Show of NEMSA Lambs and ‘Stars in Your Eyes’ Show & Sale for individual Mule Gimmer Lambs Saturday 10th September at 10am Sale of 8475 North of England Mule Gimmer Lambs from NEMSA Members Thursday 15th September Sale of Calves, Cast Cows & TB Restricted Cast Cows followed by the Annual Show & Sale of 600 Continental Store Cattle kindly sponsored by BB Dairy Ltd Friday 16th September – Evening Show & Sale of Pedigree 40 Beltex Rams & Females on behalf of the Northern Beltex Club Show at 3.30pm Sale at 5pm followed by ‘Boys are Back in Town’ Sale of 200 Terminal Sire Breeding Rams Saturday 17th September at 10.30am Second Sale of 2000 Mule, Masham & Continental Breeding Ewes & Gimmer Shearlings A
NWA Property Docker, Near Kendal
Friday 23rd September The Great Annual Show & Sale of Draft Ewes of Swaledale, Rough Fell & Hill Going Breed Ewes, Shearlings & Gimmer Lambs Entries Close Monday 12th September
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Wednesday 14 September at 10.30am Show & Sale of 2055 Mule, Masham & Continental Gimmer Lambs including Lambs from NEMSA Members Monday 19th September Monthly Catalogued Sale of Dairy Cattle Entries close on Friday 9th September
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Wray Farm, Docker Which NWA Property will offer for sale by public auction (subject to conditions and unless sold previously) on Tuesday 20th September 2016 at 7pm at J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Near Milnthorpe, LA7 7FP (Sat Nav LA7 7NU) Solicitors - Messrs Arnold Greenwood, 8 & 10 Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4SX. Tel: 01524 72477 After hours - 015242 72477
Friday 9th September at 10.15am Weekly Sale of 60 Calves, 100 Cast Cows & 350 Store Cattle Friday 23rd September Annual Prize Show & Sale of Continental & Native Store Bullocks Friday 30th September Annual Prize Show & Sale of Continental & Native Store Heifers
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