CALVES
A firm trade for calves at Lancaster.
Bull Calves to £1080 (x3) for British Blues from TE & MM Kidd, Ellel who sold Hereford to £900. JP & C Robson, Brock brought their usual good quality, selling bulls to £840 with Charolais from Drinkall Bros to £810. Month old calves to £680 for Charolais from RT Halhead, Norbreck with the real youngest to £600 from TL Baldwin & Son, Forton. Black & White Bulls to £610 for TE & MM Kidd with others £490 from Drinkall Bros.
Heifer Calves didn’t disappoint, selling to £700 for a very sweet Blue from Wallbank Farms, Over Wyersdale with Month old types to £590 for Charolais from RT Halhead, Norbreck with Blues at the same price from T & CM Kelsall, Chipping. 3-week-old Blues reached £510 from TL Baldwin & Son, Forton.
OTM
Numbers short of buyers requirements, with meated cows dearer and some plain cows selling at realisation.
OTMs to £2315.39 for a Hereford Steer from A & FM Bolland & Sons, Ellel with tremendous Black & White Cows from T & CM Kelsall, Chipping next at £2164.19 & £2115.75.
Top p/kg was 339.5p/kg for a Blue Heifer from H Halhead & Son, Nether Kellet with the same price achieved for a Hereford Steer from A & FM Bolland & Sons, Ellel. Cows sold to 324.5p/kg for Black & Whites from T & CM Kelsall, Chipping with better end Dairy cows 245p/kg+.
STORE CATTLE
Store Cattle were a sharper trade, with all classes of cattle going up, alongside finished prices.
Steers leading the way, with £2600 being achieved on two occasions, firstly for a pen of 4 Angus from DR Preston, Caton and on a second occasion for K & DE Woodhouse, Ellel for a pen of 3 British Blues. Other Blue Steers reached £2580 for EW & CR Clegg, Stalmine and £2550 for MJ Waller, Lupton with all Blue Steers today averaging £2193. Other Angus achieving £2450 for JS Clark & Sons, Catforth with AG Stafford, Out Rawcliffe and M & J Thistlethwaite, Goosnargh not far behind at £2420. Simmentals to £2400 for TJ Lloyd, Settle with MJ Waller, Lupton with Charolais to the same price.
Also topping the Heifer class today were K & DE Woodhouse, Ellel with a pen of 5 Blues at £2420, closely followed by Cowell & Moore, Woodplumpton who also had Blues to £2380 for a pair. Hereford Heifers to £2180 for EW & CR Clegg, Stalmine with Angus topping at the same price for J & H Bland & Son, Levens.
All Steers today averaged £2186, with Heifers averaging at £2043.