CALVES

More cales, more trade.

A row full of calves in Lancaster today with all classes in keen demand.

Bull calves sold to £1020 for Charolais from G & ME Woodhouse, who sold other Charolais to £970. British Blue bulls to £920 from Drinkall Bros with younger British Blues to £760 at 6 weeks from Barker Farms or £740 for 5 weeks from GH Sanderson & Son. Aberdeen Angus bulls good to sell, reaching £850 from Wallbank Farms who sold others at £770. Dairy bulls made up a large amount of todays entry, selling to £450 for Fleckvieh from JR Newsham & Son or £420 for Holstein from Drinkall Bros.

Heifer calves very nice to sell, topping at £840 for a British Blue from JM & MH France with 4–6-week-old British Blues to £750 and £710 from GH Sanderson & Son. Aberdeen Angus heifers to £610 from J & G Thornley or £550 from H & SD Cornthwaite. The youngest end sold to £550 for Hereford born 15/10 from JR Newsham & Son with others at the same age over £500 from Barker Farms and Ivan Slater Ltd.

The sale concluded with a run of 6–7-month-old British Blue bulls from Messrs Smith, Chorley. These selling to £1400 and £1370 x4.

Keep the calves coming, do not hesitate to get in touch.

OTM/CAST CATTLE

Cows bucked the trend, with sharper trade throughout. 73 forward- consisting of 40 cast cows, 22 otm heifers, 7 otm steers and 4 cast bulls.

Barlow Bros topping the cows with a Simmental achieving 279.5ppk and £2350.60. Dairy cows topping at 249.5ppk and £2125.74 for a Montbeliarde from WR & CM Lawrenson.

M & RW Stirzaker topping the ppk for otm heifers at 354.5ppk for a Limousin with H Halhead & Son topping the overall price at £2418.53 for a Hereford.

M & RW Stirzaker also topped the otm steers ppk at 344.5ppk with a Limousin while DJ A & L Sutcliffe topped the overall price at £2124.08 for an Aberdeen Angus.

Cast bulls top ppk at 259.5ppk for a Limousin from P Whitton & Son with the overall price topping at £2731.93 from Barlow Bros for a Meuse-Rhine-Issel.

More numbers required, with the sale every Friday at 10:15am with a full ringside of buyers present with orders to fill.

STORE CATTLE

Lancasters weekly sale of store cattle would see cattle a sharper trade on the week with buyers and vendors commenting on cattle being lump dearer than other centres this week.

As ever Aberdeen Angus cattle easily sold with J & M Cockett, Ingleton hitting the top spot selling his Aberdeen Angus steers to £2400 with other Aberdeen Angus steers to £2350 for a pen of 4 from G Sagar & Son, Caton with H Halhead & Son at the same price for a pen of 2 who also had a pair of Hereford steers to £2400. A pair of British Blues from DE & SM Moorhouse to £2350 with other British Blue steers to £2320 from JD & GM Bracken, Garstang. Dairy bred steers to £1900 from PS & H Eckrsley, Mellor for Friesian with other Friesians to £1820 from GR Park & Sons, Whinfell. All steers today averaged £2015.

Heifer trade saw no let up with these averaging £1700 which includes a consignment of younger heifers. J & H Bland & Sons, Levens seeing his good run of cattle topping at £2100 x4 for Charolais with others at £1950. J & M Cockett continuing their good days trading with Aberdeen Angus heifers to £2080, other Aberdeen Angus heifers to £2050 from WT Eastham & Sons, Goosnargh. British Blue heifers to £2050 twice from Lawsons Farm Ltd, Cockerham. Hereford heifers to £1800 from J & A Heap & Son, Garstang. Younger Limousin heifers to £1780 from GA & A Atkinson, Cantsfield.

A handful of store bulls in today, topping at £1820 for Montbeliarde at 14-month-old from WR & CM Lawrenson, Winmarleigh.

More cattle required for next weeks catalogued sale- entries please by 5pm Monday

Contact Andrew on 07966556592 with any enquiries.