PIGS

97 prime and store pigs forward today, selling to £262 for a trio of gilts from MP Tattersall, Langholm with lighter weight hogs to £180 from J&JR Stott, Stainton.
Boars sold to £175 from E Hardman, Blackburn. Cull sows sold to £90 while stores reached £76 and weaners topped at £70.

BREEDING SHEEP

Hoggs and lambs average £302.40.
Ewes and lambs averaged £187.15.

A second sale to beat many first sales!
The second sale of hoggs and lambs at Junction 36 came at a time where the trade elsewhere was starting to wane, however trade today (especially for Mules) held up as well as the first sale.
Two very strong classes were shown today and were kindly judged by Ian Dixon, Kendal. The judge backed his judgment by purchasing the champion pen today from Winter Bros, Appleby selling to £430.
Texel hoggs varied more in trade today compared to the first sale, with a top price of £310 from MW&HE Pedley, High Ploughland. Reserve champion went to a pen of Texels from G&KM Atkinson, Colby making £280, the same firm had a multitude of the same goods at the same price, as well as some Mule hoggs upto £340 and top price Suffolk at £310. Total average of Texel hoggs with lambs came to £275.
A decent number of ewes and lambs today including a dispersal sale on behalf of Tom Fitton with his Blue Texels. He topped the trade today reaching £325 for a ewe with a single tup lamb.
There was a complete mixture of breeds today with large numbers of Herdwicks, Swaledales and Cheviots making up the largest share of the sale.

Top Prices:
Mule hogg with lamb, £430 Winter Bros.
Texel hogg with lamb, £310 MW&HE Pedley.
Suffolk hogg with lamb, £310 G&KM Atkinson.
Texel shearlings with lambs, £365 G&KM Atkinson.
Blue Texel shearlings with lambs, £275 PM&R Fitton.
Mule ewes with lambs, £285 JM&NJ Strickland.
Texel ewes with lambs, £325 PM&R Fitton.
Beltex ewes with lambs, £320 JT&A Armistead.
Blue Texels ewes with lambs, £260 PM&R Fitton.
Herdwick ewes with lambs, £130 Kirkby & Longworth.
Cheviot ewes with lambs, £132 F Jackson.

Sales continue into June, as demand holds up. Contact the office or auctioneers with entries and for information for next week’s sale.

PRIME LAMBS - ‘Bouncing’

A very buoyant trade for spring lambs once again at Junction 36, with all types more sought after than last week and a lot more sought after than reports elsewhere.
Again, the lighter end of springers where the tastiest, however heavies were also met with a sharper trade and increased interest today. Texels sold to 387p/kg from C Bennett, St Michaels. Dorsets sold to 383.3p/kg for a pen of three. A further pair of Texels from C Bennett sold to 381p/kg and two Texels from JT&A Armistead, Selside hit 377.5p/kg or £151 for 40kg lambs. Dorset topped at £156 pound per head, these were from S Proctor, Selside.
Overall market average 349p/kg.
SQQ market average 356p/kg.
Contact Joel McGarva before next weeks sale, as more lambs are needed to match buyers demand.

PRIME HOGGS

Plenty weight and variety around the hogg front, however anything fit and handy sized remains good to sell.
40kg Texels sold to 345p/kg for a pen of six with Beltex hoggs hitting £146. A pair of Beltex from AT Burrow & Son, Hornby sold for 333p/kg this was for 42kg hoggs. Texels topped at £157 from N Barker, Burton in Kendal for a pen of five. C Cleasby, Broughton in Furness was just behind that with a pen of three at £156. An overall average of 271p/kg was realised, and again more numbers could have been sold.

CAST SHEEP

Cull ewes continue form and sell to £272 for a pure Texel from R&E Ladds, Kendal with Texel cross to £240 from RF Morphet, Halton. Any amount of strong well fleshed ewes passed £200 with the best of the Mules this week to £188 from H Chapman & Son, Middleton. Hill bred ewes sold to £152 for Rough Fells from A O’Neill, Sedbergh with Swaledales peaking at £124 from TA&JA Dixon, Selside.

Texels to £272 from R&E Ladds, Kendal.
Beltexs to £228 from Lewis McCarrick, Chorley.
Blue Texels to £198 from PM&R Fitton, Manchester.
Charollais to £188 from Messrs Simpson, Ulverston.
BFL’s to £188 from AR Edmondson, Ulverston.
Mules to £188 from H Chapman & Son, Middleton.
Suffolks to £170 from C Preston, Millom.
Rough Fells to £152 from A O’Neill, Sedbergh.
Dorsets to £150 from S Proctor, Selside.
Ryelands to £138 from L Griffiths, Carlisle and T&E Redmaye, Carlisle.
Swaledale to £124 from TA&JA Dixon, Selside.