STORE CATTLE
A buzzing ring and buoyant trade all round.

A real buzz in the air today at Junction 36 with buyers and sellers turning out in force for another cracking sale of Store Cattle.
Shorthorn bullocks topped at £2280 for a pen of 3 at 19m old from Messrs I & AJ Armer. Charolais bullocks peaked at £2220 from EW & RM Towers. British Blue bullocks sold to £2120 from Messrs J Holme & Son. The same good farm had British Blue heifers to £2260 and Aberdeen Angus heifers to £2160. Charolais heifers sold to £2080 for a cracker at 17m old from Messrs S Robinson.

Bulls also sold very well, topping at £2300 twice for 11m old Aberdeen Angus from Messrs TW Gorst.

Thursday 30th October is our next Store cattle sale here and this includes our second Show and Sale of Suckler Calves. For any enquiries please contact Joel McGarva on 07920009097. Entries open now.

CALVES
107 calves forward and more new faces giving J36 a go with their calves.

Bull calves were a nice trade selling to £850 for British Blue from J & B Morley, Appleby. Younger British Blue to £660 for 30 day olds from HJ Robinson, Elm Tree with others to £610 at the same age from DR & C Galbraith, Grayrigg. Hereford bulls sold to £680 from JS & IM Wlson, Monk Foss with Charolais and Aberdeen Angus to £660 from SW & K Metcalfe, Whittington. Shorthorns sold to £620 for first time vendor RF & CE Hodgson, Ulverston who sold Fleckvieh at £600 and Black and Whites to £450.

Heifer calves sold to £750 for British Blues from JS & IM Wilson, Monk Foss with other British Blues to £680 and Aberdeen Angus to £630 from J&B Morley, Appleby. Herefords sold to £590 from JS & IM Wilson with younger Charolais to £580 from C Dean & W Brennand, Clapham. Limousins sold to £540 for 30 day olds from R & JE Wharton, Appleby or £500 for 30 day old British Blue from DR & C Galbraith, Grayrigg.

STIRKS
There was plenty of interest in stirks with more required each sale to fulfil orders.

Steers sold to £1400 for Aberdeen Angus x from Mason, Birkland Barrow with well reared British Blue x (8 month old) £1280 from M Ellison, other continentals £980 - £1200 and natives £900 - £1100. Younger steers sold to £840 for 5 month old Aberdeen Angus x, dairy steers sold to £900 for 6 month old Black and Whites with others £780 - £850.
Heifers sold to £1040 for 9 month old British Blue x with others £850 - £940. Belted Galloways sold to £780. Just a handful of bull stirks were forward selling to £1280 for 7 month old British Blue x and Limousin x with others £1180 - £1250.

Vendors are encouraged to enter stirks for the next sale on Thursday 30th October. Catalogue entries close on Thursday 23rd October. Any enquiries please contact Matthew Probert on 07540446667.

CAST COWS
Another sale with pens full and buyers keen to secure all classes and types.

Beef cows sold to 305p/kg for a Beef Shorthorn with other better end 280p/kg – 25p/kg. Top grossing was £2338 for an Aberdeen Angus x from JT Procter.
Best dairy cows sold to 289p/kg from Jenkin Crag Farms, medium types 250p/kg – 275p/kg and leaner parlour types 210p/kg – 230p/kg. Top grossing was £2109 from Strickland Hill Farming, Witherslack.

OTM heifers sold to 309p/kg and £1346 for feeding types. Aberdeen Angus x with dairy heifers selling to 234p/kg and £1310.

Several cull stock bulls sold to a top of 250p/kg and £2587.

BEEF BREEDING

The special Autumn sale of beef breeding cattle was greeted with a packed ringside of bidders keen to secure additional and replacement stock. The sale commenced with breeding bulls, selling 6 month old Aberdeen Angus from TW Gorst at £3000 and a Charolais bull from JLP Roberts at £2300.

A dispersal of in-calf cows due to the Aberdeen Angus in Spring from JE & BR Booker were keenly bid for selling Hereford x cows to £2250 with others generally £1800 - £2100 and next draw down £1500 - £1750.

A feature of today’s sale was the dispersal of Hereford x Aberdeen Angus cows with Spring born Aberdeen Angus x calves from J & J Beary Farming Ltd. Those with bull calves sold to £3000, £2950, £2900 and £2800, with heifer calves £2800, £2700, £2650. The sale saw 56 outfits sold to average £2554.

The collective sale of Beef Breeding cattle saw AF & BA Dawson sell a Charolais x heifer with Aberdeen Angus x calf achieve £2800, British Blue x heifers with Aberdeen Angus x calves sold to £2350 from RW Ewan, with other older cows with Spring born calves generally £1900 - £2400.

We have a large number of customers looking for all classes and types of beef breeding cattle. Please contact any Auctioneer if you have some to sell.

Joel McGarva – 07920009097
Matthew Probert – 07540446667
Will Rogerson – 07506283587 or
Rob Cloughton – 07867000244