21 October 2025

J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Ewes, Tuesday 21st October 2025.

PRIME LAMBS

Prime Lambs in demand: Sharper trade rings true at Junction 36

Trade saw a notable lift at todays prime lamb sale at Junction 36 Auction Market. Trade sharper on the week especially for the handy weights resulting in a sqq of 307ppk and an overall of 300ppk. Buoyant bidding throughout reflected a strong demand and a tightening in numbers forward today.

Texels topped at £184 from Messrs TMW & H Hodgson. Dorsets sold to £180 from S Proctor and Suffolks reached £176 for a pair from W Garnett & Son. A pen of 4 39kg lambs from Messrs D & DW Prickett sold to 341ppk, the same good farming sold a further pen of 4 for 335.1ppk these were 37kg lambs. A pair of 44kg lambs from Messrs DJ Dickinson sold for 338.6ppkg or £149. 4 Texels from CI Briggs hit 337.5ppk for lambs at the 40kg mark. 29 Texels in one lot sold for £153 weighing 46kg from M & S Blease.

Come and see us next week. Sale starts at the usual time of 1pm with ballot drawn at 12 midday. Contact Joel McGarva on 07920009097 for more information.

CULL EWES

Another sale with pens and docks full as farmers look to off load passengers. Best continentals to £258 with others £210-£245, crossbreds to £210 and the better end £175-£195. Feeding types £110-£125. Mules peaked at £154 with most mediums £120-£135 and leaner feeders £90-£102. Pure hill sheep to £184 for Cheviots, £108 for Dalesbred, £106 for Swaledale, £98 for Herdwicks and £92 for Scotch Blackface.

Several rams forward with medium continentals to £186, others £150-£160 with harder worked rams £120-£140. Hill rams to £110 for Swaledales.

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PRIME LAMBS:

TEXEL: £183 Arklid Farm, £171 Low Foulshaw Farm, £168 The Borrans, £167 Arklid Farm, £166 Maison Gill. DORSET: £180 High Biggarbank, £131 Bank House Farm. SUFFOLK: £176 Ackenthwaite Farm, £175 Nether Hall Farm, £147 Longfield Manor, £141 Rash Mill Cottage, £139 Longfield Manor, £138 Ackenthwaite Farm. CONTINENTAL: £172, £166, £165 Head House, £156 Grayrigg Foot, £150 Hill Farm, £149 Lane Ends Farm. DUTCH SPOTTED: £166 Grayrigg Foot. BELTEX: £158 Ackenthwaite Farm. LLEYN: £153 Low Foulshaw Farm. MULE: £143 Rash Mill Cottage, £142 Holme House Farm, £140 Barras Farm, £138 Overthwaite Farm, £138 Fell End Farm, £138 Holme House Farm. LEICESTER: £136 Rydal Farm. MASHAM: £135 Holme House Farm. SWALEDALE: £102 Holme House Farm.

CAST EWES

Texel: £258 Whitbarrow Cottage, £232 Old Woodhouse, £212 Lyndarick, £208 Low Barrows Green Farm, £206 Maison Gill. Continental: £230 £210 Low Foulshaw Farm, £166 Bowness Farm, £160 Scroggs Farm, £158 Harbarrow Farm. Cheviot: £184 £164 Low Barrows Green Farm, £150 Isle of Man, £128 Low Barrows Green, £108 Seedhowe Cottages. Suffolk: £170 Ashtree Cottage, £160 Whitbarrow Cottage, £126 Whitbarrow Cottage. Mule: £154 Ashtree Cottage, £152 Bradley Farm, £146 Birks Farm, £142 Wreay Syke, £136 Gaskell House. Leicester: £146 Barbon Fell. Swale: £106 Addingham View, £102 Ghyll Farm, £91 Hall Dunnerdale Farm House, £88 Holme House Farm, £88 Thursgill. Dales: £108 Yarlsber. Herdwick: £98 High Biggarsbank, £74 £72 Hall Dunnerdale Farm House, £70 Far Kiln Bank, £68 Garnett House Farm. Ryeland: £96 Lyndarick. Dorset: £94 Garnett House Farm. Scotish Blackface: £92 Bowness Farm, £88 £54 Isle of Man. Rough Fell: £88 Seedhowe Cottages, £77 Sproat Ghyll. Masham: £75 Grate Farm. Zwartble: £50 hall Dunnerdale Farm House.

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J36 Crooklands Livestock Auction: J36 Weekly Sale of Prime Lambs & Cast Ewes, Tuesday 21st October 2025.

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