PRIME LAMBS

Prime lambs hold their own at Junction 36.
With numbers up on the previous year, yet again at Junction 36 and trade also holding firm - there is plenty to smile about! Especially farmers selling sheep with good flesh and coverage. Todays overall average was bang on 300p/kg. Lots of interest for fit types, with an extra butcher round the ring today also after that particular article. Leaner sorts proved harder work on the week, and plenty stores around pulling the average back slightly.
Lambs sold to £196 from D Black, Milnthorpe for a single Texel. A further pair of Texels sold for £192 this time from J Gibson, Kendal. A nice run of lambs from HE&RB Taylforth topped at 328.9p/kg for Texels. D&DW Prickett sold three Beltex for 327.5p/kg. Messrs Boyren, Ulverston sold thirty-three Texels in one go for 322p/kg.
More sheep are required here each week, as the number of buyers also increases.
Please contact Joel McGarva ahead of next weeks sale on 07920009097.

PIGS

A smell of crackling in the air at Junction 36, pigs were on fire!
Another strong trade for finished pigs, topping today at £270 x2 both from Gibson & Berry, Endmoor with two crackling Saddleback gilts weighing 103kg. Prime hoggs topped at £245 from P&R Woof. A prime boar which even managed to make the auctioneer look small reached the heights of £200. Smokey bacon sprung to mind!
There were more weaners than you could shake a bag of pork scratchings at, with pens full to pick from, they came to a sensible average of £60.47.
Any enquiries for the next sale, do not hesitate to contact the office or auctioneer Robert Cloughton. The next sale is on Tuesday 23rd September at 10.30am.

CAST SHEEP

Another good entry of cull ewes forward today, with an abundance of leaner ewes seeing these not quite as dear. Best continentals still good to sell and the strongest Mules £150 to £160.

Ewes Top Prices:
Texels to £210 from Isle of Man.
Charollais to £210 from Isle of Man.
Suffolks to £195 from RA&L Hodgson.
Cheviot to £190 from Isle of Man.
Hampshire to £164 from Isle of Man.
Mule to £164 from R Gibson & Son.
Rough Fell to £124 from A O’Neil.
Swaledale to £114 from sH&PI Bowes.
Herdwick to £102 from K Hartley.