Lancaster Prime Lambs & Cast Ewes
PRIME LAMBS
680 lambs forward with an overall average of 308p/kg being achieved, with trade showing resistance to leaner type lambs, with meated lambs, as always, easiest to sell.
J Twigge, Grange over Sands taking the top spot today per head at £184 for a cracking Beltex lamb. Not far behind were regular Lancaster vendors D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with Texel lambs at £180 or 409p/kg. Other well bred and fed Texels trading around the 355p/kg to 360p/kg mark.
A more commercial type lamb at 44kg to 46kg trading around the 305p/kg to 310p/kg mark.
Heavy weight Suffolks trading around the £145 to £150 mark, topping at £153 from B & JM Crowe, Grange over Sands.
Light weight lambs trading around the 315p/kg to 320p/kg mark.
A few more hill bred lambs about today with good, well meated Lonks from S Bosworth, Burnley to £128. Cheviots from CJ Metcalfe, Ingleton to £146.
Top Price Per Head:
£184, 46kg, J Twigge, Grange Over Sands.
£180, 44kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.
£176, 43kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.
£172, 50kg, J Twigge, Grange Over Sands.
£170, 45kg, W S Burrow Ltd, Silverdale.
£166, 52kg, M J Shepherd, Newbiggin.
£166, 55kg, S Bosworth, Burnley.
£165, 43kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.,
£164, 48kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.
£164, 49kg, T & S Blades, Carnforth.
Top Price Per Kilo:
409p/kg, 44kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.
409p/kg, 43kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.
400p/kg, 46kg, J Twigge, Grange Over Sands.
384p/kg, 43kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.
378p/kg, 45kg, W S Burrow Ltd, Silverdale.
355p/kg, 40kg, W S Burrow Ltd, Silverdale.
345p/kg, 42kg, S Bosworth, Burnley.
344p/kg, 50kg, J Twigge, Grange Over Sands.
342p/kg, 48kg, D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe.
341p/kg, 41kg, M Broadhurst, Bolton.
CAST SHEEP
Cast sheep saw a plainer show this week overall, with trade easier on the week as more numbers come forward nationally, with more Hill breed types forward.
Texel ewes from A & FM Bolland, Ellel topping at £165 with other Texels to £160 from CJ Metcalfe, Ingleton. Best Mules to £148 from D & K Swarbrick, Out Rawcliffe, with the next grade down £130 to £140. Leaner Mules around the £100 mark.
Leicester ewes to £125 from A & L Huddleston, Wray. Lonks to £125 from S Bosworth, Burnley and Swales to £100 from JR & J Gorst & Son, Quernmore.