CALVES – More calves, more trade.

Some buzz round the calf ring today saw an increased entry sell to vendor’s advantage.
Bull calves today reached £930 for Charolais from G&ME Woodhouse, Ellel who sold others at £890. Limousin bulls from D&M Foster, Out Rawcliffe sold to £910 with British Blue to £860 from JS Towers & H Kent, Dolphinholme. A nice run of calves from Raby Farms, Preesall topped the Aberdeen Angus at £760, with Hereford to £700 from JS Towers & H Kent, Dolphinholme. Younger month old sorts perhaps the trade of the day selling to £750 for British Blues from JP&C Robson, Brock who sold others to £640 x2. Dairy bulls sold to £640 for Montbeliarde from Raby Farms, Preesall who sold others at £590 and £550 x2. Black and Whites sold to £460 from JS&A Towers, Hornby.
Heifers calves sold to £810 for a very sweet Simmental heifer from JS Towers & H Kent, Dolphinholme. Inra 95 sold to £660 from JM&MH France, Littledale with Aberdeen Angus at £650 from Wallbank Farms, Over Wyresdale. Younger rearers again the order of the day with these to £640 for British Blues from C&J Smith, St Michaels or £630 from JP&C Robson, Brook.
Don’t hesitate to contact us with your calf enquiries.

OTM/CAST CATTLE

Lancaster weekly OTM sale saw 74 cattle forward consisting of 63 OTM cows, 6 OTM heifers, 4 OTM cast steers and 3 OTM bulls. Twice the number could have easily been sold today with trade sharper on the week with an overall average of 268ppk being achieved.
Top grossing beast today would go to D & E Whitaker, Quernmore with their Charolais cast bull at £2923.95 with another cast Charolais bull to £2560.26 from EW & A Bradshaw, Stalmine.
OTM heifers to £2656.71 for a Charolais from Cowell & Moore, Woodplumpton other OTM heifers from the same good home at £2368.50 this time for a British Blue. Other OTM British Blue heifers at 384.5ppk from AT Burrow & Son, Lancaster. Dairy bred OTM heifers to 314.5ppk for Friesian from R & E Ladds, Kendal.
OTM cast cows saw Friesian see the strongest trade topping at 329.5ppk or £2415.24 from J & G Thornley, Preston. Other Friesian OTM cows at 274.5ppk or £2168.55 from PW & JM Norris & Son, Hornby.
Beef bred OTM cows to £2356 or 294.5ppk for a Hereford from AJ Metcalf, Out Rawcliffe while continental cows topped at 284.5ppk or £2253.24 for B & AC Barnes, Carnforth.
Cast OTM steers saw plenty of demand topping at 364.5ppk for British Blues, others from the same home at 349.5ppk.
More cattle required for next week sale please, phone Gary on 07970 830518 or Andrew on 07966 556592 for marketing advice.

STORE CATTLE

Lancaster weekly store sale saw a catalogue entry of 181 with trade every bit as good as previous weeks despite talks of slow finished beef sales.
Steers averaged at £2095 while heifers averaged £1864 with this including a proportion of younger smaller stores.
Strong stores would see a top of £2600 for a cracking pair of Limousin steers from PM & ST Entwistle, Abbeystead, other Limousin steers from DE & SM Moorhouse, Kendal to £2480 for a pair. British Blue steers at just 23 months old to £2580 from AG Stafford, Out Rawcliffe with other British Blue from the same good home at £2500. Regular Lancaster vendors L Parsons & Sons, Levens saw his run of Aberdeen Angus top at £2550 with other Aberdeen Angus steers at £2500 from TJ Lloyd, Settle. AG Stafford, Out Rawcliffe continued his good days trading seeing his Hereford steers to £2450. As mentioned above show of younger smaller stores in the average trading round the £1750-£1850 mark for 15–16-month-olds.
Heifer stores saw plenty of interest ringside with a trio of 24-month-old Charolais heifers to £2400 from WA Hodgson, Kendal other Charolais heifers to £2150 from KG & LM Park, Grange over Sands. P Whitton & Son, Kendal with Limousin heifers to £2400. Aberdeen Angus heifers to £2250 from Holgate Caravans, Silverdale. British Blues to £2100 firstly from SH & LE Birkett, Nether Kellet and KG & LM Park, Grange over Sands. Fleckvieh heifers to £2200 from EW & RM Towers, Hornby who also had Friesian heifers to £2180.
Many more store cattle can be handled here on Friday with buyers able to handle large numbers of cattle of all types.