CALVES

Lancaster enjoys trade of the week at its weekly calf sale - 110 forward.
More vendors joining in at Lancaster and seeing the benefits.
Bull calves a flyer with British Blues flavour of the week, topping at £920 from the Lawsons of Bank End, Cockerham with £900 achieved once by Pickervance Farm, Kirkham and twice by Wallbank Farms, Over Wyresdale. Aberdeen Angus bulls sold to £880 and £860 from JS Towers & H Kent, Dolphinholme with Fleckvieh to £830 from Barton and Harrison, Meathop. Three week old bulls sold to £550 for British Blues from DR&C Galbraith, Grayrigg. Plenty of Black and Whites forward this week topping at £590 from WN&D Smith, Cockerham.
Heifer calves sold to £770 for Aberdeen Angus from JS Towers & H Kent, Dolphinholme. £610 was paid for British Blues from Lawson Dairy Ltd, Bank End with a Limousin heifer born 6th October selling to £500 from D&K Haworth, Hambleton. Hereford sold to £460 from MJ&H Atkinson, Quernmore with thirty day old British Blues to £440 from DR&C Galbraith, Grayrigg.
A handful of stirks sold to £1040 for a British Blue from Pickervance Farms with a nice consignment of Black and White bulls from D Wightman, Dalton selling to £640.

STORE CATTLE

Lancasters weekly sale of store cattle once again proved that you don’t have to go anywhere else to sell your Aberdeen Angus cattle, with these topping the steer trade at £2680 from M&RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe. J&M Maudsley & Sons, Endmoor saw their super run of Angus cattle top at £2550, with pen after pen of Angus cattle above the £2350 barrier. Charolais steers topped at £2480 from M Shepherd & Sons, Pilling. Other Charolais steers achieved £2380 from JM Haddow, Milnthorpe. A terrific run of British Blue bred cattle from K&DE Woodhouse, Ellel topped out at £2650, with others at £2620 from WT Eastham & Sons, Goosnargh. Simmental steers sold to £2350 from JM Haddow, Milnthorpe. A&E Clarkson, Thurnham sold a pair of Hereford steers to £2250. Dairy bred stees from BL&D Banks, Pilling sold to £2300 for a Montbeliarde, Fleckvieh sold to £2120 for a pen of four from H Birkett & Son, Overton while Friesian steers achieved £1950 from R&K Jenkinson, Pilling with others at £1900 from A&MI Robinson, Orton. All steers today averaged £2201, which included consignments of younger cattle.
No let up in the store heifer trade, which was definitely sharper on the week with all heifers today averaging £1950, with again several vendors selling younger grazing types with plenty of buyers round the ring for these types. M Shepherd & Sons, Pilling topped the store heifer trade with an outstanding Charolais heifer to £2420. K&DE Woodhouse, Ellel continued their good days trading with a trio of British Blue heifers to £2380. Others achieved £2300 from M Shepherd & Sons, Pilling. J&M Maudsley & Sons, Endmoor sold Aberdeen Angus cattle to £2250 x4, £2220 x4 and £2200 x4. Limousin heifers sold to £2100 from A&MI Robinson, Orton while GA&A Atkinson, Cantsfield sold a trio of Limousins at £2080.
More store cattle could have easily been sold today, with entries required for next weeks sale which includes our monthly sale of stirks. Entries to the office or Andrew ASAP.

CAST / OTM CATTLE

Another fantastic Friday in the OTM ring at Lancaster, with just short of one hundred through the bottom ring. A show of very mixed cattle, from the very best underage clean cattle to some very lean OTMs, included in the average of 245p/kg.
OTM cattle sold to 349.5p/kg or £2558 for a Limousin cow from GA&A Atkinson, Cantsfield. Simmental bred OTM cows from Barlow Bros, Preston achieved £2361 or 295p/kg. British Blues sold to £2324 from GR&A Foy, Conder Green. Others achieved 309p/kg from T&S Blades, Carnforth who also sold Limousin cows at £2110. Other beef bred OTMs saw Herefords to £2071 from A&CM Carter, Witherslack and an Angus at £2012 from GR&A Foy, Conder Green. Dairy bred OTMs saw Friesians top at £1933 from SW&K Metcalfe, Whittington with other Friesians at 279p/kg from JP&C Robson, Garstang. Plenty of other Friesian cows were over the 260p/kg barrier.
OTM heifers from A&FM Bolland, Ellel saw Friesian sell to £2316, other Friesian heifer from the same good home achieved £2080 or 324p/kg. Beef bred OTM heifers from T&S Blades, Carnforth sold to 289p/kg for a British Blue. Other dairy bred OTM heifers to 239p/kg for a Friesian from PA&D Slater, Garstang with Norwegian Red OTM heifers to the same price from J Whitaker & Son, Nether Kellet.
Under thirty month cattle can easily be sold in the bottom ring with Wilmar Farms, St Michaels showing Limousin at 389p/kg and Herefords at 359p/kg, while an Ayrshire at 26 months old sold to 334p/kg from D&K Howorth, Hambleton.
Just a couple of cast bulls in today, selling to 244p/kg from R&EM Cornall, Arkholme for a Hereford.
More numbers required next week to satisfy buyer demand.