CALVES
No let up in the calf trade with prices easily maintained from the strength of last week. Plenty of interest in all calves with more easily sold and required at Lancaster Auction.
Best of the beef calves to £940 for a super Aberdeen Angus cross bull from Messrs Kelsall & Wood, Scotforth with British Blue crosses £920 from JS Towers & H Kent, Lancaster.
Returning to Lancaster was RA Bebbington, Greenhalgh who enjoyed selling British Blue heifers to £890 and £880, and steers at the same price. Younger beef calves sold to £820 for Charolais cross bulls from Raby Farm, Preesall and British Blue cross £800 from CJ Smith, St Michaels. Other bulls nicely £650 to £750 and heifers £520 to £640.
Native sired calves forward in abundance with Aberdeen Angus cross heifers to £800 from RA Bebbington who also sold Hereford cross at £780. Rearing bull calves to £710 from Pickervance Farms Ltd with month olds £650 from I Slater Ltd, Claughton on Brock.
Just a handful of dairy bulls forward with the strongest to £530 from Brades Farm, Farleton with others £500 from JS Towers & H Kent, with dairy bulls averaging £442!!
Next week to include the new mid-month sale of weaned calves, stirks & young bulls (to include suckler bred) to be sold after the calves.
Enter with confidence with a high level of interest already expressed.
All enquiries to Matthew Probert 07540 446667 & Andrew Butler 07966 556592.
CULL COWS/OTM
Plenty of interest in all classes and types this week with an overall market average of 261p/kg for a sale entry of predominantly dairy bred cows.
Of the beef cows forward these sold to 329.5p/kg for Limousin cross from RHM & S Boyren who travelled down from Ulverston with others to 319.5p/kg from TS & HJ Park, Cowan Bridge and 309.5p/kg from WI & AM Atkinson & Son, Bleasdale. Top grossing was a Limousin cross from TS & HJ Park, Cowan Bridge at £2524 with others generally £2000 to £2400 to include a Hereford cross from Ireland Farm, Kirkby Lonsdale at £2140.
Top of the dairies at 304.5p/kg from G & ME Woodhouse & Sons Ltd, Ellel with half meated nicely 245p/kg to 260p/kg, only the leanest less. A top of £2340 for a Holstein Friesian from T Taylor travelling from Woodplumpton with B & AC Barnes, Kirkby Lonsdale selling Flekvieh at £2032.
Over age heifers sold to 364.5p/kg for a Limousin cross from Pilling Hall, Pilling with dairies to 329.5p/kg for Flekvieh from B & AC Barnes and Holsteins from Drinkall Bros. Top grossing was an Aberdeen Angus cross from Cowell & Moore at £2273.
Steers to 369.5p/kg & £2689 for British Blues x from Cowell & Moore with other Limousin cross to 364.5p/kg & Charolais crosses to £2648.
Just one stock bull forward today selling to 324.5p/kg & £2229 for an Aberdeen Angus.
More cows needed at Lancaster Auction Mart each week to meet buyers requirements, 13 active accounts today keen to secure all classes & types.
STORE CATTLE
Lancaster Auction once again proved to be the customers choice for store cattle with a top price of £2520 achieved for Limousin cross steers for PM & ST Entwistle, Abbeystead closely followed by Aberdeen Angus cross steers achieving £2500 from A & E Clarkson Ltd, Cockerham and J & M Cockett, Ingleton. Other stronger end steers regularly £2300-£2450 to include Flekvieh at £2450 from R & K Jenkinson, Pilling. Several consignments of younger suckler bred steers forward selling to £2250 for a trio for Limousin cross from TR Prickett.
Heifers perhaps not the strength of previous sales but those forward selling to £2120 for British Blue crosses from M Shepherd & Sons, Pilling with others at £2050 and £2000. Aberdeen Angus cross to £1950 from L Parsons & Sons, Kendal and T & E Garlick & Son, Freckleton. Medium keep heifers generally £1680 to £1800.
Buyers ringside for all cattle today and here every week keen to keep the sheds full. Entries for the next sale required by 12 noon on Monday.