CALVES
103 through the calf ring today, selling to £1000 twice.
Bull calves peaked at £1000 on two occasions, both for British Blues from G & ME Woodhouse, Ellel who sold others at £980. Aberdeen Angus to £780 from Raby Farms, Preesall with Lawson Dairy, Cockerham selling Charolais to £760, £740, £720 at just over a month old. A good show of dairy bulls sold to £460 for Fleckvieh from JR Newsham & Son, Conder Green and £440 for Black & Whites again from this same good home.
Heifers to £740 for Charolais from Lawson Dairy, Cockerham with British Blues to £700 from Wallbank Farms, Over Wyresdale and Raby Farms, Preesall. Aberdeen Angus to £640 again from Raby Farms, Preesall with the youngest a 3-week-old Charolais from RT Halhead selling to £580.
More calves needed every week.
STORE CATTLE
A catalogued entry of 153, out of which saw 92 Steers and 61 Heifers with trade sharper on the week topping at £2420, firstly from W Garnett & Son, Milnthorpe and Secondly from BW & G Robinson, Carnforth both for Angus Steers. Not far behind saw TE, JS & SA Carruthers, Underbarrow to £2400 for a Stylish Limousin Steer.
Charolais Steers, for a pen of five, from J Prest & Son, Bay Horse to £2380, while Blue Steers were at the same price for a trio from BW & G Robinson, Carnforth. Dairy bred Steers to £2320 for Flekvieh from JG & BJ Escolme, Killington, with Friesians to £1900 from WR Clarke, Pilling.
Young Steers saw plenty of interest with 12 Month old Blues to £1300 from TH Wensley & Son. Out of the 92 Steers sold today, 40 sold over £2200.
A trio of pure Hereford Bulls, fit for breeding sold to a top of £1700 for 16 Month olds from WC & J Fowler, Scorton.
Store Heifers saw plenty of trade, which saw 25 of the 61 Heifers sold today achieve over £1900, topping at £2200 for Blues from JD & GM Bracken, Garstang, with Flekviehs from EW & RM Towers, Hornby at the same price.
Other Blues from SH & LE Birkett, Carnforth to £2180, this time for a pen of five. A trio of Angus Heifers from FA Nowell, Bentham to £2120 with other well fleshed Angus Heifers around the £2000 mark.
Again, younger cattle seeing plenty of trade with 17-Month-old Saler Heifers from CJ Butler, Hambleton to £1780 and 12-Month-old Blue Heifers to £1350 from TH Wensley & Son.
Whether young Stores or older Cattle, Lancaster Auction provides a strong outlet for all classes of Store Cattle.
Stirk sale next week, entries please to the office 01524 63308 or Andrew 07966 556592 by Monday 5pm.
OTM CATTLE
Lancaster weekly OTM sale saw 85 through the bottom ring, with trade cooler on the week, but with meat again seeing decent returns, with an overall average of 238p/kg.
Price per head saw J & O Galbraith, Endmoor selling his OTM Limousin Bull to £2514.50, and other OTM Bulls from JM & DJ Townley, Quernmore to £2382.72, this time for an Angus. All Bulls today averaging 252p/kg.
OTM Cows saw a good entry of beef bred cattle, topping at £2199.67 for a Blue from GR & A Foy, Conder Green. Other Blue cows to 314.5p/kg from T Taylor, Preston. Limousin cows to £2048.74 from B Heyes, St Helens.
Dairy bred OTM Cows to £2033.61 for Flekviehs from B & AC Barnes, Carnforth and Friesian OTM Cows to £1932.39. All OTM Cows today averaging 227p/kg.
Cast Heifers today would average 262.82p/kg, topping at 319.5p/kg for an Angus from G & D Ball, Great Eccleston, while Friesian OTM Heifers saw a top of £2211.78 from T & CM Kelsall & Sons, Chipping, with others from the same home at £2023 or 289.5p/kg.
Just a handful of OTM Steers in today topping at 274.5p/kg for a Friesian from GR Park & Sons, Whinfell.