HILL FAIR DAY

Lancaster Hill Fair Day saw a blistering trade for all classes.
The sale kicked off with breeding rams, topping at £1250 for a Texel shearling from PD Pye’s annual consignment, with the same good home selling others to £950. B&A Crane sold the best of theirs to £1100 and £1000, with all rams looking well sold.
Breeding sheep to £180 for Mule gimmer lambs from JW Cornall & Son, Bleasdale with the best of the store lambs to £151 from G Hargreaves, Scotforth. Other store lambs sold to £128 from JM Kelsall & Son, Quernmore with Cheviots to £120 from SE&J Gorst, Littledale and all store lambs averaging £121.46.

STORE CATTLE

Lancasters Friday weekly store cattle sale saw a catalogue entry of 280 with trade very similar on the week with steers averaging £2069 and heifers averaging £1850 including 50 beasts which would be 12–15-month-old.

Topping the sale today with a cracking pair of Limousin steers from AJ Taylor, Galgate at £2580. British Blue steers to £2480 from JD & GM Bracken, Garstang. South Devon steers to £2420 from JM Haddow, Milnthorpe who also had a pair of Charolais steers to the same price. Other quality Charolais steers to £2400 from Pilling Hall, Pilling. Hereford steers to £2380 from D & N Davis, Garstang. Aberdeen Angus steers to the same price from J & M Cockett & Sons, Ingleton. Dairy bred steers to £1880 from J & JM Walmsley, Pilling for Friesians with other Friesians to £1780 from EE Thornton & Sons, Heaton with Oxcliffe. Younger end steers to £1520 for 12-month-old British Blues from TH Wensley & Son, Kirkham who also had 12-month-old Friesian steers to £1300.

Heifer stores saw a good entry of meated cattle with AJ Taylor continuing his good days trading with Limousin heifers to £2350 with other Limousin heifers to £2150 for a stylish pen of 4 from TE JS & SA Carruthers, Underbarrow. British Blue heifers to £2350 from AJ Taylor, Galgate. Other British Blue heifers to £2250 from Lawsons Farm, Cockerham. Hereford heifers to £2320 for a pen of 4 from H Halhead & Son, Nether Kellet. Aberdeen Angus heifers to £2150 from AJ Taylor, Galgate. Other Aberdeen Angus heifers to £2100 from J & M Maudsley & Sons, Endmoor. Younger end heifers to £1300 for British Blues at 12-month-old from SH & M Batty & Son, Quernmore who also had 12-month-old Aberdeen Angus heifers at the same price.

CALVES

55 Calves

Strong trade again for calves at Lancaster with 55 forward and plenty of buyer demand for them. Calves comprise of predominantly younger calves below the 7 week old mark.

Blue calves were a noticeably good trade with bulls averaging £726 and heifers averaged £746. Topping this breed was FW Rhodes & Son, Barrow Greaves who got £850 for a bull and £880 for a heifer.

Topping the days trade overall was also achieved from FW Rhodes & Son with a Charollais heifer at £900.
Angus were battling for top spot today also with top price of £880 from J & G Thornley Ltd. Friesian calves were few in number today with a solid trade and a top price of £380.

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Bulls
Charolais - Av £740 – Top £900 FW Rhodes & Son
Blue – Av £726 – Top £890 FW Rhodes & Son
Angus – Av £630 – Top £880 J&G Thornley & Son
Montbeliarde – Top £800 T & C Laycock
Hereford – Av £675 – Top £750 RW Bainbridge & Son
Limousin – Av £660 – Top £710 D & M Foster
Friesian – Av £225 – Top £380 FW Rhodes & Son

Heifers
Blue – Av £746 – Top £800 – FW Rhodes & Son
Limousin – Av £600 – Top £710 D & M Foster
Angus – Av £582 – Top £680 AW & Am Park & Son
Charolais – Top £580 WN & D Smith & Sons
Hereford – Top £560 WN & D Smith & Sons

OTM/CAST CATTLE

Lancaster weekly otm sale saw a pleasing entry of 93 cattle through the bottom ring with otm cows averaging 221ppk, 11 otm heifers averaging 295ppk, 7 cast steers averaging 316ppk and 5 cast bulls averaging 219ppk.

Friesian cows topped per head at £2051.76 from A & B Pickthall, Milnthorpe or 259.5ppk from Pickervance Farms, Roseacre. Beef bred otm cows topping at £2263 for a blonde cow from SA Hill, Lancaster. Aberdeen Angus cows to 269.5ppk from C Hargreaves & Son, Sunderland Point with Stabiliser otm cows from JA & R Geldard & Sons, Kendal at the same price.

OTM Heifers saw T Taylor, Preston sell Aberdeen Angus to £2714 or 359.5ppk while Friesian otm heifers sell to £2166.50 from SH & M Batty & Sons, Quernmore with Fleckvieh otm heifers to 259.5ppk from EW & RM Towers, Hornby.

Cast steers from A & FM Bolland & Sons, Ellel sold to £2462.58 or 359.5ppk for a British Blue.

Cast bulls to £2740.37 or 299.5ppk for a Simmental from JM & TJ Livesey, Inskip.