CALVES
• 76 CALVES

Trade remained very strong today particularly for younger end calves. British Blue and Aberdeen Angus calves dominated the sale with a large amount of these making over £800. Aberdeen Angus bull calves topped at £840 twice from G Atkinson & Son, Quernmore. Other notable mentions were for AW & AM Park & Son for very smart Aberdeen Angus just shy of 3-month-old at £820. Aberdeen Angus averaged £657.22. British Blue heifers were very good to sell with an average of £696 and a top price of £830 from GP Stott, Parkers Farm. Black & White bulls were a strong trade particularly for Friesian types. These averaged £263.33 and top price was £320 from J & G Thornley Ltd, Roseacre.

Bulls
• Aberdeen Angus av £657.22, top at £840 from G Atkinson & Son
• Hereford av £554.44, top at £690 from WN & D Smith & Sons
• British Blue av £644, top at £750 from AW & AM Park & Son
• Charolais av £580, top at £590 from JH Towers & Sons
• Friesian av £263.33, top at £320 from J & G Thornley

Heifers
• British Blue av £696, top at £830 from GP Stott
• Charolais av £635, top at £660 from JH Towers & Sons
• Aberdeen Angus av £510, top at £610 from Wallbank Farms
• Limousin top at £5560 from D & K Haworth
• Hereford top at £590 from WN & D Smith

More calves required as demand at NWA Lancaster increases.

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OTM/CAST CATTLE

Lancasters weekly otm sale saw a few less about this week with trade for well meated cows up on the week, but leaner types would be easier with this reflected in the overall average of 211ppk with a show of mainly 95% dairy bred.

Well meated Friesian cows from J & G Thornley, Roseacre topping at £2217 or 289.5ppk with PW Norris & Son, Hornby to £2156.49 and AW & AM Park & Son, Ellel also making over the £2000 mark at £2110. Next grade down cows trading round the 225-235ppk mark with the leaner types round the 150ppk mark. Continental bred otm cows to 239.5ppk from RM & PM Simpson, Troutbeck. Just a handful of otm heifers in today which averaged 251ppk and topped at 284.5ppk from AT Burrow & Son, Gressingham for a Friesian.

STORE CATTLE

Lancaster weekly sale of store cattle sale saw a catalogue entry of 236 with trade sharper on the week with more interest from buyers than seen in previous weeks with talk of a slight increase in finished beef prices.
Good well meated steers today would see 3 vendors selling cattle a bid short of the magic £2500 with JS Clarke & Sons firstly at £2480 for 3 Aberdeen Angus steers, RH Dodgson, Carnforth for a trio of Charolais steers and British Blues from Cowell & Moore, Woodplumpton. Other Aberdeen Angus steers at £2450 from EW & CR Clegg & Sons, Stalmine and GR & A Foy, Conder Green, with a total of another 20 Aberdeen Angus today over the £2300 mark- showing that Lancaster is the place to sell your Aberdeen Angus cattle. British Blue steers seeing plenty of interest with a total of 18 over the £2200 barrier. Shorthorn steers to £2400 from MT Howarth, Field Broughton. A pair of cracking Limousin steers to £2280 from Barlow Bros, Preston. H Whiteside, Pilling selling Hereford steers to £2180. Dairy bred steers to £2080 for Ayrshire steers from Cowell & Moore, Woodplumpton with Friesian steers to £1980 from J & JM Walmsley, Pilling.
Store heifers saw a sweet British Blue heifer from GR & A Foy, Conder Green to £2320 with other British Blue heifers to £2000 from J & JM Walmsley, Pilling. EW & CR Clegg, Stalmine continuing their good days trading with Aberdeen Angus heifers selling to £2300 for a trio with JG & BJ Escolme, Killington at the same price. J & H Bland & Sons, Levens saw their good run of heifers to £2020 for Charolais with their Hereford heifers to £1900 and Stabiliser to £2020.

STIRKS

The monthly stirk sale in the store ring saw numbers well short of buyer’s requirements. 10-month-old Aberdeen Angus steers to £1580 from M Noblett, Great Eccleston. 12-month-old Montbeliarde to £1200 from V & S Fitzell, Much Hoole. 12-month-old British Blue steers to £1400 from TH Wensley & Son, Kirkham.