CAST EWES
A very hard worked show of ewes in today, selling to £216 for Texel x from PJ & ES Rogerson, Great Asby with others at £210 from TH & DM Cornthwaite, Low Tarn. Suffolk x to £204 from F & SA Edmonson, Ulverston. Plenty of pens of heaviers over £190. Cheviot Mules to £196 from TH & DM Cornthwaite, Low Tarn or North of England of Mule to £178 from both S Coward, Allithwaite and F & SA Edmondson, Ulverston. Best pens of mules £165+. Horned ewes to £158 for Rough Fell from PE Allen, Ings with Swaledale to £109 from JR Metcalfe, Kirkby Stephen. Best horned ewes to £100, mediums £60+ with the real projects £35+.
• Texel to £216 from PJ & ES Rogerson
• Suffolk to £204 from F & SA Edmondson
• Cheviot Mule to £196 from TH & DM Cornthwaite
• Beltex to £190 from CM Jennings
• North of England Mule to £178 from S Coward & F & SA Edmondson
• Rough Fell to £158 from PE Allen
• Swaledale to £109 from JR Metcalfe
PRIME LAMBS
Get the trade and get paid
Prime lambs at J36 sell to £220 and 436.4p/kg.
Messrs PJ & ES Rogerson made the worthwhile trip to get top price per head from a quality run of Texels while Messrs MSH Benson joined the flow of traffic on the A590, realising a top price per kilo for a pair of Continental.
Other Texels sold to £210 from Messrs TE, JS & SA Carruthers. Dutch Spotted to £208 from Messrs Daniel Harrison, and a further five sheep from Messrs PJ & ES Rogerson to £200. The lighter end of lambs sold to 391.9p/kg from Messrs RM Gornall for a pair of Texel. A single from Myerscough College hit 389.2p/kg and Continentals again from Messrs Gornall to 387.9p/kg. A trio of 46kg Texels from Messrs P & BA Langhorn sold for 387p/kg. D & DW Prickett sold lambs to 385p/kg while Threlkeld Ltd hit 383.3p/kg. Messrs KA Purtill topped at 380.4p/kg for half a dozen from his good run.
Top consigner averages
13 - £195.54 – PJ & ES Rogerson
8 - £189.50 – RJ Stott
5 - £182.60 – TA Teasdale
8 - £180.25 – Wishingwell Genetics
4 - £179.25 – MSH Benson
4 - £177 – Low House Farm Ltd
20 - £175 – Mr A Barnes
45 - £170.58 – TMW & H Hodgson
6 - £170 – HJ Cornthwaite
And the list goes on…
Overall average today of 332p/kg including all types, shapes & sizes. Come to Kendal and have your cake and eat it.
Contact Joel McGarva on 07920 009097.