Prime Lambs
Junction 36 prime lamb sale had an entry of 1436 forward, selling to an overall market average of 240p/kg. Once again buyers were keen for well finished lambs with all sizes and types well bid for. The market peaked at £150 for a heavy weight Suffolks from JE Read, Hutton Roof who also sold heavy weight Mashams to £140. Other leading prices for heavy weight Suffolk’s saw £147 from M Rendall, Milnthorpe. Heavy weight Texel peaked at £149 from JE&WB Wareing, Millom with others to £142 from TW&C Shepherd, Underbarrow and £139 from F&CE Bentley & Son, Shap. Heavy weight Cheviot lambs sold to £147 and £138 from Stockdale Farms with others to £138 from GM Metcalfe, Underbarrow. Heavy weight Leicester sold to £146 from TMW&H Hodgson, Ulverston. Plenty of pens of heavy weight lambs regularly sold in the region of one hundred and thirty pounds. Heavyweight Mules peaked at £130 from MA &JA Winn, Burneside.
Best confirmation lambs peaked at 295p/kg from AR&BJ Thompson, Selside with well fleshed handy weight lambs regularly selling in excess of the 250p/kg mark. Light weigh lambs are starting to meet more demand as Christmas export jobs now start to commence.

Cast Sheep
All types of ewes sold to a faster trade at J36 with a good ring side of buyers forward, all looking to purchase ewes. Top price ewes were from the brilliant run from J Woodburn & Partners with Texels selling to a top of £170. Continental ewes were regularly selling at the one hundred and twenty-to-one-hundred-and-thirty-pound mark. Mule and Masham ewes would see the biggest jump on the week with Mashams selling to £138 from JE Read, Hutton Roof and Mules selling to £124 from J Woodburn & Partners. The best end of Mules sold well over the one hundred pound mark. Cheviot Mules sold to £130 from J Woodburn & Partners. Hill ewes were keenly bid for with a pen of strong Rough Fell ewes selling to £92 from JE Read and Swaledales selling to £90 from M Burton, Cautley. A full pen of Swaledale ewes sold to £78 from P Whitton & Son, Burneside. Medium fit Swaledale ewes were regularly selling at fifty to sixty pounds.