CALVES

Calves sold to £790 today for a Hereford bull from Jennifer Miller, Barnacre with other bulls to £770 for a British Blue from JP&C Robson, Brock. Aberdeen Angus cross sold to £770 from I Atkinson & Son, Warton with month old British Blues to £660 from RT Halhead, Cockerham. Black and Whites sold to £320 for six week olds from Pickervance Farms Ltd.
Heifer calves sold to £750 x2 for Inra 95’s from JM&MH France, Littledale with British Blues from JP&C Robson, Brock and Aberdeen Angus from I Atkinson & Son, Warton next at £690. Younger British Blue sorts sold to £660 from Bamber Farms, Brock and £630 from Pickervance Farm Ltd, Kirkham.
Stirks sold to £900 for a nine month old Black and Whites from TD&A Gardner. Great Eccleston.

STORE CATTLE

The weekly sale of store cattle saw a pleasing entry of 160 through the main ring, with buyers eager to keep the sheds full.
First in the ring today was a 22 month old Charolais breeding bull from Johnny Miller, Cloughton on Brock which saw spirited bidding before receiving a final bid of £3900.
Store cattle saw an increase in trade on the week with GR&A Foy, Conder Green hitting the top spot with a tremendous British Blue steer at £2600, who also had other Blue steers to £2480. All Blue steers today averaging £2071. Aberdeen Angus steers are always easy to sell at Lancaster with regular consigner A Kirkby & Co, Pilling achieving £2520, while GR&A Foy, Conder Green continuing their good day with Angus steers to the same price. All Aberdeen Angus steers today averaged £2040. A consignment of Limousin steers from PM&ST Entwistle, Abbeystead saw a top of £2380, not far behind at £2350 for a pair of Limousin was Pilling Hall, Pilling. All Limousin steers today averaged £2110. Dairy bred steers saw a top of £2520 from R&J Dodgson, Natland for a Fleckviehs, with younger Friesian steers to £1900. All steers today averaged £2001, with some younger plainer sorts included.
Heifer stores would again see Aberdeen Angus top of the trade, with J Oddie & Sons, Balderstone back in the ring with a pen of four at £2320. T&E Garlick, Freckleton usual consignment of Aberdeen Angus cattle saw his heifers to £2300 with other Angus heifers to £2150 from P&S Alpe, Clitheroe. All Angus heifers today averaged £1935. Limousin heifers today saw AT Burrow & Son, Gressingham to £2150, with others from the same good home to £2120 who also had Hereford heifers to £2080 for a pair.
More cattle are required for next week’s sale, entries for the catalogue by 5pm Monday to office or Andrew please.

CAST / OTM CATTLE

More OTM cattle required, Buyers needing more OTM cattle in Lancaster on a Friday morning with orders for all grades of OTM cattle. A disappointing entry of 50 OTM cattle, when three times that could have easily been sold today, saw trade similar on the week.
Cast bulls today saw E Rossall, Preesall with his Simmental bull to £3220. A Hereford bull from J Whitaker & Son, Nether Kellet sold to £2441. E Rossall continued his good day trading with his OTM Simmental heifer to £2485 or 364.5p/kg. Other beef bred OTM heifers sold to 319.5p/kg for a Hereford from J Whitaker & Son, Nether Kellet. Diary bred OTM heifers from WE&G Hewitt sold to £1894 for a Friesian, with other Friesians at 289.5p/kg from J Whitaker & Son, Nether Kellet. OTM cows saw a quality consignment from R&E Ladds, Kendal achieve £2389 or 279.5p/kg, with other from this same good home at £2356 or 279p/kg. Other dairy bred OTM cows sold to £2124 for a Brown Swiss from EJ Hodgson, Lambrigg. MB Flatman, Over Wyresdale saw his beef bred cows to £2210 or 339.5p/kg for a British Blue, with other British Blues from JH Atkinson & Partners, Selside to 309p/kg. Limousin bred OTM cows from MB Flatman & Son, Over Wyresdale sold to £2148 or 329p/kg with other Limousin to £2120 or 309p/kg from F&IM Potter, Grayrigg. All OTM cattle averaged 278p/kg, to include some very plain cattle.