Calves & Weanlings
Reports throughout the week said that calf prices had been less money but Lancaster bucked the trend and enjoyed a better trade than expected as was met with the busiest ring of buyers seen for some time. A selection of weanling Herefords from TE&M Kidd, Ellel saw bulls sell to £455, £440, £435, £420 and £390. Hereford bull calves at seven weeks old sold to £300 from J Gerrard & Son, Thurnham. Six week old Aberdeen Angus bull calves sold to £285 and four week old Aberdeen Angus bull calves to £275 from Tom Barron Farms, Woodplumpton. British Blue bulls sold to £285 from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale.
British Blue heifer calves sold to £260 from Drinkall Bros, Over Wyresdale. New Zealand type grazing calves sold to £68, £52 and £50 from B&JC Carr & Sons, Forton.
Next week includes the monthly sale of stirks, we are excited for a new format and sale time of 10am in the sheep ring. Please advise the office of entries.

Store Cattle
Lancaster enjoyed another strong store cattle trade with a larger entry of over 200 forward, a pair of Aberdeen Angus bullocks led the way selling to £1510 from TC Whiteside, Pilling with others from the same home to £1480. This was followed by other Aberdeen Angus bullocks to £1470 from J&H Davis, Cabus. A pen of four Limousin bullocks from H Chapman & Son, Middleton sold to £1490. A pen of five British Blue bullocks from C&B Lowther, Over Wyresdale sold to £1420.
A pair of British Blue heifers sold to £1460 from M Shepherd & Sons, Pilling. Aberdeen Angus heifers peaked at £1360 for a pen of three from J Oddie & Son, Balderstone.
Dairy bullocks sold to £1330 for Friesians from WS Burrows & Son, Silverdale.

OTM Cattle
There is no need to go else where with your cast cows as the 96 forward today average £1142 a head or 170p/kg, proving that Lancaster is one of the counties leading centres for cast cattle and more easily could have been handled to the vendors advantage. Cast bulls proved popular with the market topping at £1822 for a Hereford from D&M Foster, Out Rawcliffe, with Friesian cast bulls achieving £1622 from PW&JM Norris, Hornby. A strong trade for OTM heifers today saw a consignment of pure Limousins from W Salisbury, Treales sold to 254.5p/kg or £1621, 234.5p/kg or £1371 with Pure Limousin cows from the same home selling to 219.5p/kg or £1470. Limousin x heifers sold to 249.5p/kg or £1546 from R Capstick, Ingleton. Holstein Frisian OTM heifers peaked at 214.5p/kg from EE Thornton & Sons, Heaton and J Bargh & Son, Heaton with Oxcliffe. OTM dairy heifers peaked at £1430 a head from H Halhead & Son, Nether Kellet. OTM Steers sold to 239.5p/kg for Limousins from ST Birkett & Son, Carnforth. OTM steers sold to a top price per head of £1575 and £1497 for Limousins from JF&AW Sutton, Longsleddale. Plenty of beef cows today sold in excess of the 200p/kg mark. The best dairy cow today sold in the region of 180p/kg peaking at 187.5p/kg from MD Close & Son, Arkholme. Top price dairy cow today was an impressive £1535 from Strickland Hill Farming, Witherslack. Followed by others to £1474 from JH Towers & Sons, Tunstall, £1457 from H&SD Cornthwaite & Son, Nateby, £1439 from H Halhead & Son, Nether Kellet. A large number of dairy cows selling in excess of the £1300 mark today.