Calves & Weanlings

The weekly sale of calves saw a bit more life in the trade around the ring with more buyers looking to rear calves, the consignment of Charollais bull calves from TM Townley, Over Wyresdale led the way selling to £440, £410 and £370. A British Blue weanling bull calf from SHS&HJ Raby, Preesall sold to £400 and £340. Other prices for British Blue bull calves sold to £310 and £300. Aberdeen Angus calves sold to a top of £320 from AD&R Milner, Claughton on Brock. British Blue heifers peaked at £300 from JT&B Fox, Quernmore. Plenty of beef calves sold in to mid to late two hundreds.

Store Cattle

The weekly sale of store cattle at Lancaster had an entry of in excess of 200 forward that saw strong short keep cattle in big demand selling to a strong trade. Simmental bullocks led the way selling to £1630 from TJ Lloyd Farm, Settle with other Simmental bullocks to £1600 from Cowell & Moore, Woodplumpton. This was followed by other Simmental bullocks to £1500 from T&M Halhead, Priest Hutton. Charollais bullocks peaked at £1480 from Cowell & Moore, Woodplumpton followed by £1440 from EE Thornton & Sons, Heaton. British Blue bullocks peaked at £1460 for a pen of three from C&B Lowther, Over Wyresdale followed by £1430 from MJ Waller, Lupton. Native bullocks always meet plenty of demand in Lancaster with the consignment from TJ Lloyd Farm, Settle leading the way selling Aberdeen Angus’s to £1500 and Herefords to £1480. Other leading prices saw Aberdeen Angus bullocks to £1480 from T&M Halhead, Priest Hutton followed by others to £1470 from JD&GM Bracken, Catterall. Plenty more pens of strong bullocks regularly sold around the £1400 mark.

The heifer trade peaked at £1550 for a pair of Limousins from TE JS SA Curruthers, Underbarrow. This was followed by other Limousin heifers to £1400 from WJ&L Barker, Arkholme. British Blue heifers sold to a top of £1380 from JD&GM Bracken, Catterall. This was followed by £1360 from SH&LE Birkett, Nether Kellett who topped he Angus heifer trade at £1360. Forward well fleshed dairy bullocks were in big demand, peaking at £1300 for a pen of three black and whites from GR Park & Sons, Whinfell with others to £1290 from EE Thornton & Son, Heaton and £1250 from G Atkinson & Son, Caton. Montbeliardes sold to £1290 from J&JM Walmsley, Pilling.
The autumn show for pens of four bullocks saw the first prize rosette awarded to J Lamb, Old Glasson with a pen of 23 month old British Blue bullocks selling to £1340.

OTM Cattle

Cull cows sold to an overall market averaged of 167p/kg with 80% of todays sale being dairy cows, the sale peaked at 209.5p/kg for a Fleckvieh from B&AC Barnes, Kirkby Lonsdale who sold others at 207.5p/kg, with this price also achieved by J&G Thorley Ltd, Kirkham. Other heavy well fleshed dairy cows sold to 201.5p/kg from JH Towers, Tunstall with a trio all achieving 197.5p/kg from Lawsons Dairy Ltd, Cockerham. Medium dairy cows were generally 145-175p/kg with the leaner parlour types 95-120p/kg, the very leanest sorts at realisation. Beef cows sold to 197.5p/kg for a Limousin x from T&M Halhead, Priest Hutton with British Blues to 171.5p/kg from MJ&LC Lund, Quernmore. Top grossing cow today was a Fleckvieh from B&AC Barnes, Kirkby Lonsdale achieving £1743 who sold others at £1635. All cull cows averaged £1089.
OTM heifers sold to 231.5p/kg and £1551 for a Limousin x from JR Pye, Stalmine who sold Montbeliarde at 209.5p/kg and £1206. Other dairy heifers sold to 197.5p/kg and £991 for a Holstein Friesian from J&CW Metcalfe & Son, Quernmore.
Steers sold to 237.5p/kg and £1005.55 for a Hereford x from AT Burrow & Son, Hornby with Holstein Friesian selling to 197.5p/kg and £1165 from A&MI Robinson, Penrith.
A single cull bull today sold to 139.5p/kg and £1251 for a Limousin from W Richardson & Son, Kendal.