REMINDER: Friday 13th December- Last cattle sale of 2024 to include Christmas Shows of Calves, OTM Cattle & Store Cattle

CALVES

Rearing calves to £570 twice today at Lancasters weekly sale, trade once again good for all classes.
JP & C Robson, Brock made the worth while trip north this morning with their BB bulls selling to £570 & £545. Also at £570 was regular supporters JG Thornley, Kirkham for AA x with H & SD Cornthwaite, Garstang close behind at £550. J & M Coar made the trip from Clitheroe and were well rewarded with AA to £510 with younger AA x to £460 from T & CM Kelsall, Chipping.
Dairy bulls to £240 for month old Fleckvieh from JR Newsham.
Heifer calves to £420 for BB from T & CM Kelsall, Chipping with AA x to £395 from JG Thornley, Kirkham and £355 from H & SD Cornthwaite, Garstang. Other younger month old types to £350 & £345 from T & CM Kelsall, Chipping.
Weaned calves to £880 for AA x from IT Richardson, Catforth, with a pair of BB bulls to £850 from TD & A Gardner, Great Eccleston. A nice consignment from FW Rhodes, Ellel reached £590 with heifers in this run to £520 x2.

STORE CATTLE

Lancasters popular weekly sale of store cattle saw a slight reduction in numbers from last weeks entry. Trade for cattle would be very similar if not a pound or 2 more for smaller cattle on offer.
Top of the leader board for a second week in a row goes to TJ Lloyd, Settle with a monster of an Aberdeen Angus steer with this big lad sold to a final bid of £2180.Other Aberdeen Angus steers saw T Taylor, Preston at £1980 and KH & D Holden, Pilling at £1920 for a pen of 4. David Moorhouse, Natland saw his consignment of quality cattle top at £2100 for his Charolais steer, with other Charolais steers to £1920 from R Capstick & Son, Ingleton. Limousin steers from DE & SM Moorhouse, Natland sold to £2060 with others to £1860 from M&RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe. Good number of Herefords in the market today with TJ Lloyd, Settle to £1900 for a pair of steers with others to £1880 from G Sagar & Son, Caton and J Lamb, Old Glasson selling a pen of 4 to £1820. The 2000 pound barrier being blown out the water, with a pair of British Blue steers to £2100 from DE & SM Moorhouse, Natland. Dairy bred steers saw no let up in trade with Fleckviehs and Norwegian Reds to £1880 all from J Prest & Son, Bay Horse, with a ring full of 7 Friesians from TH Wensley & Son, Kirkham at £1390.
In the store heifers Aberdeen Angus would be the order of the day with KH & D Holden & Son, Pilling to £1780 with G Sagar & Son, Caton not far behind at £1760. A pair of British Blues from SH & LE Birkett, Nether Kellett to £1740. A pen of 4 to £1610 from M Shepherd & Sons, Pilling. Limousin heifers to £1460 from CP & VM Cowgill, Mewith with Herefords at the same price from WS Burrow Ltd, Silverdale.

Leading consignments averages of the day are:
DE & SM Moorhouse: 4 averaging £2090
TJ Lloyd: 3 averaging £1993
KH & D Holden: 5 averaging £1892
M & RW Stirzaker: 2 averaging £1860
SH & LE Birkett: 5 averaging £1836

All steers today averaged £1564 and heifers £1435.

Next weeks sale includes the Christmas show and sale of Pairs of steers and heifers, with this sale being the closing sale of 2024. Entries to the office or Andrew by 2pm Monday.

OTM CATTLE

Lancaster weekly sale of OTM cattle saw a slight reduction in numbers following last week’s bumper entry. 98 through the bottom ring today, with OTM steers seeing the trade of the day with O Butler, Esprick with Aberdeen Angus otm steers to 304.5p/kg. M & RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe to £2021 or 269.5p/kg for a Limousin steer with regular Lancaster supporters A Kirkby & Co, Pilling to £1953 or 269.5p/kg for a Hereford steer.
OTM cows from JA & R Geldard & Sons, Levens to £1753 or 239.5p/kg for a Stabiliser who had other stabilisers at £1744 or 229.5p/kg. Friesian cows to £1719 or 204.5p/kg from PW & JM Norris & Son, Hornby with other Friesian cows to £1438 from Lawsons Farm, Cockerham, and £1355 or 234.5p/kg from G & ME Woodhouse & Sons, Ellel. Cows straight out the parlour round the 180-185p/kg mark.
OTM heifers to £1626 or 279.5p/kg and £1542 or 279.5p/kg from WS Burrow Ltd, Silverdale for Herefords with Friesians to £1528 or 264.5p/kg from GA & A Atkinson, Cantsfield.
Just a handful of cast bulls in today, which saw Aberdeen Angus to £1989 or 199p/kg from ME & B Mason & Son, Tatham and £1829 or 199p/kg from T Sharp, Levens also for an Aberdeen Angus.

OTM Cows averaged 182.5p/kg
OTM heifers averaged 234p/kg
OTM steers averaged 254p/kg
OTM bulls averaged 207p/kg
Overall average of 196p/kg