Another 500 plus Friday at NWA Lancaster which saw calves sell to £600, store cattle to £2000, OTM cattle to 281p/kg and £2000.

CALVES & WEANLINGS

A large entry of 140 calves were forward with customers in attendance from far and wide, proving Lancaster to be the chosen calf market in the local area. The strongest beef calves sold to £585 for a Charolais from SW&K Metcalfe, Whittington with the strongest British Blue cross regularly £500 to £570. Aberdeen Angus cross were frequently £460 to £500, with nice medium rearers regularly £300 to £360. Younger month old calves were £260 to £300. Dairy bulls sold to £230 for a Holstein Friesian from JH Towers & Sons, Tunstall with other stronger end calves regularly £140 to £180. Weaned bulls sold to £590 for five month old Aberdeen Angus cross.
Strongest heifer calves sold to £470 for a British Blue cross, with Aberdeen Angus cross also achieving £470 and Charolais cross to £445. The best rearers were regularly £320 to £360, with younger heifers £270 to £310. Several weaned heifers forward sold to £600 for a British Blue cross with Aberdeen Angus cross selling at £560.

OTM / CAST CATTLE

All cull cows forward averaged 166p/kg, topping at 254p/kg for a young Holstein Friesian from T&CM Kelsall & Sons, Chipping with Montbeliarde to 199.5p/kg from WR&CM Lawrenson, Winmarleigh. Other heavy well finished dairy cows were regularly 185p/kg to 195p/kg with mediums types 165p/kg to 185p/kg and cows from the parlour 145p/kg to 160p/kg, depending on quality and type. Top grossing being a young Montbeliarde from WR&CM Lawrenson, Winmarleigh achieving £1830, with Holstein Friesian selling to £1559 from Lawsons Dairy Ltd, Cockerham. Only handful of beef cows forward, with all selling to a keen interest for finishing. Beef cows sold to 204p/kg on three occasions for Limousin cross cows, with other beef cows regularly 180p/kg to 200p/kg. Top grossing being a Limousin cross at £1554 from HR&KA Hodgson, Barbon.
OTM prime heifers sold to 271p/kg from R&K Jenkinson, Pilling with other beef heifers regularly 240p/kg to 270p/kg and dairy heifers 225p/kg to 240p/kg. Top grossing being a Holstein Friesian from J Huddleston, Brookhouse achieving £1578.
OTM steers sold to 281p/kg and £1759 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from O Butler, Kirkham.
Cull bulls sold to 181p/kg for a Limousin cross from RG&L Holmes, Warton with others at £2000 from HR&KA Hodgson, Barbon. Diary bulls sold to 159p/kg and £1437 from PW&JM Norris & Son, Hornby.

DAIRY

An in-calf diary heifer due March to the Aberdeen Angus sold at £1400.

STORE CATTLE & STIRKS

303 store cattle continued to sell to an extremely strong and competitive trade with all vendors leaving well suited with prices achieving. Today’s sale peaked at £2000 on two occasions for Limousin cross steers from J Prest & Son, Bay Horse and PM&ST Entwistle, Abbeystead. Other strong steers were regularly £1800 to £1900, to include native sire stores peaking at £1900 for Aberdeen Angus cross from J Clark Ltd, Preston. Good yarding steers were generally £1550 to £1750, include the top price diary steers achieving £1680 for Fleckviehs from TJ Lloyd, Settle. Younger steers sold to a top price of £1600 for a pen of British Blue cross from P Whittle, Bolton. Other younger British Blues sold to £1250 from JA&ME Mawson, Orton.
Heifers sold to £1800 for a pair of British Blue cross from M Shepherd & Sons, Pilling with Aberdeen Angus selling to £1780 from J Clark Ltd, Preston. Other stronger end heifers were regularly £1500 to £1650. Younger heifers sold to £1280 for Aberdeen Angus cross from R&E Ladds, Kendal and £1160 for Beef Shorthorns from JA&ME Mawson, Orton.
The sale concluded with 87 stirks which saw nine month old Aberdeen Angus cross steers sell to £1040 from G&D Ball & Son, Little Eccleston and British Blue cross to £900 from RW Rhodes & Son, Ellel. Beef Shorthorns sold to £880 from E&T Richardson, Garstang. Younger steers sold to £860 for Aberdeen Angus cross from S&J France, Over Wyresdale with others regularly £800 to £850. Young dairy steers sold to £520 from I Richardson, Catforth.
Heifer stirks sold to £960 for British Blue cross from W Pinter Jnr, Clitheroe with Aberdeen Angus £910 from R&J Parkinson, Preesall. Other young heifers were £740 to £820 with well reared six month old heifers £600 to £700.
An entry of 27 feeding bulls sold to a top price of £1680 from WR&CL Lawrenson, Winmarleigh with ten month old Beef Shorthorns selling to £1010 from E&T Richardson, Garstang. Well reared British Blue cross sold to £840 from W Pinder, Clitheroe with seven month old British Blue cross £800 from Throstle Nest Farms, Pilling.

The weekly sale at NWA Lancaster continues to attract an ever increasing number of customer from throughout the north counties, midlands and Wales, attracted by the quality and quantity of cattle forward. For future information regarding marketing your stock, please do not hesitate to contact our auctioneers and fields officers:

Matthew Probert, Auctioneer 07540 446667
Gary Capstick, Auctioneer 07970 830518
Will Rogerson, Trainee Auctioneer: 07506283587
Andrew Butler, Fields Officer: 07966 556592
Lisa Bennett, Fields Officer: 07971118717