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Lancaster Livestock Auction: Lancaster Auction Mart Sale of Calves, OTM Cattle & Store Cattle, Friday 1st November 2024.

CALVES & WEANLINGS

A slightly smaller show of calves today, rearers were still easy to place with British Blue bulls to £445 from T&CM Kelsall, Chipping and £440 from JP&C Robson, Claughton on Brock. Native calves sold to £430 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from JK&BJ Birkett, Morecambe. Younger bull calves sold to £350 for a British Blue at twenty seven days old from TL Baldwin, Forton and a twenty three days old Hereford to £235 from MJ&H Atkinson, Quernmore.
Rearing heifers sold to £390 twice both from JP&C Robson, Claughton on Brock with Aberdeen Angus cross to £260 from the same home.
Weaned calves were possibly sharper, selling to £620 for a pair of British Blue steers from PS&H Eckersley, Mellor with others at £590 from the same home. TE&MM Kidd, Ellel presented very nice Herefords to £530 twice for bulls and £450 (x4) for Herefords.

OTM / CAST CATTLE

OTM trade holds firm, with what was a leaner then average show today.
Top pence per kilo was 264.5 for a Bazadaize cow from BD&PM Gill, Ingleton grossing £1692. OTM heifers sold to 259.5p/kg from JM&JJ Dawson, Littledale. A Saler cast bull from TW&C Shepherd achieved 259.5p/kg and the best of the dairy cows reaching 209.5p/kg from GA&A Atkinson, Cantsfield. Parlour type cows regularly 170p/kg to 185p/kg.
Top grossing price reached £2058 for an Aberdeen Angus bull from P&M Crackles, Burrow and £1733.15 for a Limousin cow from JL Atkinson, Kendal. Black and whites sold to £1525.48 from Lawsons Farm, Cockerham with the best of these the top side of £1400.

STORE CATTLE

The weekly store cattle sale at Lancaster saw an increase in numbers with 290 going through the main ring. Taking top spot today would be regular Lancaster supporters Pilling Hall, Pilling with a well-formed Limousin steer at £1900. Not far behind also with a Limousin at £1880 was EJ Ward & Sons, Nether Kellet who had other Limousins at £1700 and continued their good days trading with Charolais steers to £1840.
JS Clark & Sons, Catforth saw their Hereford steers to £1880. Simmental steers sold to £1760 for a pair from SH&LE Birkett, Carnforth with other Simmental steers to £1660 for a pen of four from Low Moor Howe, Winster. British Blues sold to £1780 from H Birkett & Son, Overton with others at £1680 from MJ Waller, Lupton. Friesian steers would be the trade of the day, topping at £1680 from R&E Ladds, Kendal at twenty months old, with others at £1480 from L Parsons, Levens. Plenty more pens were around the £1200 to £1350 mark. A consignment of IOM cattle saw their cattle top at £1540 for Shorthorns with other good farming cattle from across the water round the £1200 mark.
A decent average of £1240 for all heifers today, topping at £1660 from JC Prickett, Mewith for a Limousin. Other Limousin heifers sold to £1540 from EJ Ward, Nether Kellet. EW&CR Clegg, Stalmine usual run of well farmed cattle saw Simmental to £1560 and Shorthorn to the same price. Angus heifers were easily sold today, with L Parsons & Sons, Leven seeing his pen of four cattle reach £1540. British Blues sold to £1650 for a pair from M Shepherd & Son, Pilling with others at £1540 from J&JA Burrow, Grayrigg.
Where possible vendors are advised to pair or batch cattle together, with buyers eager to purchase pens full of cattle. For marketing advise of store cattle, OTM and calves please ring one of our auctioneers or fields officers, who will be happy to help you get maximum prices for your stock.

Top Prices

HEIFER CALF:

British Blue: £390 (x2) Roe Farm, £270, £260, £255, £250 Forton Hall Farm. Angus: £260 Roe Farm. Hereford: £175, £155, £125 Westfield House Farm.

BULL CALF:

British Blue: £445 Brown Brook, £440 Roe Farm, £415, £410, £400 Brown Brook, £350 Forton Hall Farm. Angus: £430 White Lund Farm, £310, £285, £200 Tills Farm. Fleckvieh: £400 Whtie Lund Farm. Hereford: £235 Westfield House Farm, £235 Forton Hall Farm. Friesian: £110 Cocker House Farm.

BULL STIRK:

Hereford: £530 (x2), £520, £480 Booth Hall. British Blue: £500, £390 Walkers I’th Fields. Angus: £450 Walkers I’th Fields. Montbeliarde: £290 Sellerley Farm. Friesian: £220 Sellerley Farm.

HEIFER STIRK:

British Blue: £590 (x4) Higher Brundhurst Farm, £470 Walkers I’th Fields. Hereford: £450 (x4), £400 Booth Hall, £300 Sellerley Farm. Angus: £430, £410 Walkers I’th Fields.

STEER STIRK:

British Blue: £620 Higher Brundhurst Farm.

OTM COW:

Bazadaise: 264.5 Yarlesber. Limousin: 239.5 Little Fell Farm, 224.5 Dubside, 214.50 Little Fell Farm, 179.5 Rooten Brook Farm, 177.5 Field Head. Angus: 209.5 Pilling Hall Farm, 199.5 Intack Farm, 164.50 Little Fell Farm. Friesian: 209.5 Abbotson Farm, 189.5 Sweetings Farm, 181.5 Priory Farm, 179.5 Sweetings Farm, 179.5 Abbotson Farm, 177.5 Oxenforth Green Farm. British Blue: 199.5 Intack Farm. Continental: £174.50 Intack Farm, 154.5 Braida Garth, 104.5 Ballacutchel Farms. Simmental: 169.5 Little Fell Farm, 159.5 Intack Farm. Hereford: 134.50 Little Fell Farm, 104.5 The Hawthorns. Stabaliser: 109.5 Braida Garth.

OTM HEIFER:

Friesian: 239.5 Oxenforth Green Farm, 239.5 Heaton Hall Farm, 239.5 Walkers Ith Fields, 239.5 Downlands Farm, 234.5 Heaton Hall. Limousin: 259.5 Field Head. Simmental: 249.5 Sykes Fold Farm.

CAST BULL:

Saler: 259.5 Nook Farm, Angus: 191.5 Mill Farm, Friesian: 129.5 Bannister Farm.

STORE BULLOCK:

Limousin: £1900 Pilling Hall Farm, £1880 Intack Farm, £1720 Pilling Hall Farm, £1700 Intack Farm, £1620 Snub Snape Farm. Hereford: £1880 Godson House Farm, £1440 Snub Snape Farm, £1420 Adlington Hall Farm, £1340 Hall Bank, £1300 Windy Hill Farm, £1180 Colloway Farm. Charolais: £1840 Intack Farm, £1150 Rooten Brook. British Blue: £1780 North Farm, £1680 Carlingwha, £1660 Stubb Hall Farm, £1640 Station Hotel Farm, £1600 North Farm, £1480 Betts Farm. Angus: £1780 Godson House Farm, £1760 New Ridge Farm, £1760 Raw End Farm, £1730 Ivy Barn, £1720 Benson Hall, £1680 Barn Hill Farm. Simmental: £1760 Stubb Hall Farm, £1660 High House Farm, £1660 Ghyll Beck Farm, £1480 Station Hotel Farm. Friesian: £1680 Benson Hall, £1480 Betts Farm, £1480 Low Levens, £1380 Low Deepslack, £1360 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1320. Shorthorn: £1540 Ballacutchel Farms. South Devon: £1270 Adlington Hall Farm. Fleckvieh: £1180 Ballacutchel Farms. Saler: £1180 Nook Farm.

STORE HEIFER:

Limousin: £1660 Ghyll Beck Farm, £1540 Intack Farm, £1320 Thursgill, £1140 Broughton House Farm. British Blue: £1650 Pasture House Farm, £1540 Staffords Farm, £1540 Thursgill, £1500 Yew Tree Farm, £1500 Stubb Hall Farm, £1430 Outerthwaite Farm. Simmental: £1560 Yew Tree Farm, £1380 Sykes Fold Farm. Angus: £1540 Low Levens, £1480 Snub Snape Farm, £1460 Plumpton Hall Farm, £1360 Yew Tree Farm, £1360 Kirkbeck. £1330 Hall Bank. Hereford: £1480 Pasture House Farm, £1220 Holme House Farm, £1060 Adlington Hall Farm. Charolais: £1460 Carlingwha, £1340 Intack Farm. Friesian: £1060 Cinder Barrow.

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