Lancaster Auction Mart leads the way at the popular weekly sale.

• OTM Cattle sell to 300p/kg and £2318
• Store Bullocks to £1920
  
• Store Heifers to £1840
• Rearing Calves to £600
• Weaned Calves to £910

CALVES

Nice show of calves in today with all classes and types selling to a competitive ringside of buyers.

Calves to £600 for a Charolais bull from JG Thornley, Kirkham with others to £590 from this home. Next at £530 was a British Blue bull from AD Milner, Brock, one of 3 vendors in the convoy from Claughton this morning. Other British Blue bulls to £465 from JM & MH France, Littledale and natives to £380 from AD Milner, Brock. Dairy bulls to £270 from JR Newsham, Conder Green. Heifer calves to £370 for British Blue also from the Milners with Limousin to £345 from MH & AR Robinson, Holmescales. GP Stott, Parkers Farm also headed north on the A6 selling Angus heifers to £285 at 1 month old and British Blue to £270 at the same age. Stirks were on fire, TD & A Gardner, Great Eccleston selling British Blue bulls to £910 and £850 with Herefords to £620 from JR Newsham. A consignment of fresh weaned Angus heifers sold to £480 from JK & BJ Birkett, Morecambe. Please continue to book calves in with confidence.

STORE CATTLE

The weekly store cattle sale saw a few less about this week with trade up and beyond vendor expectations. Making the headlines today would be regular Lancaster supporters J Lamb, Glasson for a Charolais steer at £1920. Other Charolais steers to £1900 for a trio from GT & CA Blezard, Conder Green with JM Haddow, Milnthorpe at the same price who also had a pair of Angus steers at £1900 with G Sagar & Son, Caton at £1820 for a pen of 4 and L Parsons & Sons, Levens at the same price. R Capstick & Son, Ingleton led the way with Limousins to £1880 with others from JB Moore, Grange over Sands to £1640. G Sagar & Son, Caton continued their good days trading with Herefords to £1810 for a pen of 4. Simmental steers from M & RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe to £1900. Low Moor Howe, Winster with a pen of 4 to £1740. British Blue steers to £1780 from R & A Easterby, Westhouse. Plenty of other blue steers round the £1700 mark. Friesian steers again a flying trade to £1610 from J Lamb, Glasson with others from L Parsons & Sons, Levens to £1580. All steers averaged £1561.
No let up in trade for heifers, these averaged £1442. Topping this week would be R & DM Rossall, Pilling with a pair of British Blues to £1840, others at £1800 from AT Burrow & Son, Gressingham. Plenty of other blue heifers around the £1700 mark. Aberdeen Angus heifers at £1720 from BW & G Robinson, Carnforth, with others at £1700 from TJ Robinson, Milnthorpe. Plenty of other Angus heifers round the £1500 mark. Limousin heifers to £1660 from MJ Waller, Carnforth with others to £1640 from R & DM Rossall, Pilling. Charolais heifers to £1680 from MJ Waller, Carnforth and Hereford heifers to £1500 from TJ Robinson, Milnthorpe.
More numbers required next week to satisfy buyers demand.

OTM CATTLE

Cull cows from 3 counties descended upon Lancaster auction mart this Friday. With all cows sold averaging a staggering 193p/kg and £1276 with over half the entry being dairy bred and parlour type cows. Best beef cows sold to outstanding top price of 300p/kg from M & RW Stirzaker, Milnthorpe with heavy well-fed Stabilisers from JA & R Geldard, Levens hitting 294.5p/kg on 2 occasions with others at 284.5p/kg. Other strong end beef cows regularly 230-280p/kg to include British Blue x and Limousin x from MA & JA Winn, Burneside, Simmental x from PJ & ES Rogerson, Appleby, Aberdeen Angus x and Shorthorn x from A Guy, Farsley. A staggering 6 beef cows sold over £2000 to include a quartet of Stabilisers from JA & R Geldard, Levens peaking at £2318. A further 15 beef cows sold between £1700-£1950. Dairy cows held their own against their beef counter parts selling to top of 260p/kg on 2 occasions for Montbeliarde and Black and Whites from EW & RM Towers, Hornby with endless heavy well fleshed selling between 210-230p/kg, mediums 185-198p/kg with harder working parlour type cows 130-160p/kg. Dairy cows sold to a top of £2000 for a Montbeliarde from EW & RM Towers, Hornby with Holstein Friesian selling to £1821 from MS & G Mason, Carnforth with other heavy well fleshed cows regularly £1350-£1600.
OTM beef heifers sold to a top of 285p/kg from JC Prickett, Mewith with other better end beef heifers regularly 260-280p/kg. Top grossing being a Limousin x achieving £1774. Dairy heifers sold to top of 255p/kg and £1397 from AT Burrow & Son, Gressingham. OTM beef steers sold to 285p/kg and £1897 for British Blue x from A Knight, Dalston. OTM bulls sold to 259p/kg and £1769 for Hereford x from MS & G Mason, Kirkby Lonsdale with Limousin stock bulls selling to £1450 from EJ & PE Burrow, Milnthorpe.