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Lancaster Livestock Auction: Lancaster Auction Mart Sale of Calves, Store Cattle, Cast & OTM Cattle, Friday 11th October 2024

CALVES & WEANLINGS

70 calves and weanlings were forward today, with trade a touch sharper on the week. Bull calves were the top side of £600 three times, topping at £635 for a British Blue from J&G Thornley, Kirkham with another at £610 from JM&MH France, Littledale. Finally at £600 was another British Blue from J&G Thornley, Kirkham. Native sided bulls sold to £520 and £500 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from J&G Thornley, Kirkham. Dairy bred bulls sold to £450 for a Montbeliarde from E&J Redmayne, Winmarleigh.
Heifer calves sold to £365 from JM&MH France, Littledale for a British Blue with other British Blues to £335 from I Slater, Brock. Not many younger heifers were forward today, but sweet six week old British Blues were regularly £280 to £300.
Weaned calves saw bulls to £690 from TD&A Gardner, Great Eccleston with others from this home at £650. Weaned heifers sold to £570 for an Aberdeen Angus cross from I Richardson, Catforth with Herefords to £440 from TE & MM Kidd, Ellel.

STORE CATTLE

250 stores were forward with trade up a gear on last week. A top price today of £1860 firstly for five Limousin steers from EJ Ward & Son, Nether Kellet and secondly for three British Blues from H Birkett & Son, Overton. MJ Shepherd sold to £1800 for a British Blue with another five at £1800 from J Lamb, Glasson again for British Blues. Native sired sold to £1780 for an Aberdeen Angus from EW&CR Clegg, Stalmine with Longhorns to £1760 from EJ Ward & Son, Nether Kellet. Monbeliardes sold to £1660 from DR Preston, Caton and Friesian to £1400 from EE Thornton, Heaton.
Fewer heifers about this week with these selling to £1580 for an Aberdeen Angus from J Oddie, Balderstone, with other Aberdeen Angus next at £1560 from L Parsons, Levens. A quartet of British Blues sold to £1550 from SH&LE Birkett, Nether Kellet. Nine British Blue sold to £1470 from JS&KM Wilson, Kendal.

CAST / OTM CATTLE

130 OTM’s in today, top pence per kilo was 279.5 achieved twice both for Limousin OTM heifers from R Collinge & Son, Kirkham. Cast steers sold to £274.5p/kg from this same good home, again being for a Limousin. Aberdeen Angus steers sold to 259.5p/kg from JD EM & JA Atkinson, Kendal with Simmentals at the same price from EJ&PE Burrow, Storth. Top pence per kilo cow came from EJ Ward & Son, Nether Kellet with this reaching 249.5p/kg. The best of the black and whites sold to 229.5p/kg from RE&P Miller, Barnacre with parlour type cows regularly 180p/kg to 190p/kg.
Top grossing today was a Simmental cast bull from E Rossall, Pressall with this totalling £1995.60. An Aberdeen Angus bull sold to £1975.05 from JD EM & JA Atkinson, Kendal. OTM heifers topped at £1766.23 for a Fleckvieh from JK&BK Birkett, Morecambe. Top grossing cow was a stabiliser cow from RW&FJ Rhodes, Ellel with this totalling £1759.80 and British Blues to £1709.29 from AJ&DA Wilkinson, St Michaels.

Top Prices

STORE BULLOCK:

Limousin: £1860 Intack Farm, £1680 Yew Tree Farm, £1680 Sunnyside Farm, £1620 Fell End Farm, £1560 Intack Farm. British Blue: £1860 North Farm, £1800 Gaskell House, £1800 Old Glasson Farm, £1760 Pasture House Farm, £1760 Squires Gate Farm. Simmental: £1780 Intack Farm, £1660 Low Levens, £1580 Hazelslack Tower Farm, £1160 Mount Murray. Angus: £1780 Yew Tree Farm, £1760 Gaskell House, £1720 Cheetham House Farm, £1700 Billinge Hall Farm, £1680 Fell End Farm, £1680 Downlands Farm. Longhorn: £1760 Intack Farm. Charolais: £1720 Downlands Farm £1680 Squires Gate Farm, £1180 Mount Murray. Montbelliarde: £1660 Ellers Farm, £1600 Squires Gate Farm, £1520 Squires Gate Farm. Hereford: £1580 Pasture House Farm, £1360 Windy Hill Farm, £760 Kays Farm. Friesian: £1400 Downlands Farm, £1380 Gibraltar Farm, £1260 Plumpton Hall Farm. Belted Galloway: £1080 Mount Murray.

STORE HEIFER:

Angus: £1580 Cheetham House Farm, £1560 Low Levens, £1460 Low Levens, £1440 Snub Snape Farm, £1420 Oakenhead, £1420 Oakenhead. British Blue: £1550 Stubb Hall Farm, £1470 High House, £1460 Windy Hill Farm, £1380 Lower Castle O Trim, £1360 Barn Hill Farm. Simmental: £1420 Yew Tree Farm, £1000 Mount Murray. Hereford: £1400. Limousin: £1070 Mount Murray, £1030 Mount Murray, £1000 Mount Murray. Belted Galloway: £1070 Mount Murray, £920 Mount Murray. Charolais: £1030 Mount Murray, £960 Mount Murray.

STORE BULL:

Limousin: £920 Mount Murray.

OTM COW:

Limousin: 249.50 Intack Farm, 229.50 Mount Murray, 219.50 Lane Head Farm, 219.50 High Tenement Farm, 214.50 Lane Head Farm, 214.50 Thornton Hall. Friesian: 229.50 Lower Lingart Farm, 224.50 Downlands Farm, 189.50 Docker Hall, 184.50 (x2) Low Deepslack, 184.50 Lower Lingart Farm. Saler: 219.50 Thornton Hall. Stabiliser: 209.50 Low Moor Head Farm, 189.50 Farleton House. British Blue: 207.50 Intack Farm, 189.50 Springfield Farm. Angus: 199.50 Forgelands Estate, 194.50 Mount Murray, 189.50 Woodstock, 179.50 Farleton House. Blonde: 189.50 Cragg End. Hereford: 189.50 Mount Murray, 187.50, 184.50, 179.50, 174.50 Dalton Old Hall. Norwegian Red: 191.50, 159.50 Dale Barns, 109.50 Cracalt Farm. Charolais: 179.50 Mount Murray, 174.50 High Tenement Farm, 154.50 Mount Murray. Fleckvieh: 179.50 Docker Hall, 149.50 Throstle Nest Farm. Other: 174.50 (x2) Throstle Nest Farm, 129.50 Dale Barns. Simmental: 159.50 Throstle Nest Farm. Brown Swiss: 139.50 Throstle Nest Farm.

OTM HEIFER:

Limousin: 279.50, 279.50, 274.50 The Dingle. Fleckvieh: 254.50 White Lund Farm. Simmental: 249.50 (x2) New Grange Farm, 139.50 Sykes Fold Farm. Friesian: 244.50 White Lund Farm, 234.50 Elm Tree Farm, 229.50 White Lund Farm, 224.50 Cragg Farm, 219.50 Elm Tree Farm. Norwegian Red: 234.50 White Lund Farm.

CAST STEER:

Limousin: 274.50 The Dingle, 259.50, 214.50 Mount Murray. Angus: 259.50 Low Groves Farm. Simmental: 259.50 Hazelslack Tower Farm. Friesian: 249.50 Gibraltar Farm.

CAST BULL:

Simmental: 219.50 Sykes Fold Farm. Angus: 199.50 New Hall. Hereford: 199.50 New Grange Farm. Blonde: 189.50 High Cark Farm. British Blue: 159.50 Hill Top Farm.

HEIFER CALF:

Angus: £395 Walkers I’th Field, £300 Walkers I’th Field, £300 Walkers I’th Field, £225 Hudsbrook Farm, £180 High Cark Farm. British Blue: £395 Walkers I’th Field, £365 Newhouse Farm, £345 Walkers I’th Field, £335 Hudsbrook Farm, £315 Forton Hall Farm, £295 Sunny Bank. Limousin: £305 Hudsbrook Farm. Hereford: £175 Catshaw Hall Farm, £140 Catshaw Hall Farm, £130 Forton Hall Farm.

BULL CALF:

British Blue: £635 Derby Lodge Farm, £610 Newhouse Farm, £600 Derby Lodge Farm, £530 Walkers I’th Fields, £470 Tills Farm, £400 Brown Brook. Angus: £520 Derby Lodge Farm, £500 Derby Lodge Farm, £400 Derby Lodge Farm, £325 Brown Brook, £325 Brown Brook, £290 Brown Brook. Charolais: £360 Catshaw Hall Farm. Hereford: £200 Forton Hall Farm, £200 Forton Hall Farm. Friesian: £150 Catshaw Hall Farm, £115 Brown Brook, £110 Tills Farm.

BULL STIRK:

British Blue: £690 Larbreck Hill Farm, £650 Larbreck Hill Farm. Hereford: £490 Booth Hall. Montbeliarde: £450 Poplar Grove Farm.

HEIFER STIRK:

Aberdeen Angus: £570 West View Farm, £370 West view Farm. Hereford: £440 Booth Hall, £350 Booth Hall. Limousin: £300 Poplar Grove Farm. Montbeliarde: £300 Poplar Grove.

STEER STIRK:

Aberdeen Angus: £460 West View Farm, £440 West View Farm,

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