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Skipton auction mart, gimmer lambs, stock picture SHEEP continue to flock to Skipton Auction Mart, this Monday’s prime turnout not far short of 3,000 head and comprising 98 Spring lambs, 2,484 hoggs and 356 cast ewes and rams. Springers met another excellent trade and with retail butcher customers keen and looking to supply additional buyers many more could have been sold, clearly shown by the overall average of 376.6p/kg, or £160.58 each. Prices peaked at £192 per head, or 436.4p/kg, for 44kg Texel from J Fisher & Son in Goosnargh, purchased for Thompson Wholesale Meats, Witton-le-Wear. Tony and Kay Kiernan, of St Michael’s, Preston, were close behind at £188, or 427.3p/kg, with others at £184 and £180. ....
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It was a flying trade for all classes of primestock at CCM s Easter showcase, with cattle judge Phil Gregory, Bacup awarding the championship to Charles and Richard Kitching, Grisedale Farm. Their 570kg British Blue cross heifer – originally acquired from Tom Robinson, Slaidburn – was knocked down for the day’s top price of 293.5p or £1673 to James Robertshaw, in Thornton. North Craven father and son team, Francis and Andrew Smith, Lodge Farm, stood as reserve champion with a 560kg Limousin cross bullock, which attained 278.5p or £1560 when selling back to the judge. Top price amongst the heavy cattle was 264.5p or £1627 for a 615kg Limousin cross heifer also from the Kitching brothers, whilst trade for cull cows topped at £1364 or 152.5p for an Aberdeen Angus from the Skipton-based Lawn family. ....
ANOTHER hectic Monday market also saw 336 breeding sheep pass through the sales ring before an increased attendance of buyers. There was good trade throughout, with better outfits of Suffolk and Texel ewes with twins making £260 up to £280 per outfit, Linton’s Thomas Boothman twice hitting the top price mark with Texel crosses, and also making £260 per family with two other pens. Almost 350 cast ewes sold similarly on the week, many again arriving from both Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. Heavies were able to command £145-£162, full meat mediums £120-£135, medium half meat £105-£115 and small/lean ewes £85-£100. Cull ewes averaged £106.16 per head overall and 41 cast rams £123.36. ....
Phil Gregory, of DA Gregory & Sons Butchers in St James Square, Bacup, made another successful foray across the border when securing three entries at Skipton Auction Mart’s weekly Monday prime cattle sale, two of which were high quality retail heifers both selling at top per kilo call of 260.5p. (Mon, Jan 18) First up was a 560kg Limousin-cross from regular Red Rose vendors, RT&J Critchley & Sons in Hutton, Preston, which grossed £1,459, followed by a 535kg British Blue-cross from Keighley’s David Bailey, snapped up at £1,394. James Robertshaw took up his usual position at the ringside, claiming six cattle in total, all for his Robertshaw’s Farm Shop in Thornton and among them the leading price per kilo steer, a 595kg Limousin-cross from mart regulars, Threshfield brothers Charles and Richard Kitching, at 254.5p/kg, or £1,514. ....