Easter Primestock Show & Sale
Hexham Auction Mart
12.03.24
Cattle
Prime Cattle
Hexham & Northern Marts held its Easter Primestock show and sale with a marvellous show of cattle forward, with predominantly well finished steers forward for our judge Mr G Chapman.
After much deliberation Mr Chapman chose the Limousin cross heifer from Chris & Andrew Johnson, Paxton Dene as champion. This just pipped a marvellous red Limousin cross steer into reserve from Messrs I & A Hamilton, Claywalls.
Full Prize List:
Best Prime Heifer
1st – Messrs H Clark & Sons, Paxton Dene
2nd – Messrs H Clark & Sons, Paxton Dene
3rd – Messrs H Clark & Sons, Paxton Dene
Best Prime Steer
1st – Messrs I & A Hamilton, Claywalls
2nd – Messrs H Clark & Sons, Paxton Dene
3rd – Messrs H Clark & Sons, Paxton Dene
Champion Prime Beast – Messrs H Clark & Sons, Paxton Dene
Reserve Champion Prime Beast – Messrs I & A Hamilton, Claywalls
A nice trade was observed right through with the Champion heifer selling to 329.5ppk and the reserve steer selling to 325.5ppk.
The Johnson’s sold the highest grossing beast on the day with a homebred British Blue cross steer selling to £2241.81.
Charolais x heifers sold to 303.5ppk from Mr F T Walton, Flotterton.
Leading prices;
Limousin Heifers – £2158.23 & £2044.80 Paxton Dene
329.5p & 319.5p Paxton Dene
British Blue Heifer – £2128.63 Paxton Dene
323.5p Paxton Dene
Charolais x Heifers – £1851.35 & £1799.88 Flotterton
303.5p & 297.5p Flotterton
Angus x Heifers – £1745.70 West Hepple
264.5p West Hepple
Hereford x Heifer – £1461.00 Thornham Hill
243.5p Thornham Hill
Limousin Steers – £2180.85 & £2182.01 Claywalls, £2060.25, £2059.02 & £2042.59 Paxon Dene
325.5p & 313.5p Claywalls, 311.5p & 307.5p Paxton Dene, 303.5p Claywalls
British Blue Steers – £2241.81 Paxton Dene, £2150.41 Claywalls
310.5p Paxton Dene, 299.5p Claywalls
Luing Steers – £1712.70 High Keenley Fell
259.5p High Keenley Fell
Cast Cows & OTM
Hexham & Northern Marts held its Easter Prime show for cast cows, which was once again sponsored by Dugdale Nutrition and ably judged by Mr G Chapman, Westknowe.
The pre-sale show was won by an outstanding pure Blue cow from Mr R Carr, Little Bavington. The cow went on to top the sale at 281.5ppk and £2387.12.
Second to the winner was a monster Limousin cross cow from Frank & Reg Simpson, Square House which went on to realise £2065.00.
Best Geld Beef Bred Cow
1st – Mr R Carr, Little Bavington
2nd – F & R Simpson, Square House
3rd – Messrs W Walton & Sons, Troughend
Best Geld Dairy Cow
1st – Mr R W Dixon, Hedley East
Champion Cow – Mr R Carr, Little Bavington
Leading the native challenge was a huge Pure Hereford cow from the Moralee herd of T & D Harrison, The Old Potato House which cashed away at £1786.40.
The first prize Dairy cow went to Mr R W Dixon, Hedley East with a fleshy Holstein which sold to 171.5ppk.
A mention must go to a fabulous run of well fleshed cows from L I Tulip & Son, Bilton Farm, who again took advantage of a competitive ring of purchasers and sold cows to 225.5ppk and 219.5ppk, averaging 210.2ppk for nine.
Trade again firm this week with a better show of flesh on offer to previous weeks. These better fleshed cows would be slightly sharper on the week. Slightly leaner cows would possibly be a few pence cheaper compared to the previous weeks extremes rates.
The overall cow average returns at £1328.28 and 189.8ppk.
We ask for cows to be entered as early as possible so we can tell potential purchasers’ numbers forward for the sale.
Please call Drew on 07854 361967
Leading prices;
Limousin – £2065.00 Square House, £1754.91 Cawfields, £1721.25 & £1699.16 Lunns House, £1635.60, £1632.41 & £1580.40 Bilton
263.5p Cawfields, 229.5p Lunns House, 225.5p, 219.5p, 217.5p & 216.5p Bilton, 215.5p Bilton & Little Harle, 207.5p Bilton, 206.5p Square House, 203.5p Hudspeth
Angus – £1027.50 Middle May Lamb
187.5p Middle May Lamb
Angus x – £1489.95, £1319.70 & £1155.00 West Shields
207.5p, 193.5p & 192.5p West Shields
British Blue – £2387.12 Little Bavington, £1635.73 Square House
281.5p Little Bavington, 227.5p Square House
British Blue x – £1255.50 Bilton
202.5p Bilton
Simmental x – £1485.55 Troughend, £1459.23 West Shields, £1303.99 Chatton Park
203.5p Troughend, 199.5p Chatton Park (x2)
Hereford – £1786.40 The Old Potato House
1595p The Old Potato House
Hereford – £1558.45 Thornham Hill, £1534.95 Chatton Park
219.5p Thornham Hill, 194.5p & 189.5p Chatton Park
Bazadaise – £1362.75 Bilton
197.5p Bilton
Murray Grey – £1291.08 West Hepple
185.5p West Hepple
British Shorthorn – £1097.60 West Shields
171.5p West Shields
Holstein Friesian – £1269.10 Hedley East
171.5p Hedley East
Holstein Friesian x – £637.50 Peepy Farm
127.5p Peepy Farm
OTM
Angus x – £1435.50 Peepy Farm
247.5p Peepy Farm
Stock Bulls
Angus – £1754.30 Buckshot
167.5p Flotterton
Stabiliser – £1336.61 East Whygate
159.5p East Whygate
Prime Sheep
At the weekly sale for prime sheep, Hexham & Northern Marts sold a total of 805 head.
One of the most varied shows of hoggs forward with most breeds represented. Weights from 30kg to 99kg sold on the dearest trade ever seen at Hexham.
The sale averaged 365.5p to a top of £252 for a Texel from Whiteside with an enormous Leicester from Shitlington Hall at £250. In excess of 25 lots sold for £200+
John Reay, St Oswalds topped the ppk with his last lamb of the season at 413.2ppk.
Leading prices;
Prime Hoggs
Texel x – £252 Whiteside, £236 Low Hall, £226 Prospect Grange & Kellah, £222 Woodcroft, £220 Broomhall, £218 Riding & Baal Hill, £217 Lords Lot & Kellah, £210 Low Hall, £208 Kellah, £205 Spenside & Kellah, £201 Chesters & Quickeningcote, £200 Low Hall, Cornhills & Prospect Grange, £199 Spenside (x2)
413.2p St Oswalds,410.5p Prospect Grange, 410.0p Spenside & Kellah, 408.2p Prospect Grange, 406.8p Low Hall, 406.3p Wall Fell, 406.1p Spenside, 403.9p Low Hall, 403.6p Woodcroft, 402.2p Wall Fell, 402.0p Chesters, 401.9p Kellah, 400.0p & 398.8p Low Hall, 398.0p Woodcroft, 397.9p Broomhall
Suffolk x – £208 Baal Hill, £196 Palm Strothers, £188 Wall Fell, £184 Thornton Tower, £179 Middle Heads, £176 New Dotland & Palm Strothers, £174 West Shields
391.5p Thornton Tower, 384.1p & 383.7p Wall Fell, 378.2p Baal Hill, 377.8 Flotterton, 376.9p & 374.5p Palm Strothers, 374.4p Wall Fell
Cheviot Mule – £179 Flotterton
365.3p Flotterton
Mule – £208 West Deanraw, £200 & £199 Kellah, £188 Middle Heads & Flotterton, £179 Baal Hill, £177 Flotterton, £165 New Dotland, £163 Thornton Tower, £161 West Deanraw
376.6p Flotterton, 365.9p West Deanraw, 365.3p Baal Hill, 362.2p Thornton Tower, 361.0p Flotterton, 359.1p Baal Hill, 353.5p Woodcroft, 352.4p Quarry House
Cheviot – £163 & £158 Flotterton, £153 Quickeningcote
385.4p Flotterton, 382.5p Quickeningcote, 379.1p Flotterton
Blackface – £180 West Deanraw, £169 & £157 Thornton Tower, £150 New Dotland, £147 Great Chesters
375.6p & 373.8p Thornton Tower, 350.0p Great Chesters, 340.9p New Dotland, 340.5p Quarry House
Swaledale – £160 New Dotland, £158 Woodcroft & Baal Hill
355.6p New Dotland, 351.1p Baal Hill
Leicester – £250 Shitlington Hall, £218 Woodcroft, £193 West Deanraw
340.9p Great Chesters, 327.5p West Deanraw
Hampshire – £216 Troughend
342.9p Troughend
Cross – £197 & £177 Hill Head
402.0p & 395.1p Hill Head
Prime Ewes
Texel x – £150 High House, £142 Middle Heads, £138 High House
Mule – £138 High House
Easycare – £106, £93 & £90 Chatton Park
Swaledale – £96 Baal Hill