Sale of Store Cattle & Store Sheep
Store Cattle
Hexham and Northern Marts held its annual “May Term” sale of 835 catalogued store cattle and suckled calves. Another fantastic show of cattle this week were brought forward by our loyal customers, that met a fantastic trade right through, with all classes competitively bid for from the first beast to the last beast. This was helped with another fantastic turnout of purchasers from across the British Isles.
Trade for the forward cattle was slightly sharper on the week, but a better show of forward cattle this week. Younger cattle again sold extremely easily through the Hexham ring, with purchasers eager to procure cattle now for turnout. This created an overall average that was £188 up on last year’s sale.
The first beast into the ring set the tone for the day, a heft Angus cross steer from D A & P Burn, Aydonshields sold to £2080.00.
Sharing the top honors first today were relatively new customers to Hexham, H Tulip & Son, Bilton, Alnwick, who sold an outstanding Limousin cross steer to £2300.00. Not long after this at the same money was a Blonde cross steer from Messrs. J B & N Harrison & Son, Colepike. Messrs. Harrison’s run of cattle went on to average a marvelous £2165.00.
Leading heifer on the day was an outstanding twenty-month-old, black Limousin cross heifer from Messrs S K Richardson & Son, Prospect Grange Farm that went on to realise £2100.00. Low Middleton Livestock, Belford sold a thick Limousin cross heifer to £1990.00.
One of the days highlights was an outstanding run of sixty-four yearling Limousin cross steers and heifers from Messrs Lewis Forster & Son, West Nubbock. The run peaked at £1850.00 for a 13-month-old heifer. Steers sold to £1820.00, and the run achieved an impressive average of £1484.45.
Messrs Conley & Son, Barrasford Green sold a run of twenty-four yearling Limousin cross steers that were well drawn into pens of threes and fours that topped at £1400.00.
Messrs. H Huddleston, Round Meadows had an enjoyable day’s trading selling eleven-month-old Limousin cross steers to £1730.00. Once again, proving a late turn doesn’t affect trade here at Hexham, selling a ten-month-old, black, Limousin cross steer, just past 4:30pm, was Messrs W M Reed & Sons, Lands Farm, which went onto sell for £1600.00.
Charolais cross suckled calves were in real demand, and an eight-month-old steer from Mr K Lumley, Newbiggin Farm went on to sell to £1540.00.
Limousin cross Heifers of the same age from Messrs J R Robinson & Son, Warksfield Head peaked at £1420.00.
Messrs M & D Walton, Gleedlee sold a run of ten-month-old Limousin cross suckled calves, bred out of hairy, hill mothers at over 1000ft to a high of £1180.00 for a pair of steers to a repeat customer.
Next week sees our monthly sale of Native Bred cattle and we welcome entries over the weekend to auctioneers or to the office on Monday morning.
Chris Armstrong 07808721957
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Office 01434 605444
Leading prices;
Cattle 23 – 30 Months
Limousin x steers – £2300, £2200, £2080, £2010, £1920 & £1900 Bilton, £1890 & £1860 Great Chesters, £1850 Bilton, £1790 Lunns House & Lowes Fell, £1780 Bilton
Charolais x steers – £1880, £1870 & £1780 Make-Me-Rich
British Blue steers – £16540 Camphill
Angus steers – £1680 Sandy Braes
Angus x steers – £2100 Sunniside, £1700 Aydonshiels £1530 & £1450 Bankfoot, £1410 Stoop Rigg, £1400 Catreen
Blonde x steers – £2300 & £2220 (x2) Colepike
Limousin x heifers – £1990 Low Middleton, £1790 Willimoteswick, £1650 Make-Me-Rich, £1580 Willimoteswick, £1560 Settlingstones, £1510 Make-Me-Rich
Angus x heifers – £1510 Greencarts, £1480 Sunniside, £1400 Stooprigg & Greencarts
Blonde x heifers – £1940 Colepike
Cattle 17 – 22 Months
Limousin x steers – £2260 Town Farm, £2120 Great Chesters, £2060 Troughend, £1940 Lowes Fell, £1920 Corneyside, £1910 & £1900 Great Chesters
Charolais x steers – £1810 & £1700 Great Chesters
British Blue x steers – £1790 & £1580 Camp Hill
Angus x steers – £2080 Aydonshields £1760 Greystone House, £1665 Catreen
Simmental x steers – £1660 (x2) & £1640 Greystone House
Limousin x heifers – £2100 Prospect Grange, £1910 Great Chesters, £1880 Cowburn Rigg, £1760 Dukesfield Hall, £1700 Great Chesters, £1680 Tarset Hall, £1660 Great Chesters, £1650 Lunns House
Charolais x heifers – £1780 Great Chesters, £1500 Make-Me-Rich
Angus x heifers – £1480 Sunniside
Britis Blue heifers – £1100 North Shotton
Cattle 11 – 16 Months
Limousin x steers – £1840 Armond Carr, £1820, £1810 & £1780 West Nubbock, £1730 West Nubbock & Round Meadows, £1710 West Nubbock (x2), £1680 Newbiggen, £1650 Town Farm & West Nubbock
Charolais x steers – £1790 & £1740 West Foreshied, £1710, £1590 & £1480 Tenter House, £1420 Newbiggen, £1385 & £1380 High Trewhitt
Angus steers – £1250 Bollihope Stud
Angus x steers – £1570 & £1560 Linaces, £1430 Newbiggen & Linaces, £1400 High Trewhitt, £1380 Hedley Park, £1300 Elilaw (x2)
British Blue steers – £1380 West Foreshied, £1360 Chirdon, £1350 Woodhead, £1330 Lee Hall, £1290 Chirdon & West Moorhouses
Simmental x steers – £1420 Elilaw
Limousin x heifers – £1850 West Nubbock, £1820 West Foreshied, £1680 Stotsfold, £1660 Low Middleton & West Nubbock, £1620 Shitlington, £1600 Armond Carr & West Nubbock
Charolais x heifers – £1450 Cooper House, £1355 & £1350 White House, £1260 Cooper House
Angus heifers – £130 Bollihope Stud (x2)
Angus x heifers – £1610 & £1440 West Butsfield, £1380 Bothal Park (x2), £1260 Cooper House, Elilaw & Bothal Park
Simmental x heifers – £1140 Warksfield Head
British Blue heifers – £1140 Wydon
Hereford x heifers – £990 East Fourstones
Cattle 10 months and under
Limousin x steers – £1600 Lands Farm, £1500 Thornton Tower, £1470 Low Middleton (x2), £1460 Lands Farm, £1410 Low Middleton, £1380 Batey Shield & Longlea, £1340 Round Meadows, £1300 Round Meadows, Longlea & Lands Farm, £1280 & £1220 Round Meadows, £1210 Warksfield Head, £1200 Longlea & Warksfield Head
Charolais steers – £1540 Newbiggen
Charolais x steers – £1370 Newbiggen
Limousin x heifers – £1420 Warksfield Head, £1380 Lands Farm, £1250 Dukesfield Hall, £2440 Lands Farm, £1220 West Nubbock
Charolais heifers – £1380 Newbiggen
Cast Ewes
Hexham & Northern Marts sold 614 Cast Ewes and Rams to a stronger trade.
The sale peaked at £259 for a pen of 7 massive Texel Ewes from Mr D Barron, New Acres, also selling ewes to £238.
Charollais ewes topped at £230 from Messrs AJ & T Snaith, Great Tosson.
Suffolk cross ewes sold to £168 for a pen of 5 from Messrs J S Urwin & Son, Dovecote.
Mules topped at £158 again from the Dovecote team for a penful.
Blackface reached a high of £124 for a pair from Messrs J Browell & Son, Quarry House.
Swales peaked at £106 for a pen of 8 from Messrs J T Nixon & Son Ltd, Stotsfold.
Please enter your ewes with Jack on 07739 440457 or Harrison on 07895 761102.
Texel –£259 & £238 New Acres, £230 Hard Riding, £212 Great Tosson, £202 Broomhall, £200 Hard Riding, New Acres & Stotsfold
Texel x –£198 New Acres, £192 High Fotherley, £182 Chesters & Woodlands Place, £172 Dovecote, £170 Cornhills (x2), £169 Dukesfield Hall, £160 Chesters, £158 New Acres, Hownsgill & Cornhills, £156 Little Harle & Comb Hills, £155 Broomhall, £153 Colepike, £150 Hard Riding
Charollais-£230, £215 & £195 Great Tosson
Beltex-£175 Great Tosson
Beltex x-£148 Great Tosson, £142 Morwood, £140 Rowley Link
Hampshire- £150 Norwoods Farm
Suffolk x – £168 Dovecote, £149 (x2) Fitches Grange, £148 Broomhall, £147 Fitches Grange, £141 Low House Farm, £140 Lunns House, £136 The Boat, £134 Riverside
Leicesters-£166 Stotsfold
Cheviot – £119 Whitchester, £118 The Boat
Cheviot Mule – £146 Stobby Lea
Mule – £158 Dovecote, £154 Hard Riding, £145 Fitches Grange, £143 Nettlesworth West House, £139 Dukesfield Hall, £135 Colepike, £130 Lunns House, Stone Hall & Stotsfold, £126 Hott School House, £124 Hartburn Grange £121 High Knitsley & Hartburn Grange, £120 Colepike
Blackface – £124 Quarry House, £118 Edges Green, £112 Bridgeford, £105 Riding Terrace
Swaledale – £106 Stotsfold, £105 Westburnhope, £95 Coach House
Cast Tups
Cast Tups continue to sell very well, selling to £215 twice from Mr D F Brodie, Chesters.
Texel –£215 (x2) Chesters, £180 Stone Hall
Suffolk – £185 Nettlesworth West House
Suffolk x-£192 Redesmouth Farm
Hampshire-£171 Norwoods Farm
Charollais – £165 The Old Potato House
Beltex – £160 Littleburn Farm
Blackface – £138 Edges Green
Swaledale –£133 Woodcroft, £124 Ottercops Farm
Store Hoggs
Hexham and Northern Marts sold 390 Hoggs to another great trade, reading the same story as the weeks before averaging over £100 for all breeds, shapes and sizes.
Topping at £160 on two occasions were fantastic Beltex x hoggs from Mr R E Williamson, Littleburn Farm.
Suffolk cross hoggs sold to £155 from Messrs C M & P Hall, Whitchester.
Mules sold to £132 from Mr M Henson, Riding Terrace.
Beltex-£160 (x2), £156, £140 Littleburn Farm
Beltex x-£132 Littleburn Farm, £118 Hownsgill, £114 Great Tosson, £110 Littleburn Farm
Texel – £156 Hard Riding & Chesters, £152 Dukesfield Hall
Texel x-£149 Quarry House, £146 Hard Riding, £144 Middle Heugh, £142 The Old Potato House & Woodlands Place, £140 Townfoot, £138 Chesters, £136 Little Harle, £132 Riverside, £131 Comb Hills, £130 High Knitsley, Humber Hill & High Fotherley, £129 Quarry House, £127 Great Tosson
Suffolk x – £155 Whitchester, £146 Woodlands Place, £144 Rowley Link, £136 Redesmouth, £130 Littleburn Farm, £125 Lunns House, £119 & £113 Rowley Link, £111 Temperley Grange
Leicester-£128 Little Hale
Abberfield- £150 Whitchester
Mule – £132 Riding Terrace
Charollais x-£118 Great Tosson
Cross-£120 Humber Hill
Cheviot Mule – £129 Comb Hills
Swaledale – £117 Allergill Farm, £102 Stewartshield Meadows