Last updated 05:42, Friday, 03 October 2008

CARLISLE

Wednesday October 1

A smaller show of cattle were forward with an excellent trade throughout. All prices substantially dearer on the week.

LEADING PRICES

BULLOCKS – Charolais £920 Sideway Bank, £890, £838 Easton Farm. Limousin £905 Easton Farm, £870, £865, £860 Brisco Hall. Simmental £905, £895 (x6) Easton Farm. British Blue £868 (x2) Lane Head Farm, £835 Leesrigg Pastur. Aberdeen Angus £795, £785 Lane Head Farm. Friesian £695 (x2) Scale Hill, £585 (x4) Girthhead.

HEIFERS – Charolais £855, £740, Horsegills. British Blue £700 (x6) Easton Farm. Limousin £720 (x4) Rowe End Farm, £695 (x2) Howberry, £685 Hill Park.

COCKERMOUTH

Friday September 26

TOTAL FORWARD Over 400

At the fortnightly sale of Beef Breeding and Store Cattle, which included a major beef herd dispersal of cows with calves at foot on behalf of Messrs S & A Scott, Church Farm.

With 50 units of mainly South Devon and Aberdeen Angus breeding cattle there were buyers from throughout the northern counties ensuring a competitive trade. Bullocks were actually up £39 on average above the previous sale selling to an excellent top price of £1,010 for Limousin bulls from Ronnie Stamper, Towncroft. Heifers sold to £848 for young top class Limousin’s from T Dixon, Wyndham Terrace.

LEADING PRICES

CALVES AND STIRKS – Bulls – Belgian Blue 210 Waites Farm; Limousin 295 Fangs. Heifers – Belgian Blue 300 Waites Farm. Friesian 160, 150 The Buildings.

FEEDING COWS – Charolais 680 New Cowper; 620 Low Moor End. Limousin 610 How Hall.

IN CALF DAIRY COWS – 1,340 Foxhouses.

COWS WITH CALVES – South Devon 1,120, 1,060, 1,040 Church Farm. Aberdeen Angus 940, 910, 840 Church Farm. Belgian Blue 1,340; 1,030 Church Farm. Blonde D’Aquitaine 1,060 Hall Carleton.

BULLOCKS – Limousin 1,010; 898 Towncroft; 912, 898 Riggingill. Belgian Blue 932, 732 Riggingill; 692 Home Farm (Gate). Charolais 718 Askhill. Aberdeen Angus 682 Croft House (Hodgson). Limousin Bull 1,038 Netherclose. Limousin Bull Stirk 628 Row Farm (Herring);

HEIFERS – Limousin 848 Wyndham Terrace; 738 Whinns Farm; 678 Boonwood; 678 (x2) High Low Hall. Belgian Blue 732, 722 Abbey Flatts; 712 Boonwood. Charolais 662 Struddabank; 638 Ehenside.