THE best trade of the season to date was seen for the 3,050 old season lambs on offer at Skipton’s weekly Monday prime cattle sale on February 12, with an average of 211p/kg, or just over £90 per head.
All classes were significantly dearer on the week, with 122 pens selling for three-figure prices.
Top calls of £126 per head and 312.5p/kg fell to Beltex pens from Paul Simpson, of Bolton-by-Bowland. Of the 230 cast sheep penned for sale, cull ewes averaged £73.75 and cast rams £77.
The same day’s prime cattle sale saw five of the 17 under 30-month clean cattle fall to Alan Beecroft, of Countrystyle Meats Farm Shop in Lancaster.
Among them were the highest priced per kilo steer and heifer, the former a 535kg British Blue-cross from the Critchley family in Hutton at 258.5p, the latter a 595kg Blue-cross from James Drake, of Denholme, at 255.5p.
Top gross was a 595kg Blue-cross heifer from D and FJ Leeming, of Ramsgill, sold to Keelham Farm Shop, of Skipton and Thornton, for £1,508 or 253.5p.
Cull cows, 30 in number, again saw an upward trend when trading to an overall average of £773.22, or a shade over 114p/kg.
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