BROTHER brothers Clive and Trevor Robinson, of Middle Brayshaw Farm, Tosside, lifted the prime lamb title for the second month in succession at Skipton Auction Mart’s October show and sale.

Their award-winning pen of five virtually pure 41kg Beltex lambs sold for the day’s leading price of 248p/kg, or £102 per head, to Andrew Atkinson, of Felliscliffe, buying on behalf of Hartshead Meats in Mossley, Manchester, who also acquired the second prize 50kg Suffolk pen from Geoff Lawn, of Skipton, at £76.50 each.

Keelham Farm's James Robertshaw acquired both the second and third prize Continental pens from Seth Blakey, of Bolton-by-Bowland, and Bordley’s Kevin Huck at £78 and £86 per head respectively.

The first prize and reserve champion 47kg Suffolk prime lamb pen from Simon Spensley, of Gargrave, made £70 per head when joining Swaledale Foods in Skipton, who also paid £68 each for the first prize Mule lambs pen from Pateley Bridge’s Bernard Simpson.

The 3,016 prime lambs forward met with a much better trade than anticipated, producing an overall selling average just shy of 150p/kg, 5p up on the week, or £65.35 per head. There were also 288 cast sheep forward, with cull ewes averaging £43.35 each and cast rams £51.50.

The prime cattle championship was won for the first time by Amy Bradley, of Hartwith, Harrogate.

She trades with her partner Russell Peel at Fiddlers Green Farm, owned by her stepfather Nick Dalby, and secured top honours with her first prize 620kg Limousin-cross heifer acquired from Trevor Stoney, of Bewerley, Pateley Bridge, and paraded at local agricultural shows.

It sold for the day’s highest price of 299.5p/kg, or £1,857, to show judge Chris Hodgson, of CH Meats in York. He bought the victor, plus a further prize winner, on behalf of Kitsons Butchers.

Malcolm Metcalfe, of Baldersby Park, was responsible for the first prize bullock and reserve champion, a 520kg pure-bred Limousin, which fell for 276.5p/kg, or £1,438, to Keelham Farm Shop, which secured five beef cattle in total at the October highlight.

Another butcher buyer at the prime cattle ringside was Paul Ellison, of Ellisons Butchers in Cullingworth, Keighley, who made two acquisitions – a Limousin-cross heifer again from Mr Metcalfe at £1,307, or 269.5p/kg, and a Blonde-cross heifer from Trawden’s Jim Baines at £1,225, or 247.5p/kg.

Standalone shows for cull cows saw the first prize beef-bred entry from E&S Baines, of Sawley, Clitheroe, sell for a section-topping £1,283. The 63 cast cattle forward sold to an overall average of £704.45 per head, or 107.56p/kg.

A total of 53 rearing calves were also on parade, these selling to a joint high of £400 for bull calves from Gargrave’s John Blackwell and Robert Metcalfe, of Brearton. Continental youngsters averaged £311.70, native calves £194.10 and black and whites £96.35.