CCM Auctions conducted its monthly sale of stirks, weaned calves and young store cattle at Skipton Auction Mart on Saturday.

There was a good entry put forward with a packed ringside of buyers with no fewer than 30 separate accounts represented.

Good straight cattle were good to sell with the poorer sorts of cattle seeing less money and being a touch harder to place.

A total of 169 animals were put forward with Limousin bulls averaging £410, with top price reached by A Roebuck, of Stalybridge at £470.

SW and JE Ryder, of Harrogate, sold two Montbelliard bulls for £560 apiece.

GL Newburn sold a British Blue steer for £600 and three Hereford steers for £500 each. British Blue steers averaged £453.89, Limousin steers averaged £444, with one sold by P Fortune, of Tosside, for £750. Black and White steers averaged £304, shorthorns £330, and Aberdeen Angus £385.

GL Newburn also sold a Simmental heifer for £600 and a British Blue heifer for £540, while P Fortune picked up £750 again for a Limousin heifer. Black and White heifers averaged £340, Limousins £416, British Blues £439.33, Simmentals £452.50 and Herefords £323.33, with Aberdeen Angus heifers averaging £280.

The next Saturday sale is the Agri Trader auction on May 21.

* Mini hestons of hay were selling for up to £24.50 per bale at Skipton Auction Mart this week, while rounds were going for up to £20 per bale.