St Boswells Primestock Sale

At St Boswells on Monday 24^th January, Harrison & Hetherington held their weekly Prime stock sale of cattle and sheep

Sold 88 Clean Cattle, 47 Cast Cows, 834 Prime Hoggs and 728 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (24) averaged 247p per kg and sold to 280p (+6p on the week) 

Heifers (62) averaged 251p per kg and sold to 295p(x2) (n/c on the week)

Young Bulls (2) sold to £1251

Cast Cows (46) averaged 157p per kg and sold to 207p  (+5p on the week) Top price £1589

Cast Bulls (1) sold to 119p( £1190)

Hoggs (834) averaged 269p per kg, (+12p on the week) £126 per head and sold to £169

Top price 346.5p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (728) averaged £104.23, and sold to £173 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £131,  light ewes sold to £137 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £96

PRIME CATTLE-

Two tier trade with a bigger show of Native Bred Cattle.  Top quality still in high demand.

Bullocks per head: Upper Nisbet £1730.40, Bee Edge £1697.28, Humbie Mill £1577.52, Penston £1567.92, Humbie Mill £1542.80, £1539.88, £1534.26

Bullocks per kilo: Upper Nisbet 280p Worsley Wholesale Butchers Ltd, Penston 278p Worsley Wholesale Butchers Ltd, Humbie Mill 274p, 273p Worsley Wholesale Butchers Ltd, Michael Malone of Edinburgh Ltd, Lurdenlaw 273p Michael Malone of Edinburgh Ltd, Bee Edge 272p R & G Moor

Heifers per head: Whitrighill £1769.28, Upper Nisbet £1763.44, Bee Edge £1758.20, Whitrighill £1752.30, Upper Nisbet £1738.08, £1734.72, Bee Edge £1733.16

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 295p Forsyths of Peebles, Whitrighill 295p, 291p Briggsys Butchers and Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston 289p Forsyths of Peebles, Bee Edge 288p (2) Forsyths of Peebles, Worsley Wholesale Butchers Ltd, Penston 288p Worsley Wholesale Butchers Ltd, Bee Edge 286p W.Kirkup Butchers

Young Bulls per head: Commonside £1251.60 (149p per kg)

CAST COWS

Great Trade

Cast Cows per head: Honeyburn £1589.50, Hyndsidehill £1552.50, Humebyres £1528.94, Mosstower £1516.78, Blinkbonny £1500.46, Mosstower £1426.36, £1395.36, £1351

Cast Cows per kilo: Hyndsidehill 207p, Brockholes 201p, Blinkbonny 199p, Cragside, Honeyburn 187p, Burnhouse Mains 185p, Mosstower 181p,

Cast Bulls per head: Middlestead £1190 (119p per kg)

PRIME SHEEP

More weight forward, all types dearer.  Averge 269p (46.8kgs) £126

Hoggs per head-

Beltex: £169, £155, £154 Crookston, £150 Faughhill, Crookston, £149 Wester Ulston, £146, £145, £144 Crookston, £143 Halidean Mill, £140 New Blainslie, Faughhill, £137 Faughhill, £136, £135 Crookston, £132 Wester Ulston, £131 (2) Faughhill, £130 Halidean Mill, Texel: £169, £166, £163, £162 Butterdean, £158 Threepwood, £152 Corsbie, £150, £149 South Common, £149 Cortleferry, £148 Faughhill, £146 Butterdean, £145 Treaty Park, £144 Crookston, £143 Cortleferry, £142 New Blainslie, £141 South Common, Corsbie, £140 Burncastle, Suffolk: £169, £166 Butterdean, £153 Blegbie, £152 Cortleferry, £151 Bonjedward, £147 New Blainslie, £144 Butterdean, £141 New Blainslie, £140, £135 Treaty Park, Hampshire: £147 Treaty Park, Greyfaced: £143 Treaty Park, £133, £124.50 Burncastle, Bluefaced Leicester: £139 Newbigging Walls, Cheviot Mule: £135.50 Blegbie, North Country Cheviot: £129, £120.50 Earlston Road (S.Anderson), Charollais: £120 Berryhill, Lleyn: £119.50 Over Whitlaw

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 346.5p Wester Ulston, 320p Crookston, 311.9p, 304.7p Faughhill, 300p Wester Ulston, 297.9p Halidean Mill, 293.2p Wester Ulston, 292p Crookston, 290p Halidean Mill, 289.4p, 288.5p Crookston, 280p New Blainslie, Texel: 302.3p Threepwood, 294.3p The Burrows, 294.1p Crookston, 293p Swinnie, 292.9p Longfaugh, 290.7p Corsbie, 289.5p Dod Farm, 289.4p Butterdean, 288.9p Faughhill, 288.6p South Common, 288.4p Threepwood, Leaston, 288p Crookston, 286.3p, 284.4p Butterdean, 284.1p, 283.9p Corsbie, 283.5p Butterdean, 283.3p The Burrows, 282.2p Middlethird, Suffolk: 285.1p Longfaugh, 280.4p Butterdean, 279.6p, 278.2p Bonjedward, 276.7p, 271.7p Butterdean, Cheviot Mule: 280.2p Wester Ulston, North Country Cheviot: 272.7p Stagehall, Charollais: 272.7p Berryhill, Easycare: 272.5p East Mains, Lleyn: 270p Over Whitlaw, Half Bred: 268.4p Bonjedward

CAST SHEEP-

An extremely mixed show of Cast Sheep forward with all classes maintaining the trade from the previous week.

Topping the sale at £173 was a Texel from J.G Grieve, The Lee

A superb pen of Blackfaces from William Dunlop, Elmscleugh caught the eye, making £103 a head.

Cast Tups fetched a real go again selling to a peak of £153 for an Abermax from Innovis Breeding Sheep Ltd

Texel: £173 The Lee, £167, £159 Butterdean, £143 The Lee, £139 Brothershiels, Headshaw, L, £137 Butterdean, The Lee, Suffolk: £161, £147(2) Butterdean, £147 Brotherstone, £143 Symington Mains, £137 Hermiston, Headshaw, L, £135 Brothershiels, £133 Butterdean, £131 Brotherstone, £127 Cammerlaws, £123 The Lee, Brothershiels, £121 Cammerlaws, £119 Middlethird, H & A Farms, Beltex: £143 Brotherstone, £113 Laidlawstiel, Bluefaced Leicester: £137 Crookston, Burnhead, P, £135 Laidlawstiel, £131 Brothershiels, North Country Cheviot: £137 Blegbie, £131 Symington Mains, £115 Stagehall, Whitsome East Newton, £113 Blegbie, £111 North Synton, £109 Earlston Road ( S.Anderson), £107 (2) Torwoodlee, £105 Easter Whitmuir, Middlethird, £101 Whitsome East Newton, Half Bred: £129 Headshaw, L, £115 Bonjedward, Headshaw, L, Cheviot Mule: £127 Blegbie, £109 H & A Farms, Zwartble: £123 H &  A Farms, Lleyn: £123 East Mains, £109 (2) The Finches, £105 Watson Farming, Greyfaced: £123 Butterdean, £115 Laidlawstiel, £113 Cammerlaws, £111 Crookston, Hermiston, Berryhill, £109 Middlestead, Woodhouse, £107 Fallhills, £103 Middlethird, Venchen, Hampshire: £119 The Finches, Aberfield: £113 Over Blainslie,  Blackface: £103, £97 Elmscleugh, £97 Laidlawstiel, £87 Tollishill, H & A Farms, £81 Haystoun, £77 Middlestead, £75 Aikeyside, Easycare: £79 The Finches, Shetland: £47 Crookston

RAMS-

Abermax: £153 Innovis Breeding Sheep Ltd, Bluefaced Leicester: £135, £129 Burnhead, P, £109 Over Blainslie, Texel: £123 Old Melrose Lodge, Suffolk: £119 Burnhouse Mains, Blackface: £117, £111, £99 Elmscleugh,  North Country Cheviot: £107 Stagehall, Primera: £107 Innovis Breeding Sheep Ltd