St Boswells Primestock Sale

At St Boswells on Monday 4^th April Harrison & Hetherington held their weekly prime stock sale of cattle and sheep

Sold 77 Clean Cattle, 43 Cast Cows, 1549 Prime Hoggs and 317 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (24) averaged 257p per kg and sold to 278p (+10p on the week)  

Heifers (52) averaged 261p per kg and sold to 303p

Young Bull (1) sold to 200p

Cast Cows (38) averaged 206p per kg and sold to 249p (+18p on the week) Top price £2087

Cast Bulls (4) averaged 155p per kg and sold to 175p. Top price £1879

Hoggs (1549) averaged 253p per kg, (+6p on the week) SQQ 282p

£124 per head and sold to £168 for Texel Hoggs

Top price 346p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (317) averaged £130.13, and sold to £195 for Suffolk Tups

Heavy Ewes averaged £145, light ewes sold to £169 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £102

PRIME CATTLE-

Top quality cattle very much sought after, plainer types a steady trade

Bullocks per head: Whitrighill £1838.90, £1807.82, Bee Edge £1779.20, £1769.04, Whitrighill £1703.52, Elwick £1690.20

Heifers per head: Bee Edge £1811.52, £1775.90, £1769.52, Penston £1767.92, Elwick £1764

Young Bull per head: Mountbenger £1924

Bullocks per kilo: Bee Edge 278p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, 273p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd,. Elwick 270p(2) Worsley Wholesale Butchers, R & G Moor, Lennoxlove 268p S.I Carlisle & Co, Penston 268p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd

Heifers per kilo: Penston 303p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 303p Forsyths of Peebles, 296p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, 295p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston 292p Shaw Fine Meats, Bee Edge 291p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

CAST COWS

Cows continue to sell to unpresidential levels with demand through the roof 

Cast Cows per head:

Whitrighill £2087.06, Oxnam Neuk £1995.20, Whitrighill £1832.22, Oldcastles £1822.68, £1734.94, £1720.44

Cast Cows per kilo: Oldcastles 249p, 243p, Whitrighill 243p, 241p, Oldcastles 233p. 229p

Cast Bulls per head: Butchercote £1879.50

PRIME SHEEP

A superb show of very heavy hoggs sold to above expected rates.  Average 253p (49kgs) £124 SQQ 282p

Hoggs per head-

Texel:  £168 Huntington, £146 Newton of Crathie, £137 Boghall, Waterside, £136.50 Waterside, £135.50 Newton of Crathie, £135 (2) Waterside, Boghall, Bonjedward,  £134.50 Newton of Crathie, Towford, £134, £133(2) Waterside,  £133 Bonjedward, £132 Waterside, Bonjedward, Scott Road, Lauder (J.Ainslie), £131.50 Towford, Beltex: £150 Faughhill, £146 Waterside, £144 Faughhill, £141 Boghall, £140 Waterside, £139 Faughhill, £138 Waterside, £135 Faughhill, £134 Waterside, £132 Faughhill, Waterside, £130 Waterside, Blue Texel: £139 Waterside, Suffolk: £135 Bonjedward, £134, £133.50, £133, £132.50 Waterside, £132 (2) Boghall, £131 Waterside, £130 (3) Boghall, Bonjedward, North Country Cheviot: £135 Adderstonshiels, £132.50 North Synton, £127 Adderstonshiels, £126.50 North Synton, £124 Adderstonshiels, £123 Woodside, Faughhill, Romney: £130, £124 Towford, Greyfaced: £124 Crailing Nook, £123.50 Boghall, Zwartble: £123 Waterside, Charollais: £122 Fairlaw, Reston, Half Bred: £122 Bonjedward

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 346.2p Faughhill, 333.3p Waterside, 331.4p, 328.2p, 319.1p Faughhill, 319p, 318.2p Waterside, 315.9p, 313p Faughhill, 306.7p, 304.2p Waterside, Texel: 310.5p New Blainslie, 310.3p (2), 309.5p, 308p, 305.9p, 301.2p Waterside, 300p New Blainslie, 298.9p, 294.1p, 291.7p Newton of Crathie, Blue Texel: 315.9p Waterside, North Country Cheviot: 300p Swinnie, 296.3p Wedderlie, 287.1p Swinnie, 281p The Dod, 276.5p, 275.9p (2) Faughhill, 274.4p Swinnie, Charollais: 290.5p Fairlaw, Suffolk: 278p Newton of Crathie, 273.8p Craigsford Mains, 272.7p Faughhill, 269.6p The Bungalow, Pogbie 266.3p, 265.2p Boghall, Greyfaced: 245p Boghall

CAST SHEEP

Yet again a resounding trade witnessed for all classes of Cast Sheep forward.  Numbers short of buyer’s requirements.

Sale topped at £195 for a stretchy Suffolk Tup from F & C.M Forster, Hermiston Farm

Cast Ewes sold to a height of £189 for a smart pair of Texel.x Ewes from Huntington Partnership

Texel: £189 Huntington, £187 Ruecastle, £181 Fairlaw, Reston, £179 Corsbie, £175 North Synton, £171 Lumsdaine, £159 Greenhead, R, Penston, £153 Penston, £139 Lumsdaine, Penston, Suffolk: £185 Craigsford Mains, £181 (2) Penston, £177 North Synton, £171 Corsbie, £169 Huntington, Bonjedward, £167 Penston, Craigsford Mains, £161 Penston, £149 Bairnkine, Beltex: £187 Ruecastle Cottages, Bluefaced Leicester: £179 Corsbie Cottages (P.W Hedley). Cheviot Mule: £169 Lumsdaine, £153 North Synton, £149 Lumsdaine, £143 Ruecastle, £141  Northfield, St Abbs, North Country Cheviot: £169 Soutra, £157, £155 Bonjedward, £143 North Synton, £141 Millheugh, £131 Bonjedward, £123 North Synton, £121 Woodside, Charollais: £169 Faughhill, £139 Fairlaw, Reston, Greyfaced: £147 North Synton, £135 Lumsdaine, KJS Farming, £131 Penston, £129 Lumsdaine, Romney: £155, £143, £127 Bow, Zwartble: £139 Traprain, Blackface: £113, £105 Lumsdaine, Easycare: £115 Inchkeith

RAMS-

Suffolk: £195 Hermiston, £159 Millheugh, Bluefaced Leicester: £177 Wooplaw ( C.J Lee), Easycare: £113 Inchkeith