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Date: 16 May 2022 | Primestock

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St Boswells Primestock Sale

St Boswells, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0PP

Sold  89 Clean Cattle, 48 Cast Cows, 197 Prime Lambs, 1114 Prime Hoggs and 223 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (33) averaged 269p per kg and sold to 288p (x 2)

Heifers (51) averaged 267p per kg and sold to 306p

Young Bulls (5) averaged 264p per kg and sold to 280p (x4)

Cast Cows (44) averaged 198p per kg and sold to 251p. Top price £2014

Cast Bulls (4) averaged 157p per kg and sold to 169p , Top price £1847

Lambs (197) averaged 301.8p per kilo (-4.2p on the week), £140.86 per head and sold to £158 for  Texel Lambs

Top price 342p per kg for Texel Lambs

Hoggs (1114) averaged 268p per kg (-2p on the week), £130.50 per head and sold to £169 for Suffolk.x Hoggs

Top price 320p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (223 ) averaged £101, and sold to £193 for a Texel Ewe

Heavy Ewes averaged £135, light ewes sold to £131 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £89

PRIME CATTLE-

Good to sell.  Top quality would be slightly dearer.

Bullocks per head: Upper Nisbet £1878.12, Elwick £1847.56, Penston £1820.16, West Newbiggin £1753.92, Penston £1733.16, Lurdenlaw £1724.48, West Newbiggin £1716.80

Bullocks per kilo: Penston 288p (2) Worsley Wholesale Butchers and S.I Carlisle & Co, Penston 286p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Greenknowe 286p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Elwick 286p S.I Carlisle & Co, Upper Nisbet 282p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Gospelhall 282p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Heifers per head: Bee Edge £1848.24, Upper Nisbet £1836, Elwick £1830.08, Bee Edge £1805.60, Whitsome West Newton £1771.20, Bee Edge £1770, £1757.84, £1752.24, £1710.52

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 306p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Elwick 304p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge and Upper Nisbet 300p both to Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 298p Forsyths of Peebles, Bee Edge 296p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lennoxlove 295p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

YOUNG BULLS-

Best quality easily sold

Young Bulls per head: Sydenham £1825.60, £1596, £1562.40, £1545.60

Young Bulls per kilo: Sydenham 280p (4)

CAST COWS

Plainer show, still same returns.

Cast Cows per head: Kersknowe £2014.76, £1887.90, Wantonwalls £1768.50, Grahamslaw £1725.30, Wester Middleton £1708.18, Wolfstar £1686.96, Wester Middleton £1656.60, £1638.80, £1620.78

Cast Cows per kilo: Wester Middleton 251p, 245p, 241p, Wantonwalls 231p, Wester Middleton 227p, Wantonwalls 225p, Wester Middleton 223p, Lakewood Stud 221p, Upper Samieston and Middlestead 217p

CAST BULLS

Cast Bulls per head: Cliftonpark £1847.58, North Synton £1835.34

Cast Bulls per kilo: North Synton 169p, Cliftonpark 159p

PRIME LAMBS

More numbers forward, all types wanted for next week.  Average £140.86 (48kgs) 301.8p

Lambs per head-

Texel: £158 Huntington, £156, £155.50, £154 Ballencrieff Mains, £154 (2) Waterside, £151 (2) Ballencrieff Mains, £150 Edrom Mains, £149 Ballencrieff Mains, £147 Huntington, £146.50 Ballencrieff Mains, £145.50 Edrom Mains, 144.50 Ballencrieff Mains, £144 Huntington, £143 Ballencrieff Mains (2), Huntington, Suffolk: £156 (2), £154, £152(2), £150(3) Waterside, £147 Edrom Mains, Waterside, £146 Waterside, £145 Ballencrieff Mains, £142 Waterside, Beltex: £154, £137, £129 Coltcrooks

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 342.2p, 314.6p Coltcrooks, Texel: 327.7p Waterside, 325p Byrewalls, 324.4p, 318.6p Thornington, 317.1p Coltcrooks, 314.1p Ballencreiff Mains, 313.3p Thornington, 313p, 310.9p Huntington, 310.9p(2) Ballencrieff Mains, 308.9p Thornington, 308.4p, 308.2p(2) Ballencrieff Mains, Suffolk: 320p Waterside, 311.4p Coltcrooks, 308p Byrewalls, 304.7p Edrom Mains, 304.2p Waterside, 302.4p Edrom Mains, 302.1p Ballencrieff Mains

PRIME HOGGS

Another outstanding show.  All types wanted.  Average £130.50 (48kgs) 268p

Hoggs per head-

Suffolk: £169, £167 (2), £165.50 Boghall, £165 Waterside, £164 Waterside, £164, £163.50 (2), £163, £162.50, £161, £160, £159, £158.50 (3), £156 Boghall, £153 Waterside, £152 Boghall, Texel: £166 Redden, £164 Boghall, £163(2) Waterside, £163, £162 Boghall, £161.50 Redden, £160 Waterside, £159 (2) Boghall, £153 (2) Waterside, £152 Boghall, £150 Over Blainslie, Beltex: £163, £154 (2) Waterside, £154, £147 Faughhill, £146 Waterside, Boghall, North Country Cheviot: £160 Adderstonshiels, Saughtree, £156.50, £143 Redden, £140.50 Faughhill, £127.50 Boghall, £127 Lylestane, Monklaw, Hampshire: £152, £149, £137 Waterside, Zwartble: £160 Boghall, £143 Waterside, Dorset: £143, £138, £129 Putton Mill, Greyface: £140.50 Lumsdaine, £140, £130 Boghall, Blackface: £130 Hyndhope, Ettrick, £120 Crookston, Hyndhope, Ettrick, Greyface/Dartmoor: £125, £122 Crumstane

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 320.8p Faughhill, 319.6p Waterside, 312.8p Faughhill, 304.2p Waterside, Boghall, 300p Faughhill, 296.2p (2) Waterside, 293p, 285.7p Halidean Mill, Texel: 308.7p Waterside, 298p, 297.9p, 291.3p, 291.1p Boghall, 284.3p, 281p Waterside, 280p Halidean Mill, Dod Farm, 279p Halidean Mill, 278.9p, 278p Boghall, 278p Shotton, 277.6p Over Blainslie, 276.3p Halidean Mill, 276.2p Lylestane, 276p Waterside, Suffolk: 295.1p, 294.1p, 288.5p Boghall, 284.1p Shotton, 283.7p, 283p (2) Boghall, 280.5p Faughhill, 275p (2) Boghall, 274.8p Waterside, 270.9p, 270.4p Shotton, North Country Cheviot: 289.8p Boghall, 287.2p Faughhill, 285.7p Boghall, 282.2p Monklaw, 282.1p, 280p(2) Faughhill, 280p Lylestane, 277.8p, 276.3p, 276p Towford, Hampshire: 285.4p, 270.9p Waterside, Greyfaced:  273.7p Boghall, Blackface: 264.9p Faughhill

CAST SHEEP

Cast Sheep a strong trade with leaner, weathered sorts fetching powerful returns

*Sale topped at £193 for a fleshy Texel bred Ewe from W.K McGowan, Glenholly House, Craiglea.  A smart Bleu du Maine from the same good home topped the tup trade at £157 *

Texel: £193 Craiglea, £179 Huntington, £161 Edrom Mains, £155 Brothershiels, £147 Greenriggs, £145 Middlestead, £143 Redden, £143 Huntington, Suffolk: £175, £173, £161 Oxmuir, £161 New Blainslie, £157 Edrom Mains, Brothershiels, £143 Middlestead, £135 Brothershiels, Romney: £139 Towford, Beltex: £135 Glenogle (R.Coney), Greyface: £135 Greenriggs, £131 Hartside, £129 Broomilees (M.Kelly), £123 Lumsdaine, £121 Broomilees, £119 Lumsdaine, £117 Monklaw, Middlestead, £115 Holydean, North Country Cheviot: £131 Lumsdaine, £125 Glenogle (R.Coney), £123 Redden, £119 Whitefield, E, £117, £113 Lumsdaine,£111 East Redfordgreen, Cheviot Mule: £125 Halidean Mill, Blackface: £119 Hartside, £97 Raeshaw, £93 Lumsdaine, Swaledale: £87 Broomilees, Shetland: £59 Crookston, £45 Westrigg (A.Johnson)

RAMS

Bleu du Maine: £157 Craiglea, Suffolk: £143 Oxmuir, Aberfield: £139 Over Blainslie