St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 73 Clean Cattle, 34 Cast Cows, 2512 Prime Lambs and 896 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (20) averaged 280p per kg and sold to 300p  

Heifers (53) averaged 280p per kg and sold to 312p

Cast Cows (29) averaged 206p per kg and sold to 247p Top price £1812

Cast Bulls (5) averaged 168p per kg and sold to 187p per kg. Top Price £2180

Lambs (2512) averaged 238.5p per kilo (-3p on the week), £107.37 per head and sold to £161 for Texel Lambs

Top price 317p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (896) averaged £80.39, and sold to £157 for Texels

Heavy Ewes averaged £121, light ewes sold to £157 for Blackface Ewes, and averaged £73

PRIME CATTLE

Good to sell throughout

Bullocks per head: Upper Nisbet £1894.40, Rumbleton £1836.80, Dunslaw £1798.20, Penston £1794, £1782.04, Rumbleton £1764, Lurdenlaw £1736, Upper Nisbet £1683.04, Lurdenlaw £1682

Bullocks per kilo: Penston 300p, 298p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Upper Nisbet 296p J.A Waters & Sons, Greenknowe 296p John Saunderson Ltd, Rumbleton 294p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lurdenlaw 290p (2) Briggsys Butchers and Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lurdenlaw 288p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Heifers per head- Skilmafilly £1940.40, £1922.76, Bee Edge £1907.20, Skilmafilly £1878.44, Penston £1852.20, Skilmafilly £1847.04, Bee Edge £1835.68, Skilmafilly £1823.76

Heifers per kilo: Skilmafilly 312p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 308p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Skilmafilly 306p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Skilmafilly 302p, Bee Edge 302p Forsyths of Peebles, Lurdenlaw 302p, 300p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

CAST COWS  

A very buoyant trade

Cast Cows per head: Mountbenger £1812.98, Thirlestane £1658.58, £1563.42, Shaws £1557.20, £1548, Greenhead, Selkirk £1507.32, Smailholm Mains £1484.28, Thirlestane £1457.34, Shaws £1445.22, Earlston Mains £1436.50

Cast Cows per kilo: Mountbenger 247p, Greenhead, Selkirk 237p, Thirlestane 231p, Shaws 229p, Thirlestane 227p, Shaws 225p, 223p, Earlston Mains 221p, Thirlestane, Northfield St Abbs 219p

CAST BULLS

Cast Bulls per head: Mosstower £2180.42, Wooplaw £1656.60, Mosstower £1539, Fairnilee £1469.52

Cast Bulls per kilo: Mosstower 187p, 171p, Wooplaw 165p, Fairnilee 157p, Wooplaw 151p

PRIME LAMBS

More numbers forward, returns similar.  Average 238.5p per kg (45kgs) £107.37

Lambs per head-

Texel: £161 The Knock, £151 Cortleferry, £149 Wauchope, Symington Mains, Saughtree, £148 Holylee, The Knock, The Lee, £147 Hermiston, Waterside, Charollais: £151, £133.50, £130, £129 Waterside, Suffolk: £147 Symington Mains, £140 Haltree, £135 Symington Mains, £134 Waterside, £133.50, £128.50  Newhouses, £124 Symington Mains, £121 Marvingston, £120 The Lee, Beltex: £147 Saughtree, £136 Crookston, £135 Wauchope, £133, £129, £127 Crookston, £126 Rhodes Holdings, Wauchhope, £124 Holylee, Crookston, Dutch Spotted: £140 Myreside, Greyfaced: £118.50 Lumsdaine, North Country Cheviot: £115 Broomilees (M.Kelly)

Lambs per kilo-

Texel: 317p, 316.3p, 308.9p, 308.5p, 298.9p Wauchope, 291.4p Leaston, 291.5p Waterside, 290.7p Greenhead, Selkirk, 288.9p, 281.6p The Knock, Beltex: 315p Rhodes Holdings, 300p Crookston, 289.7p Wauchope, 288.1p Lylestane, 287.2p, 285.7p Wauchope, 282.7p Saughtree, 281.8p Holylee, 270.9p Threeburnford, 270.2p Crookston, Dutch Spotted: 274.5p Myreside, Charollais: 268.8p Waterside; Suffolk: 261.7p Haltree, 250p, 248p, 245p Symington Mains

CAST SHEEP

A mixed show of Cast Sheep forward with a good chunk being light bred and leaner sorts.  All classes would be an improved trade on the week.

*Sale top of £157 with a Texel Ewe from C.R Mackie, Crailing Nook.  Tups topped at £135 with a pen of Cheviot Tups from Floors Farming, Rawburn(per Mr David Mclean)*

EWES-

Texel: £157 Crailing Nook, £151 Rawburn, £149 Leaston, £141 Rawburn, £135, £133, £131(2) Bogend, £131 Broom, Suffolk: £145 Fishwick, £143, £137 Thistleknowe, £135 Fishwick, £133 Leaston, Venchen, £125 Corsbie, Beltex: £141, £113 Craighouse, £111 Threeburnford, Half Bred: £127 Smailholm Mains, Lleyn: £119 Mount Ulston, £107 Ruletownhead, Cheviot Mule: £117 Craighouse, £113 Saughtree, Greyfaced: £113 Corsbie, £111 Crailing Nook, Inchkeith, £109, £105 Venchen, £103 Kittyfield, Corsbie, Blackface: £109, £91, £77 Tollishill, £71 Rawburn, North Country Cheviot: £107 Philiphaugh, Ruletownhead, £97 Birneyknowe, £93 Rawburn

RAMS-

North Country Cheviot: £135 Rawburn