St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 70 Clean Cattle, 26 Cast Cows,  1338 Prime Lambs and 566 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (21) averaged 274p per kg and sold to 300p  

Heifers (48) averaged 282p per kg and sold to 310p

Young Bull (1) sold to 218p

Cast Cows (24) averaged 213p per kg and sold to 253p Top price £1961

Cast Bulls (2) averaged 173p per kg and sold to 179p per kg. Top Price £2022

Lambs (1338) averaged 240p per kilo (+1.5p on the week), £109.09 per head and sold to £155 for Texel Lambs

Top price 307p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (566) averaged £86.42, and sold to £157 for Texel Tups

Heavy Ewes averaged £118, light ewes sold to £121 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £75

PRIME CATTLE

A plainer show with quality still in high demand.

Bullocks per head: Bee Edge £2019.16, Upper Nisbet £1914, £1844.40, Penston £1825.92, Lurdenlaw £1787.84, £1768.32, £1736

Bullocks per kilo: Upper Nisbet 300p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lurdenlaw 296p J.A Waters & Sons, 292p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Upper Nisbet 290p Mr G.Chapman, Lurdenlaw 288p Michael Malone of Edinburgh Ltd, Penston 288p Mr G.Chapman, Lurdenlaw 288p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 286p S.I Carlisle & Co, Faughhill 286p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Heifers per head- Bee Edge £1854.36, £1841.64, £1836, £1811.84, Penston £1775.76, Whitrighill £1773.20, Upper Nisbet £1757.12, Faughhill £1748.40, Penston £1722.44, £1721.40

Heifers per kilo: Faughhill 310p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 309p Forsyths of Peebles, 306p(2) Denholm Meat Supplies, Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, 304p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Upper Nisbet 304p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston 302p (2) Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Lurdenlaw 302p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, 300p Greenknowe

Young Bulls: £1853 (218p) Aikeyside

CAST COWS  

A good show – cracker of a trade

Cast Cows per head: Haltree £1961.68, Upper Nisbet £1829.88, Muircleugh £1806.42, Upper Nisbet £1784.50, Muircleugh £1752.44, Upper Nisbet £1741.50, Brothershiels £1714.50, Horsleyhill £1696.50, Haltree £1644.86, Corsbie £1636.82

Cast Cows per kilo: Muircleugh 253p, 227p, Brothershiels 225p, Horsley Hill,Corsbie 223p (2), Haltree, Upper Nisbet 221p

CAST BULLS

Cast Bulls per head: £2022.70 (179p) Mossilee, Corsbie £1746.82(167p)

PRIME LAMBS

Smaller show with more meat on offer.  Average 240p (45.4 kgs) £109.09

Lambs per head-

Texel: £155 Greenhead, Reston, £143 Haltree, Woodhouse, £138 Birkenside, Blackburn Mill, £136 Wester Middleton, Greenhead, Reston, £135 Haltree, £131 Symington Mains, £130 Butterdean, £129 Hermiston, Leaston, £128 Greenhead, Reston, £128 Butterdean, Penicuik Estates, £127.50 Hermiston, £126 Woodhouse, £125 Wauchope, Greenhead, Reston, £124 Leaston, Beltex: £138.50 Rumbletonrig, £138 Greenhead, Reston, £137, £132 Huntington, £131 Woodhouse, £128 Broadlaw, £126.50 Craigsford Mains, £126, £121 Broadlaw, £120 Butterdean, Suffolk: £136 Haltree, £133 Blegbie, £129 Wester Middleton, £128 Butterdean, £127.50 Blegbie, £125 Penicuik Estates, Blegbie, £122 Penicuik Estates, Berrichon: £127 Haltree, Hampshire: £126.50 East Fortune

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 307p Huntington, 297.7p Broadlaw, 294.7p Huntington, 291.6p Broadlaw, 287.5p Greenhead, Reston, 284.8p Woodhouse, 282.5p Symington Mains, 281.1p Craigsford Mains, 276.5p Huntington, 276.2p Threeburnford, 276.2p, 273.9p, 272.5p Broadlaw, Texel:291.8p, 280.4p, 279.1p Leaston, 277.2p Hermiston, 270p Haltree, 265.4p Firbank, Earlston, Blackburn Mill, 264.8p Haltree, 264.4p Wauchope, 256.6p, 256p Greenhead, Reston, 254.4p Symington Mains, 253.5p Threepwood, 252.9p Hermiston, 252.3p Symington Mains, 252.1p Penicuik Estates, 251.1p, 250.9p Woodhouse, 250.5p Headshaw, Lauder, 250p Butterdean, Suffolk: 261.5p Haltree, 248.1p Wester Middleton, 247.4p Headshaw, Lauder, 245.8p Butterdean, 245.2p Blegbie, 243.6p Symington Mains, Berrichon: 254p Haltree, Hampshire: 253p, 240.7p East Fortune

CAST SHEEP

A mixed bag of Cast Sheep forward.Solid trade for all classes from start to finish.

*Sale top of £157 for a Texel Tup from W.Murray (Farming)Ltd, Redden.  Cast Ewes topped at £147 for a pen of 3 Hampshires from Richard Brand & Son, East Fortune Farm *

EWES-

Hampshire: £147 East Fortune, Suffolk: £145, £133 Symington Mains, £131 Elmbank, £127 Greenhead, Reston, £123 Symington Mains, £119 Leaston, £117 Woodside, Elmbank, £107 Symington Mains, Greenriggs, Texel: £141 Greenhead, Reston, £135 Greenriggs, Greenhead, Reston, £133 Redden, £127 Leaston, £125 Fairnilee, £123, £121 Bluecairn, £119 Leaston (2), Broomiebank, North Country Cheviot: £121 Earlston Road, Stow (S.Anderson), Symington Mains, £113 Symington Mains, £97 Bluecairn, £95 Fairnilee, £91 Broomiebank (2), Blegbie, £87 Saughtree, Greyfaced: £117 Crailinghall, £115 Symington Mains, £113 Fairnilee, Redden, £109 Berryhill, £105 Shotton, £103 Crailinghall, Cheviot Mule: £117 Blegbie, £113 Elmbank, £109, £107 Fairnilee, Bluefaced Leicester: £115 Corsbie Cottage (P.Hedley), Romney: £111, £95 Towford, Easycare: £99 Bankhouse, Blackface: £89 Berryhill

RAMS-

Texel: £157 Redden, £143 Headshaw, Lauder, £139 Corsbie, £135 Redden