St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 75 Clean Cattle, 87 Cast Cows, 1736 Prime Lambs and 445 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (27) averaged 277p per kg and sold to 314p  

Heifers (47) averaged 281p per kg and sold to 322p

Young Bull (1) sold to 179p

Cast Cows (83) averaged 189p per kg and sold to 237p Top price £1984

Cast Bulls (4) averaged 172p per kg and sold to 191p.  Top price £2028

Lambs (1736) averaged 241.44p per kilo (+4p on the week), £108.50 per head and sold to £149 for Texel Lambs

Top price 284p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (445) averaged £78.87, and sold to £155 for Texel Tup

Heavy Ewes averaged £108, light ewes sold to £91 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £68

PRIME CATTLE

Quality sold to an advantage

Bullocks per head: Upper Nisbet £1903.84, Lurdenlaw £1895.04, Penston £1867.60, £1858.88, £1823.76, Lurdenlaw £1792

Bullocks per kilo: Penston 314p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Netherurd 300p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston 298p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lurdenlaw 294p Michael Malone of Edinburgh Ltd, Upper Nisbet 292p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston 290p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd

Heifers per head: Bee Edge £1932, £1927.08, Mosstower £1891.12, Bee Edge £1871.44, £1865.16, Oldcastles £1860.32, Penston £1829.88, Bee Edge £1811.04

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 322p, 318p, 314p(2) Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Mosstower 312p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Whitrighill and Greenknowe 310p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 308p W.Kirkup & Sons Butchers, Faughhill and Mosstower 308p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Young Bulls: Wolfstar £1611(179p)

CAST COWS & BULLS

Leaner cows harder to cash

Cast Cows per head: Kersknowe £1984.40, £1971.12, Dalkeith Home Farm £1833, Birkenside £1830.80, Hoselaw £1822.50, Dalkeith Home Farm £1814.50, Saughtree £1760.22, Sunnycroft £1731.60, Hoselaw £1722.60, £1721.34

Cast Cows per kilo: Saughtree 237p, 231p (2), 229p, Hoselaw 225p, Hyndsidehill, Hoselaw 219p, Hoselaw 215p (2)

Cast Bulls per head: Ecclaw £2028.42, Saughtree £1657.88

Cast Bulls per kilo: Saughtree 191p, Ecclaw 177p, Blackburn Mill 171p

PRIME LAMBS

Flesh and weight at a premium

Lambs per head-

Texel: £149, £144 Crumhaughhill, £142 Haltree, £141 Edgerston Home Farm, £140 Huntington, £139 Crumhaughhill, £138 Edgerston Home Farm, £136 Corsbie, £135 Crumhaughhill, Beltex: £143 Crookston, £140 Penicuik Estates, £136 Westerhouses, £134 Penicuik Estates, £132 Huntington, £130 (2)Westerhouses,£128 Horsley Hill, Penicuik Estates, £126 Westerhouses, Woodhouse, £124 Westerhouses, Penicuik Estates, £123 Horsley Hill,£120 Threeburnford, Hampshire: £143, £116 Newmains, North Berwick, Suffolk: £138.50 Haltree, £137 Marvingston, £136 Threepwood, £135 Penicuik Estates, Corsbie, £134 Penicuik Estates, £133 Chesters Brae, £132 Marvingston, £131.50 Penicuik Estates, £130 Chesters Brae, Penicuik Estates, Blue Texel: £135 Hermiston, Cheviot Mule: £114 Adderstonshiels, Lleyn: £109.50, £106 Over Whitlaw, Aberfield: £109 Lylestane, North Country Cheviot: £104 Threeburnford, Bluefaced Leicester: £101 Fairnilee

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 284.4p, 279.5p Horsley Hill, 275p Huntington, 272p, 270.8p Westerhouses, 269.8p Crookston, 269.6p Westerhouses, 268.1p Woodhouse, 266.7p Threeburnford, Penicuik Estates, 265.9p Horsley Hill, 264.2p Penicuik Estates, 262.5p Westerhouses, 261.9p Lylestane, 260p Westerhouses, Suffolk: 270p, 257.7p Penicuik Estates, 256.5p Haltree, 254.9p Penicuik, 254.7p Corsbie, 251.9p Threepwood, 251.4p Marvingston, 250p Chesters Brae, 249.1p Marvingston, 248.1p Symington Mains, 247.8p Trabroun, Texel: 268.1p Crookston, 266.7p Whitsome West Newton, 266p Crumhaughhill, 262p Corsbie, Earlston Mains, 261.2p Corsbie, 260.8p Haltree, 260.4p Edgerston Home Farm (L.Ralston), Blue Texel: 245.5p Hermiston, Charollais: 244.4p Springwood, North Country Cheviot: 236.4p Threeburnford, Hampshire: 236.9p, 236.7p Newmains, Lleyn: 230.4p Over Whitlaw, Cheviot Mule: 229.8p Adderstonshiels, Bluefaced Leicester: 229.5p Fairnilee, Aberfield: 227.1p Lylestane

CAST SHEEP

A very large percentage of lean and weathered sorts forward and sold to the same steady rates of recent weeks.  Size and flesh a shortage.

Sale peak of £155 with a Texel Tup from J & G Sinclair, The Neuk, Crookston.  Ewes topped with a Texel from M.S & C Hardy-Bishop, Grey Peel, Lintalee

EWES-

Texel: £137, £133 Grey Peel, £121 Chesters Brae, Suffolk: £131 Ballencrieff Mains, £129 Hallrule Mill, £115 Symington Mains, £115 Venchen, Cheviot Mule: £103 Boreland, £95 Lumsdaine, Greyfaced: £95 Shotton, £89 Venchen, Berryhill, North Country Cheviot: £91 Earlston Rd, Stow (Anderson), £90 Boreland, £85 Broomiebank, LLeyn: £89 Shepherds Cottage, Jedburgh (Barber), Blackface: £61 Threeburnford

RAMS

Texel: £155 Crookston, Charolais: £147 Hume Hall Holdings, Blackface: £105 Burnhouse Mains, Jacob: £97 Fordswell