St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 70 Clean Cattle, 54 Cast Cows, 1571 Prime Lambs and 505 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (15) averaged 270p per kg and sold to 300p  

Heifers (53) averaged 287p per kg and sold to 320p(x 3)

Young Bulls (2) averaged 218p per kg and sold to 288p

Cast Cows (53) averaged 184p per kg and sold to 225p Top price £1798

Cast Bulls (1)  sold to 150p Top price £1653

Lambs (1571) averaged 237p per kilo (+6p on the week), £109.70 per head and sold to £153 for  Texel Lambs

Top price 300p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (505) averaged £77.63, and sold to £170 for Suffolk Tups

Heavy Ewes averaged £111, light ewes sold to £89 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £59

PRIME CATTLE

Marvellous trade for a marvellous show!

Bullocks per head: Kersknowe £1990.48, Kersknowe £1946.88, Oldcastles £1866, Lurdenlaw £1846.98, Oldcastles £1840.44

Bullocks per kilo: Oldcastles 300p Mr G.Chapman, Kersknowe 288p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston 297p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Oldcastles 296p, 294p, 292p Mr G.Chapman

Heifers per head: Skilmafilly £2004, £1996.80, £1988.16, £1984, £1971.92, Whitrighill £1927.80, £1915.76, Bee Edge £1869.84, £1868.80, Penston £1848.24

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 320p Denholm Meat Supplies, Skilmafilly 320p (2)Worsley Wholesale Butcher, Bee Edge 318p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Greenknowe 316p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Skilmafilly 314p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston 314p Forsyths of Peebles, Greenknowe 310p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Whitrighill 308p, 306p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Young Bulls per head: Kersknowe £2230.12

CAST COWS & BULLS

Meat still in demand

Cast Cows per head: Brothershiels £1798.84, Craigsford Mains £1765.28, The Lee £1755, Upper Nisbet £1717.84, Brothershiels £1647.72, Dalkeith Home Farm £1645.60, £1644.36, Hoselaw £1628.92

Cast Cows per kilo:   The Lee 225p, Hoselaw 211p, Brothershiels 207p, Garvald Mains (2), Ecclaw 203p

Cast Bulls: Brothershiels £1653 (150p)

PRIME LAMBS

Better show of lambs forward.  Plenty lambs well fleshed.  Average 237p (46.2kgs) £109.70

Lambs per head-

Texel: £153 North Synton, £145, £140, £139 Butterdean, £136 Headshaw, Lauder, £135.50 Crumhaughhill, £134.50 Haltree, £134 North Synton, Philiphaugh, £133, £132.50 Haltree, £132 Butterdean, £130 Symington Mains, Huntington (2), Suffolk: £140 Crumhaughhill, £133 Symington Mains, £131 Corsbie, £130 Crumhaughhill, £129 Butterdean, Symington Mains, Headshaw, Lauder, £125 Butterdean, Headshaw, Lauder, £121.50 Saughtree, £121 Blegbie, Beltex: £139(2), £138, £135, £134, £123, £118 Crookston, £120 Philiphaugh, North Country Cheviot: £126, £116.50 Symington Mains, Half Bred: £117.50 Headshaw, Lauder, Cheviot Mule: £119.50, £115 Saughtree, Rouge: £111 Springwood Lodge

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 300p, 278p 276.2p, 273.8p Crookston, 271.4p Threeburnford, Texel: 277.8p Crumhaughhill, 261.5p Headshaw, Lauder, 260.9p Harden Mains, 260p Huntington, Corsbie, 258.3p Butterdean, 258p Crumhaughhill, 257p, 256.3p Corsbie, 256.3p Huntington, 255.8p Haltree, Suffolk: 251.9p Corsbie, 250p Headshaw, Lauder, 241.5p Symington Mains 240p North Synton, Rouge: 246.7p Springwood Lodge, North Country Cheviot: 237.8p Symington Mains

CAST SHEEP

A mixed show of Cast Sheep presented to an improved trade on the week.  Numbers beginning to dry nationally.

*Sale top of £170 for a powerful Suffolk Tup from A.Smith, Crumhaughhill

EWES-

Texel: £147 North Synton, £139 Bogend, £127 Ecclaw, £125 North Synton, £121 Corsbie, £119 Redden(2), Middlethird (2), Suffolk: £115 Corsbie, Middlethird, £111 Corsbie, £109 South Dissington, £107 Symington Mains, Cheviot Mule: £115 Wester Ulston, £95 Blegbie, Burnhouse Mains, Wester Ulston, Romney: £109, £101 Bow, Beltex: £107 Wester Ulston, Greyfaced: £107 Corsbie, £103 Middlethird, £101 Redden, Symington Mains, £99 Houdshall, Half Bred: £97 Oxmuir, North Country Cheviot: £89 Redden, £87 Middlesknowes, £85 Whitehill, Kelso, Adderstonshiels,  Kerryhill: £85 Newbigging Bush Farm, Vendeen: £79 Treaty Park,  Blackface: £71 Leithen Water, £65 Middlesknowes, £63 Huntershall, £55 Synton Parkhead, Sunnyside, Hawick, Burnhouse Mains, Hebridean: £25 The Paddocks, Redpath

RAMS-

Suffolk: £170 Crumhaughhill, Texel: £139 Ecclaw, Beltex:  £107 Lylestane,