St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold  89 Clean Cattle, 32 Cast Cows, 1439 Prime Hoggs  and  739 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (29) averaged 290p per kg and sold to 312p

Heifers (60) averaged 292p per kg and sold to 330p 

Cast Cows (32) averaged 206p per kg and sold to 235p. Top price £1802

Hoggs (1439) averaged 239p per kilo (+16p on the week), £108 per head and sold to £165 for Texel Hoggs

Top price 308p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (739) averaged £82.87 and sold to £159 for Suffolk Tups

Heavy Ewes averaged £120, light ewes sold to £105 for Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £73

CLEAN CATTLE

Great show of cattle met a fabulous trade throughout

Bullocks per head: Learielaw £2101.60, Greenknowe £2099.16, Penston £2094, Bee Edge £2060.40, Auchtydore £2035.48, Bee Edge £2016, Auchtydore £1990.56, Learielaw £1972.76

Bullocks per kilo: Auchtydore 312p, Nisbet 308p, Crosshall 306p, Bee Edge 303p, Crosshall, Auchtydore 302p, Penston, Bee Edge 300p

Heifers per head: Bee Edge £2041.60, Auchtydore £2012.48, Bee Edge £2009.28, £1993.20, £1959.36, Learielaw £1953.12, Auchtydore £1944, £1936.88, Bee Edge £1927.08, £1926.40

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 330p, Penston 322p, Bee Edge 322p Denholm Meat Supplies, Nisbet, Auchtydore, Bee Edge(3) 320p, Longnewton 320p Forsyths of Peebles

CAST COWS

All types very dear

Cast Cows per head: Coltcrooks £1802.38, Muircleugh £1762.04, Cortleferry £1760.76, £1740.34, Muircleugh £1717.50, Upper Nisbet £1702.50

Cast Cows per kilo: Girrick 235p, Cortleferry 232p, Huntington 231p. Muircleugh 229p, Coltcrooks, Upper Nisbet(2) 227p, Cortlferry 223p, Outerston, Cortleferry 219p

PRIME HOGGS

Better show forward All classes sharper

Average 239p (45.2kgs) £108

Hoggs per head –

Texel: £165 Holylee (D.Preacher), £149 Crookston, £143, £141 Kennels Cottage (Rory Halliday), £140 Haltree, Symington Mains, Leaston, Mountbenger, £138 Buskin; Beltex: £163, £162, £159 Crookston, £148 Threepwood, £144 Heriotsfield, £135 Wester Ulston, £134 Fountainhall, £132, £130 Wester Ulston; Suffolk: £141 Haltree, £140 Blegbie, £138 Headshaw, Lauder, £138 Symington Mains, £137.50 Longwood, £135 Redacre, Bonjedward, £133 Woodside, £130(2) Gattonside Mains; Cheviot Mule: £129 Blegbie; Cheviot: £126.50 Blegbie, £115 Symington Mains, Bonjedward; Half Bred: £124 Bonjeward; Bluefaced Leicester: £117 Crookston; Blackface: £114.50 Headshaw, Lauder, £108 Holylee, Lee Farm; Greyfaced: £112, £110 Blakehope

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 308.3p Threepwood, 300p Heriotsfield (A.Halliday)293.5p, 293.3p, 288.9p Wester Ulston, 281.4p Faughhill, 275.6p Wester Ulston, 272.7p Lylestane, 271.7p Wester Ulston, 270.37p Threeburnford; Texel: 297.7p, 272.3p, 267p Threepwood, 255.8p Firbank, 254.5p Haltree, 253.7p Symington Mains, 251.2p (2)West Longridge, 251p (2)Faughhill, Suffolk: 253.8p Headshaw, Lauder, 251.8p Haltree, 250.9p Headshaw, Lauder, 250p Threepwood, 248p Shotton, 247.7p The Bungalow, Pogbie (E.Collins), 247.1p Redacre, 246p Threepwood, 245.7p, 245.6p Stoneypath; Cheviot: 247.1p Headshaw, Lauder, 240p North Synton; Cheviot Mule: 244.4p Wester Ulston; Half Bred: 236.5p Headshaw, Lauder; Greyfaced: 230.1p Stoneypath; Blackface: 220.2p Headshaw, Lauder

CAST EWES

All classes of Cast Sheep presented to an improved trade on the week

Sale top of £159 for a Suffolk Tup from J.M Elliot & Partners, Woodside Farm

Texel: £150 Mountbenger, £143 Kennels Cottage (Rory Halliday), £130 Leaston, £127 Greenhead, £125 (2) Leaston; Suffolk: £143 Holylee (D.Preacher), £139, £131 Whitsome West Newton, £131 Holylee (D.Preacher), £129 Millheugh, £119 Holydean, Leaston;  Beltex: £149, £145, £131 Heriotsfield (A.Halliday), £121 Threeburnford;  Greyfaced: £115 Cockburn, £113 Hopton, £109 Corsbie, £107 Hartside, Buskin, £105 West Lodge, Cockburn, £101 Buskin, Skilmafilly; Half Bred: £115 Skilmafilly; Berrichon: £109 Springwood Lodge; Blackface: £81, £80, £77 , £71 Blakehope; £71 Holylee; Cheviot Mule: £109 Millheugh, Woodside, £99 Skilmafilly; Cheviot: £105 Philiphaugh, Blakehope, £103 Headshaw, L, £97 Skilmafilly, £95 Boreland, Philiphaugh, Haltree; Shetland: £37 Sorrowlessfield Mains

CAST RAMS:

Suffolk: £159, £135 Woodside, £125 Adderstonshiels; Texel: £133 Easter Whitmuir, £121 Kennels Cottage (Rory Halliday), £111 Easter Whitmuir; Beltex: £123 Headshaw, Lauder; Cheviot: £115 Haltree, £115, £111 Adderstonshiels, £107 Woodside, £103 Haltree; Blackface: £93 Burncastle