St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 87 Clean Cattle, 59 Cast Cows,  1312 Prime Hoggs  and 682 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (27) averaged 281.41p per kg and sold to 328p

Heifers (60) averaged 284.13p per kg and sold to 320p 

Cast Cows (57) averaged 226.76p per kg and sold to 279p. Top price £2340.90

Cast Bulls (2) averaged 175.39p per kg and sold to 183p.  Top price £2225.28

Hoggs (1312) averaged 227p per kilo (+1p on the week), £101 per head and sold to £136  

Top price 282.6p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (682) averaged £70.37 and sold to £161 for Texel Ewe

Heavy Ewes averaged £115, light ewes sold to £133 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £62

CLEAN CATTLE

Bullocks per head: Learielaw £2112, £2096.64, Dunslaw £2075.52, Crookhouse £1978.20, Penston £1944, Lennoxlove £1908.96

Bullocks per kilo: Lennoxlove 328p, Learielaw 320p, Lennoxlove 318p, Crookhouse 314p, Learielaw 312p

Heifers per head: Learielaw £1990.68, Penston £1959.36, Bee Edge £1920, £1908.90, Dunslaw £1908.16

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 320p, 315p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Learielaw 318p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lurdenlaw 315p Forsyths of Peebles, Penston 314p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

CAST COWS

Cast Cows per head: Wester Middleton £2340.90, £2288.10, Muircleugh £2076.66, £2055.40, Wester Middleton £2013.88, Corsbie £2004.60

Cast Cows per kilo: Greenknowe 279p, 277p, Sunlawshill 277p, Wester Middleton 269p, Gateshaw 267p, Wester Middleton 265p, 263p, Corsbie 261p

Cast Bulls per head: Angelrow £2225.28 (183p)

PRIME HOGGS

Good show forward, returns similar

Average £101 (44kgs) 227p

Hoggs per head –

Texel: £136 Threepwood, £133 Bonjedward, £130 Old Melrose Lodge, Threepwood, £129, £128 Bonjedward, £120 Greenhead, Reston, Threepwood, New Blainslie(2); Suffolk: £130 Meigle, £125 Symington Mains, £120 Adderstonshiels, £119 Bonjedward, £117 Thornington, £114 Cortleferry, New Blainslie; Beltex: £130 Threepwood, No.2 Sydenham Farm Cottages (2), £116 Lylestane, £110 Greenhead, Selkirk; Cheviot: £125, £120 Soutra, £115 Saughtree (2), £112 Wester Middleton; Charollais: £115 St Clements Wells; Hampshire: £110 St Clements Wells; Blackface: £104 Hartside

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 282.6p No 2 Sydenham Farm Cottages, 263.6p, 256.4p Lylestane, 256.4p Greenhead, Reston(2), Lylestane (2); Texel: 256.8p Threepwood, 255.3p Penston, 243.9p Greenhead, Reston, 241.9p West Longridge, Greenhead, Reston, 241.4p Bonjedward, 241p Lylestane; Cheviot Mule: 240.7p Cairntack; Charollais: 238.6p Shotton, 230p St Clements Wells; Suffolk: 238.6p Threepwood, 236p Meigle, 234.1p Blackburn, 231.8p Penston; Cheviot: 236p Adderstonshiels, 235p Cairntack

CAST EWES

A mixed show of Cast Sheep forward.  Size and flesh lacking with just under half the sale being horned Blackface Ewes.

Sale top of £161 for a smart Texel Ewe from Highfield Farming Limited, The Knock.  Tups peaked at £121 for a Cheviot from

C.M Ker of Chatto

Whilst catching the eye of onlookers was a monsterous North Country Cheviot Ewe from A.Matthewson & Son, Soutra which achieved £133

Texel: £161, £141 The Knock, £129 New Blainslie, £119 The Knock, Kirktonhill, Harelawside, £117 Harelawside, £115 New Blainslie, Lylestane, Kirktonhill; Suffolk: £140 The Knock, £121 Inchkeith, £111 The Knock, £109 New Blainslie, £107 Inchkeith; Cheviot: £133 Soutra, £115 Kirktonhill, Soutra, £97 Kirktonhill, £91 Adderstonshiels; Zwartble: £119 St Clements Wells; Half Bred: £115 Blackhill, Coldingham, £95 Berryhill;  Romney: £115. £111(2), £107, £105, £101 Bow; Greyfaced: £111 Symington Mains, £109 Lanton Crag, £105 Kirktonhill, £99 Shotton,  £97 Kirktonhill, Harelawside; Beltex: £111 Collielaw; Cheviot Mule: £111 Kirktonhill; Blackface: £73, £71 Blakehope, Huntershall;  Easycare: £85 Inchkeith; Jacob: £75 Leithenhope Cottage

CAST TUPS

Texel: £121, £117 Upper Chatto;  Suffolk: £117 Harelawside; Cheviot: £91 Byrecleugh