St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 124 Clean Cattle, 43 Cast Cows, 870 Prime Hoggs  and  253 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (34) averaged 280p per kg and sold to 320p

Heifers (83) averaged 290p per kg and sold to 327p 

Young Bulls (7) averaged 303p per kg and sold to 313p

Cast Cows (42) averaged 223p per kg and sold to 289p. Top price £2404.48

Cast Bull (1) sold to 185p (£1776)

Hoggs (870) averaged 227p per kilo (-6p on the week), and sold to £162 for Texel Hoggs

Top price 286p per kg for  Beltex.x Hoggs

Cast Sheep (253) averaged £65.54 and sold to £145 for a Texel Ewe

Heavy Ewes averaged £120, light ewes sold to £118 for Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £65

CLEAN CATTLE

Very buoyant trade throughout

Bullocks per head: Learielaw £2038.96, £2022.40, £2021.20; Dunslaw £1984.42, Nisbet £1935.20, Shidlaw £1928.20, £1921.92

Bullocks per kilo: Learielaw 320p, Dunslaw 313p, Learielaw 310p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Shidlaw 310p, 308p, Learielaw 308p, Lurdenlaw 306p J.A Waters & Sons, Dunslaw 306p, 300p(2)

Heifers per head : Learielaw £2040.48, Longnewton £1927.60, Broachrigg £1922, Bee Edge £1920.72, £1914.96, £1906.24, Greenknowe £1899.12, Whitsome West Newton £1889.40, Nisbet £1885.76, Lurdenlaw £1884.96

Heifers per kilo: Greenknowe 328p(2), Learielaw 327p, Bee Edge 322p, Lennoxlove 320p, Bee Edge 318p (2), Longnewton, Bee Edge and Learielaw 316p

Young Bulls per head: Whitrighill £2425.72, Stuartslaw Farm Cottage £2423.52, 2216.04, £2127.84, £2064.48, £2059.20, £2051.28

Young Bulls per kilo: Stuartslaw Farm Cottage 313p, 312p(2), 308p, 306p, Whitrighill 298p

CAST COWS

Maintaining recent rates

Cast Cows per head: Whitrighil £2404.48, Stuartslaw £2338.10, Kersknowe £2226.42, Whitrighill £2221.94, £2152.02, Hyndsidehill £2036.42, Headshaw, L £1917.30

Cast Cows per kilo: Whitrighill 289p, 269p, 267p, Hyndsidehill 257p, Headshaw, Lauder 249p, Upper Nisbet 247p, Gateshaw 245p, Whitrighill 241p, Gateshaw, Upper Nisbet 239p

Cast Bulls: Upper Nisbet £1776.00 (185p)

PRIME HOGGS

Mixed show.  Fed hoggs in high demand.

Hoggs per head –

Texel: £162 Headshaw, Lauder, £157 Crookston, £140 Mainside, £139 Nether Falla, £130 Crosshall, £129 Nether Falla (2), Philiphaugh, New Blainslie, £128 Bonjedward; Beltex: £148(2), £142 Crookston, £141, £140 Threeburnford, £134 Crookston, £130 Threeburnford;  Cheviot: £134 Adderstonshiels, £128 Attonburn Farm Cottages, £126, £125 Adderstonshiels;  Suffolk: £130 Langraw, £129 Philiphaugh, £128, £126(2) Gattonside, £125 Langraw, Nether Falla, £123 Gattonside; Zwartble: £119 Burnhead, Peebles; Blue Texel: £108 Dod Farm, £103 Broomiebank; Cheviot Mule: £105 Broomiebank; Charollais: £105 Berryhill; Blackface: £105 Headshaw, Lauder, £104 Roxburgh Mill, £100 Stoneypath; Bluefaced Leicester: £97 Burnhead, Peebles; Jacob: £89 Park Terrace, Hawick (M.Harper)

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 285.7p (2), 282.4p Heriotsfield, Oxton (A.Halliday), 280p, 276.5p Threeburnford, 273.5p Crookston; Texel: 256.8p Crosshall, 256.3p, 250p, 248.1p Nether Falla, 247.1p Threepwood, 244.2p Stoneypath , 243.9p Nether Falla; Blue Texel: 251.2p Broomiebank; Suffolk: 241.9p Threepwood, 236.4p, 235.8p Langraw, 233.8p, 232.6p Blackburn, Lauder, 231.9p, 230.9p Thornington,   Cheviot: 238.1p Philiphaugh, 237.5p Broomiebank, 236.8p Mainside; Cheviot Mule: 236.6p Broomiebank; Charollais: 231p Broomiebank; Blackface: 229.9p Stoneypath; Bluefaced Leicester: 215p Philiphaugh

CAST EWES

An extremely weathered show of Cast Sheep forward with flesh and size in short supply.  Trade still standing on!!

Sale top of £145 for a Texel.x Ewes from Alexander McMorran, Mowhaugh Schoolhouse

Texel: £145 Mowhaugh Schoolhouse, £111 Stoneypath; Suffolk: £137, £121 Bonjedward, £119 Langraw; Bluefaced Leicester: £137, £113 Burnhead, Peebles; North Country Cheviot: £118, £107 Nisbet Mill, £103 Philiphaugh; Greyfaced:£115 Kaeside, Mowhaugh Schoolhouse; Cheviot Mule: £103 Nisbet Mill; Blackface: £91, £82 Tollishill; Easycare: £86 Hillhouse, £77 Inchkeith; Shetland: £41, £39 Camptoun Holdings (R.Briggs)