St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold  107 Clean Cattle,   40 Cast Cows,  7 Prime Lambs, 1674 Prime Hoggs  and  217 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (46) averaged 283.52p per kg and sold to 332p

Heifers (60) averaged 301.04p per kg and sold to 336p 

Young Bulls (1) sold to 260p

Cast Cows (35) averaged  217.95p per kg and sold to 307p. Top price £2187.36

Cast Bull (5) averaged 181.41p per kg and sold to 189p.  Top price £2437.98

Lambs (7) averaged 265.35p per kilo and sold to £134  for Dorset Lambs

Hoggs (1674) averaged 273.28p per kilo (+15p on the week) £ 129.18 per head, and sold to  £170 for Beltex Hoggs

Top price 313p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (217) averaged £96.67 and sold to £161 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £125, light ewes sold to £111 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £73

CLEAN CATTLE

Bullocks per head: Learielaw £2217.60, £2144.88, Bee Edge £2096.64, Dunslaw £2083.80, £2031.48

Bullocks per kilo: Faughhill 332p J.A Waters & Sons, Learielaw 330p, 324p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge 312p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Dunslaw 310p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Heifers per head : Learielaw £2217.76, £2056.32, Whitsome West Newton £2036.80, £1990.64, Penston £1986.60, Bee Edge £1966.80

Heifers per kilo: Learielaw 336p, 332p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Penston and Bee Edge 330p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Smailholm Mains 324p Forsyths of Peebles, Whitrighill 324p Worsley Wholesale Butchers

CAST COWS

Cast Cows per head: Roxburgh Mains £2187.36, Sunnycroft £2123.80, Caverton Mill £2014.50, Leaston £2011.50, Caverton Mill £1952.54, Wester Middleton £1944.32

Cast Cows per kilo: Synton Parkhead 307p, Sunnycroft 259p, Wester Middleton 258p, Caverton Mill 245p, Corsbie 243p

Cast Bulls per head: Rumbletonlaw £2437.98, Honeyburn £2071.44

Cast Bulls per kilo: Honeyburn 189p, Smailholm Mains 187p, Rumbletonlaw 179p

PRIME HOGGS

Great show of hoggs forward. All types dearer.

Average 273.28p (47.2kgs) £129.18

Hoggs per head – Beltex: £170, £162 Faughhill, £157 Boghall, £148 Glenogle, £145, £141(3) Boghall; Suffolk: £162, £160, £159, £157, £156 (2), £155(2) Boghall, £155 Newton of Crathie, £153 Boghall; Texel: £162 Butterdean, Whitsome West Newton, £159 Boghall, £154, £153 Whitsome West Newton,  £150 Boghall, £149 Greenhead, Reston, Boghall, £148 Newton of Crathie, Butterdean;

Greyfaced: £155 Newton of Crathie, £137 Berryhill, £125 Newton of Crathie; Cheviot: £153, £152 Boghall, £150 Soutra, £146 Buchtrig, £145 Boghall, £144 Newton of Crathie, Adderstonshiels, £143 Adderstonshiels (S.Hunter), £140 Soutra; Bluefaced Leicester: £129 Glenogle; Kerryhill: £128, £126 Broachrigg;  Cheviot Mule: £124 Wester Ulston; Charollais: £115 Berryhill; Blue Texel: £116 Glenogle; Blackface: £110 Newton of Crathie

Hoggs per kilo- Beltex: 313.3p Boghall, 312.5p, 306.7p, 304.9p Faughhill, 302.3p Wester Ulston, 296.3p Faughhill, 296.2p Boghall, 296.1p Faughhill, 295.5p Helmburn, 294p Faughhill; Texel:304.5p New Blainslie, 297.9p(2), 295.5p Newton of Crathie, 295.5p, 295.4p New Blainslie, 293.5p, 291.8p Boghall, 290.9p Newton of Crathie, 290.6p New Blainslie; Cheviot: 300p Boghall, Saughtree, 297.8p Saughtree, 295.5p Adderstonshiels, 293.8p Newton of Crathie, 293.5p, 291.3p Boghall; 291.2p Newton of Crathie, 291.1p Adderstonshiels, 290.9p Saughtree; Suffolk: 286.7p Newton of Crathie, Boghall, 283.3p New Blainslie, 283p, 282.1p Boghall, 277.9p Newton of Crathie, 277.6p New Blainslie, 276.3p, 275.6p, 275p Newton of Crathie; Cheviot Mule: 285.1p Wester Ulston; Greyfaced: 284.1p Newton of Crathie, 281p Meikle Harelaw; Kerryhill: 283.1p, 272p Broachrigg; Blackface: 282.1p Newton of Crathie; Blue Texel: 272.9p Glenogle

CAST EWES

A very mixed show of Cast Sheep with leaner and weathered sorts to the fore.  Flesh and frame fetching a premium

Sale peak of £161 for a pen of 3 Texel Ewes from W.Arnott & Co, Butterdean.  Tups topped at £141 for a Texel from

 J.J Patterson, Kirktonhill

Texel: £161(2) Butterdean, £160 Cheeklaw, £159, £157 Greenhead, Reston, £145 Faughhill, £141, £135 Cheeklaw;

Suffolk: £155 Easter Howgate, £149 Butterdean, £145 Easter Howgate, £139 Meigle, £133 New Blainslie, £129 Easter Howgate; Beltex: £141, £131 Ruecastle Cottages; Cheviot: £111 Buchtrig, £101 Newmains; Blackface: £85 Kirktonhill; Bluefaced Leicester: £80 Glenogle; Dorset: £119 Cheeklaw;  Greyfaced: £125 Butterdean, £119 Kirktonhill, £107 Berryhill, £103 Kirktonhill; 

CAST TUPS

Texel: £141 Kirktonhill; Bluefaced Leicester: £123 Kirktonhill; Cheviot: £105 Kirktonhill