St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold  79 Clean Cattle,  10  Cast Cows,  8 Prime Lambs, 1444 Prime Hoggs  and 270 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (29) averaged 290p per kg and sold to 328p

Heifers (49) averaged 305p per kg and sold to 332p  x 2

Young Bulls (1) sold to 212p

Cast Cows (9) averaged  185p per kg and sold to 211p. Top price £2110

Lambs (8) averaged 277p per kilo (+12p on the week) and sold to £116  for  Dorset Lambs

Hoggs (1444) averaged 291p per kilo (+18p on the week) £138  per head, and sold to  £180 for Texel Hoggs

Top price 338p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (270) averaged £103.35 and sold to £175 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £129, light ewes sold to £119 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £79

CLEAN CATTLE

Good solid trade

Bullocks per head: Whitrighill £2112.32, Dunslaw, £2080.04, £2077.92, Whitrighill £2056.32

Bullocks per kilo: Whitrighill 328p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Wester Ulston 316p, Gospelhall 312p, Whitrighill and Lurdenlaw 310p, Whitrighill 306p

Heifers per head : Greenknowe £2099.20, Whitrighill £2016.12, Bee Edge £2001.64, Nisbet, Pencaitland £1968.82, Soutra £1940.52, Whitsome West Newton £1940.52

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge and Whitrighill 332p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lurdenlaw 330p, Greenknowe 328p J.A Waters & Sons, Selkirk, Bee Edge and Lennoxolove 326p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Lennoxlove 324p Worsley Wholesale Butchers, Bee Edge(2), Lennoxlove 322p  Worsley Wholesale Butchers

Young Bulls: Kersknowe £2124.24(212p)

CAST COWS

Fewer forward, trade similar

Cast Cows per head: Kersknowe £2110.90, Queenscairn £1587.60, East Loanend £1447.46, £1409.48

Cast Cows per kilo: East Loanend 211p (2), Kersknowe 209p

PRIME HOGGS

Great show of hoggs forward, selling to high rates.  Plenty weight about

Average £138.20 (47.5kgs) 291p

Hoggs per head –

Texel: £180, £177 Hawthornside, £174 Whitsome West Newton, £168 Bettyfield, Hawthornside, £167 North Synton, £166 Whitsome West Newton, £165 Bettyfield,  £163 Whitsome West Newton, £162 Boghall;  Beltex: £176 Hawthornside, £139 Chesters Brae, £135 Faughhill, Swinnie (2), £132 Faughhill, £126 Chesters Brae; Cheviot: £170 Gospelhall, £167 Nisbet Mill, £164 Gospelhall, £153 Nisbet Mill, £151 Gospelhall, £150 North Synton, £149, £148, £144 Boghall, £143 North Synton; Suffolk: £166, £164.50, £164 Boghall, £162 Whitsome West Newton, £157 (2), £156.50, £155, £154.50, £154  Boghall; Blackface: £128.50 Hethpool House, £128, £126 Stoneypath; Jacob: £128 Howden, Jedburgh; Greyfaced: £120 Dunorran (B.Paxton)

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 338.2p, 329.3p, 323.5p Faughhill, 323.1p Chesters Brae, 315.8p, 314.3p Faughhill, 314p (2) Swinnie; Texel: 334p Boghall, 329.3p, 326.2p New Blainslie, 325p Boghall, 325p, 323.3p, 322p. 320.2p, 320p New Blainslie, 320p Faughhill; Cheviot: 314.9p Boghall, 314p Saughtree, 311.4p Boghall, 309.3p Saughtree, 306.8p Swinnie, 305.7p Adderstonshiels; Suffolk: 314.4p (2) Boghall, 313.6p, 312.9p New Blainslie, 306.8p Boghall; Blackface: 286.4p, 284.4p Stoneypath; Greyfaced: 286.8p

CAST EWES

A well fleshed show of Cast Sheep forward with a buoyant trade throughout

*Sale peak of £175 for a Texel Ewe from J.W Fullerton & Sons, Corsbie Farm.

Tups topped at £173 for a Texel from G.Davies & Partners North Synton

Texel: £175 Corsbie, £165 Lee Farm, £163, £157 Hawthornside, £149 Corsbie, £145 Craigsord Mains, £143 Stoneypath;  Suffolk: £167 Gospelhall, £165 Corsbie, £151 Oxnam Neuk, £147 Ruletownhead, £143 Craigsford Mains, £139 Gospelhall, Lee Farm, £137(2) Corsbie; Bluefaced Leicester: £143 Corsbie Cottages (PW Hedley); Cheviot Mule: £129 Hawthornside;  Greyfaced: £129 Bettyfield, £121 North Synton, Corsbie, Hawthorn, £117 Lee Farm, £115 Shotton; Half Bred: £121 Bonjedward; Cheviot:  £119 Nisbet Mill, £117 North Synton, £111 Dryden Farm, £109 Newmains, North Berwick, £101 Dryden; Lleyn: £109 Ruletownhead; Blackface: £105 Halterburnhead, £95 Lee Farm, £81 Halterburnhead, £75 Wooplaw; Easycare: £91 Inchkeith

CAST TUPS

Texel: £173 North Synton; Bluefaced Leicester: £165 Lee Farm