Kirkby Stephen Prime Sheep Sale

Harrison & Hetherington Ltd, Kirkby Stephen Mart held their weekly Sale of prime sheep on Tuesday night, when 2,554 sheep were forward consisting of 343 spring lambs, 1,602 prime hoggs and 609 cast sheep.

Topping the prime hogg at £192 were a pair of Texel cross hoggs from Messrs Mark, Sunny Gill, Ousby.

This same home sold a pen of 60kg Texel cross hoggs to make £188.

Messrs Hetherington, Old Hall Farm, Penrith sold a pen of seven Charollais cross hoggs to make £191, with this same home also selling a pen of fifteen Texel cross hoggs at £189 and another pen of twelve to make £189, a pen of sixteen 64kg hoggs to make £184.50.

Two pens of twelve and seven 67kg Suffolk cross hoggs sold to make £187 and £186.50 also both from Old Hall Farm.

The consignment of 152 hoggs from this home sold to average £183.51.

Jojo Andrews, Boscar Flats, York sold a pen of fourteen 53kg Texel cross hoggs to make £186.

Topping at 410.3p/kg were a pen of 39kg Beltex cross hoggs which sold for £160 from Messrs Wills, Fawcett Park Farm, Dufton.

Cheviot hoggs sold to £162 for two pens of twelve 58kg hoggs from Messrs Smithson, Bloan Farm, Kirkby Stephen.

Blackfaced hoggs sold to £146 and 304.2p/kg for a pen of twenty 48kg hoggs from Messrs Fisher, Smalmstown Farm, Longtown.

Mule hoggs sold to £147 for a pen of six from Messrs Sibson, Hole House, Keswick.

Swaledale hoggs sold to £130 from Messrs Iceton, High Birk Hatt, Barnard Castle.

An overall sale average of 281.14p/kg for 1602 hoggs was achieved.

Cast sheep topped at £230 for a Texel ewe from Messrs Millar, Crookholm Farm, Canonbie with this same home also selling Texel ewes to £220 and £218.

Beltex cross ewes topped at £220 on two separate occasions from Messrs Sowerby, Terrys Farm, Ormside and for a pair from Page Farm Partnership, Ripon.

Swaledale ewes topped at £124 from Messrs Hodgson, Green Farm, Shap.

Messrs Hird, Gillfield, Barnard Castle sold another pen of Swaledale ewes to make £122.

Texel rams sold to £200 from Messrs Gill, Bowes Cross Farm, Barnard Castle.

Bluefaced Leicester rams sold to £180 from Kilnstown Farms, Carlisle with Swaledale rams selling to £124 from this home.

Leading Hogg Averages
No.           Weight      p/kg         Head         From
152    @    66.7kg     275.2p     £183.51    T Hetherington, Penrith
43      @    56kg        307.5p     £172.28    RG Mark, Ousby
130    @    47kg        347.7p     £163.41    JM Andrews, York
52      @    59.4kg     271p        £160.96    R&EM Smithson, Brough Sowerby
48      @    47kg        311.3p     £146.14    A&D Smith, Workington
214    @    47.8kg     303.2p     £145.18    G Curtis & Sons, Buckinghamshire

Leading Prices –

Prime Hoggs

Price Per head –

Charollais £191(2), £181 Old Hall Farm: Texel £192, £188, £176, £174, £165, £164 Sunny Gill Farm; £189(2), £186.50, £184.50, £180, £177, £175 Old Hall Farm; £186, £180, £175, £170(2), £167.50, £160(2) Boscar Flats; £174(2) Smalmstown Farm; £171, £161 Kelmore Hill Farm; £170 Fair View; £169 Priory Nook; £166 Sunnyside; £161 Crookholm Farm: Beltex £190 High Lane; £180 Sunny Gill Farm; £175 Old Hall Farm; £171, £170(3), £164, £150 Kelmore Hill Farm; £170, £166, £160(2) Fawcett Park Farm; £170 Boscar Flats; £154 Crossfell House: Suffolk £187, £186.50, £182.50 Old Hall Farm; £170 Terrys Farm; £168.50, £154 Smalmstown Farm; £160, £158 Priory Nook; £151(2) East Farm; £150 Green Farm: Bluefaced Leicester £170, £148 Kilnstown Farm: Cheviot £162(2), £160.50, £160, £159 Bloan Farm; £148 Smalmstown Farm: Dutch Texel £150 Terrys Farm: Mule £147, £141 Hole House; £144 East View; £129 Green Farm; £125 Kelmore Hill Farm; £124 Smalmstown Farm; £120 Fawcett Park Farm: Scotch Blackface £146, £125(3), £124, £123 Smalmstown Farm; £125 Boscar Flats: Swaledale £130 High Birk Hatt; £125, £116 Hole House; £120 Rigg Farm; £114 Fawcett Park Farm: Herdwick £85 Dyke Nook.

Price per kilo –

Beltex 410.3p, 361.7p, 352.4p, 347.8p, 337.8p, 332p, 320p Fawcett Park Farm; 346.2p, 300p Hopewell Farm; 340p, 333.3p(2), 328.8p, 321.6p, 320.8p, 315.5p, 314.8p Kelmore Hill Farm; 334.9p Smalmstown Farm; 330.2p Old Hall Farm; 327.3p Sunny Gill Farm; 306.7p, 302.3p Rookwith House; 302.3p Green Farm: Texel 381.6p, 369.6p, 350.9p, 341.9p, 340.4p, 326.9p Boscar Flats; 348p, 333.3p, 330p, 324.4p Smalmstown Farm; 328.8p, 328.6p Kelmore Hill Farm; 323.5p Sunny Gill Farm: Suffolk 315.2p, 312p Smalmstown Farm; 308.3p, 308.2p, 304.2p, 300p East Farm: Cheviot 309.1p, 302p, 286.4p Smalmstown Farm; 279.3p(2), 276.7p, 274.1p Bloan Farm; 275.6p Townfoot: Charollais 304.3p East Farm: Scotch Blackface 304.2p, 285p, 284.1p(3) Smalmstown Farm; 286.6p, 284.1p Boscar Flats: Dutch Texel 283p Terrys Farm: Mule 281.8p Smalmstown Farm; 280.4p Green Farm; 266p Hole House; 266p Kelmore Hill Farm: Swaledale 236.7p, 234.4p Hole House; 227.3p, 220p West Summersides; 220.5p East Rackwood.

Cast Ewes

Texel £230, £220, £218, £192, £162 Crookholm Farm; £208 Town Farm; £200, £150 Newstead Grange; £200 staingills; £182 Hopewell Farm; £175 Rookwith House; £163, £161 Town End Farm; £162, £160 Upper Brydekirk: Beltex £220 Terrys Farm; £220, £160, £152 Rookwith House; £205 Bowes Cross Farm; £175 Skylin; £150 Green Farm: Blue Texel £188 Newstead Grange: Bluefaced Leicester £164 Greenriggs; £160 Ellergill: Suffolk £140.50 Town End Farm: Cheviot £124 West Summersides; £118 Coupland Beck Farm: Swaledale £124 Green Farm; £122 Gillfield; £117, £101 Kilnstown Farm; £115 Greenriggs; £104 Ellergill; £100 Fell View: Zwartble £120 Marshes Gill: Mule £120 The Park Wall; £118 Town End Farm; £118 Town Farm; £114 Glebe Farm: Rough £120 Town Farm; £96 High Lane; £92 Ellergill: Lleyn £102 Far Close; £92 Marshes Gill.

Cast Rams

Texel £200 Bowes Cross Farm; £142 Leather Howe Farm: Bluefaced Leicester £180 Kilnstown; £130 Mill Street: Beltex £130 Bowes Cross Farm: Swaledale £124 Kilnstown Farm; £105 West Summersides; £92 Lanehead Farm.