St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 53 Clean Cattle, 20 Cast Cows, 1592 Prime Lambs and 662 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (18) averaged 285p per kg and sold to 304p(2)

Heifers (35) averaged 281p per kg and sold to 310p(2)

Cast Cows (17) averaged 171p per kg and sold to 221p

Top price £1654.32

Cast Bulls (3) averaged 161p per kg and sold to 169p

Top price £2068.56

Lambs (1592) averaged 267p per kg (+7p on the week). £119 per head and sold to £180 for    Texel Lambs

Top price 339p per kg for Texel Lambs

Cast Sheep (662) averaged £80.98 and sold to £155 for a Texel Ewe

Heavy Ewes averaged £121, light ewes sold to £91 for Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £71.50

PRIME CATTLE-

A nice trade for all classes

Bullocks per head: Bee Edge £1866.36, Penston £1805.88, Whitrighill £1769.28, Faughhill £1757.12, Penston £1755.12, Whitrighill £1751.82

Heifers per head: Rumbleton £1933.20, Penston £1891.08, Whitrighill £1870.72, Bee Edge £1868.80, Rumbleton £1800.48, Bee Edge £1791.80, £1787.04, Penston £1787.04, Whitrighill £1773.20

Bullocks per kilo: Faughhill 304p John Saunderson Ltd, Whitrighill 304p Forsyths of Peebles, Bee Edge 302p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Penston 298p, Whitrighill 298p, 291p, Oldcastles 290p

Heifers per kilo: Whitrighill 310p Forsyths of Peebles, Bee Edge 310p W.Kirkup & Sons, Penston 306p(2) J.A Waters & Sons, W.Kirkup & Sons, Whitrighill 298p, Dunslaw 296p Ged’s Butchers, Whitrighill 296p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd

CAST COWS

Mixed show with flesh easy sold

Cast Cows per head: Stagehall £1654.32, Upper Nisbet £1600.04, Stagehall £1511.58, £1324.95, Outerston £1308.06

Cast Cows per kilo: Upper Nisbet 221p, Fordel Parks 191p, Nether Falla 187p, Rumbleton 185p, Stagehall(2), Shidlaw 183p

CAST BULLS

Cast Bulls per head: Upper Nisbet £2068.56, Woodhead, Ancrum £1966.02, £1854.60

Cast Bulls per kilo: Upper Nisbet 169p, Woodhead, Ancrum 165p

PRIME LAMBS-

Show and Sale of Texel Prime Lambs at St Boswells Mart. Kindly sponsored by the Texel Sheep Society. Over 30 pens presented infront of the Judge, Mr Robert Wilson, who awarded the Champion pen to Messrs Sanderson, Greenhead, Reston – 53kgs £180 to Mr Neil Iveson

Texel (ex Suffolk.x Ewe)

1^st           Mossilee                              44kgs                     £120       Reserve Champion

2^nd          Craigsford Mains              46kgs                     £117

3^rd           Sunnycroft                          41kgs                     £103

Texel (ex Continental Ewe)

1^st           Greenhead, Reston         53kgs                     £180       Champion

2^nd          Craigsford Mains              50kgs                     £148

3^rd           Huntington                         45kgs                     £126

Texel (ex.Mule Ewe)

1^st           Crookston                           49kgs                     £144

2^nd          Upper Samieston             46 ½ kgs               £133

3^rd           Threeburnford                  47.5kgs                 £119

Texel (any other breed)

1^st           Dryden                                 44kgs                     £112

2^nd          Standhill                               40kgs                     £100

All classes slightly dearer on the week.  Average 267p £119 (44.5kgs)

Lambs per head-

Texel: £180, £171 Greenhead, Reston, £172 Whitsome West Newton, £170 Fountainhall, Crookston(2), £168 Threepwood, £160 Adderstonshiels; Blue Texel: £175, £168, £114 Oxnam Neuk; Beltex: £172, £150, £146 Craighouse, £140 Crookston; Suffolk: £164 Corsbie, £160 Adderstonshiels, £150, £147 Symington Mains, £144 Mossilee, £138 Headshaw, Symington Mains; Hampshire: £120 St Clements Wells; Cheviot Mule: £120 Kirklands, Ancrum

Lambs per kilo-

Texel: 339.6p Greenhead, Reston, 315.2p, 314.8p, 311.8p Crookston, 309.1p Fountainhall, 308p Whitsome West Newton, 307.7p Adderstonshiels, 301.8p, 301p Whitsome West Newton; Blue Texel: 311p, 307p Oxnam Neuk; Beltex: 307.1p, 306.1p Craighouse, 301.3p Crookston, 301.2p, 294.5p, 283.7p, 283.5p Craighouse; Suffolk: 284.5p Headshaw, Lauder, 276p Symington Mains, 274.3p Mossilee, 274p, 273.3p Corsbie, 273p Sunnycroft, 272.9p Nether Falla, Threepwood, 272.7p Symington Mains

CAST SHEEP-

More numbers of hill bred and leaner sorts about, albeit a similar trade on the week as a whole.

Sale peak of £155 for a pair of Texel bred Ewes from James Anderson & Son, Headshaw, Lauder.  Tups peaked at £153 for a Suffolk from Nick Millar and Laura Ferguson of Mersington Mill

EWES-

Texel: £155, £147, £135 Headshaw, Lauder, £131 Greenhead, Reston, £127 Leaston, £122 Stoneypath; Suffolk: £141 Greenhead, Reston, £137 Pogbie, £133 Elwartlaw, Hadden Farm Cottage, £131 Haystoun, Peebles, Headshaw, Lauder, £129 Hyndsidehill, £127 Greenknowe, £121 Haystoun, PeeblesBlue Texel: £139, £133 Standhill, Bathgate; Hampshire: £121 East Fortune; Cheviot Mule: £117 Blegbie, £111 Wester Ulston, £109 Greenknowe, Upper Samieston; £97 Blegbie, £95 Greenknowe; Berrichon: £117, £109 Springwood Lodge, Lleyn: £115, £103 East Fortune, £101 Ruletownhead, £93 Trabroun;Greyfaced: £111 Greenknowe, Greenhead, Reston, £109 New Blainslie, West Longridge,  £107 Broomiebank, £103 Greenhead, Reston, £101 Stoneypath, £99 New Blainslie; £96 Haystoun; Bluefaced Leicester: £105 Broomiebank; Beltex: £105 Broomiebank; Easycare: £91, £89 Hillhouse; North Country Cheviot: £91 Headshaw, Lauder; Jacob: £85 Standhill, Bathgate; Blackface: £73 Haystoun, £67 Easter Howgate; Hebridean: £67, £61 Georgefield, £55 Rhodes Holdings; Herdwick: £61 Standhill, Bathgate

RAMS-

Suffolk: £153 Mersington Mill; Texel: £139 Greenhead, Reston; Easycare: £99 Hillhouse