St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold  80 Clean Cattle,  42 Cast Cows, 1879 Prime Lambs and 325 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (43) averaged 289p per kg and sold to 320p(x2)

Heifers (36) averaged 291p per kg and sold to 330p

Young Bull (1) sold to 264p

Cast Cows (38) averaged 200p per kg and sold to 250p

Top price £1918

Cast Bulls (4) averaged 160p per kg and sold to 250p.

Top price £1954

Lambs (1879) averaged 253p per kg (-2p on the week). £114 per head and sold to £166 for Texel Lambs

Top price 345.5p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (325) averaged £99.57 and sold to £159 for Texel Tups

Heavy Ewes averaged £121, light ewes sold to £121 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £78

PRIME CATTLE-

Plenty of weight about but good to sell

Bullocks per head: Whitrighill £2036.48, £2028.72, £2016.08, Dunslaw £2016, Lurdenlaw £2003.44, Learielaw, Faughhill

£1984, Learielaw £1971.60, Whitrighill £1938

Heifers per head: Penston £2022.16, Bee Edge £2019.60, £1944.88, Penston £1938.44, £1897.32, Bee Edge £1919.12, £1868.80, Upper Nisbet £1834.80, Lurdenlaw £1823.10

Bullocks per kilo: Faughhill 320p (2), 318p, Lurdenlaw, Learielaw 318p, Lurdenlaw, Faughhill 316p, Whitrighill 316p (2) Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Learielaw 312p

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 330p Denholm Meat Supplies, Penston 326p Hugh Black & Sons, Bee Edge (2), Penston (2) 322p, Bee Edge 320p W.Kirkup & Sons, Lurdenlaw 316p, Oldcastles 310p

Young Bull : £1520.64 (264p) Upper Samieston

CAST COWS

Buoyant Trade

Cast Cows per head: Muircleugh £1918.44, £1672.44, Upper Blainslie £1737.20, Headshaw, Lauder £1605.60, Upper Blainslie £1599.38, Muircleugh £1593.90, Headshaw, Lauder £1571.94, Upper Nisbet £1565, Hawksnest £1561.14, Shaws £1525.70

Cast Cows per kilo: Upper Nisbet 250p, Muircleugh 231p, Upper Nisbet 225p, Headshaw, L 223p, Muircleugh 219p, North Synton,  Woodheads, Lauder, Upper Blainslie 215p, Headshaw, Lauder 213p

Cast Bulls: £1954.68 Wolfstar (179p), Falsidehill 177p

PRIME LAMBS-

Good show of lambs forward selling to expected rates.  Average £114, 253p, 45.1kgs

Lambs per head-

Texel: £166, £158 Huntington, £158 The Knock, £156, £152 Huntington, £152, £150, £149.50 Ballencreiff Mains, £149 Huntington, £148 The Knock; Beltex: £158 Woodhouse, £150, £146.50, £141, £137.50, £130 Wauchhope, £130 Adderstonshiels; Suffolk: £144 Symington Mains, £141 Belmont, £139 The Knock, Haltree, £135.50 (2)Symington Mains, £135 Marvingston, £132, £130 Symington Mains; Dutch Spotted: £126 Myreside; Charollais: £124, £122 Whitemire; Hampshire: £117, £112 Trabroun; North Country Cheviot: £116 Fairnilee

Lambs per kilo-

Texel: 345.5p, 332p, 308.9p Huntington, 303.4p, 299p, 290.2p, 287.3p The Knock, 285.7p Shotton, 284.4p Huntington, 283.8p Symington Mains; Beltex: 319.1p, 315.1p, 313.3p Wauchhope, 309.8p Woodhouse, 305.6p, 293p, 284.9p Wauchhope, 281.1p Rhodes Holdings, 280.2p Lylestane; Suffolk: 267.3p The Knock, 266p Belmont, 264.8p Haltree, 264.3p Oxmuir, Headshaw, Lauder, 263.9p Corsbie, 262.9p Stoneypath, 262.5p Adderstonshiels, 261.9p Stoneypath, 260.2p Earlston Mainsl Dutch Spotted: 259.8p Myreside; North Country Cheviot: 252.2p Fairnilee

CAST SHEEP-

All classes of Cast Sheep a strong trade with numbers well short of buyers requirements.

Sale top of £159 for a pair of Texel Tups from T.Arres & Son, Dryden.  Whilst Ewes topped at £150 for a Texel bred Ewe from Adderstonshiels Farming, Adderstonshiels.

EWES-

Texel: £150 Adderstonshiels, £135(2), £133 Corsbie, £131 Rochester House, £130 Marvingston, £129 Corsbie, £128 Woodhouse, £127 Berryhill; Suffolk: £135, £131 Corsbie, £130 Marvingston, £121 Corsbie, Ecclaw; North Country Cheviot: £121, £109 Over Blainslie, £96, £95 Adderstonshiels; Cheviot Mule: £121 Whitehill, £104 Adderstonshiels, £101 Langtonlees, Over Blainslie; Greyfaced: £115 Gala Farms, £107 Berryhill, £105, £93 Woodhouse, Ecclaw, Blackburnrigg;  Abberfield: £121 Over Blainslie; Lleyn: £95 Over Blainslie; Blackface: £97 Gala Farms; Jacob: £84 Standhill; Swaledale: £76 Gala Farms

RAMS-

Texel: £159 Dryden; North Country Cheviot: £121 Dryden