St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 97 Clean Cattle, 20 Cast Cows, 2338 Prime Lambs and 739 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (33) averaged 281p per kg and sold to 316p

Heifers (58) averaged 295p per kg and sold to 331p(x 3)

Young Bulls (6) averaged 207p sold to 230p

Cast Cows (18) averaged 216p per kg and sold to 272p

Top price £1971

Cast Bulls (2) averaged 153p per kg and sold to 157p

Top price £1677

Lambs (2338) averaged 250p per kg (-5p on the week). £113.20 per head and sold to £159 for Texel  Lambs

Top price 320p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (739) averaged £81.82 and sold to £169 for a Suffolk Tup 

Heavy Ewes averaged £116, light ewes sold to £109 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £68

PRIME CATTLE-

Plainer show forward with best quality easily sold

Bullocks per head: Dunslaw £2040, £1897.12, £1889.40, Upper Nisbet £1882.56, £1877.40, Oldcastles £1866.60, Dunslaw £1840.36, Lurdenlaw £1832.80

Heifers per head: Dunslaw £2040.76, Elwick £2022.16, Lurdenlaw £2015.52, Penston £2013.48, £2005.28, Bee Edge £1979.38, £1966.80, Faughhill £1941.84, Lurdenlaw £1940.60, Mosstower £1939.66

Bullocks per kilo: Lurdenlaw 316p, Oldcastles 306p, Faughhill 304p, Fowberry Moor 302p, Faughhill 300p, Upper Nisbet 298p, 296p

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 331p Denholm Meat Supplies, Mosstower 331p (2),  Bee Edge 330p (2) Forsyths of Peebles, Penston 329p, Mosstower 326p, Dunslaw 326p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Elwick 322p, Mosstower 321p

Young Bulls per head: Linton £1991.88, £1817.04, £1205.20, £1164.24

Young Bulls per kilo : Standhill 230p, Linton 226p

CAST COWS

Met a great trade

Cast Cows per head: Muircleugh £1971.38, £1937.98, £1891.26, Upper Nisbet £1764.12, Corsbie £1740.34, Upper Nisbet £1652.88, Middlestead £1621.84, £1615.68, Upper Nisbet £1612.04

Cast Cows per kilo: Middlestead 272p, Muircleugh 253p, 241p, Upper Nisbet 241p, Muircleugh 237p, Burnhouse Mains 223p, 219p, Corsbie, Upper Nisbet 217p

Cast Bulls per kilo: Trabroun 157p

Cast Bulls per head: Burnhouse Mains £1677.74, Trabroun £1664.20

PRIME LAMBS-

Mixed show forward.  Flesh needed.  Average 250p, 45.2kgs, £113.20

Lambs per head-

Texel: £159 Huntington, £154 Symington Mains, £147 Greenhead, Selkirk, Huntington, £145(2) Symington Mains, £144, £142(2) Huntington, £140 Haltree; Suffolk: £148 Symington Mains, £140 Headshaw, Lauder, £134 Craigsford Mains, Philiphaugh, £132.50 Headshaw, Lauder, £130 Philiphaugh, Oxmuir, Haltree, Butterdean; Beltex: £141 Butterdean, £133 Wauchhope, £128 Whitsome West Newton, £127, £126, £125 Wauchhope, £125(2) Whitsome West Newton; North Country Cheviot: £130 Top Cottage, Chatto (H.Brown), £125, £120 Philiphaugh; Charollais: £129 West Lodge South, £126 Quality Street, N.Berwick (H.Cucchi), £120 West Lodge South; Half Bred: £125 Headshaw, Lauder; Blue Texel: £120 (2) Hermiston

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 320.5p, 309.8p, 300p Wauchhope, 301.2p, 285.7p, 284.1p(2) Whitsome West Newton, 285.5p Helmburn; Texel: 295.8p Huntington, 294.7p Huntington, 294.7p Highfield Farming, 291.3p, 290.7p Huntington, 281.4p Calaburn, Leaston, 278.8p Symington Mains, 278.4p Highfield Farming, 276.2p Calaburn, Crookham Dairy; Suffolk:; 269.2p, 259.8p Headshaw, Lauder, 261.4p Highfield Farming, 259.6p Symington Mains; Blue Texel: 267.4p Blackburn, Lauder, 260.9p Hermiston

CAST SHEEP

More numbers forward with all classes selling to a similar rate on the week.

Sale top of £169 for a Suffolk Tup from local breeders R.G Laing & Sons, Oxmuir.  Ewes topped at £145 for Suffolks also from the same good home

EWES-

Suffolk: £145 Oxmuir, £131 Symington Mains, £127 Brothershiels, £121 Huntington, Gospelhall, £115 Brothershiels; Texel: £135 Brothershiels, £133 Woodhouse, £129 Corsbie, £119 (2)Carterhaugh, Blue Texel: £125 Hermiston; North Country Cheviot: £109 Philiphaugh, £105 Symington Mains, £95 Bluecairn, £91 Philiphaugh, £89 Gospelhall; Bluefaced Leicester: £109 Hartside, £107 Clarilaw, £105 Broomiebank; Cheviot Mule: £105 Bluecairn, £97 Blegbie; Romney: £109, £95 Gateshaw; Greyfaced: £107 Crailinghall, £105 Buskin, £103 Gala Farms, £95 Corsbie, £93 The Lee, £91 Gala Farms;  Blackface: £95 Rigside, £67 The Lee, £65 Chatto; Lleyn: £87, £81 Falla Cottage, £85 Baillieknowe; Swaldale: £67 Gala Farms

RAMS-

Suffolk: £169, £149 Oxmuir, £125 Gospelhall; Dutch Spotted Texel: £165, £127 Broomiebank; Bluefaced Leicester: £147 Middlethird; North Country Cheviot: £107, £97 Gospelhall