St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 86 Clean Cattle, 44 Cast Cows, 2292 Prime Lambs and 794 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (39) averaged 279p per kg and sold to 318p

Heifers (42) averaged 296p per kg and sold to 336p

Young Bulls (5) averaged 307p per kg and sold to 316p

Cast Cows (43) averaged 181p per kg and sold to 251p

Top price £1827

Cast Bulls (1) sold to 191p.Top price £2181

Lambs (2292) averaged 248.50p per kg (-0.5p on the week). £112.50 per head and sold to £151 for Beltex Lambs

Top price 328p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (794) averaged £76.61 and sold to £165 for a Texel Ewe

Heavy Ewes averaged £116, light ewes sold to £75 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £69

PRIME CATTLE- Good solid trade with all types easily sold

Bullocks per head: Lurdenlaw £2015, £1959.20, Willowford £1920.24, Dunslaw £1918, Faughhill £1911, Upper Nisbet £1901.64, Dunslaw £1887.68, £1852.44

Heifers per head: Mosstower £2039.40, Lurdenlaw £2022.40, Fowberry Moor £2021.76, Penston £2002.84, Lurdenlaw £1997.12, Penston £1989.96, Mosstower £1912.68, £1907.20, Broachrigg £1906.24

Bullocks per kilo: Upper Nisbet 318p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Lurdenlaw 310p(2) J.A Waters & Sons and Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Wester Ulston 298p, Faughhill 296p, Broachrigg 295p, Faughhill, Upper Nisbet 294p

Heifers per kilo: Mosstower 336p Forsyths of Peebles, Mosstower 332p, 330p, Faughhill 322p, Penston 322p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Mosstower (2), Penston, Bee Edge 322p, Upper Nisbet 320p

Young Bulls per head: Mosstower £2238.20, £2229.92, £2224.64, £2158.40

Young Bulls per kilo : Mosstower 316p, 310p, 308p, 304p, Huntington 300p

CAST COWS More feeding types about, easily sold to recent rates.

Cast Cows per head: Huntington £1827.28, Hoselaw £1807.74, Huntington £1603.04, Easter Middleton £1571.70, Hoselaw £1564.68, Corsbie £1564.18, £1533.40

Cast Cows per kilo: Huntington 251p, 233p, Hoselaw 249p, Woodhouse 219p, 217p, Huntington 211p, Corsbie 197p, Easter Middleton, Corsbie 195p

Cast Bulls per head: Ramrig £2181.22

Cast Bulls per kilo: Ramrig 191p

PRIME LAMBS- More numbers forward, returns similar.  Average 248.5p, £112.50, 45.2kgs

Lambs per head-

Texel: £151 Collielaw, £147 Fountainhall, £145 Woodhouse, £143 Fountainhall, Crumhaughhill, £141 Corsbie, £140 Headshaw, Lauder, £139 Corsbie, £137 Haltree, Crumhaughhill, £136 Woodhouse, Headshaw, Lauder, £135 Woodhouse; Suffolk: £140 Corsbie, £140, £135 Headshaw, Lauder, £135 Mowhaugh, £129 Blegbie, £128 Lumsdaine; Beltex: £138, £136, £135 Crookston, £135 Buckholm, £133 Easter Whitmuir, £133, £130 (2) Crookston; Blue Texel: £138, £130 Oxnam Neuk; Greyfaced: £119 Lumsdaine; Cheviot Mule: £119 Blegbie; Charmoise: £116 Whitfield

Lambs per kilo- Texel: 328.3p Collielaw, 285.7p Wauchope, 282.5p Crumhaughhill, 281p Wauchope, 280.4p Crumhaughhill, 273.7p Bogend, 272.7p Lylestane, 271.7p Crumhaughhill, 271.3p Kirktonhill, 270p Brundeanlaws; Beltex: 302.4p Westerhouses, 296.5p Threeburnford, 293.5p Crookston, 285.7p Threeburnford, 283.1p Westerhouses, 283p Crookston, 281.8p Threeburnford, Westerhouses, 275.5p Buckholm; Charmoise: 260p (2) Whitfield; Suffolk: 257.1p Headshaw, Lauder, 256.4p, 255p, 250p Broom, 250p Corsbie, Kirktonhill; Greyfaced: 245.8p Lauderhill

CAST SHEEP More lean types forward.  Returns similar

EWES- Texel: £165 Helmburn, £161 Bogend, £157, £150(2) Headshaw, Lauder, £147 Roxburgh Mill, £143, £141 Chesters Brae; Charollais: £164, £158, £150, £142, £140 Runningburn; Suffolk: £135 Headshaw, Lauder, £130 Ruecastle Cottage, £127 Bogend, £123 Ruecastle Cottage, £117 Wester Middleton, £115 Greenriggs; Roussin: £117 Woodhouse; Cheviot Mule: £113 (3) Wester Ulston, £111 Over Howden; £109 Lumsdaine; Greyfaced: £111 Greenriggs, £109 Mowhaugh, £107 Letham Farming, Falside, £105 Mowhaugh; Beltex: £110 Wester Ulston; North Country Cheviot: £75 Saughtree, £73 Lylestane, Middlesknowes, £71 Easter Howgate; Blackface: £73 Bowland, £57 Meigle, Bowland, Huntershall, Middle Moneynut; Easycare: £71 Inchkeith, Hagbrae £70

RAMS- Texel: £192 Roxburgh Mill, £167 Bogend, £153 Helmburn; Beltex: £157 Buckholm