St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 95 Clean Cattle,  49 Cast Cows,  2124 Prime Lambs and 513 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (34) averaged 291p per kg and sold to 316p

Heifers (57) averaged 296p per kg and sold to 330p(2)

Young Bulls (4) averaged 317p per kg and sold to 323p

Cast Cows (47) averaged 175p per kg and sold to 243p

Top price £1775

Cast Bulls (2) averaged 177p per kg and sold to 193p.Top price £1960

Lambs (2124) averaged 260p per kg. £118.50 per head and sold to £157 for Suffolk Lambs

Top price 317p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (513)averaged £78.17 and sold to £141 for a  Texel Ewe

Heavy Ewes averaged £116, light ewes sold to £113 for a North Country Cheviot Ewe, and averaged £69

PRIME CATTLE – Met a brisk trade

Bullocks per head: Learielaw £2101.80, Upper Nisbet £2060.32, Learielaw £2033.60, Upper Nisbet £2002.60, Snawdon £1992, Dunslaw £1974, Snawdon £1969.80

Heifers per head: Learielaw £2119, £2104.56, Mosstower £2039.40, £1982.08, Elwick £1968.24, Bee Edge £1966.80, Lurdenlaw £1962, Elwick £1957.08, Lurdenlaw £1946.16, Bee Edge £1928.64

Bullocks per kilo: Upper Nisbet 316p, Falsidehill 312p, Learielaw (2), Upper Nisbet 310p, 308p, Falsidehill 308p, Dunslaw 302p, Snawdon, Oldcastles 300p

Heifers per kilo: Mosstower 330p Forsyths of Peebles, Bee Edge, Mosstower 330p, Bee Edge 328p, Mosstower 326p, Learielaw 326p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Penston, Mosstower 324p, Faughhill, Bee Edge 320p

Young Bulls per head: Mosstower £2286.90, £2189.94, £2127.24, £2086.56

Young Bulls per kilo: Mosstower 323p, 322p,315p, 311p

CAST COWS and BULLS – Inline with national trend

Cast Cows per head: Hermiston £1775.48, Rumbleton £1694.58, Birkenside £1669.34, The Lee £1618.38, Ecclaw £1602.10, Cragside £1568.80, Hermiston £1546.60, Rumbleton £1544.52, Ecclaw £1533.54, Greenriggs £1529.50

Cast Cows per kilo: The Lee 243p, Hermiston 238p, Ecclaw 217p, Birkenside, Ecclaw 191p, Ecclaw 189p, Greenriggs 187p, Rumbleton, Hermiston, Cragside 185p

Cast Bulls: Mosstower £1960.88(193p)

PRIME LAMBS- Good show of lambs forward.  Returns similar.  Average 260p, £118.50, 45½ kgs

Lambs per head- Suffolk: £157 Headshaw, Lauder, £143 New Blainslie, £141 Thornington, £140 Mowhaugh, £139 (2) Headshaw, Lauder, Corsbie; Texel: £154 Traprain, £147 Muircleugh, £146 Greenhead, Reston, Haltree, £145 Corsbie, Headshaw, Lauder, £143 North Synton, £142.50, £141 Corsbie, £141 Greenhead, Reston; Beltex: £146 Faughhill, £142 Crookston, £140 Faughhill, £139 Corsbie, Crookston, £138 Wauchope, £137 Crookston, £135 Faughhill; Greyfaced: £122.50 Longcroft, £118.50 Broachrigg; Charollais: £118 Trabroun; Hampshire: £114.50 Lauder Herdwicks; North Country Cheviot: £112 Dryden, £111 Broachrigg; Cheviot Mule: £113 Bluecairn

Lambs per kilo- Beltex: 317.1p Wester Ulston, 309.5p Greenhead, Selkirk, 304.3p Faughhill, 302.3p Wester Ulston, 300p Wauchope, Texel: 290.7p The Knock, 288.9p, 285.1p The Lee, 281.9p Traprain, Wester Ulston, 281p The Knock, 280.4p Crookston, The Knock; Suffolk: 272.5p(2), 270.7p Headshaw, Lauder, 263.6p The Knock, South Riccalton, 263.1p Broachrigg; North Country Cheviot: 264.3p Broachrigg; Charollais: 262.2p Trabroun; Greyfaced: 261.4p Broachrigg; Cheviot Mule: 258.5p Saughtree; Hampshire: 253.4p Lauder Herdwicks

CAST SHEEP: A mixed show with large well fleshed ewes selling to a premium

Sale top of £141 for a Texel.x Ewe from R.R Tweedie & Co Ltd, Middlethird

EWES- Texel: £141 Middlethird, £139 (2)Threepwood, £137 Greenhead, Reston, £131 Lintalee, £127 Threepwood, Lintalee; Suffolk: £133 Greenhead, Reston, £129 Pogbie, £119 Crookham Dairy, £113 Middlethird; North Country Cheviot: £113 Ruletownhead, £83 Broomiebank, Dryden, £81 Springwood Lodge, £79 Middlethird; Cheviot Mule: £111 Crookham Dairy, £105 Muircleugh, £101 Broomiebank, £99 Lumsdaine; Zwartble: £111 Crookham Dairy; Lleyn: £109, £101 Over Whitlaw, £87 Thorneydykes; Dorset: £107 Dunorran, Duns; Greyfaced: £97 Helmburn, Brockielaw, £95 Crosslaw, £85 Broomiebank; Berrichon: £97, £95 Springwood Lodge; Blackfaced: £75 Longcroft, £65 Hopes, £59 Longcroft; Jacob: £75 Brockielaw

RAMS- Texel: £133, £127 Ecclaw; Jacob: £91