St Boswells Sale of Store Cattle & Sheep

Good show of cattle met good demand.

Topping at £1350 for a Charolais.x Bullock from North Synton.  Top pence per kilo was a Limousin.x at  286p per kilo from Messrs Rutter, Greenhead. Selkirk

STORE CATTLE

Bullocks per head_

Aberdeen Angus: £1210 Tandlaw; Friesian: £1070 Southdean; Limousin: £1300 Lylestane, £1120 Greenhead, Selkirk; Luing: £1030 Tandlaw; Simmental: £1300 Lylestane, £1240 Tandlaw; Charolais: £1330 North Synton

Heifers per head

Aberdeen Angus: £1040 Tandlaw; Hereford: £1180 Southdean; Limousin: £1150 Lylestane, £1130 Greenhead, Selkirk, Lylestane, £1100 Greenhead, Selkirk; Simmental: £1120, £1070 Tandlaw

Bullocks per kilo

Limousin: 269.9p Greenhead, Selkirk

Heifers per kilo

Limousin: 285.7p, 271p Greenhead, Selkirk

STORE SHEEP

A smaller show of more long keep lambs forward selling to expected rates.

Texel: £115 Reaveley Greens, £107 North Pennyhill, £99.50, £97 Lanton Crag, £94 North Pennyhill, £90 Kirk O’Er; Suffolk: £105.50 Branxholm Braes; Hampshire: £100 Branxholm Braes; North Country Cheviot: £90 Winkston, £67 Carcant, £63.50 Bowershields; Ryeland: £76 Craigsford; Blackface: £74, £69 Reaveley Greens; Greyfaced: £70 Reaveley Greens; Hill Cheviot: £69, £67.50 Branxholm Braes