St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 94 Clean Cattle, 27 Cast Cows, 8  Prime Lambs,  1260 Prime Hoggs and 346 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (39) averaged 283p per kg and sold to 336p

Heifers (54) averaged 300p per kg and sold to 334p

Young Bulls (1) sold to 314p

Cast Cows (27) averaged 217p per kg and sold to 249p

Lambs (8) averaged 380p per kg (-10p on the week) £150 per head and sold to £157.

Top price 400p per kg

Hoggs (1260) averaged 374p per kg (-6p on the week) £175 per head and sold to £230 for Suffolk Hoggs

Top price 463p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (346) averaged £138.89  and sold to £250 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £165, light ewes sold to £180 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £119

PRIME CATTLE- Bigger cattle slightly cheaper with quality still in demand.

Bullocks per head: Penston £2358.72, Bee Edge £2144.88, Dunslaw £2095.20, Penston £2067.20, Upper Nisbet £2065.68, Dunslaw £2064.48, £2060.48, £2053.68

Heifers per head: Penston £2098.24, Dunslaw £2087.40, Penston £2079, Bee Edge £2066.40, Whitsome West Newton £2031.84, Dunslaw £1985.28, Bee Edge £1970.60, Lurdenlaw £1963.84, Whitsome West Newton £1953.12

Bullocks per kilo: Penston 336p, Bee Edge 324p, Penston 320p, Gospelhall 314p, Upper Nisbet 311p, Lennoxlove, Wester Ulston 310p

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 334p Denholm Meat Supplies, Penston 332p, Bee Edge, Penston 330p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Bee Edge 328p (3), Smailholm Mains 326p

Young Bulls: Smailholm Mains £2078.68 (314p)

CAST COWS- Good show, fabulous trade

Cast Cows per head: Wester Middleton £2018.80, £1911.78, £1855.36, £1822.50

Cast Cows per kilo: Lee 249p, Wester Middleton 247p, 245p, 243p Lee 245p, Cortleferry 233p, 231p

PRIME HOGGS- A mixed show forward.  Fed sheep easily sold.  Average 374p, £175, 46.8kgs

Hoggs per head-

Suffolk: £230 Marvingston, Boghall, £223 Gattonside Mains, £220 Boghall, Marvingston, £219, £215 Boghall, £215 Gattonside Mains; Texel: £220(2), £219, £218, £215, £214 Boghall, £212 St Clements Wells, Sunnycroft; Hampshire: £208(2) St Clements Wells; North Country Cheviot: £204 Nisbet Mill, £198, £196 Gospelhall; Beltex: £200 Swinnie, £190 Halidean Mill, £190(4) Grange Moor; Bluefaced Leicester: £200 Burnhead, Peebles; Greyfaced: £190 Boghall; Cheviot Mule: £183 West Lodge South; Half Bred: £179, £178 Stobshiel Mains; Blackface: £153 Newton, Crathie

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 463.4p, 457.8p, 450p, 448.7p, 441.6p, 435.9p, 431.8p, 428.6p (2) Grange Moor; Texel: 430.2p Boghall, 422.2p, 411.2p Grange Moor, 409.5p New Blainslie, 409.3p Faughhill, 408p, 400p Boghall, 400p Swinnie; North Country Cheviot: 402.4p Faughhill, 400p (2) Kirklands, Ancrum; Suffolk: 402.1p Boghall, 397.7p Faughhill, 397.5p Blackburn, Lauder, 393.6p Boghall, 390.2p Meigle; Greyfaced: 397.9p Crosshall; Half Bred: 397.8p Stobshiel Mains; Cheviot Mule: 385.3p West Lodge South; Blackface: 368.7p Newton, Crathie

CAST SHEEP- Trade on fire as numbers continue to be well short of buyer demand.  Numbers are needed!

Sale top of £250 for Texels from W.Pate & Partners, Marvingston.  Tups topped at £232 for a Hampshire from Janice Laird, St Clements Wells

EWES: Texel: £250, £240, £238 Marvingston, £220 Haltree, £212 Sunnycroft, Middlethird; Suffolk: £245, £198, £192 Marvingston, £190 Symington Mains, £188 Middlethird, £185 Pallinsburn, £180 Meigle, Bonjedward, St Clements Wells; Bleu du Maine: £238, £225 Craiglea; Charollais: £230, £228 Runningburn; Half Bred: £190 Marvingston, £180 Symington Mains, £165 Bonjedward; Dorset: £190 Cheeklaw; Zwartble: £188 Cakemuir, £177 The Pond House; Cheviot Mule: £187 Crookham Dairy, £175 Pallinsburn, £172 Gilmanscleugh, £170 Crookham Dairy, £170 Millheugh; Greyfaced: £170 Symington Mains, £165 Woodhouse, £155 West Lodge South, Townhead, Cockburnspath, £150 Over Newton, £145 Laidlawstiel, £140 Symington Mains, Meigle, Blackburnrigg; North Country Cheviot: £180, £165 Stobshiel Mains, £152 Haltree, £150 Millheugh, £148 West Lodge South; Beltex: £178 Blackburnrigg, £150 Crookham Dairy; Hampshire: £177 St Clements Wells; Lleyn: £175 Over Langshaw, £165, £160 Collielaw; Romney: £160 (2)Over Newton; Vendeen: £141 Crookham Dairy: Blackface: £103 Laidlawstiel, £98 Meigle, £95 Townhead, Cockburnspath; Herdwick: £90 Ellemford Cottage (R.Hume); Shetland: £65 Huntlaw (K.Lyon) £60 West Lodge South

RAMS: Hampshire: £232 St Clements Wells; Beltex: £190 Craiglea; Roussin: £140 Woodhouse