St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 129 Clean Cattle,  56 Cast Cows,  51 Prime Lambs, 1337  Prime Hoggs and 396 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (53) averaged 284p per kg and sold to 330p

Heifers (69) averaged 294p per kg and sold to 334p

Young Bulls (7) averaged 283p per kg and sold to 318p

Cast Cows (55) averaged 201p per kg and sold to 246p

Top price £2012

Cast Bulls (1) sold to 162p per kg.  Top price £1594

Lambs (51) averaged 420p per kg (+40p on the week) £185 per head and sold to £210.

Top price 465p per kg

Hoggs (1337) averaged 365p per kg (-9p on the week) £190 per head and sold to £240

Top price 423.9p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep (396) averaged £130  and sold to £230 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £164, light ewes sold to £161 for North Country Cheviot Ewes, and averaged £121

PRIME CATTLE-

Large commercial show forward with all shapes and sizes easily sold

Bullocks per head: Penston £2290.20, Lurdenlaw £2101.80, Dunslaw £2100.80, £2092.12, £2069.76, Bee Edge £2052.96, Dunslaw £2047.40

Heifers per head: Whitsome West Newton £2069.76, Smailholm Mains £2057.44, Whitsome West Newton £1995.12, Bee Edge £1976.40, £1961.44, Greenknowe £1953.08, Penston £1948.32, Whitrighill £1945.60, Linton £1944

Bullocks per kilo: Penston 330p, Greenknowe 318p, Bee Edge 312p, Lurdenlaw, Wester Ulston 310p, Lennoxlove 306p(2)

Heifers per kilo: Smailholm Mains 334p, Penston 330p Forsyths of Peebles, Bee Edge and Penston 328p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Bee Edge 328p, 326p W.Kirkup & Sons, Whitsome West Newton 326p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Bee Edge 324p, Whitrighill, Penston 320p

Young Bulls per head: Kersknowe £2877.76, £2556.72, Fowberry Moor £2331.72, £2252.92

Young Bulls per kilo: Fowberry Moor 318p, 306p, 302p

CAST COWS-

Booming trade

Cast Cows per head: Hexpath £2011.92, Headshaw, Lauder £1928.64, Middlethird £1878.72, Rumbleton £1866.24, Ruletownhead £1824, Middlestead £1806

Cast Cows per kilo: Headshaw, Lauder 246p, Middlethird, Ruletownhead, Corsbie 228p, Headshaw, Lauder 226p, Rumbleton 218p, Bemersyde, Rumbleton, Huntington, Lennoxlove 216p

Cast Bulls: Wolfstar £1594.08 (162p)

PRIME LAMBS-

Lambs per head-

Texel: £210 Headshaw, Lauder, £200(2), £190 West Meikle Pinkerston; Suffolk: £210 Mersington Mill, £200 Headshaw, Lauder, £194 Ladyflat; Charollais: £194 Falsidehill, £186 Ladyflat; Hampshire: £194, £190 West Meikle Pinkerton

Lambs per kilo- Texel: 465.1p, 444.4p, 441.9p, 437.6p West Meikle Pinkerton; Hampshire: 452.4p, 431.1p West Meikle Pinkerton; Charollais: 432.6p, 427.9p Ladyflat, 421.7p Falsidehill; Suffolk: 416.7p Headshaw, Lauder

PRIME HOGGS- Very heavy show forward.  Average 265p (52kgs) £190

Hoggs per head- Beltex: £240 Boghall, £210 Grange Moor, £202, £200 Boghall; Suffolk: £238, £221, £220(2), £219 (4), £218, £216(3), £215(2) Boghall; Texel: £230, £225(2), £224, £220, £219, £218(2), £217, £214 Boghall, £220 Brundeanlaws, £214 Grange Moor, £212 The Anvil; North Country Cheviot: £201, £195 Soutra, £195 The Anvil, Saughtree, Thorlieshope; Greyfaced: £199 Boghall, £195 Crosshall; Cheviot Mule: £197, £191 Laings Hill; Blackface: £189 Huntershall

Hoggs per kilo-

Beltex: 423.9p, 423.1p, 420p, 418.4p, 415.6p, 413.6p Grange Moor, 420.8p Boghall; Texel: 418.6p Leaston, 413p(2) Grange Moor, 409.5p Faughhill, 408.6p The Anvil, 407.4p Dunorran, 405p Faughhill; North Country Cheviot: 409.1p Boghall, 400p(2) Saughtree, Cheeklaw, Faughhill, Saughtree; Suffolk: 413p The Anvil; Berrichon: 400p Springwood Lodge; Blackface: 382.2p, 381p Faughhill

CAST SHEEP- A mixed show of Cast Sheep forward with good flesh in short supply.  All classes short of buyers requirements

Sale top of £230 for a Texel Ewe from C.R Mackie, Crailing Nook.  Whilst tups reached a peak of £217 with a Suffolk from James Anderson & Son, Headshaw Farm

EWES: Texel: £230 Crailing Nook, £221 Huntington, £217, £200 Greenhead, Reston, £190 Threepwood, Middlestead, £189 Holydean, £187 Whitsome West Newton; Cheviot Mule: £200, £164 Whitehill, £167 South Riccalton, £154 Stickle Heaton, Lumsdaine; Hampshire: £200 West Meikle Pinkerton; Suffolk: £191 Elmbank, £184 Whitsome West Newton, £174 Elmbank, Ladyflat, Broomilees, £170 Mersington Mill, £167, £164 Holydean, £164 Hermiston; Bluefaced Leicester: £167 Threepwood Cottages (D.Sandilands); North Cheviot Cheviot: £161 Laings Hill, £147 Saughtree, £144 Gospelhall, £139 Over Blainslie, £134 Headshaw, Lauder ,South Riccalton (2) Charollais: £147 Berryhill; Greyfaced: £157 Middlestead, £154 Broomilees, £151 Galadean, £149 Crailing Nook, Lumsdaine, £144 Hermiston, Huntershall; Norfolk Horns: £144 Crumstane; Jacob: £135 Upper Nisbet; Lleyn: £124 Over Blainslie; Blackface: £119 Laings Hill, £114 Middlestead, £107 Faughhill; Swaledale: £97 Broomilees; Shetland: £84 Kirkhope Steading; Hebridean: £71 Faughhill

RAMS: Suffolk: £217 Headshaw, Lauder; Texel: £204, £195 Headshaw, Lauder