St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold  67  Clean Cattle, 18 Cast Cows, 1197 Prime Lambs, 156 Prime Hoggs and 234 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (31) averaged 286p per kg and sold to 322p 

Heifers (34) averaged 304p per kg and sold to 330p x 3

Cast Cows (17) averaged 230p per kg and sold to 249p (+18p on the week)

Top price £2289

Cast Bulls (1) averaged 169p per kg and sold to 1831p.

Top price £1831

Lambs (1197) averaged 320p per kg (-40p on the week) £140 per head and sold to £210 for Suffolk x Lambs

Top price 407p per kg for Texel Lambs

Hoggs (156) averaged 277p per kg £142 per head and sold to £181 for Suffolk x Hoggs

Top price 306p per kg for Texel Hoggs

Cast Sheep (234) averaged £127 and sold to £200 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £159, light ewes sold to £113 for Cheviots and averaged £101.

PRIME CATTLE-

Smaller show forward, but a great trade was witnessed.

Bullocks per head:

Wellheads £2196.48, Elwick £2174.94, Wellheads £2158.32, Bee Edge £2152.80, £2143.32, Elwick £2116.80, Lennoxlove £2054, Penston £2040.36, Dunslaw £2022.40

Heifers per head:

Wellheads £2137.52, £2077.76, Penston £2034.72, Lennoxlove £2009.28, Bee Edge £1999.80, Penston £1993.20, Bee Edge £1969.04

Bullocks per kilo:

Penston 322p, Bee Edge 318p, Lennoxlove 316p, Elwick 315p, Bee Edge, Wellheads 312p, Penston 294p, Elwick 281p, Wellheads 276p, Dunslaw 256p

Heifers per kilo:

Penston 330p W.T.S Forsyth & Sons, Peebles, 330p, Bee Edge 330p Hugh Black & Sons, 326p, Penston 314p Hugh Black & Sons, Lennoxlove 312p, Wellheads 308p Hugh Black & Sons, 302p

Young Bulls per head:

Kersknowe £2362.32, £2307.24

Young Bulls per kilo:

Kersknowe 306p

CAST COWS-

Marvellous trade.

Cast Cows per head:

Honeyburn £2289.42, £2240.46, Kirktonhill £2177.28, Honeyburn £1977.06, £1889.40, £1826.72, Kirktonhill £1706.12, £1699.44, Honeyburn £1649.70, Soutra £1630.90

Cast Cows per kilo:

Honeyburn 249p, Kirktonhill, Honeyburn 243p, Honeyburn 237p, 235p, Soutra 235p, Honeyburn 233p, Kirktonhill 221p, 219p

CAST BULLS-

Cast Bull  

Burnhouse Mains £1831.96 (169p)

STORE CATTLE

Small show but a good show of store cattle forward

Bullocks per head:

Aberdeen Angus: £1000 Stoneypath, £860 Earlston Mains

Bullocks per kilo:

Aberdeen Angus: 311p Earlston Mains

Heifers per head:

Aberdeen Angus: £1480, £1250 Holydean Limousin: £1180 Holydean Luing: £850 Tushielaw

Heifers per kilo:

Aberdeen Angus: 266.2p Holydean, 257.3p Earlston Mains Luing: 251.5p Tushielaw

PRIME LAMBS-

Another superb show of lambs forward, returns less again. Average 320p, £140, 43.7kg

Lambs per head-

Suffolk: £210 Belmont, £188 The Anvil, £179 Huntington, £173 Headshaw, L,  £172 The Anvil, £170 Headshaw, L £168 Marvingston, £166 Oxmuir Texel: £198 Legars, £190 Sunnycroft, £183 Fishwick, Corsbie, Whitsome West Newton, £180 The Anvil (2), Symington Mains, St Clements Wells Beltex: £185 Rumbletonrig, £179 Buxley Farm Steading, £177 Headshaw, L, £175 Oxnam Neuk, £172 Rumbletonrig, £163 Buxley Farm Steading Hampshire: £180, £149 St Clements Wells Blue Texel: £180 Oxnam Neuk North Country Cheviot: £160 Symington Mains

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 406.9p Headshaw, L 389.1p Buxley Farm Steading, 388.9p Oxnam Neuk, 379.1p Buxley Farm Steading, 375.8p Oxnam Neuk, 366p Rumbletonrig, 361.3p Buxley Farm Steading Texel: 395.6p Huntington, 382.2p Fishwick, 375.6p Whitsome West Newton, Huntington 374.5p (2) Whitsome West Newton, 374.4p Corsbie, 373.5p Whitsome West Newton, 368.9p Marvingston, 367.4p West Meikle Pinkerton, 367.3p The Anvil, 366.7 Whitsome West Newton, Huntington, 366.3p Marvingston, 365.6p Whitsome West Newton Blue Texel: 391.3p Oxnam Neuk Suffolk: 376p The Anvil, 365.3p Huntington, 362.1p The Anvil, 350p Belmont, Marvingston, 346p Headshaw, L, 344.4p, 344.1p Marvingston Hampshire: 327.3p, 323.9p St Clements Well

PRIME HOGGS-

Hoggs per head-

Suffolk: £181, £160 (2) Butterdean, £150 The Anvil Texel: £177, £171, £170 Butterdean, £157 (2) Burrows View, £150 (2) The Anvil Blue Texel: £167 Sunnycroft Cheviot Mule: £150 Bluecairn Greyfaced: £147 The Anvil, Tollishill North Country Cheviot: £141 The Anvil

CAST SHEEP-

Smaller show, all types similar, big ewes easy sold.

EWES

Texel: £200, Traprain, £177 Friarshaw, £175 Legars, £165 (2) Traprain Suffolk: £195 Legars, Fishwick Beltex: £191, £157 Oxnam Neuk Hampshire: £177, £167 East Fortune, Greyfaced: £161 Ballencrief Mains, £113 Kittyfield Cheviot Mule: £149 Blegbie, £141 Newtrench North Country Cheviot: £113 Newtrench, Blegbie Blackface: £113 Burncastle, Lleyn: £115 East Fortune, Herdwick: £87 3 Oxnam Mains

RAMS

Beltex: £203 Butterdean Texel: £195 Butterdean, £161 3 Oxnam Mains Suffolk: Butterdean