St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold  69  Clean Cattle, 24 Cast Cows, 1280 Prime Lambs, 144 Prime Hoggs and 310 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (26) averaged 279p per kg and sold to 310p 

Heifers (40) averaged 290p per kg and sold to 330p

Young Bulls (3) averaged 267p per kg and sold to 278p

Cast Cows (20) averaged 212p per kg and sold to 237p

Top price £2038

Cast Bulls (4) averaged 172p per kg and sold to 179p.

Top price £2090

Lambs (1280) averaged 312p per kg (-8p on the week) £138 per head and sold to £191 for Texel Lambs

Top price 395p per kg for Texel Lambs

Hoggs (144) averaged 226p per kg  and sold  to £180 for Texel Hoggs

Cast Sheep (310) averaged £127 and sold to £211 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £160, Light Ewes sold to £141 for Blackface Ewes and averaged £102

PRIME CATTLE-

Good commercial show of cattle met a very fast trade.

Bullocks per head: Friday Hill £2165.40, £2073, Dunslaw £2115, Penston £2064.60, Friday Hill £2015, £2010

Heifers per head: Bee Edge £2219.64, Muircleugh £2107.24, Lennoxlove £2046, Bee Edge £2034.24, £2032.80, Lennoxlove £2005.28, Bee Edge £2003.20, Crailinghall £2003.12

Bullocks per kilo: Penston 310p, Friday Hill 309p, 307p, 298p, Penston 298p

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 330p Denholm Meats, Bee Edge 326p, Bee Edge 320p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, 320p, 318p, Lennoxlove 310p, 308p, 302p (2)

YOUNG BULLS-

Kersknowe £2012.72 (278p), Harehead £1742 (260p)

CAST COWS-

Nice trade

Cast Cows per head:

Vogrie £2038.20, Easter Middleton £1980.90, Harehead £1892.24, Bankhouse £1814.60, Kersknowe £1801.80, Muircleugh £1777.04, Easter Middleton £1758.70

Cast Cows per kilo:

Soutra 237p, 231p, Kersknowe 231p, Muircleugh 229p, Nettlingflat 223p, Middlethird, Harehead 217p, Easter Middleton 215p, Vogrie Farms

CAST BULLS-

Cast Bulls per head: Symington Mains £2090.72, Crailinghall £1820.30

Cast Bulls per kilo: Symington Mains 179p, Gateshaw £173p

PRIME LAMBS-

Good show of Lambs forward, weight still paying.  Average 312p per kilo, £138 per head, 44.2kgs

Topping at £191 for 3 pens of Texel and Suffolk Lambs respectively out of the fantastic run of 152 Lambs from Highfield Farming, The Knock (152 averaged 325p per kg, £153 per head)

Lambs per head-

Texel: £191 (2)The Knock, £190 Whitsome West Newton, £185 (2) The Knock, £181, £180 Headshaw, L, £180 Huntington, Greenhead, Reston; Suffolk: £191, £183 The Knock, £180 Headshaw, L, £180, £178, £175 The Knock, £169 The Lee, £165 Smailholm Mains; Beltex: £152 Philiphaugh, £137 Bowmont Farming; Charollais: £143 Whitemire; Hampshire: £135 Boggs Holdings

Lambs per kilo-

Texel: 395.8p Whitsome West Newton, 367.3p Huntington, 365.2p Whitsome West Newton, 362.7p, 362.5p The Knock, 362p Headshaw, L, 360.4p(2) The Knock, 360p Whitsome West Newton; Suffolk: 360p Headshaw, Lauder, 351.9p, 346.2p The Knock, 343.5p Edrom Mains, 342.6p Leetside, 340.4p(2) Headshaw, L, 336.5p The Knock; Beltex: 330.4p Philiphaugh, 318.6p Bowmont Farming; Hampshire: 300p Boggs Holdings

PRIME HOGGS-

Hoggs per head-

Texel: £180, £175 Elsmcleugh, £143 Marvingston, £123 Friarshaw, £115 The Anvil; Suffolk: £145 Nether Tofts, £109 The Anvil; Blackface: £120 The Anvil; Greyfaced: £108.50 The Anvil

CAST SHEEP-

Good show.  All classes wanted

EWES

Texel: £211 Wooplaw, £195 Heriotsfield, £185 Corsbie, £173, £171 Wooplaw, £169 The Lee, Corsbie, £161 Elwartlaw; Suffolk: £195 Lamberton, £177 Mossilee, £171 Lamberton, Westruther Mains, £169 Haltree, £161 Ruletownhead, £155 Haltree, £145 Ruletownhead; Beltex: £155 Heriotsfield; Charollais: £187, £145 West Lodge South; Greyfaced: £151 West Lodge South, £150 The Lee, £145 Mossilee, Westruther Mains, £143 Brockielaw, The Lee; Blackface: £141 Elmscleugh, £107, £105 Tollishill, £101 Threeburnford; Rough Fell: £141 Craigsford; Lleyn: £131 Ruletownhead; Cheviot Mule: £140 Lumsdaine, £119 West Lodge South; Cheviot: £125, £121, £115 Craigsford, £115 Ruletownhead; Easycare: £99 Bankhouse; Jacob: £91 Blackcruik

RAMS

Texel: £193 Westruther Mains, £181 Ruchlaw Mains; Cheviot: £141 Stoneypath; Bluefaced Leicester: £141 Stoneypath; Blackface: £109 Tollishill