St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 88 Clean Cattle,  28 Cast Cows,  1668 Prime Lambs, and 779 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (43) averaged 294p per kg and sold to 316p 

Heifers (35) averaged 300p per kg and sold to 332p

Young Bulls (10) averaged 230p per kg and sold to 298p

Cast Cows (25) averaged 203p per kg and sold to 241p

Top price £2009

Cast Bulls (3) averaged 166p per kg and sold to 179p

Top price £1725

Lambs (1668) averaged 320p per kg (+2p on the week) £141 per head and sold to £189 for Beltex   Lambs

Top price 390.5p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (779) averaged £128 and sold to £267 for Texel Ewes

Heavy Ewes averaged £160, Light Ewes sold to £187 for Cheviot Ewes and averaged £124

PRIME CATTLE-

Good show, nice

Bullocks per head:

Bee Edge £2144.34, Learielaw £2126.60, Penston £2080.80, Butchercote, Penston £2059.20, Penston £2040.48, Learielaw £2011.32, £1996.40

Heifers per head:

Bee Edge £2085.60, £2045.12, Penston £2025.20, Learielaw £2009.28, Penston £1982.88, Bee Edge £1976.40, Penston £1953.12, Lurdenlaw  £1943.88, Crookhouse £1909.60

Bullocks per kilo:

Lurdenlaw 316p, Butchercote, Penston(2) 312p, Learielaw 310p(2), Upper Nisbet 308p, Oldcastles 307p, Whitrighill 306p J.A Waters & Sons, Penston 306p

Heifers per kilo:

Bee Edge 332p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Penston 332p, Bee Edge 330p W.Kirkup Butchers, Penston 324p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Bee Edge 324p W.Kirkup Butchers,  Learielaw 322p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Penston 313p, Lurdenlaw 312p, Crookhouse, Whitrighill 310p

YOUNG BULLS –

Young Bulls per head: Ramrig £2008.52, Ecclaw £1895.72, Ramrig £1874.64, £1862.60

Young Bulls per kilo: Ramrig 298p, 292p, 278p

CAST COWS-

Similar on the week

Cast Cows per head:

Stobshiel Mains £2009, Butchercote £1894.78, Orchard £1850.32, Rumbleton £1827.14, Stobshiel Mains £1763.96, Caverton Mill £1741.74, £1705.44, Cragside £1701.46

Cast Cows per kilo:

Cragside 214p, Middlethird 239p, Orchard 229p, Butchercote 225p, Orchard 221p, Rumbleton 217p, 215p, Caverton Mill 213p

CAST BULLS-

Cast Bulls per head: Greenhead, Selkirk £1725.56, Gateshaw £1693.72

Cast Bulls per kilo: Greenhead, Selkirk 179p, Gateshaw 161p

PRIME LAMBS-

All classes in demand again.  Well fleshed lambs easy sold.  Average £141,  320p, 44kgs

Lambs per head-

Beltex: £189 Corsbie, £186, £181, £180(2), £177, £173, £172 Whitsome West Newton; Texel: £185 Whitsome West Newton, £182 Rawburn, £181 Corsbie, £180 Greenhead, Reston, £177 Hallrule Mill, £175 Corsbie, £174 Greenhead, Reston, Corsbie, £172 Corsbie; Suffolk: £184 Threepwood, £173 Brothershiels, £171 Mersington Mill, £163 Hermiston,  £162 Threepwood, £160 Butterdean, Hermiston(2); Blue Texel: £188, £147 Hermiston; Greyfaced: £146 Burncastle; North Country Cheviot: £141 Symington Mains; Cheviot Mule: £141 Gospelhall; Hampshire: £134 AR Hume Farming; Charollais: £130 Ladyflat

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 390.5p Threeburnford, 387.5p Whitsome West Newton, 378p Corsbie, 377.1p, 376.6p, 375p Whitsome West Newton, 375p Treaty Park, Adderstonshiels, Whitsome West Newton; Texel: 373.9p Corsbie, 367.4p Wooplaw, 365.6p Whitsome West Newton, 364.6p Corsbie, 363.2p Wauchope, 360.9p Hermiston, 354.5p North Synton, 353.2p Wooplaw, 352.1p Rawburn; Blue Texel: 354.2p, 329.8p Hermiston; Suffolk: 334.8p Stoneypath, 334p Threepwood, 326.4p Brothershiels, 323.4p Butterdean, 320p Hermiston(2); Hampshire: 319p AR Hume Farming, 318.5p West Meikle Pinkerton; Charollais: 313.3p Ladyflat; Cheviot Mule: 309.5p Rawburn, 306.8p Gospelhall; Greyfaced: 304.2p Burncastle

CAST SHEEP-

Trade very similar on the week with meat very easy to cash

EWES

Suffolk: £210 (2) Browns Cottage (N.Sandilands), £197 Threepwood, £194 Leetside, £190 Greenhead, Reston, £187 North Synton, £185 Corsbie; Bluefaced Leicester: £209, £185 Burncastle; Texel: £200 Corsbie, £197 Threepwood, £194 Oxmuir, £191 Elwartlaw(2), Oxmuir(2), £190 Leetside; Beltex: £194, £149 Rawburn, £129 Browns Cottage (N.Sandilands); North Country Cheviot: £187, £181, £169 Nisbet Mill, £155 Woodside, £147 South Riccalton, £144 Oxmuir, £141 Holylee;  Cheviot Mule: £181 Nisbet Mill, £179 H & A Farms, £177, £157 Bedrule, £153 Woodside Blue Texel: £179 Hermiston; Greyfaced: £164 Rawburn, £151 Holylee, £149 Burncastle, Oxmuir, £147 Woodhouse, Ecclaw, £141 Brockielaw; Berrichon: £159 Springwood; Blackface: £139 Hethpool, £137 Holylee, £127 Hethpool, £125 Meigle, £109 Bedrule; LLeyn: £125, £123, £117 Ruletownhead; Half Bred: £100 Blackburnrigg