St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 60 Clean Cattle, 22 Cast Cows, 1673 Prime Lambs, and 532 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (19) averaged 307p per kg and sold to 326p x 2

Heifers (40) averaged 308p per kg and sold to 332p

Cast Cows (21) averaged 217p per kg and sold to 275p

Top price £2096

Cast Bulls (1) averaged and sold to 149p

Lambs (1673) averaged 290p per kg (+6p on the week) £134 per head and sold to £168 for Texel Lambs

Top price 372p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (532) averaged £106 and sold to £240

Heavy Ewes averaged £152, Light Ewes sold to £135 and averaged £98.40

PRIME CATTLE-

All classes well bid for

Bullocks per head:

Wellheads £2511.36, £2444.80, £2414.24, £2364.02, £2341.46, £2317.44, £2279.20

Heifers per head:

Penston £2164.64, Oldcastles £2074.08, Penston £2028.00, Oldcastles £1958.80, Bee Edge £1952.52, £1939.20, Penston £1928.64, £1924.56 Bee Edge £1915.52

Bullocks per kilo:

Learielaw 326p (2), Penston 324p, Learielaw 322p, Wellheads 320p, 319p, Learielaw 318p (2)

Heifers per kilo:

Oldcastles 332p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, 330p, Friday Hill 328p, Bee Edge 328p W Kirkup & Sons, Penston 328p, 326p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Oldcastles 326p, Penston 325p

Young Bulls: Lakewood Stud £1540.44

CAST COWS-

Sound trade

Cast Cows per head:

Muircleugh £2096.20, Cragside £2030.34, Fairnilee £1918.62, Upper Nisbet £1886.50, Craigsford Mains £1832.32, Hermiston £1790.78, Muircleugh £1731.66

Cast Cows per kilo:

Upper Nisbet 275p, Cragside 247p, Friday Hill 247p, 245p, 237p, Hermiston, Upper Nisbet 229p

Cast Bulls per head-

Synton Mill £1540.44

Cast Bulls per kilo-

Synton Mill 149p

PRIME SHEEP

Flesh still wanted, trade slightly sharper. Avg 290p, £134, 46.2kg

Lambs per head-

Texel: £168, £165 Symington Mains, £164 Crookston, £162 Crookston, Hexpath, Haltree, £160 Crookston, £158 Hexpath, Corsbie Suffolk: £160 Corsbie, £158 Halkburn Farm Holding, £155 Whitehill, The Anvil, £154 Symington Mains, £150 The Anvil, Symington Mains (2), The Knock Beltex: £160 Pikiestane, Crookston, £158 Crookston, £150 Pikiestane, £149 Crookston, £146 (2) Lochside, £145 Pikiestane, £140 Crookston, Wauchope Dutch Spotted: £143 Braidwood Cheviot Mule: £135 Blegbie Greyfaced: £130 Huntershall Charollais: £130 Fairlaw

Lambs per kilo-

Beltex: 372.1p Pikiestane, 333.3p, 319.5p, 318.6p Wauchope, 318.6p Threeburnford, 315.9p Lochside, 311.8p Pikiestane, 310.6p Lochside Texel: 326.7p Wauchope, 324.4p Huntington, 319.1p Cheeklaw Brae Farming, 318.2p Huntington, 317.4p Clarilawmuir, 312.5p The Anvil, 311.1p Clarilawmuir, Wauchope, 310.2p The Knock Suffolk: 304.8p Corsbie, 300p (2) Symington Mains, 297.8p Saughtree, 295.7p The Knock Dutch Spotted: 290.7p Braidwood Cheviot Mule: 280.9p 10A Douglas Square (A. Ferrie) Charollais: 280p Fairlaw

CAST SHEEP-

Both numbers and trade up on the week with quality shown to be very similar with most of the sale being light hill ewes.

Sale top of £240 for a Bluefaced Leicester tup from Clarilaw Farming

Texel: £185 Rawburn, £181 Crailing Nook, £180 Leaston, Greenhead, R, £175 Greenhead, R, Hexpath, £160 Lochside, Corsbie Suffolk: £180 Oxmuir, £168 Corsbie, £165 Muircleugh, £162 Symington Mains, £158 Corsbie, Greenhead, R, £152 Hermiston Cheviot Mule: £170 Muircleugh, £150 21 Scott Road (J. Ainslie), £148, £142 Muircleugh, £138 Adderstonshiels, Saughtree, £135 Blegbie Hampshire: £155 St Clements Wells Easycare: £155, £115 Muircleugh Zwartable: £149 St Clements Wells Greyfaced: £148 Symington Mains, £142 Primside, £126 Rawburn, £120 Leaston, £110 Berryhill, £92 Crailing Nook, £90 21 Scott Road (J. Ainslie) North Country Cheviots: £135 Oxmuir, £135 Adderstonshiels, £127 Dryden, £125 Adderstonshiels, £116 21 Scott Road (J. Ainslie), £115 Adderstonshiels Bluefaced Leicester: £142 Halkburn Farm Holding, £138 Clarilaw Lleyn: £135, £110, £105 Trabroun, £98 Dimpleknowe Charollais: £122 St Clements Wells Greyfaced Dartmoor: £98 Calaburn Herdwick: £80 Woodburn Farmhouse Blackface: £78, £70 East Redford Green, £68 Calaburn, £63, £60 East Redford Green Hebridean: £52 Letham Mains Holding

RAMS- Bluefaced Leicester: £240 Clarilaw Texel: £205 Newtrench Ltd Blackface: £90 Calaburn