St Boswells Primestock Sale

Sold 82 Clean Cattle, 82 Cast Cows, 2130  Prime Lambs, and 745  Cast Sheep

Bullocks (21) averaged 317p per kg and sold to 330p x 2

Heifers (54) averaged 302p per kg and sold to 348p

Young Bulls (7) averaged 275p per kilo and sold to 328p

Cast Cows (79) averaged 188p per kg and sold to 259p

Top price £1907

Cast Bulls (3) averaged 146p per kg and sold to 169p per kg

Top price £2213

Lambs (2130) averaged 280p per kg (-5p on the week) £129 per head and sold to £165 for Texel Lambs

Top price 333p per kg for Beltex Lambs

Cast Sheep (745) averaged £90.19 and sold to £220

Heavy Ewes averaged £146, Light Ewes sold to £165 for North Country Cheviot Ewes and averaged £82.76

PRIME CATTLE-

Solid trade throughout

Bullocks per head:

Wellheads £2553.28, £2375.40, £2367.56, £2322.24, £2285.36, Learielaw £2191.14, Wellheads £2189.60, £2174.08, Learielaw £2170.80, £2131.80

Heifers per head:

Wellheads £2435.88, £2289.44, £2241.12, Penston £2131.80, Mosstower £2058.40, Bee Edge £2046.72, Mosstower £2046, Bee Edge £2039.28, £2009.76

Bullocks per kilo:

Penston 330p, Learielaw 330p, 329p, Bee Edge, Wellheads 328p, Learielaw 324p(2), Penston, Wellheads, Learielaw 322p

Heifers per kilo:

Bee Edge 348p, Mosstower 332p, Penston, Mosstower, Bee Edge 330p, Mosstower 330p Forsyths of Peebles, Wellheads, Bee Edge(2) 328p

Young Bulls per head: Mosstower £2315.68 (328p), Greenlees £1977.28(296p), £1859.52(298p)

CAST COWS-

Best cows easily sold, feeding cows harder to cash

Cast Cows per head:

Whitrighill £1907.62, £1792.28, Falsidehill £1788.48, Upper Blainslie £1783.40, Falsidehill £1764.78, Whitrighill £1759.50, Mosstower £1759.30, Middlestead £1753.30, Upper Blainslie £1716.66

Cast Cows per kilo:

Whitrighill 259p, 255p, 253p, Mosstower 241p, Falsidehill 239p, Whitrighill 235p

CAST BULLS: Howahill £2213.90(169p), Mossilee £1653.90(149p)

PRIME SHEEP

More numbers forward.  Flesh easily sold.  Average 280p (46kgs), £129

Lambs per head- Texel: £165 Threepwood, £161, £159 Mainside, £158 Hermiston, £157(2) Threepwood, £156 Corsbie, Symington Mains, Mainside; Suffolk: £160 Oxmuir, £160, £158 Haltree, £157 Whitehill, £155 New Blainslie, Butterdean, Corsbie; Beltex: £160 Corsbie, £158 Wester Ulston, £156 Corsbie, £152 Adderstonshiels, £145, £140 Butterdean; North Country Cheviot: £150, £145, £144(2) Symington Mains, £144 Threeburnford; Hampshire: £146 Bridgehaugh Mill, £127.50 Lauder Herdwicks; Cheviot Mule: £134 Gilston, £133.50 Saughtree, £133 (2) Gospelhall; Charollais: £133 Trabroun;  Greyfaced: £131 Tollishill; Blackface: £125.50 Middlesknowes; Charmoise: £120(2) Whitfield, Hawick

Lambs per kilo- Beltex: 333.3p, 321.1p, 309.5p Wester Ulston, 312p Corsbie, 307.9p, 306.5p, 305.6p Rhodes Holdings, 303.8p Wester Ulston; Texel: 323.5p Threepwood, 306.1p Bedrule, 301.9p Threepwood, 300p Corsbie, Butterdean, Wester Ulston(2), Mainside; North Country Cheviot: 304.3p Threeburnford, 290p, 283.3p, 280.4p Symington Mains; Suffolk: 293.3p Wester Ulston, 292.5p Symington Mains, 290.9p Broom, 286.7p Whitehill, 283.1p Adderstonshiels, 281.8p New Blainslie; Charmoise: 294.8p, 285.4p Whitfield; Dutch Spotted: 281.6p Ladylands Drive, Selkirk (L.Ferguson); Cheviot Mule: 276.7p Meigle; Hampshire: 272.7p Boggs Holdings (Kay), Lauder Herdwicks; Charollais: 271.4p Trabroun; Greyfaced: 270.5p Meigle; Blackface: 261.5p Middlesknowes

CAST SHEEP-

A poorer show with 80% of the sale being light, hill sheep

Topping the sale at £220 was an outstanding Texel Ewe from Messrs Murray, Redden.  Messrs Murray also had a Texel ewe this time at £202.  Following her at £200 was again a Texel this time from Messrs Robson, Venchen

Texel: £220, £202, £195, £192, £190, £188 Redden, £200 Venchen, £188 Berryhill, £185 Redden; Beltex: £188, £180 Pirnie, £158 Heriotsfield, Oxton, £115 Bedrule; Suffolk: £172 Nether Tofts, £162 Symington Mains, £142 Shotton, £140 Symington Mains, £132 Nether Tofts, £125 Elmbank, Lauder Herdwicks; North Country Cheviot: £165, £152 Symington Mains, £110 Saughtree, £95 Lumsdaine, £92 Birneyknowe, Lumsdaine, £88 Easter Whitmuir, £80 Saughtree; Cheviot Mule: £150 Bedrule, £140 Blegbie, £128 Galadean, £122 Redden, Pogbie, £120 Easter Whitmuir, £110 Scott Road, Lauder (J.Ainslie); Greyfaced: £140 Redden, £138 Whitehill, £130 Berryhill, £125 Lee, £120 Kittyfield, Symington Mains, £118 Pogbie, £115 Shotton;  Lleyn: £140 Firth, £122 Over Whitlaw, £115 Trabroun, £110 Over Whitlaw, £108, £102 Trabroun: Charollais: £132 Berryhill,  Romney: £110 Firth; Norfolk: £108 Crumstane; Dorset: £90 Charlesfield Farm (E.Jackson), £75 Shankend, Hawick, Herdwick: £95, £80 Crumstane, £80 Lauder Herdwicks, Jacob: £90 Boggs Holdings, £35 Ladylands Drive, Selkirk (L.Ferguson); Blackface: £90, £85 Tollishill, £78 Bedrule, £75 Middlesknowes, £67 Lumsdaine, £60 Tollishill, Bedrule, Threeburnford; Shetland: £45 Muirhouse, Shankend, Hawick; Easycare: £68, £52 Inchkeith; Hebridean: £20 Ruecastle (Finch), Shankend, Hawick, Westrigg; Ryeland: £20 Ladylands Drive (L.Ferguson)Goat: £20 Shankend, Hawick

RAMS

A smaller show of Rams forward but similar story to the Cast Ewes with hill Tups on show.

Valais Blacknose: £105 Bedrule; Blackface: £102 Tollishill