Wooler Prime Sheep Sale

At Wooler on Wednesday 14^th April Harrison and Hetherington held their weekly sale of primestock selling 589 prime sheep comprising 365 Hoggs and 224 Cast Ewes and Rams

All classes a great trade with numbers short of buyer’s requirements.
A mixed quality show with many leaner and hill types on offer.
Overall Average 291p SQQ 301p

Leading Hogg Prices per head: Beltex: £179, £172 Annstead, £175 Grange Moor, £171 Fawdon Farms, £160 New Heaton. Suffolk: £178, £173, £172 Nesbit, £163 Brandon, £156, £155, £150 Berryhill. Texel: £172 Rugley, £170 (2), £167, £164 Grange Moor, £170 Annstead, £164 (2) Reddishall. Charolais: £159 North Sharperton. Cheviot: £142, £133 Fawdon Farms. Blackface: £138 (2), £136, £130 Birchwood, £136 West Longridge, £125 Fawdon Farms

Leading Hogg Prices per kilo: Beltex: 398p Fawdon Farms, 390p, 388p New Heaton. Texel: 387p, 365p Grange Moor, 378p New Heaton, 365p Reddishall, 360p Berryhill. Suffolk: 300p Berryhill, 286p Shotton. Blackface: 290p, 289p Birchwood

Cast Ewes:  A strong show of 221 ewes sold to extreme rates throughout to meet an average of £128 and tups to average £143!!

With a packed ringside of buyers in attendance mostly only seen here at Wooler Mart, sale topped at £187 for Beltex from Craig Mellor, Annstead purchased by regular Wooler buyer Jeff Dunn.
Whilst catching the eye at £155 a head for a pen of 10 bullish Suffolk.x Mule ewes from G W Green & Sons, Wandon

Leading Prices -  Beltex: £187, £183, £180, £173, £139 Annstead. Texel: £180, £170, £143 Annstead, £179 Hillcrest Livestock, £175 Edlingham Newtown, £145 Berryhill, £141, £139 Shipley Smallburn, £141 North Sharperton, £139 Doxford, £139 Wandon, £139 Clarabad Farm. Suffolk: £173, £167 South Rennington, £155, £145, £139 Wandon, £155, £149 Edlingham Newtown, £153 (2), £145, £143, £139 Gainslaw Hill, £151 Grange Moor, £145, £143 Kettleburn, £141 West Longridge. Charolais: £153 Wandon. Greyface: £145 Kettleburn, £143 Wandon, £137 Shotton, £133 Edlingham Newtown, £133 KJS Farming, £127 Gainslaw Hill, £125 Berryhill. Half Bred: £137 Nesbit, £131 Doxford, £130 Berryhill. North Country Cheviot: £127, £115 Attonburn, £122 Fawdon Farms, £121 Doxford. Blackface: £113, £99 Fawdon Farms, £110 Clarabad Mill, £98 KJS Farming. Jacob: £99 North Sharperton

Rams:  Texel: £157 Grange Moor, £137 Gainslaw Hill. Kerry Hill: £135 Springhill, Berwick