Borderway Primestock Sale

Sold 105 Prime Cattle, 46 Cast Cows, 1623 Prime Hoggs, and 659 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (39) averaged 365p per kg and sold to 408p.  Average £2351

Heifers (65) averaged 381p per kg and sold to 426p.  Average £2336

Young Bulls (1) sold to 306p.

Cast Cows (45) averaged 241p per kg and sold to 297p.  Top price £2262

Cast Bulls (1) sold to £2645(213p)

Hoggs (1623) averaged 330p per kg (-8p on the week) £150 per head and sold to £210 for Texel/Beltex Hoggs.

Top price 404p per kg for Texel Hoggs

Cast Sheep (659) averaged £152.86 and sold to £ 300 for Texel Ewe and a Suffolk Tup

Heavy ewes averaged £178, light ewes sold to £188 for North Country Cheviot Ewes and averaged £138.86

PRIME CATTLE-

Marvellous as simple as that!!

Bullocks per head: Whitsome West Newton £2855.68, Elwick £2796.60, Wellheads £2764.08, Elwick £2751.20, Bee Edge £2717.44, £2610.52, Wellheads £2599.20, Learielaw £2570.76, £2532.16, Dunslaw £2512.28, Bee Edge £2505.92

Heifers per head: Wellheads £3010.24, £2941.32, £2860.32, £2737.92, Wester Middleton £2708.40, Longnewton £2684.64, Learielaw £2683.80, Whitrighill £2679.68, Bee Edge £2654.24, Longnewton £2639, Wester Middleton £2627.52, Whitrighill £2608.20

Bullocks per kilo: Caverton Mill 408p, Wellheads 396p, Whitsome West Newton 388p, Learielaw 386p(3), Bee Edge 386p, Crookhouse 384p, Bee Edge, Smailholm Mains 382p, Elwick 380p

Heifers per kilo: Learielaw 426p, Penston, Whitrighill, Bee Edge 424p, Penston 418p, Whitrighill, Wester Middleton 416p, Whitrighill 414p(2), Learielaw 412p(2), Whitsome West Newton 410p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Lennoxlove, Penston, Whitsome West Newton 410p

Young Bulls - Greenhead, Selkirk £2111.40 (306p)

CAST COWS –

Good trade

Cast Cows per head: Upper Nisbet £2262.90, Shidlaw £2147.22, Huntington £2136, Upper Nisbet £2036.28, Corsbie £2029.80, Whitrighill £2025.54, Birkenside £2020.30, Upper Nisbet £1983.70, Wester Middleton £1957.20, Penston £1936.48, Corsbie £1922.28, £1917.60

Cast Cows per kilo: Whitrighill 297p, Upper Nisbet 285p, Corsbie 271p, Huntington 267p, Whitrighill 259p, Corsbie 255p(2), Headshaw Lauder 253p, Corsbie, Penston 249p, Penston, Shaws 247p, Low Middleton, Huntington 245p

Cast Bulls – Headshaw, Lauder £2645.46 (213p)

PRIME HOGGS: 

Mixed show forward, returns slightly easier.  Average 330p, £150, 45.4 kgs

Hoggs per head –

Texel: £210 DJ Texels, £200 Corsbie, Rennie Livestock, £199 The Anvil, Huntington, , £194, £190(2) The Anvil, £190(2) Rennie Livestock; Beltex: £210, £200, £190(2) Rennie Livestock, £181 Threepwood, £170 Halidean Mill; Dutch Spotted: £194, £184 The Anvil; Suffolk: £190 The Anvil, £186 Corsbie, £180 The Lee, £179 Mowhaugh Schoolhouse, £176 Corsbie, £175 Threepwood, The Anvil, Bonjedward; Greyfaced: £184 The Anvil, £162 Burncastle; North Country Cheviot: £176, £170 Mowhaugh Schoolhouse, £175 Woodside, £164, £160 Woodside; Bluefaced Leicester: £172 Adderstonshiels, £170 Burncastle, £160 Harehead, Burncastle; Blackface: £155(2) Harehead, £145 Traprain; Half Bred: £165 Bonjedward; Romney: £168, £155 Gateshaw; Cheviot Mule: £148 Kirklands, Ancrum, £142 Blegbie; Berrichon: £147 Springwood Lodge; Rouge: £146 Springwood Lodge

Lambs per kilo –

Texel: 404.3p The Anvil, 380p Saughtree, 363.5p, 363.3p Whitrighill, 361.8p The Anvil, 359p Huntington; Beltex: 400p Rennie Livestock, 390.2p Halidean Mill, 381p(2) Grange Moor 380p Rennie Livestock, 379.7p Grange Moor; Dutch Spotted: 383.3p, 373.1p The Anvil; Suffolk: 347.9p, 343.8p The Anvil, 340p, 338.8p Stoneypath, 337.5p Adderstonshiels, 336p The Anvil; Blue Texel: 341.5p Broomiebank; Charollais: 344p Kidston Texels; Rouge: 339.5p Springwood Lodge; Blackface: 329.5p Traprain; Romney: 329.4p Gateshaw; Cheviot Mule: 329.3p Broomiebank; North Country Cheviot: 332.5p Saughtree, 330.8p Harehead, 327.9p Gospelhall, 327.7p Kirklands, Ancrum; Berrichon: 326.7p Springwood Lodge; Easycare: 320p Broomiebank;

EWES:

“Untouchable! St Boswells continues the trend of No.1 spot to sell Cast Sheep in the East! A trade only others can dream of”

659 head to average £152.86

Topping the sale at £300 was a Texel Ewe from Rennie Livestock.  Following her at £300 was a Suffolk Tup from Philiphaugh Estate.  Messrs Clark, Upper Bolton had the 3^rd top price at £295

Texel: £300 Rennie Livestock, £295 Upper Bolton, £275, £255 H & A Farms, £255, £250 Rennie Livestock, £250, £240 Huntington, £235 Wester Ulston,  , Bluefaed Leicester: £238 Burncastle, £210 Hartside, £188 Burncastle, £176, £172 Hartside; Suffolk: £235 Meigle, Browns Cottage, Hundalee, £220 Lamberton (Budge), £216 Haltree, £214 Hermiston, £212 Broombank, £210 Haltree, £208, £206 Croft Field (A.Duncan), £200 Gospelhall; Abertex: £218(2), £160, £154 Over Blainslie;  Beltex: £208 Browns Cottage, Hundalee, £156 Wester Ulston; Blue Texel: £212 Whitsome West Newton; Greyfaced: £192 Burncastle, £190 Mowhaugh Schoolhouse, £180 Hartside, £178 Belvedere, Cockburn, £172 Belvedere, £166 Shotton, Blackburn, Lauder, £164 Brockielaw, Halkburn; North Country Cheviot: £188 Philiphaugh, £184 Philiphaugh (James Cowens), £176 Symington Mins, £170 Philiphaugh, Headshaw, Lauder, £168 Haltree, £156 Symington Mains, £152 Blegbie; Dorset: £178 Blevedere; Rouge: £166 Springwood Lodge; Half Bred: £162, £120 Bonjedward; Romney: £162, £114 Rennie Livestock; Charollais: £150 Rhodes Holdings; Lleyn: £138 Over Blainslie; Jacob: £140 Brockielaw; Berrichon: £140 Springwood Lodge; Blackface: £120 Meigle, £116 Hartside, £110 Broombank, £109 Chatto , £84 Byrecleugh; Ryeland: £116 Broombank; Shetland: £72 Highfield Farming

RAMS

A larger show of Tups forward

Topping the sale at £300 was a Tup from Philiphaugh Estates following him at £258 was a Cross again from Philiphaugh

Suffolk: £300 Philiphaugh, £168 Rennie Livestock, £166 Halkburn Farm Holding (C. Borthwick), £144 Brockielaw Cross: £258 Philiphaugh Beltex: £218 Huntington, £172 Rennie Livestock, £144 Belvedere Texel: £216 Philiphaugh, £212 Huntington, £200 Belvedere, £190 Huntington, £185 Rennie Livestock, £182 Hartside, £172 Rennie Livestock, £162 (2) Belvedere North Country Cheviot:  £184 Bowershields, £168 Philiphaugh, £160 Woodside Zwartable:  £172 Belvedere Border Leicester: £164 Belvedere Charollais: £162 Belvedere Bluefaced Leicester: £150 Belvedere, £126 Easter Whitmuir Easycare: £142 Millheugh Blackface: £138 Harehead Hebridean £90 Aikeyside