St Boswells Primestock

Sold 76 Prime Cattle, 8 Cast Cows, 1433 Prime Hoggs and 130 Cast Sheep

Bullocks (28) averaged 416p per kg and sold to 453p.  Top price £3157

Heifers (48) averaged 433p per kg and sold to 492p.  Top price £3013

Cast Cows (7) averaged 270p per kg and sold to 337p.  Top price £2925

Cast Bull (1) sold to 311p.  Top price £3464

Hoggs (1433) averaged 320p per kg (-12.7p on the week) £152.77 per head and sold to £180 for  Beltex Hoggs.

Top price 420p per kg for Beltex Hoggs

Cast Sheep(130) averaged £156 and sold to £250

Heavy ewes averaged £186, light ewes sold to £154 for North Country Cheviot Ewes and averaged £126

PRIME CATTLE-

Good show forward.  Good demand once again

Bullocks per head: Whitsome West Newton £3157.92, Bee Edge £3077.40, West Garleton £2985.92, Learielaw £2982.24, Caverton Mill £2978.40, Learielaw £2961, Penston £2901.84, Learielaw £2829.52, Lennoxlove £2768.32, £2750.64, Wester Ulston £2708.94

Heifers per head: Longnewton £3013.44, Penston £3001.04, £2959.44, £2947.04, Longnewton £2938, West Garleton £2896.80, Bee Edge £2883.12, Dunslaw £2845.68, Learielaw £2845.48, West Garleton £2793.64, Learielaw £2774.12

Bullocks per kilo: Wester Ulston 453p, Penston 452p, Learielaw 452p, 450p, Bee Edge 446p, Lennoxlove 444p, 438p(2), Caverton Mill 438p J.A Waters & Son, Caverton Mill 436p, Lennoxlove, Learielaw 436p

Heifers per kilo: Bee Edge 492p Denholm Meat Supplies, Greenknowe 470p John Saunderson Ltd, Penston 466p, Bee Edge 452p W.Kirkup & Sons, Longnewton 452p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Penston 452p, Dunslaw 450p, Lurdenlaw, Dunslaw 450p, Whitsome West Newton 450p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd, Nisbet, Upper Nisbet 448p, Bee Edge 448p Hugh Black & Sons Ltd

Young Bulls: Bowershields £1036.64 (248p)

COWS –

Small and mixed show

Cast Cows per head: Cragside £2925.16, Bowershields £1654.52, Adderstonshiels £1349.58(2)

Cast Cows per kilo: Cragside 337p, Bowershields 311p, Adderstonshiels 249p(2)

Cast Bulls: Preston £3464.54(311p)

PRIME HOGGS: 

Plenty weight forward again.  All classes similar.  £152.77, 47.7kgs, 320p, SQQ 350p

Hoggs per head –

Beltex: £180(2), £178 Crookston, Boghall £170(2), £168 Crookston, The Anvil, Threepwood; Suffolk: £179, £177(2), £174, £173 (2) Boghall; North Country Cheviot: £174 Woodside, £164 Boghall, £160 Woodside, £157 The Anvil, £155 Dunslaw; Texel: £172 Cortleferry, £170 The Anvil, Boghall, £168, £166, £165 Threepwood, £165 Hexpath; Lleyn: £158 Over Whitlaw; Greyfaced: £155 Boghall; Blackface: £150 West Longridge; Cheviot Mule: £143 Dunslaw

Hoggs per kilo –

Beltex: 420p Threepwood, 381.8p The Anvil, 367.8p, 365.9p Grange Moor, 363.4p Dunslaw, 352.3p Grange Moor; Texel: 378.4p Grange Moor, 376.2p West Longridge, 375p New Blainslie, 374.1p West Longridge, 370p New Blainslie, 369.6p The Anvil, 364.9p Kidston Texels, 364.3p Threepwood; North Country Cheviot: 364.1p, 363.2p Kirklands, Ancrum, 356.8p The Anvil, 350p Woodside, 347.5p Langhope; Suffolk: 360.5p Kidston Texels, 355.1p The Anvil, 354.1p KJS Farming, 346.7p West Longridge, 345.9p KJS Farming; Cheviot Mule: 340p Lylestane; Blackface: 337.1p Wester Longridge; Greyfaced: 331.8p Crookston

EWES

‘As the sun shines down on Boswells the Cast Sheep trade takes a lift’

130 head – average £156

The sale topped at £250 twice for a Texel and Suffolk both from Messrs Abernethy, Belvedere.  Following them at £240 was again a Texel this time from Birkett Farming.

Texel: £250 Belvedere, £240 Hexpath, £208 Calaburn, £199, £190 Belvedere, £164 Calaburn; Suffolk: £250, £225 Belvedere, £224 Woodside, £195, £175 Belvedere; Zwartble: £212 Belvedere; Bluefaced Leicester: £202, £138 Howden, Jedburgh;  Greyfaced: £190 Gateshaw, £180 Crailing Nook, £172 Halidean Mill, £142 Belvedere, £80 Treaty Park; Hampshire: £180, £172, £78 Belvedere; Cheviot Mule: £174 Mount Ulston, £158 Wedderlie; LLeyn: £174, £162, £126 Halidean Mill; Half Bred: £172 Belvedere; Ryeland: £156 Calaburn; Jacob: £154 West Mains Farmhouse; North Country Cheviot: £154 Wedderlie, Langhope, £140 Wedderlie, £112 Langhope; Blackface: £138, £88 Hillend Farm Cottage, £65 Belvedere; Dutch Spotted: £106 Belvedere

RAMS

Beltex: £212, £180, £155 Halidean Mill; £190, £175 Halidean Mill, £158 Cortleferry, £142 Belvedere, £122 Halidean Mill; Zwartble: £138 KJS Farming