Wooler Prime Sheep Sale

At Wooler on Wednesday 27^th June Harrison and Hetherington sold 401 Prime Lambs and 69 Ewes.

Lambs met national trend achieving on average of 221.14ppk

Top price per head went to Messrs R W & K Telford, Branton Eastside with a pen of superb Texel cross lambs at £108, top pence per kilo was 258p for a pen of cracking Beltex lambs from H N Howard, Chillingham Home Farm.

Leading prices per head - Lambs: Texel: £108, £94 Branton Eastside, £100, £98, £92 East Newburn, £95 Shotton, £93 Newstead, £92 Kettleburn, £92 West Longridge. Suffolk: £104, £92 West Longridge, £100 Branton Eastside. Beltex: £95.50, £95, £90, £88.50 Chillingham Home Farm.

Leading prices per kilo – Lambs: Beltex: 258p, 253p, 240p, 236p, 231p Chillingham Home Farm. Texel: 245p, 236p, 232p East Newburn, 230p Kettleburn, 230p, 229p Branton Eastside, 228p West Longridge, 227p Shotton, 227p Newstead. Suffolk: 230p West Longridge.

Ewe’s met a flyer.

Ewes: Beltex: £109, £83 Wellhouse. Suffolk: £107 Goswick, £95 West Longridge. Greyfaced: £77, £75 (2), £73 Goswick