Wooler Prime Sheep Sale

At Wooler on Wednesday 10th June Harrison and Hetherington held their weekly primestock sale selling 1382 sheep comprising of 1016 Lambs and 366 Cast Ewes

Lambs, a good show of forward being easier in line with national trend, more heavies appearing weekly to meet an increasing demand

Average SQQ – 238p – Overall 235p

Leading Lamb Prices per head:

Sale topped with Texels to £115 Roseden (A Traves & Son) closely followed by a cracking pen of 15 Beltex £112.50 (300p) Chillingham Home Farm (Vivers Scotlamb). Charolais: £110 Cornhill (J & B Fitton Ltd). Texel: £110 Pasture Hill (Thompson Wholesale Meat), £110 Lochside (Thompson Wholesale Meat), £108 Yetlington Lane. Beltex: £110 Nesbit, £108.50 Annstead. Suffolk: £110, £106 Brockley Hall (Worsley Butchers), £109 (2) Easington Grange (Farmers Fresh).

Leading Lamb Prices per kilo: Beltex: 300p, 284p, 271p, 270p, 268p Chillingham Home Farm, 271p, 264p Annstead, 261p East Newburn. Texel: 274p East Newburn, 253p Treaty Park, 252p Lochside, 251p Marshal Meadows, 250p Pasture Hill. Charolais: 250p Cornhill. Suffolk: 241p Brockley Hall, 240p East Newham

Ewes, more about meeting a similar trade to average £78

Beltex: £122 Annstead (Yorkshire Halal). Texel: £100 Lawfield and South Carter Moor, £100 Hoprig, £92, £90 Shipley Smallburn, £90 (2) Berryhill and Bellstruther. Suffolk: £94 Hoprig, £90 Greenhead, Reston, £90 Low Middleton, Berryhill and West Longridge. Mule: £76 Berryhill, £75 Broadmeadows and West Longridge. Blackface: £60 Fawdon and Ingram. Cheviot: £70 Ingram. Cheviot Mule: £80 Hoprig

Rams: Suffolk: £100 Kypie