Ringside at Crooklands auction mart, Cumbria
Crooklands auction mart, Cumbria
Last Friday’s (27 September) annual show and sale attracted more than 1,200 Rough Fell breeding ewes, selling to 44 different purchasers.
Judge Ben Williams picked a pen from NC and S Dodd, Flakebridge, as his champion lot, which went on to sell for the day’s top price of £140. Overall, breeding ewes averaged £67, with shearlings averaging £75 and gimmer lambs £56.
The annual prize show and sale of Swaledale breeding sheep saw pen of 15 ewes reach a top price of £150 a head, with trade slightly more cautious than last year.
Other hill-bred shearlings commanded generally competitive trade, with Herdwicks reaching £46 a head, Cheviots £92 and Scottish Black Faces £72 apiece.
