Festival forces lamb prices up
A full ring of buyers and a build up to the Muslim Festival of Eid saw a tremendous lamb trade in Longtown, averaging a terrific 186p a kilo with many 34-40 kilo lambs, no matter what breed, realising £2 a kilo.
Top price a kilo of 228p for Texels from J W Vevers, High Stenries and to a top a head of £94.80 for Texels from Nether Brotherstone and Dashwellgreen.
The 1,401 light lambs sold to a top of £73.50 for Cheviots from Raeburnfoot, others £71.50 Parkhill; Texel £71.50 Stackbraes, £70.50 Brantwood; Greyface £71.50 Peela Hill, £65.50 Brantwood; Beltex £67.80 Low Eals; Blackface £66.50 Holylee House, £62.80 Scalehill; Cheviot Mule £66.20 Sonsiquoy; Suffolk £64.20 Stackbraes, £63.50 Weeds Farm; Swaledale £61.80 Pry Hill; Jacob £60.50 Stackbraes; Easycare £59.80, £58.80 East Fortissat; Herdwick £55.50 Crawfordjohn Mill.
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Other breeds sold to £94.50 for West Farm, £93.80 for Roxburgh Mill; Beltex to £93.20 and £90.50 for Sorbie and £82.80 for Whitstonehill; Suffolk to £88.50 for Sceughdyke and Guards Mill, £84.50 for Tinnis Hall; Greyface to £86.50 for Houghton House and £82.20 for Falnash, £80.80 for Minsca; Cheviot Mule to £86.50, £83.20 for Dunjop; Half Bred £86.20 Dodgsonstown, £83.50 High Moat; Charollais £82.80 Pates Hill, £81.80 Dashwellgreen; North Country Cheviot £78.50, £78.20 Whiteknowe; Leicester £78.50 Roxburgh Mill, £74.50 Mid Harrietsfield and Knarr Farm; Hill Cheviot £77.80 Catslackburn, £76.80 Falnash and Whitstonehill; Blackface £77.50 Minsca, £74.80, £73.80 Pitland Hills, £73.50 Crawfordjohn Mill; Oxford £76.50, £74.50 Guards; Easycare £74.80 East Fortissat; Lleyn £72.50 Guards; Swaledale £68.50 Sanders Close, £67.50 Weeds Farm, £66.50 Wydon Eals
Cast ewes and rams
The usual ring of buyers saw the 8,942 cast ewes and rams a grand trade for festivities, with heavy ewes £3 dearer and lighter hill ewes similar on the week. Ewe trade is likely to ease up for a week or two now.
Top price of £132.50 for Texel rams from Harwood House, £129.50 Crumhaugh Hill, £126.50 Harwood House; Suffolk £117.50 New Farm, £99.50 Harwood House; Charollais £104.50 Newbigging; Lleyn £100.50 Gatehouse Cote; Beltex £99.50 Culquhasen; Leicester £99.50 Woodhouse and Nookton, £98.50 Morley Hill; Dorset £90.50 Porteath; Hill Cheviot £86.50 Inkstack, £76.50 Leahaugh, £72.50 High Chesters; Blackface £84.50 Haithwaite, £79.50 High Staward, £74.50 Wanwood Hill; North Country Cheviot £84.50 Newbigging, £82.50 Longoe Farm, £79.50 Fontanbleau; Zwartbles £84.50 Newbigging; Roussin £82.50 Glenkiln; Woodland £82.50 Parcelstown; Swaledale £76.50 Nookton, £72.50 Newbigging, £66.50 Knarr Farm; Easycare £74.50 Mossfennan; Jacob £60.50 Fontanbleau; Welsh Mountain £56.50 Fontanbleau.
Heavy ewes to £130.50 for Texels from Sandilands and Drinkstone, £126.50 Four O Boot and Pirntaton; Suffolk £126.50 Newbigging, £122.50 Fontanbleau, £115.50 Roadside; Charollais £116.50 Severs and Church Road, £95.50 Severs; North Country Cheviot £108.50 Whitton, £94.50 Gospel Hall, £88.50 Balbeg and Severs; Half Bred £106.50 West Farm, £96.50 Guards Mill; Beltex £96.50 Newbigging; Leicester £104.50 Newbigging, £96.50 Morley Hill, £94.50 Dalbhraddan; Greyface £90.50 Guards Mill, £89.50 High Glen Triplock, £86.50 Wydon Eals, Wallend and Fontanbleau; Cheviot Mule £80.50 Haithwaite, £78.50 North House, £76.50 Arlamy and Falnash.
Hill ewes to £82.50 for Cheviots from Raeburnfoot, £79.50 Lymiecleugh and Parkhill, £76.50 North House; Lleyn £80.50 Shawhill, £72.50 Hemplands; Blackface £79.50 Brownleazes, £78.50 High Staward, £75.50 Shitlington Hall, £71.50 Brownleazes; Swaledale £78.50 Whitton, £74.50 Morley Hill, £66.50 Winshield and Low Closegill; Lonk £76.50 Stackbraes; Jacob £64.50 Stackbraes, £58.50 Dalbhraddan; Easycare £57.50 Mossfennan; Shetland £54.50 The Bank Farm, £43.50 Inkstack; Herdwick £50.50 The Bank Farm, £46.50 Stackbraes, £44.50 Tardoes Farm; Welsh Mountain £37.50 Tardoes.
(Longtown)