Hexham Primestock

Cattle

Prime Cattle

A select entry of clean heifers sold to £1660.80 & 264.5p/kg From Mr F T Walton, Flotterton

Charolais x Heifers – £1660.80, £1595.93 & £1560.55 Flotterton

264.5p & 259.5p (x2) Flotterton

Cast Cows & OTM

A very small entry which included two Dexters, two Galloways, two Dairy & two Continental cows sold to a nice trade considering the decline in the Cast Cow price nationally.

Topping was an Angus x at £1450.36 from Messrs E & I Hall & Son, New Houses, also topping the ppk at 179.5p.

Cast Bulls sold to a top £1589.58 from Messrs T Hutchinson & Sons, Lee Hall.

Limousin Bull– £1589.58 Lee Hall

167.5p Lee Hall

Angus x – £1450.36 New Houses

179.5 New Houses

Galloway – £1001.75 Hotbank

157.5p Hotbank

Hereford – £966.71 Rennys Barn

144.5p Rennys Barn

Dexter – £505.25 Staffords Environmental Services

Prime Sheep

Prime Lambs

Hexham & Northern Marts sold 753 Prime Lambs at their weekly sale, with a mixed offering of quality and fleshy lambs still resulting in a solid trade.

A superb Texel lamb from Messrs Robinson, Warksfield Head lead today’s trading at £148.

Not too far behind at £144 were a pair of big Texel x lambs from Nilston Rigg

Flesh is still a necessity, please remember this when drawing lambs.

Please remember to have your stock entered by Monday afternoon so we can notify buyers on expected numbers.

Entries to Jack Walton 07394 40457 or Harrison Collingwood 07895 761102

Texel x – £148 Warksfield, £144 Nilston Rigg & Low Ardley, £143 Laburnum Cottage, £142 Nilston Rigg, £136 North Cocklake, Low Ardley & Warksfield, £133.50 Nilston Rigg (x2), £133 Cheeseburn Estate & The Lee

294.4p & 293.8p Cheeseburn Estate, 283.8p South Farm, 282.9p Waterloo, 282.5p West Heddon, 280.0p Intake Farm & Nilston Rigg, 279.5p Moss Barns, 277.4p Highford, 277.2p Nilston Rigg, 275.0p Woodcroft & East Newham

Suffolk x – £140.50 Cheeseburn Estate, £128.50 & £126.50 Nilston Rigg, £125 Nettlesworth, £124.50 Cheeseburn Estate, £124 North Cocklake

267.7p Nilston Rigg, 265.9p Laburnum Cottage, 264.9p Cheeseburn Estate, 263.8p North Cocklake

Charolais x – £120, £116 & £114 Woodcroft

278.1p, 269.8p, 264.3p & 260.9p Woodcroft

Cheviot Mule – £124 High Eshells

263.8p High Eshells

Mule – £123.50 Nilston Rigg

252.6p Tedcastle

Herdwick – £105 Tedcastle