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NWA Lancaster , Wyresdale Road, Golgotha, Lancaster, LA1 3JQ NWA J36, J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, LA7 7FP

NWA J36

Summer Dairy Show Thursday 9th June

The Summer Show and Sale of Cows and Heifers at J36, had an entry of 12 put before the judge, Mr J Powley of Penrith. Taking first place in the heifer class from J & J A Burrow, Thursgill, 7days calved and giving 5.5gal, she later realised £1,380 selling to the judge. First prize cow came from R & J Dodgson, Cracalt Farm, she realised £1,350, selling to Messrs Batty of Quernmore. A run of heifers from new vendor, AO & TO Laycock, Lawns Farm, sold to a top price of £1,150 for a sweet pedigree heifer, a month calved, giving 25litres.

An overall market average of just shy of £1,000, due to a mixed entry forward, resulting in a buyer’s trade.

Dairy sales are fortnightly at J36 with the next sale on Thursday 23rd July.

Show ResultsShow ResultsShow ResultsShow Results

Heifers

1st J & J A Burrow, Thursgill £1,380

2nd R & J Dodgson, Cracalt £1,320

3rd J & J A Burrow, Thursgill £1,000

Cows

1st R & J Dodgson, Cracalt £1,350

Early Breeding Sheep Sale

Lancaster Auction Mart Friday 24th July

Sale to commence at 1pm

Entries to date include 1020 Breeding Ewes and Rams

Comprising of 425 Mule, Suffolk and Texel Breeding Ewes; 150 Suffolk x Shearlings, 90 Tex x Shearlings and 340 Mule Gimmer Shearlings

15 Suffolk and Texel Breeding Rams

Catalogues available online or by request For more information please contact Ian Atkinson on 07766 521472

Lancaster - 01524 63308

Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 10th JulyFriday 10th JulyFriday 10th JulyFriday 10th July

348 Head of Cattle see stores to £1460, Cast Cows to 209.5ppk and Calves to £475 at NWA Lancaster

A flying trade throughout for Store Cattle at this morning’s sale, with all vendors leaving with broad grins. Topping the sale was JA & LR Wilson, Millom with a single Limousin Bullock at £1460. Followed by a pen of 4 Lim bullocks at 22months from MJ Whitworth, realising £1430. Native bred bullocks topped at £1380 for a pair of Angus from J & H Davis, Cabus, also at the same price was R Escolme, Bay Horse, again with an Angus Bullock. Herefords to £1300 for a pair from Sarah Jackson, Overton. Friesians sold to £1090 for a pen of 4 from F Barton & Son, Mellor Brook

Heifers sold to £1190 for a Montbelliarde from WR & CM Lawrenson, Winmarleigh. A trio of Limousin Heifers from DE & SM Moorhouse, Natland, realised £1180. Blues to the same money from AG & GM Rowlinson, Killington. Native breds to £1120, for a trio of Angus from JH Woof & Son, Oxenholme. Herefords from the same home to £1100.

Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:

STORE BULLOCKS – FR: £1090 Abbotson Farm; £1090 Park Farm; £1050 Intack Farm. AA: £1380 Weavers Farm; £1380 Ivy Barn; £1360 Colloway Farm. SHO: £1340 Jolley Fold Farm. CON: £1180 Jolley Fold Farm; £940 Thornton Barn Farm. LIM: £1460 Dunningwell Farm; £1430 The Bungalow; £1400 Brookhouse Barn. BS: £820 Willow Farm. CH: £1390 Intack Farm; £1380 Parsonage Farm; £1340 Jolley Fold Farm. HE: £1300 Colloway Farm; £1220 Bank House Farm; £1130 Windy Hill Farm. SIM: £1340 Jolley Fold Farm; £1240 Low Levens; £1220 Billinge Hall Farm. BRB: £1410 The Bungalow; £1400 Sykes Fold Farm; £1390 Brookhouse Barn. MO: £1180 Cock Hall Farm; £880 Croft House. SRW: £940 Thornton Barn Farm. BA: £1230 Bradlow Farm; £1000 Nook Farm. STORE HEIFERS – FR: £880 Lane Ends Farm; £840 Higher Shuttlingfields Farm. AA: £1120 Underhelm Farm; £1060 Moss View; £1020 Ivy Farm. WB: £960 Thornton Barn Farm. LIM: £1180 High House Farm; £1170 Whittingham Lane. CH: £660 Manor Farm. HE: £1100 Underhelm Farm. SIM: £990 Kate Farm. BRB: £1180 Low Hall Beck; £1160 Hill Top; £1120 Pasture House Farm. MO: £1190 Cumming Carr Farm. BA: £1070 Nook Farm.

BULL – FR: £450 Booth Hall. LIM: £560 Booth Hall.

Younger grazing cattle were equally as good to sell, with Charolais Bullocks at 11months realising £960 from DC Miller, Claughton on Brock. Blues at 11-12months from T & J Parkinson, Kirkham selling to £800. Overall averages of £1106 for Bullocks and £1001 for Heifers for all forward.

A strong entry of 81 Cast Cows forward this morning, with a good trade for all forward. Trade topped at 209.5ppk for a Cast Limousin Heifer from Nether Hall Farms. Top price per head came from F & IM Potter, Grayrigg, with a cast Charolais Bullock totalling £1178. Beef cows topped at 174.5ppk from H Hesketh & Sons, Longton. Black and White heifers sold to a top of 149.5ppk from DJ & KA Gardner, Quernmore. Black and White Cows sold to a top of 139.5ppk, on four different occasions, from P & M Crackles, Burrow (twice), JJ Pennington & Son, Hurst Green and SH & LE Birkett, Nether Kellet. Dairy cows sold to a good trade with only the very plain sorts a fraction cheaper on the week. Black and White Cows averaged 112ppk, with an overall sale average for all OTMs forward of 127ppk.

Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COW – FR: 139.5 Mill Farm; 139.5 Stubb Hall Farm; 139.5 Mill Farm. AA: 144.5 Dove Cote; 141.5 Sunderland Brows Farm. MRI: 134.5 Sandvilla. LIM: 159.5 Nether Hall Farm. BRB: 174.5 Thornton Barn Farm. MO: 154.5 Lane House. SRW: 137.5 Sandvilla; 134.5 Old Holly Farm; 129.5 Sandvilla. CAST HEIFER – FR: 149.5 Far Lodge; 144.5 Deerslet Farm; 129.5 Gardners Farm. AA: 164.5 Nether Hall Farm. LIM: 209.5 Nether Hall Farm. CHA: 169.5 Intack Farm; 139.5 Lambrigg Park Farm. HE: 164.5 Dove Cote Farm.

CAST STEER – FR: 129.5 New Eskham Farm. LIM: 189.5 Intack Farm; 184.5 Moss View. CH: 164.5 Lambrigg Park Farm. BRB: 189.5 Birks Farm.

A nice entry of 54 Calves and Stirks this morning were met by a ringside of active buyers. Topping the calf trade was Steven Birkett, Stubb Hall with a 9week old Blue Bull realising £475. Blue Heifers sold to a top of £335 at only 4weeks. Black and white calves topped at £302 at 12weeks from Ken Kelsall, Chipping. Best black and whites a fraction cheaper than previous weeks, selling between £120-£140, again from T &CM Kelsall, Wallbank Farms Ltd and WN & D Smith & Sons. A shortage of younger rearing calves forward, selling between £40-£60. A fast trade for all stirks, saw black and whites from Stuart Close sell to £410 at 8months. Beef bred stirks to £645 for 6month blue bulls and £540 for 6month blue heifers from A Shepherd, Pilling. Limousin Bullocks at 5months to £490 from A Coates, Calder Vale.

More calves required to meet buyer’s demands here at Lancaster

Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:

HEIFER CALF – BRB: £335 Norbreck Farm; £230 Booth Hall; £190 North Farm. BULL CALF – FR: £302 Brown Brook; £120 Tills Farm; £120 Cocker House Farm. AA: £235 Knowsley Farm. BRB: £475 Stubb Hall Farm; £435 Birks Farm; £420 Norbreck Farm. BULLOCK CALF – LIM: £490 Stirk Hey Farm. CH: £470 Stirk Hey Farm. MO: £430 Stirk Hey Farm. FR: £410 Docker Hall Farm. AA: £405 Stirk Hey Farm. BULL STIRK – BRB: £645 Muffys Platt Farm. SRW: £420 Muffys Platt Farm. HEIFER STIRK – BRB: £540 Muffys Platt Farm. AA: £430 Stirk Hey Farm.

Monday 13th JulyMonday 13th JulyMonday 13th JulyMonday 13th July

All buyers in attendance at Lancaster for Prime Lambs, which sold to an average of 10 ppk less than previous week with a market average of 152ppk. All buyers keenly bidding on lambs but only to a price. Better types of lambs and light lambs sold in excess of 170ppk topping at 185ppk from D & DW Prickett of Farleton House with a pen of light weight lambs. Heavy types of lambs around 50kg sold to a top of £80.50 from Mrs E Hartley of Hazel Brae. Texel cross lambs weighing in the early forties generally selling into the mid-sixties.

Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices: Prime Spring Lambs-SUFF: £80 Booth Hall; £74 North Farm; £66.50 Middle Lee Farm. CON:£64.50 Ivy Farm; £63 Low Foulshaw Farm; £56.50 Hazleslack Tower Farm. MULE: £55.50 Brown Edge; £55.50 Highfield Farm; £53 Appletree Farm. CHA: £80.50 Hazel Brae; £73.50 Gibraltar Farm; £67.50 Low Foulshaw Farm. TEX: £77 91 Costal Road; £75 Brown Brook; £73.50 Moorside Lane.LLEYN: £62 Low Foulshaw Farm

The biggest show of Cast Ewes at Lancaster for some time with 296 forward. A full complement of buyers ensured all sheep sold to their full potential. Trade topped at £125 for a big Texel Tup from AT Alcock, Inskip. Ewes topped at £117 for a trio from James Sanderson, Halton. Mules sold to £77/head from A & E Clarkson, Cock Hall and MJ Ayrton, Bambers Farm. A run of hill sheep saw Swales sell to £51 from S Park, Aughton and Cheviots to £87 from KM & KJ Curwen, Marshaw. Leaner ewes were the dearest trade of the day, with buyers still cautious of over fat sheep. Overall average of £66/head for all forward.

Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices: GOATS: £56 Gulf Lane. SUFF: £71 Cocker House Farm. CON: £88 Foredales Farm ; £86 Tarn Farm ; £73 Upper Greenbank. MULE: £77 Cock Hall Farm; £77 Bambers Farm; £73 Moss House Farm. SWAL: £51 Highfield Farm. CHAR: £78 Jackson Farm. CHEV: £87 Marshaw Farm. Tex: £125 Carr House Farm; £117 Lower High field Farm; £109 Carrisholme Stables. LLEYN:£89 Low Foulshaw Farm. LEI: £58 Appletree Farm. JAC: £40 Ellers Farm. Herd: £53 High Field.BEL: £94 Farleton House.

Seven Prime Beef forward sold to a trade in keeping with national average with prime cattle prices lifting. Dairy bred British blue bulls from S & BM Lawrenson & Son of Eagland Hill sold to 194.5ppk with British blue bulls from the same home topping at £1197.64. Native bred bulls saw Hereford bulls sell to 164.5ppk for a Hereford from P & A Bell of Village Farm.

Prime Beef Top Prices:Prime Beef Top Prices:Prime Beef Top Prices:Prime Beef Top Prices: BS: 159.5 Village Farm; 147.5 Lane House. HE: 164.5 Village Farm. BRB: 194.5 Northwoods Farm. MON: 151.5 Lane House.

J36 - 015395 66200

J36 Sale Reports Thursday 9th JulyThursday 9th JulyThursday 9th JulyThursday 9th July

Store Cattle continue to sell to a buoyant trade at NWA J36, with buyers ringside for all types and eager to bid. Steers reached £1,135 for Lim x steers from D W Clark, Challon Hall, with a run of yearlings from N Cooper & Sons peaking at £1,060, with others £1055. Young sucklers sold to £955 for 8 mo Char x steers from N J Strickland & Son, with BA x £815 from R Keith. Heifers reached £1,030 for best suckler sorts from N Cooper & Sons, with others £1,010 from J T & J Kelsall. A trio of young Lim x heifers from J A Airey sold at £835 with Char x £795 from J A & S M Allen. An entry of young bulls sold to £880 for 6-8 mo Lim x from D Mallet.

The Beef Breeding cattle saw keen bidding peak at £1,550 for a pure Lim cow with bull calf from T, L, B & J Knowles and others £1,520 from J H Barker, Stribers.

Next Sale of all Classes of Cattle is Thursday 23rd July – please forward entries to the office 015395 66200 or Matthew 07760557932

Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE STEERS: AA: £615 The Borrans. LIM: £1135 Challon Hall Farm; £1060 Troughton Hall. CHAR: £955 The Borrans; £730 Barker Knott. BRB: £1000 Summerlands. BA: £815 11 Granby Road. STORE HEIFERS: LIM: £1030 Troughton Hall.

The weekly sale of Calves and Stirks had a very selective trade today. Best types of beef calves still a strong trade, regularly selling in excess of £400. Black and white bull calves very good to sell, especially decent rearing types, but young beef calves and plainer types harder to place. Those types were definitely a buyers market today.

Selling to the top of £470 was a good, April born, British blue bull from V & EJ Chadwick & Sons of Sowerby Lodge, with heifers from the same home selling to £435. J W & T E Sharpe of Flodder Hall’s consignment of Calves sold to £430 for a British Blue bull. Rearing black and whites sold to a top of £185 from H J Robinson & Son of Elm Tree Farm, with other, well grown rearers, selling over £150. Black and whites sold to an average of £90.25.

The trade for stirks was strong for what was forward, with all eagerly bid for, with five month old British blue steers selling to £500 and £490 twice from R J & K R Wilkinson of High Foulshaw Farm.

Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices: BULL CALVES: BRB: £470, £420, £385 Sowerby Lodge; £430 Flodder Hall; £385 Hagg Farm. LIM: £400, £390, £380 Spout House; £340 Low Stangerthwaite. SD: £380 Sowerby Lodge. SIM: £320 Beck Side. ANG: £270 Birkland Barrow; £210 Elm Tree Farm; £170 Wyke Farm. FRI: £185 Elm Tree Farm; £180 Netherbeck Barn; £180, £170 Endmoor Farm. SH: £100 School House. HEIFER CALVES: BRB: £435, £260 Sowerby Lodge; £345, £340 Brackenfold. ANG: £320 Low Stangerthwaite; £300 Birkland Barrow; £205 Elm Tree Farm. LIM: £290 Low Stangerthwaite. BULL STIRKS: BRB: £500, £490 High Foulshaw. STEER STIRKS: ANG: £480 Milton Mill. FR: £240 Almar Cottage.

Once again, a full ringside of buyers competed strongly for a good show of meated Cast Cows, which went on to average 127.55p/kg. Black and white cows topped at 154.5p/kg from H W Robinson & Son of Gatebeck, selling to L Fell of Settle. Plenty of cows were selling between 130 and 140p/kg. An exceptional show of Continental cows met a fierce trade, with the majority selling between 140-160p/kg, topping at 171.5p/kg from Andrew Cottam of Kendal. The top grossing cow on the day went to a pure Charolais cow from R A & L Hodgson of Patton, selling for £1,329.40 to Dawn Cumbria.

Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COWS/BULLS: BRB: 171.5p, 159.5p Fox Howe; 159.5p Southways. SLR: 159.5p Southways; 139.5p, 127.5p New Hall. LIM: 157.5p Fox Howe; 147.5p Southways; 141.5p Capplerigg; 139.5p Woodside Farm. FR: 154.5p High Bracken Hall; 147.5 Capplerigg Farm, Stubb Place Farm; 139.5 Mansrigg Hall; 137.5p Beck Side. CHA: 144.5p Patton Hall. SIM: 144.5p Brow Head. ANG: 139.5p Causeway Farm. MON: 129.5p Green Lane End Farm.

Tuesday 14th JulyTuesday 14th JulyTuesday 14th JulyTuesday 14th July The monthly sale of Pigs saw 114 forward with several new and returning customers. Prime pigs experienced the keenest bidding selling to £176 for a trio of prime Pietrain x gilts from PK & R Woof with others £151 from B & D Willison and £149 from R Strong. Prime pigs generally £92 - £145. Store pigs sold to £66 for best 12 week old white pigs from KF Sweeting with others £51 & £46. Weaners sold to £41 from DE Metcalfe with weaners regularly selling for between £18 - £30.

Next Pig Sale – Tuesday 11th August with another good entry required to meet buyers demand.

The weekly sale of Prime Lambs saw a ringside of 13 buyers in attendance with several new and returning faces which result-ed in all classes of lambs selling ahead of vendors’ expectations and the quoted average of the previous day with SQQ lambs averaging 160ppk. A top price of £83.50 was achieved for a pen of Texel x lambs from D Dixon, Grayrigg selling to Westmor-land Ltd with others at £83 from E Dodgson, Kendal. Heavy lambs experienced keen bidding generally achieving £22 - £26 over weight. Texel x lambs from TE & J Wadsworth & Son topped the market at 184p per kilo with a further 15 pens over 180p per kilo. The first draw of Mule lambs now coming forward selling to £66 from R I Dixon and 164p/kg from J & AJ Coates & Son. An overall market average of 158p/kg was achieved for lambs ranging from 33kg-54kg.

Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices: Texel: £83.50 Grayrigg Foot, £83 Spital Farm; £78 Hawkrigg End; £77.50 Topthorn Farm. Beltex: £74 Birks Farm; £73.50 Green Head. Char: £76 Dale View; £72.50 Gibraltar Farm; £67 Baycliffe. Chev: £64.50 Low Newton Farm. Suff: £74 Chapel House; £72.50 Hawkrigg End, Low Stanger Thwaite; £71.50 Station Hotel; £70 Lane Ends Farm, Topthorn Farm. Dorset: £73.50 Tree Tops. Lleyn: £67 Low Foulshaw. Cont: £67 Abbey Drive. Mule: £66 Low Newton Farm; £62.50 Braida Garth.

A reduced entry of 532 Cast Ewes forward compared to the previous week with additional buyers around the ring. A solid trade throughout with a lot of smaller hill bred ewes forward. Buyers continue to be cautious of over fat ewes with lean and fit ewes in strong demand. Strong continental ewes sold in excess of £90 with Charollais ewes topping at £109 from S Middleton of Dale View. Mule ewes sold to a top of £76 from MJ Waller of Carlingwha with strong Mules selling in excess of £70 and all Mules averaging £65. Cheviot ewes in strong demand, selling to a top of £93 from J Allonby & Son of Green Head.

Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices: Char: £109 Dale View; £93 Woodside; £87 Gilpin Farm. Suff: £100 RiggThwaite; £98 Bull Bank Farm; £92 Cleatop Farm; £83. Texel: £102 (ram) Cleatop Farm; £94 Trees Farm; £89 Middleshaw Hall; £87 Long Streets. Beltex: £81 (ram) Cleatop Farm; £80 Trees Farm. Mule: £76 Carlingwha; £74 Rigg Thwaite; £73 Low Newton Farm. Chev: £93 Green Head; £80 Moss House Farm; £75 Woodside. Leicester: £84 Havera; £82 Gilpin Farm; £81 Long Streets Farm. LLeyn: £71 Low Foulshaw Farm. Zwart: £62 Rigg Thwaite. Rough Fell: £73 (ram) Riddings; £54 High Green; £50 Riddings, The Park. Swale: £43 The Borrans. Herdwick: £40 Moss House Farm.

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J36 Rural Auction Centre

Tuesday 21st July Weekly Primestock at 1pm

Thursday 23rd July Weekly Sale of Calves & Fortnightly Sale of Cattle at 10.15am

Wednesday 29th July Monthly Machinery Sale at 10.30am

Lancaster Auction Mart Monday 20th July

Weekly Sale of Primestock at 9am

50th Anniversary Dairy Sale at 11am

Please see above for details

Friday 24th July

Weekly Cattle Sale at 10.15am

Early Breeding Sheep Sale at 1pm

Please see front page for details

Coming up at North West Auctions…

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31.20ac/12.63 ha of Meadow & Pasture Land For Sale by Auction

The land is situated at Bretherdale and extends, in total, to 31.20 ac/12.63 ha or thereabouts of meadow and pasture land.

The land is to be offered for sale in one or more lots. Both lots have Fell Rights on Roundthwaite Common.

Public Auction to be held at J36 Rural Auction Cen-tre on Tuesday 4th August at 7.00pm

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South Lakeland, Low Wood, South Lakeland, Low Wood, South Lakeland, Low Wood, South Lakeland, Low Wood,

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For Sale by Informal Tender

An area of undulating mixed woodland together with a small area of open level

grassland set within the South Lakeland Parish of Crook.

Extending to 2.85 acres/1.15 hectares or thereabouts.

Guide Price - In excess of £30,000

NWA Lancaster 50th Anniversary Dairy Sale

Judge Mr Tony Bell, who was the original judge back in July 1965