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Hogg & Lamb Show & Sale at J36 Tuesday 10th MayTuesday 10th MayTuesday 10th MayTuesday 10th May

The great Annual Show & Sale of Hoggs with lambs at foot at J36 attracted just shy of 600 families of hoggs and lambs plus ewes and lambs forward which was greeted by a packed ringside of buyers from throughout the North West. The pre-sale show was expertly judged by Chris Hewitt of Tatham. The Continental/Suffolk show of hoggs with single class had ten pens forward with the first prized rosette being awarded to JA Chapman of North Lodge. The Mule class had a very impressive show of Mules in front of judge saw Winter Bros of Clickham Farm awarded the first prize and then went onto take the Championship. Plenty of bidders around the ring saw pens well bid for with purchasers looking to purchase strong Hoggs suckling their lambs well. Top quality Mule Hoggs were good to sell, selling to a top of £325 for the second prized pen from Messrs Sowerby of Terrys Farm, who also sold Mule Gimmer Hoggs to £320. The champion pen from Winter Bros of Clickham Farm sold to £320, with others from the same home selling to £300 and £280. Plenty of pens of commercial mule hoggs selling between £150 and £160, with majority of vendors well pleased. Continental hoggs saw the first prize pen sell to £185 from JA Chapman of North Lodge, with better types regularly in excess of £160. A small number of geld hoggs forward saw Texels from RA Batty of Redhills sell to £102 and Mules from J & T Hunter of Moser Hill sell to £96. The major flock reduction of Robert Garth and Kelly Armitage’s Beltex and Beltex x flock attracted a large amount of attention. The flock, renowned for its success over recent years in the show circuit for producing top quality prime lambs and winning numerous prizes. Beltex x shearling and young ewes with top quality single Beltex lambs sold to £290 and £285 The weekly sale of ewes with lambs were good to sell with plenty of faces around the ring, as the weather warms up and the grass begins to grow.

Show ResultsShow ResultsShow ResultsShow Results Class 1 – 5 Continental/Suffolk Hoggs with single lambs 1st & Champion – J A Chapman, North Lodge 2nd – J A Chapman, North Lodge 3rd - J & M Wilson, Cooper House Class 2 – 5 Mules Hoggs with single lambs 1st – Winter Brothers, Clickham Farm 2nd – Messrs Sowerby, Terrys Farm 3rd – Winter Brothers, Clickham Farm

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Monday 9th MayMonday 9th MayMonday 9th MayMonday 9th May A slightly bigger draw of Spring Lambs with 132 passing through the ring and a 100% clearance being achieved. Topping the trade at £94 was PD Anderton, Scorton with 3 nice Texels at 46kg. Top pence per kilo of 211ppk came from WN & D Smith, Cockerham with Suffolks and PW & DW Roskell, Pilling with 38kg Charollais. A slightly sharper average of 191ppk was achieved. A bigger show of Hoggs for Lancaster with 271 forward, well fleshed hoggs sold well, topping at 202ppk from J & H Davis, Cabus with a smart pen of 14 Cheviots. Top price per head came from T & CMN Kelsall, Chipping with a pair of 55kg Texels realising £98. A run of well finished hoggs from J Fryars sold well, with Texels at £93 and Swales at £78. Overall average of 168ppk. Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices:Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices:Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices:Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices: SPRING LAMBS – TEX: £94 Wyre Farm, £80 10 Ashford Close, £79 Springfield Farm, SUFF: £93.50 Cocker House Farm; £84.50 Hall Croft Barn; £80 Springfield Farm. CHAR: £74 Springfield. PRIME HOGGS – TEX: £98 Brown Brook; £93 1 Medlar Hall Farm; £90 Annasghyl. SUFF: £92 Middle Ridge Farm; £86 5 Maddison Avenue. CHEV: £91 Weavers Farm.

MULE: £89 Brown Brook; £75 1 Medlar Hall Farm. SWALE: £78 1 Medlar Hall Farm.

Just shy of 80 Cast Sheep forward. Mules sold to £77 for a pair from A & FM Bolland & Sons, Ellel. Texels and Suffolks to £86 from T & CM Kelsall & Sons and BD Wood.

Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices: TEX: £86 Brown Brook; £82 Sellerley Fields. SUFF: £86 Middle Ridge Farm; £72 Hall Croft Barn. MULE: £77 Yeat House; £76 Wyre Farm. GRIT: £70 Middle Ridge Farm.

SWALE: £70 Brown Brook. £54 Middle Ridge Far. CHAR: £64 Hall Croft Farm.

The Spring Show and Sale of Hoggs with Lambs at Foot had a good entry of just shy of 170 families forward. The pre-sale show saw RG & H Preece, Thornbush take the 1st Place Mules and Overall Champion Rosettes, which later sold to £175. An entry of good commercial sheep

forward were met by a ringside of cautious buyers and saw best sorts in excess of £150 for Mules with singles and plainer types £130-£145.

In the Continental class, Tony Chapman, North Lodge took the first place ticket, these later sold for £142. Best Texels with singles in excess

of £130. A few older sheep forward, saw Mule Shearlings and 1 crops with Twins sell to £160 from Alec Sutcliffe, broken mouth ewes with

singles to £152 from RG & H Preece.

Show ResultsShow ResultsShow ResultsShow Results Mule 1st RG & H Preece 2nd WT & EM Townley 3rd WT & EM Townley Continental 1st JA Chapman

2nd B & SE Carter

3rd J & H Huddleston

Friday 6th May Another good entry of Store Cattle at Lancaster this morning, with new buyers ringside, all classes sold to a slightly dearer trade. Stores sold to a top of £1200 for a 29month Blue Bullock from J & M Cockett, Ingleton. Native bred cattle sold to £1190 for an Angus bullock from R Escolme, Bay Horse. Heifers to £1150, again for an Angus, from Jim Bracken, Catterall. Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS: FRI: £940 Bank Farm; £890 Park Farm; £810 Bank Farm. ANG: £1190 Ivy Barn; £1160 Greenlands Farm; £1090 Raw Head. CON: £670 Whinney Garth. LIM: £1120 Park House; £1050 Green Lane End; £1040 Lodge Farm. CHAR: £1060 Fellside Farm. SIM: £1160 Old Woodhouse; £1080 Fellside Farm. BRIT BLUE: £1200 Foredales Farm; £1140 Pasture House. MON: £1080 Lane House. £1010 Green Lane End. FKV: £1080 Green Lane End. BLO: £1050 Old Woodhouse. STORE HEIFERS:FRI: £650 Lodge Farm. ANG: £1150 Greenlands Farm; £1100 Ivy Barn; £1060 Raw Head. LIM: £1080 Houlker Barn; £1060 High House Farm; £1060 Houlker Barn. OTHER: £950 Spout House. HERE: £960 Crag Farm. BRIT BLUE: £1130 Cragg Farm; £1110 Abbotson Farm; £1110 High House. BLO: £790 Whinney Garth.

Good numbers of Cast Cows and OTM Cattle forward, with 96 passing through the ring. A mixed show in terms of quality. Trade topped at 154.5ppk for an Angus Heifer from R Oldfield, Carnforth and beef cows to 149.5ppk for a smart Blue cow from WI & A Atkinson & Sons, Bleasdale. Dairy heifers to 144.5 from Jones Sandvilla and dairy cows to 124.5ppk from Wallbank Farms, Abbeystead. All classes sold to a good trade through when comparing to other local centres. An overall average of 104ppk was achieved for all forward. Cast Cows Top Prices:Cast Cows Top Prices:Cast Cows Top Prices:Cast Cows Top Prices: CAST COW: FRI:124.5 Tills Farm; 119.5 Lane Ends; 119.5 High House. ANG: 119.5 Cragg End. MRI: 114.5 Cragg End. LIM: 139.5 Barker Knott; 139.5 Swainhead Farm; 129.5 Fell Gate Farm. OTHER: 119.5 Holme Head; 104.5 Croasdale House. CHAR: 117.5 Brown Edge. HERE: 119.5 Middle Lee. SRW: 114.5 White Lund. CAST HEIFER: FRI: 144.5 Sandvilla; 141.5 White Lund; 139.5 Sandvilla. ANG: 154.5 Brow Foot. MON: 134.5 White Lund.

An entry of 29 Calves saw Blue Bulls to £395 from Wallbank Farms, Abbeystead. Hereford Heifers to £320 from F Carr and Angus Bulls to £280 from RT Halhead. A mixed entry of Black and White calves forward topping at £140 from DJ Townley, Ashton, best sorts in excess of £108 with flashy younger calves £88-£65. Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices: HEIFER CALF: FRI:£108 Tills Farm. ANG: £190 Tills Farm. HERE: £320 Nissan Huts. BULL CALF: FRI: £140 Whinney Carr; £130 Brantbeck Farm. ANG: £280 Norbreck Farm. BRIT BLUE: £395 Tills Farm; £290 Bank End. MON: £200 Whinney Carr. HEIFER STIRK: ANG: £300 Stirk Hey Farm.

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J36 Sale Reports Thursday 5th MayThursday 5th MayThursday 5th MayThursday 5th May The weekly sale of Calves saw a small entry forward, with many more promised for next week as vendors begin to calve. British Blue bulls sold to £260 from J W & D Robinson & Sons of Hollins Farm. Black and whites sold to £100 from AG & ME Clarke of The Ashes. Vendors are politely asked to inform Ian of entries, so buyers can be informed, with over 12 buyers forward today looking for calves. There was 28 Breeding Cattle forward at the monthly sale. A nice ringside of buyers around the ring were making the trade, which resulted in the vendors going home happy. A top price of £1,550 for a BB heifer with a Lim heifer calf from C Wilson, Nether Hall.

Leading PricesLeading PricesLeading PricesLeading Prices Heifers with calves BB Hfr with bull calf £1,550 – Nether Hall BB Hfr with heifer calf £1,420 – Nether Hall Lim Hfr with bull calf £1,300 – Long Green Head Lim x Hfr with heifer calf £1,080 – Low Garths Cows with calves AA Cow with heifer calf £1,120 – Walkers I’th Fields BB Cow with bull calf £1,400 – Long Green Head Cont Cow with bull calf £1,200 – Cautley Farm Lim Cow with bull calf £1,250 – Hope Stead Lim Cow with bull calf £1,000 – Hope Stead Here Cow with heifer calf £950 – Grosvenor Court

Saturday 7th Saturday 7th Saturday 7th Saturday 7th ---- MachineryMachineryMachineryMachinery Just short of 1000 lots forward for our monthly machinery sale. A large selection of small items were forward and sold to a very strong trade, whilst out on the yard a big entry of the Tractors and Farm Machinery were well sold a dispersal of farm machinery from Messrs Case of Barrow-in-Furness saw a Massey Ferguson 5645 with a loader sell for £19,200, an Ifor Williams Cattle Trailer to £2000 and a Vicon Mower to £1800. Other leading prices saw £10,500 for a Zetor 8441 Proxima, £2800 for a Massey Ferguson 565, £650 for a Vicon Two Drum Mower, £1250 for a Leyland 255, £1800 for a Four Furrow Kverneland Plough, £500 for a Calf Creep. Our next sale will be an on Farm Dispersal Sale on Saturday 28th May on behalf of Mr R Walker, Dub How, Sawrey, full details available on

the backpage and the next Collective sale will be Saturday 4th June.

Tuesday 3rd MayTuesday 3rd MayTuesday 3rd MayTuesday 3rd May The numbers of Prime Lambs are now starting to come forward, with a good entry of 291 forward. Buyers certainly the most interested to date and eagerly bidding for lambs. A market average of 209ppk, with best types regularly selling between 250ppk and 269ppk. Trade topped at 269ppk for a Beltex x lamb from P & SA Edmondson of Low Barrows Green. A lamb from the same home sold to £117. Texel lambs regularly either side of the 220ppk mark with Suffolk Mules selling either side of the 210ppk mark.

Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices:Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices:Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices:Prime Lamb & Hogg Top Prices:

PRIME LAMBS – SUFF: £117 Low Barrows Green; £112 Fleetwood Road; £107 Crooklands Brow. TEX: £102 Carlingwha; £98 Horrace Farm; £97 Ackenthwaite Farm.

DORS: £93.50 Beckside Barn; £83.50 Skiddaw View; £81.50 Warth Sutton Farm. HAMP: £98.50 Endmoor Farm. ZWART: £80 Skiddaw View.

PRIME HOGGS – TEX: £103 Green Head; £101 Larkrigg; £99 St Annes Farm; £98 Brow Head. RYE: £101 Barker Knott. HERD: £97 Low Fields. SUFF: £96 Parks Farm

Barn; £93 Downlands Farm. CHEV: £93 Harbarrow Farm; £80 Hall Bank. MULE: £82.50 Parks Farm Barn; £79 Dane Hill Farm; £76 Bowers Farm. CH: £80 Harbarrow

Farm; £70 Haveriggs Farm. CONT: £79.50 Sykes Farm; £79.50 Capplethwaite. SWALE: £78.50 Moss House Farm; £75.50 Cobble Hey; £70 Parks Farm Barn.

A good number of Prime Hoggs forward considering it is the second week of May, with just shy of 600 forward. Well meated hoggs in very strong demand, with a market average of 171ppk and hoggs weighing between 39kg and 45kg averaging 181ppk. Plenty of Contiental Hoggs sold around to 200ppk mark. A bigger show of 466 Cast Ewes today, selling to the same fast trade. Mules sold to £89, with the best sorts £82-£86. Top price of the day came from Alan Blair, with a pure Suffolk ewe realising £128. Biggest sheep in excess of £100, with a pen of four Charollais from M P & A Lee, Arkholme selling to £119. Hill sheep to £73 for a trio of swales from J S & S Atkinson, Scorton

Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices: SUFF: £128 Fleetwood Road; £105 New Close; £100 The Borrans. CH: £119 Cinder Hill Farm; £117 New Close; £106 Gilpin Farm. TEX: £110 Thrang; £96 Woodside Farm; £86 Jacksons Ground. CHEV: £108 Green Head; £97 Owl Nook; £79 Masongill Hall. LEI: £96 High Tenement Farm; £91 Gilpin Farm; £87 Woodside Farm. MULE: £89 Cooper House; £88 Hampsfield Hall; £87 High Wray Farm. DORS: £79 Skiddaw Farm; £72 Brow Head.RGH: £77 Blackmoss Farm; £76 Buck Bank Farm; £71 Steps Farm. SWALE: £75 Woodside Farm; £73 Sykes Farm; £70 Yoad Pot. ZWART: £70 Capplethwaite; £ HERD: £65 Poppy Farm; £61 Thrang; £53 Moss End Farm. WOOD: £50 Thrang.

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Coming up at North West Auctions

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Monday 16th May Weekly Sale of Primestock at 9am

Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at 11am Monthly Sale of Dairy Cattle at 11.15am

Wednesday 18th May

Sale of Machinery, Equipment, Tools & Timber Up to date list available on our website

Friday 20th May Weekly Sale of Calves, Cast Cows & Store Cattle

from 10.15am

J36 Rural Auction CentreJ36 Rural Auction CentreJ36 Rural Auction CentreJ36 Rural Auction Centre

Tuesday 17th May Monthly Sale of all classes of Pigs 10.30am Weekly Sale of Sheep with Lambs at 11am

Weekly Sale of Primestock at 1pm

Thursday 19th May Weekly Sale of Calves at 10.15am

Thursday 2nd June

Weekly Sale of Calves Monthly Sale of Dairy Cattle

Monthly sale of Beef Breeding

NWA Property On Farm Dispersal Saturday 28th May

On behalf of Mr R Walker, Dub How, Sawrey

Entries include

Massey Furguson 5454 08 Plate 2700 hours with a MF 290 loader attached, Loader

Attachments Grab, Muck Fork, Bucket, Pallet Fork, Bale Spike, Bale Cuddler, 4ft 553 Bobcat

with Grab and Bucket, 5 ton Kubota Digger, Kubota Micro Digger 0.8t, 5 ton Terex Dumper,

5 ton Collinsons Feed Bin, Welger RP 220, Chopper Baler, Lely 8ft Mower, Vicon Fertiliser

Spreader, Haybob, Teagle Pasture Topper, Primx 2000 Gallon Slurry Tanker, Slurry Stirrer,

Marshall Muck Spreader, Kidd Saw Bench, Chain Harrows, 8t Fraser Trailer (with silage sides - for spares), 12ft Ifor Williams Cattle Trailer with fold up decks and cattle gates,

Small Tipping Trailer, Ifor Williams 10ft Tipping, Plant Trailer , Twin Axel Bale Trailer, 2 x Land

Rollers, Log Splitter, Pan Mixer, Quantity of Digger Buckets to fit a JCB 3CX, 2 x Calf

Creep Feeders, Mobile Sheep Race, Quantity of Cattle Cubicles, Quantity of Cattle Feed

Barriers, Quantity of Cattle Hurdles , Quantity of Small Tools, Emerald Twin Axel 6 Birth

Caravan

Penny Bridge, UlverstonPenny Bridge, UlverstonPenny Bridge, UlverstonPenny Bridge, Ulverston To let by Informal Tender

On instructions from Mrs. P. Paget Tomlinson

21.20 acres/8.58 hectares of land for mowing and grazing

at

SUMMERHILL PENNY BRIDGE, ULVERSTON

The land is available from 20th June, 2016 to 31st March, 2017

Closing date for tenders – 24th May, 2016 at 3.00 p.m.

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Next Auction Sale of Shares in L&K Group Plc will be on Lancaster Friday 20 May 2016

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The Rural Law Practice are delighted to offer a free seminar on

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