TRADE was well up on the year at the annual sale of top draw Suffolk cross, Texel cross, Cheviot Mule and Cheviot cross ewe lambs at Skipton Auction Mart, with most vendors reporting consignment averages up £10-£25 per head
Top pens of Suffolk and continental cross lambs sold in the main at £165-£200, with the odd prize-winning pens making more, with a strong lamb in most breeds £145-£165 and £120-£140 sweeping up most of the rest. Smaller lambs were trading at store prices, plus £5 to £10.
Top price was £310 paid for a pen of 10 Texel cross Beltex ewe lambs from Roger and Jason Craddock, Forest Becks, Bolton-by-Bowland.
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Joe and Nancy Throup, Berwick Intake, Draughton, won the continental section with a pen of Texel crosses bred from Mule ewes, which made £190.
Ken and Hazel Gamble, Easingwold, sold continentals sold to £192.
Suffolk crosses bred from Mule ewes sold to £210 on two occasions from Robert Metcalfe, Grange Farm, Brearton, while the first prize pen from Matt Reeday, F Reeday and Son, Manor Farm, Hetton, made £190.
Cheviot Mules peaked at £175 and £160 from John Stott, Laund Farm, Chipping.
The fortnightly Wednesday sale of 9675 head, which included store lambs, saw a breed average of £115.36, a nigh on £15 increase on 2023.
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