PENRITH: Monday, October 20. Red market sale of Prime/OTM cattle. Prices - Prime bulls: British Blue to £1,405.61, or 191.5 pence per kilogram; Limousin 1,359.72; Black and White 945.56, 157.5; Ayrshire 908.91.

ALSO: Wednesday, October 15. Annual Troutbeck sale of breeding rams, fortnightly sale of rearing calves and weekly sale of prime sheep. Forward: 90 rearing and weaned calves, 2,963 sheep, comprising 1,798 prime lambs, 893 cast ewes and rams, 272 store lambs. Judges: M & S Robinson. Results - Aged Swaledale Ram, champion & 1 Messrs Folder; 2 Messrs Bindloss. Swaledale Shearling Ram, reserve & 1 JB Little; 2 TW Bell. Prices - Aged rams: Swaledale to £600 each; Texel 520; Cheviot 360; Bluefaced Leicester 340; Suffolk cross Beltex 280. Shearlings: Cheviot 460; Texel 410; Beltex 400; Swaledale 300; Suffolk 280; Charollais 230. Ram lambs: Beltex 280; Suffolk 260 (x2); Texel 260. Rearing calves. Bull: British Blue 440; Charolais 325; Hereford 310; Aberdeen Angus 228; Black and White 158. Heifer: British Blue 315; Aberdeen Angus 225; Hereford 210. Weaned bulls: British Blue 580; Limousin 410; Hereford 358; Black and White 260. Weaned heifers: Limousin 420. Prime sheep: Beltex £91 or 223 pence per kilogram; Texel 91, 195; Continental 88, 183; Suffolk 79, 155; Charollais 71, 160; Mule 70.50, 151; Cheviot 63, 157 (X2); Scotch 60; Rough Fell 59.50; Swaledale 55, 154; Rouge 165p. Cast ewes: Texel 112; Suffolk 100; Charollais 92.50; Continental 88; Beltex 87.50; Mule 76; Rough Fell 75.50; Half-Bred 74.50; Goat 56.50; Swaledale 44.50; Scotch 42.50. Cast rams: Texel 95.