PENRITH: Monday, December 1. Fortnightly red market sale of prime cattle and cast cows. Prices - Prime bulls: Limousin to £1,392.30 each; Simmental 1,385.63; Black and White 951.38. Cast cows: Limousin 780.62 or 124.5 pence per kilogram; Black and White 737.30, 123.5.

ALSO: Wednesday, November 26. Fortnightly sale of rearing calves and store lambs and weekly sale of prime sheep and stirks. Forward: 112 rearing calves, 5,056 prime sheep, comprising 3,719 prime lambs, 815 cast ewes and rams, 522 store lambs. Prices - Bull calves: British Blue to £405 each; Hereford 325; Aberdeen Angus 315; Black and White 150 (average 95.88). Heifer calves: Hereford 305; Aberdeen Angus 245; Limousin 245. Weaned bulls: Limousin 440; Dairy Shorthorn 210; Black and White 175. Weaned heifers: Limousin 408; Aberdeen Angus 242. Prime sheep. Prime lambs: Beltex £112 or 268 pence per kilogram; Continental 95, 232; Texel 94, 237; Suffolk 89, 189; Charollais 79; Mule 78, 168; Cheviot 78; Cheviot Mule 74.50; Swaledale 65 (x2), 167; Herdwick 60, 175. Cast ewes: Texel 127.50; Suffolk 111; Continental 102.50; Charollais 99; Cheviot 90; Bluefaced Leicester 85; Mule 84; Masham 77; Dorset 77; Rough Fell 62; Swaledale 60; Herdwick 51.50. Cast rams: Bluefaced Leicester 114; Texel 100; Cross-Bred 95; Herdwick 66; Rough Fell 58. Store lambs: Texel 77.50; Continental 67.50; Mule 64.50; Cheviot 55.50; Swaledale 41.50.