Tuesday, March 31. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 336 prime and lightweight hoggs, 76 cast ewes and rams and 3 calves. Prices - Calves, Heifers: Limousin to £195 each. Bulls: Friesian Holstein 200; Shorthorn 285. Prime Hoggs: Continental to 210 pence per kilogram (average 192.6p), or to £85 each; Mules 199 (183), 87.50; Suffolk 192, 82.50; Horned 191 (171.3), 90. Cast Ewes: Horned 85 (55.53); Polled 141 (83.45). Cast Rams: Horned 75 (71.50); Polled 123 (112.50).

ALSO: Saturday, March 28. Sale of cattle and Spring show and sale of store cattle. Forward: 2 beef breeding heifers with calves at foot, 100 store cattle and 11 cull cows. Show. Judge: G & T Birkbeck. Sponsor: Barclays Bank Agriculture. Results - Continental steers: 1 (Champion) J Dixon & Sons, British Blue, £1,060, to T Birkbeck; 2&3 JR & A Blades, Limousin cross, £835/£835. Continental heifers: 1 (Reserve Champion) JR & A Blades, Limousin cross, £845, to GC & JC Pullan; 2 J Dixon & Sons, British Blue cross, £810; 3 JW & JH Burton & Son, Blonde d'Aquitaine cross, £960. Prices. Store cattle - Steers: Limousin to £940 each (average £802); Blonde d'Aquitaine 1,210 (1,071); British Blue 1,060 (877); Charolais 850 (830); Bazadaise 860. Heifers: Limousin 1,040 (807); Blonde d'Aquitaine 1,015 (912); British Blue 810 (785); Charolais 755. Beef breeding cattle: British Blue heifers with Limousin cross bull calves at foot 1,900 (1,850). Cull cattle: Continental to 190 pence per kilo (average 160.4p); Friesian/Holstein 119 (109.5).

ALSO: Tuesday, March 24. Weekly sale of livestock and special show of in-lamb Swaledale ewes. Forward: 464 prime and lightweight hoggs, 96 cast ewes and rams, 84 in-lamb Swaledale ewes. Prices - Prime hoggs: Continentals to £102 each, or 226 pence per kilogram (average 201.2); Suffolks 87, 200 (190.5); Mules 90, 197 (180.3); Horned 96, 207 (171.5). Swaledale ewes: correct 145 (121); shearlings correct 130 (102). Cast ewes: Horned 89 (56.83); Polled 119 (96.78). Cast rams: Horned 133 (102.17); Polled 147 (116.25).