Prices - Hawes Auction Mart (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Prices - Hawes Auction Mart

12:39pm Tuesday 14th February 2012 in Farm & country By Vicky Goodall

HAWES: Tuesday, February 7. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 21 Calves and 701 Sheep comprising 579 Prime and Lightweight Hoggs, 42 In Lamb Ewse and 80 Cast Ewes and Rams. Prices - Calves. Bulls: British Blue to £350 each (average £337); Limousin 340 (310); Friesian/Holstein 195 (125). Heifers: British Blue 250 (243); Limousin 270 (226). Prime hoggs: Lights to 203 pence per kilo ( average 184.7p); Standards 216 (187.5); Mediums 246 (182.4); Continental to 246 pence per kilo, or £98.50 each; Suffolk 196, 82; Mules 203, 90; Horned 190, 82. Breeding Ewes: Correct Swaledale Ewes, In Lamb to the Swaledale Ram to £102 each (average £76.05). Cast ewes: Horned to £70.50 each (average £47.53); Polled 90 (77.64). Cast rams: Horned 77.50 (62.50); Polled 99 (85).