Farm prices - Kendal Auction Mart (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Farm prices - Kendal Auction Mart

2:12pm Tuesday 12th June 2012 in Farm & country By Vicky Goodall

Thursday, June 7. Fortnightly sale of cattle. Prices - Bull calves: Limousin to £310 each. Bullock stirks: Friesian 200. Cows and calves: Shorthorn cow (7y) with Charolais calf 1,000. Cast cows: Limousin to 152.5 pence per kilo; British Blue 156.5; Shorthorn 139.5; Aberdeen Angus 145.5; Friesian 133.5. Cast heifers: Friesian 164.5. Cast bulls and steers: Limousin 182.5.

ALSO: Tuesday, June 5. Sale of sheep and Jubilee Show of prime lambs for Young Handlers and pens of five. Forward: 693 lambs. Judges: A Denny (Young Handlers) and M Garrity (pens of five). Results. Young Handlers: 1 A Ellis, £105, to Hayton Butchers; 2 P Osmond, £86, to Lancaster Meats; 3 S Dixon, £84, to Riley Bros. Pens of five - Continental Cross: 1 & Champion JA Airey, £92, to J Hadwin; 2 AE Atkinson, £84, to J Hadwin; 3 RJ Nicholson £83, to A Atkinson. Suffolk Cross: 1 S Procter, £88, to A Atkinson; 2 J and R Waller, £82, to Browns Butchers; 3 R and J Dodson, £8, to A Atkinson. Prices - Prime lambs: Texel to £105 each; Dorset 80; Suffolk 92; Horned 80; Charollais 89. Cast sheep: Suffolk 98; Continental 100; Mule 83; Swaledale 82; Rough Fell 88; Horned 82; Cheviot 114; Texel 140; Teeswater 106.