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The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart had forward 4,306 store
hoggs and cast ewes & rams at their annual sale at Longtown
on Tuesday 10th January 2006.
Store hoggs were a good show again
and sold well. Top of £43.20
for Texels from Corries Mill, others £40.50 Haybanks, £40
Old Walls, Hyndlee and Low Lonning.
Charollais £41.80 Ford
Mill; Beltex £41 Quarryfield; Greyface £40.50 Barron
House; Suffolk £40.20 Glendhu, £40 Mossband Hall; Cheviot
Mule £40 Milsington; Dorset £40 Crookston; North Country
Cheviot £40 Earlside; Jacob £37.50 Ford Mill; Half
Bred £37.20 Earlside; Rouge £37 Ford Mill; Hill Cheviot £36.50
Kelsocleugh; Blackface £33.50 Wanwood Hill, £32 Laverhay;
Swaledale £23.80 Deadwater.
Tup hoggs to £35.80 Cooms.
Greyface ewe hoggs to £45 Gall.
Cast ewes and rams attracted
several distant buyers, all classes were dearer than recent sales.
Top of £47.50 for Suffolk
and Texel ewes from North House; Greyface £32.50 Bushfield;
Leicester £37.50 Hill End; Cheviot £31.50 Dunnabie;
Blackface £22.50 Streethead. Rams to £39.50 for Suffolks
from North House; Texel £35.50 Hyndlee; Charollais £34.50
Dunnabie; Cheviot £29.50 Keilder Head and High Thorneyburn;
Swaledale £28.50 Newholme; Leicester £27.50 Chapel;
Blackface £20.50 Blackburn.
2005 sale report |
