Charolais tops Penrith at £2115
CATTLE averaged £1181.26 at Penrith and District Farmers’ Mart’s Michaelmas prize show and sale of 601 head at Penrith, having sold to a top of £2115 for a 28-month-old Charolais bullock from WH Brass, Low Row.
Limousins from BS and J Strong, and Son, Hewer Hill, secured both the champion and the reserve honours, with the former, a heifer selling for £1520, to GH Crapper and Son. The reserve, a bullock, made £1720, to the judge, M Robshaw, Beck House Farm, Tadcaster.
Heifers reached £1695 for a British Blue cross Simmental from J Shields, Gooselands View Barn, purchased by W Armstrong.
LEADING prices
Store cattle – Bullocks – Char – £2115, £1625 Low Row; £1435, Crosby Lodge. Lim – £1895, £1885 Croft House (Bowman); £1815, £1735, £1675, £1585, Goodlie Hill; £1720, Hewer Hill; £1695, Low Row; £1635, Blands. BB – £1635, Wham Head; £1515, Gooselands View Barn; £1485 Hawbank; £1425 (2), Hewer Hill. A-A – £1535 (2), Low Row; £1455 Park Head (Hird). Blonde – £1275 Tilery. Sim – £1265, £1255, Thorneycroft. BShort – £1255, £1245 (2), Hawbank. Long – £1165 Midtown (Strong). Hfd – £1145 Dacre Banks. Black and White – £1085, £1065 (2) Roanstrees; £1055 Clear View.
Heifers – BB – £1695, Gooselands View Barn; £1475, £1455, £1435, Town Head (Holliday). Lim – £1595, £1585 Town Head (Holliday); £1595, Blands; £1575 Croft House (Bowman); £1565, £1535, Shap Abbey; £1520, Hewer Hill; £1515, Gooselands View Barn. A-A – £1385 (2), £1365 Gooselands View Barn; £1235 (2) Street House (Strong). Blonde – £1235 Shap Abbey; £1115 West View (Davidson).