LEADING prices
CHAMPION at Lawrie and Symington’s show and sale of 370 springborn suckled calves at Lanark, was a 336kg red Limousin heifer from Messrs Hamilton, High Crewburn, which later sold for the top price of £3000 or 892.9p per kg.
Judge Paul Rattray, West Park, found his reserve in a 305kg Limousin cross bullock from Messrs Laird, Sunnyside/Carbello which made £2050 or 669.9p.
Outwith the prize list, bullocks peaked at £1380 and 369p for a 380kg Charolais cross from Posso Farm, with heifers to £2020 or 759.4p for a 266kg Limousin cross from High Crewburn.
Overall, 199 bullocks averaged 268.66p with 171 heifers at 255.14p.
Bullocks – A-A – £930 Carswell; £920 East Forth; £910 Mauldslie Mains; £900 Mid Uplaw. Hfd – £840 Pretts Mill. Sals – £810, £800 Middle Mains. Lim – £1090, £1040 Scrogton; £1040 Sunnyside; £990 Scrogton. Lim X – £2050, £1150, £1140 Sunnyside/ Carbello; £1070 Knockdaw; £1050 Cumberhead; £1050 Pretts Mill; £1040 Sunnyside/Carbello. Char X – £1380 Kailzie Mains; £1380, £1320 Posso; £1280, £1100 Lightshaw; £1090 Scrogton; £1080 Calton; £1070 Cumberhead; £1060 Dykehead. BS
– £930 Pretts Mill; £900 Mauldslie Mains. Sim – £1020, £1010, £980 Knockdaw. BB – £1200 Stonebyres Mains; £1150 Sunnyside/ Carbello; £1110 Nether Abington; £1100, £1090, £1060, £950 Sunnyside/Carbello. Per kg – A-A – 270.3p Greens; 266.9p Castlehill; 261.5p Mid Uplaw; 252.3p Greens; 252.1p East Forth. Hfd – 215.4p Pretts Mill. Sals – 271.7p, 249.2p, 242.5p Middle Mains. Lim – 282.6p Sunnyside/Carbello, 276.6p 270.8p, 251.3p Scrogton. Lui – 202.1p Mauldslie Mains. Lim X – 669.9p, 298.2p Sunnyside/Carbello; 298p Kilmaurs Mains Cottage; 288.5p Burnbrae; 286.6p Dykehead; 286.4p, 282.6p, 281.1p, 279.1p Sunnyside/ Carbello. Char X – 412.5p Posso; 369p Kailzie Mains; 363.2p Posso; 357.5p, 331.3p Lightshaw; 310.3p Calton; 304.6p, 302.3p Laidlawsteel; 293.2p, 291.5p Lightshaw. BS – 238.7p Mauldslie Mains; 217.3p Pretts Mill. Sim – 259.3p, 251.9p, 218.1p Knockdaw. BB – BB – 316.1p, 304.6p Sunnyside/ Carbello; 289.1p Nether Abington; 281.1p, 279.1p Sunnyside/Carbello; 278.1p, 256.6p Woodhill; 251p Stonebyres Mains.
Heifers – A-A – £820 Mid Uplaw; £800 Greens; £800 Oldwalls; £780 East Forth. Lim X – £3000, £2020, £1800, £1200 High Crewburn; £1090, £1060, £1050 Sunnyside/Carbello; £1020 Cuttlehill; £1000 Sunnyside/Carbello. Char X – £1720 Lightshaw; £1220 Calton; £1120 Kailzie Mains; £1040, £1020 Scrogton; £990 Feoch. Sim – £1000 Cuttlehill; £1000 Langholm. BB – £1520, £1480 Stonebyres Mains; £1100, £1090, £1060 Sunnyside/Carbello. Char – £1040 Scrogton. Per kg – A-A – 243.2p Greens; 226.6p Castlehill; 226.5p Mid Uplaw; 221.6p Oldwalls; 218.6p Greens. Sal – 219.2p Middlemains. Lim X – 892.9p, 759.4p, 661.8p, 441.2p High Crewburn; 283.4p, 258.9p, 253.8p Sunnyside/Carbello; 251.4p Cumberhead; 242.7p Dykehead. Char X – 554.8p Lightshaw; 415p Calton; 363.6p Kailzie Mains; 294.9p Posso; 293.2p Kailzie Mains; 289.1p, 282.1p, Laidlawsteel. BS – 201.1p Mauldslie Mains. Sim – 316.5p Langholm; 237.4p, 222.2p Knockdaw; 199.2p, 196.8p Cuttlehill. BB – 355.1p, 320.3p Sunnyside/Carbello; 309.9p, 283.4p, 277.5p, 276.4p, 258.9p Sunnyside/Carbello. Char – 241.3p Scrogton.