As sale season gets into full swing, we have been busy
washing and colouring tups in preparation for Kelso ram sales on Friday. We’re
taking a mixed bag of Texel and Beltex cross shearlings and Suffolk tup lambs.
The weather this past week has been wonderful, which has
given the grass, stock and myself a much needed boost. Farmers around us have
taken advantage of this good spell of weather and are bashing on with
harvesting wheat and barley.
More piglets arrived this past week, along with seven chicks
- it’s a spring mentality around our place!
Finished cattle prices seem to be holding steady, with most
markets with averages slightly up on the week. The finished lamb trade
continues to be difficult, although some markets have seen some improvement
and, as sheep breeding sales get going, trade seems to be a little down on the
year but nowhere near as much as some people had anticipated.
Sales coming up this week: Friday and Saturday, September 11
and 12, it’s a Mart's the Heart national show and sale of traditional and rare
breed at Melton Mowbray Market. On Saturday, September 12, Hexham and Northern
Marts have an on-farm dispersal sale of Texel cross-bred and Mule breeding
sheep, tractors and machinery. The sale takes place at Alrey Hill Farm,
Northumberland, on behalf of G. and L. Stoker.
On Monday and Tuesday, September 14 and 15, it’s a Mart's
the Heart annual two-day sale of 27,500 Mule gimmer lambs at Hawes Mart. Also
on Monday, there’s a major reduction sale of the Roadway Herd of pedigree Beef
Shorthorn cattle on behalf of P. and J. Bailey at Penrith Auction Mart.
Maybe see you at Westmorland County Show or Kelso ram sales.
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