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NWA Lancaster , Wyresdale Road, Golgotha, Lancaster, LA1 3JQ NWA J36, J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, LA7 7FP

NWA J36

Dairy Dispersal

North West Auctions held the dispersal sale of Friesian Dairy Cows and Youngstock on behalf of the late Mr Allan Armitstead, Hullater Farm which saw a full ringside of buyers in attendance from the Northern Counties and Midlands.

The sale topped at £2050 for a fresh 3rd calved cow with 2

nd calvers selling to £1880 and heifers £1750.

In calf cows peaked at £1320 for December calvers carrying Limousin x calves.

Youngstock experienced fierce bidding with bulling heifers £960 maiden heifers £800 with heifer calves £570.

Sale Statistics Sale Statistics Sale Statistics Sale Statistics

Cows (in milk) to £2050 av £1142

Heifers (in milk) to £1750 av £1097

Incalf to £1320 av £965

Bulling Heifers to £960 av £838

Maiden Heifers to £800 av £738

Heifers calves to £570 av £492

Christmas Show & Sales at North West Auctions J36 Rural Auction Centre

Tuesday 2nd December - Prime Pigs

Tuesday 9th December - Prime Lambs

Thursday 11th December - All Classes of Cattle & Store Lambs

Tuesday 30th December - Young Handlers Prime Lambs

Lancaster Auction Mart Monday 17th November - Dairy Cattle

Monday 8th December - Prime Cattle & Prime Lambs

Friday 5th December - Rearing Calves & Store Cattle

Monday 29th December - Young Handlers Prime Lambs

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NWA Lancaster Sale Reports Friday 7th NovemberFriday 7th NovemberFriday 7th NovemberFriday 7th November An entry of 334 Store Cattle today sold to full value with all classes sharper on the week. Trade was topped by David Moorhouse, Natland with a big Blue Bullock selling to £1480. Limousins from the same home sold to £1380. Angus bullocks sold to £1280 from H Birkett & Son, North Farm. Heifers sold equally as well, topping at £1180 for a pen of 7 Angus’ from Redmayne Bros. Blue heifers 22-23month sold to £1160 from M Shephard & Sons and JS & KM Wilson & Son. Younger cattle sold well with suckler bred Limousin bullocks from T Ayrton & Son selling to £770 and a pen of nice 14month Charollais heifers selling to £700 from A & CM Carter, Black Bull Farm. Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices:Store Cattle Top Prices: STORE BULLOCKS – FR- £1100 Old Glasson Farm; £1050 Downlands Farm. AA- £1280 North Farm; £1250 Raw End Farm. CON- £870 Holme Head. WB-£750 Coventry Farm. LIM- £1380 High House Farm; £1310 Tarnwater Farm; £1270 North Farm. CH- £1370 High House Farm; £1260 Hazelslack Tower Farm; £1220 Cragg Farm. HE- £1180 Raw Head; £1090 Longlands Farm; £1040 Bradlow Farm. SIM- £1240 Greenbank Farm; £1180 Park House Farm; £1110 Bradlow Farm. BRB- £1480 High House Farm; £1200 Tarnwater Farm; £1190 North Farm. MO- £1060 Fanny House Farm; £630 Coventry Farm. SRW- £780 Holme Head. BA- £1200 Tarnwater Farm; £860 Valley View.

STORE HEIFERS – FR- £950 Sheardley Fold. AA- £1180 Cuerdale Hall Farm; £1160 Manor House Farm; £1140 High Green. WB- £880 Yew Tree Farm. LIM- £1090 Manor

House Farm; £1080 Beckside Farm; £980 Myerscough Hall. CH- £1180 Manor House Farm; £1050 High House; £980 Whinney Garth. HE- £1090 Stoney Fold Farm; £1080

Raw Head. SIM- £870 Low House Farm; £830 Park House Farm. BRB- £1160 High House; £1160 Pasture House Farm. BA- £1040 Hallbeck; £860 King Bank Farm.

An entry of just short of 100 OTMs this morning saw a mixed entry forward. Topping the sale was BL & D Banks with a Blue Cow selling to 189.5ppk. A top gross of £1174 from MJ Fell, Newton with a Friesian Heifer. Frisians sold to a top of 174.5ppk for a heifer from EE Thornton & Sons. Friesian cows sold to 114.5ppk from G Atkinson & Son, Quernmore Park. Overall average of 94.17ppk for all OTMs forward. Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices:Cast Cow Top Prices: CAST COWS – FR- 114.5 Old Hall Farm; 111.5 Cringleber; 111.5 Chapel House. AA- 114.5 Cringleber. CON- 107.5 Low Sizergh Farm. SLR- 104.5 Rooten Brook. LIM- 134.5 Hawkswell Farm. CH- 107.4 Cringleber; 107.5 West Lynn. HE- 127.5 Cringleber. SIM- 127.5 White Lee Farm; 114.5 High Tenement Farm. BRB- 189.5 Squires Gate Farm; 124.5 High Tenement Farm; 119.5 Cringleber. MO- 115.0 Lane House; 114.5 Johnson House. SRW- 104.5 Low Sizergh Farm. CAST HEIFERS – FR- 174.5 Downlands Farm; 161.5 Chapel House. LIM- 119.5 Birks Farm.

CAST/PRIME BULLS & BULLOCKS – LIM- 117.5 Thornton Hall.

A bumper entry of Calves and Stirks this morning with 77 going under the hammer. This sale is fast growing momentum, drawing both quantity and quality calves. A 100% clearance across all sectors was topped by Steven Robinson, Longber Farm with a run of British Blue bulls and heifers selling to £445 heifers sold to £335 from the same good home, buyers paying a premium for the cow making heifers. Three of the 13 blue bulls forward sold in excess of £400. Limousin bulls sold to a top of £395 from David Townley, Whinney Carr, with the same home selling Lim heifers to £392. Native bred calves sold well, with Angus Heifers & Bulls selling to £290 from RT Halhead and David & Eileen Wallbank. Very few black and whites forward topping at £130, twice, from TD & V Whitaker, Park Lane and FW Rhodes & Son, Barrow Graves. Stirks were forward in plentiful numbers, and met by a strong trade, selling to a top of £515 for a pair of Angus Heifers from A Tattersall, Withnell. Trade of the day came from Steve Moore with a pen of Hereford Bullocks selling to £505 at 6month.

Prices to Note

13 BRB Bulls to £445 Av. £344.62 6 BRB Hfrs to £335 Av. £300.83

3 Char Bulls to £405 Av. £395

6 Lim Bulls to £395 Av. £330

3 Lim Hfrs to £392 Av. £320.67

1 Sim Bulls to £340 4 AA Bulls to £290 Av. £237.50

1 AA Hfrs to £290

18 BW to £130 Av. £65.56

Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices: BULL CALF – FR- £130 Park Lane Farm; £130 Barrow Greaves Farm; £108 Park Lane Farm. AA- £290 Tills Farm; £265 Norbreck Farm; £205 Hatters Farm. LIM- £395 Whinney Carr Farm. CH- £405 Norbreck Farm. SIM- £340 Norbreck Farm. BRB- £445 Longber Farm; £430 Nobreck Farm. BULL STIRK – HE- £505 Longwood House. BRB- £480 Muffys Platt Farm. HEIFER CALF – AA- £290 Norbreck Farm. LIM- £392 Whinney Carr Farm. BRB- £335 Longber Farm. HEIFER STIRK- AA- £470 Bury Lane. HE- £500 Bury Lane. BRB- £500 Bury Lane; £445 Muffys Platt Farm.

BULLOCK STIRK- AA- £515 Bury Lane; £395 Hatters Farm. LIM- £350 Hatters Farm. BRB- £500 Bury Lane. MO- £505 Farmdale Road.

Monday 10th November Monday 10th November Monday 10th November Monday 10th November All classes of Prime Lambs sold to a sharper trade at Lancaster with an overall market average of 176ppk. Continental and White faced lambs carrying plenty of flesh sold to a strong demand with better sorts easily sold into the 190ppk with plenty of pens in the mid to late 180ppk. Lambs topped at 198ppk or £89 from Joe Townley of Mearsbeck. Mule lambs sold to a top of 174ppk from Michael Preece of High House Farm with all mule lambs averaging 171ppk. A few horn lambs now beginning to come forward selling to 171ppk from BD Gill of Yarlsber.

Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:

SUFF - £80 Fell End Farm; £79 Parks Farm Barn; £78.50 North Farm. MASH - £80 Allcocks Farm; £76.50 Holme House. MULE - £76 Fell End Farm; £74.50 Holme House.

HORNED - £68.50 Yarlsber; £66 Marshaw Farm. CHAR - £89 Stirzakers Farm; £76.50 Low Foulshaw. TEX - £89 Mearsbeck Farm; £88 Parks Farm Barn; £85 North Farm. LLEYN

- £77.50 Low Foulshaw Farm. JACUB - £53.50 Low Highfield Farm.

Cast Sheep continue to be in strong demand selling to a top of £89 for continental ewes JM Sanderson of Lower Highfield with others easily sold into the eighties. Mule ewes selling to £82 from JE & J Pye of Gibsons Farm with other pens of well fleshed mules selling in the late £70’s. Horned ewes sold to £54 for meaty ewes with plainer sorts around the £40 mark.

Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices:Cast Sheep Top Prices: MASH - £81 Stirzakers Farm. MULE - £82 Gibsons Farm; £78 Yeat Hose; £75 North Farm. HORNED - £54 Holme House; £54 Allcocks Farm. CHEV - £58 Marshaw Farm; £56 Marshaw Farm. TEX - £89 Lower Highfield; £81 Stirzakers Farm; £77 North Farm.

A larger show of Prime Bulls forward at Lancaster selling to a good trade in line with other markets in the area with, more continue to be needed to meet the demand from the buyers. A Charolais bull from J & D Barton & Son of Calcalds Farm sold to the top price of 181.5ppk with beef x dairy bulls selling in the late 160ppk.

Couple of Clean Cattle forward selling to 174.5ppk for Simmental heifers from P & A Bell of Village Farm.

Prime Bull Top Prices: Prime Bull Top Prices: Prime Bull Top Prices: Prime Bull Top Prices: Prime Bulls – LIM – 169.5 Bensons Farm; 159.5 Beech house. CHAR – 181.5 Calcalds Farm. BRB – 164.5 Calcalds Farm. BA – 167.5 Calcalds Farm.

Prime Cattle – SIM – 174.5 Village Farm.

Dont forget the monthly calf prize at both NWA Lancaster and J36. Vendor of the highest

price calf under 6 weeks to receive six bags of feed courtesy of Dugdale Nutrition.

Thursday 6th NovemberThursday 6th NovemberThursday 6th NovemberThursday 6th November Calves to £485

A fantastic British Blue bull Calf from ML & SM Dobson of Espford Farm selling at 7 week old to £485 took the headlines at J36. All calves sold to a sharp trade with a ring side of buyers eager to purchase calves on offer with more could have easily been sold. Beef bull calves sold to a strong demand with all calves selling to their value with better heifer calves good to sell as plainer sorts slightly harder to place. Rearing black and whites once again selling well in line with other markets in the North West topping at £170 once again from ML & SM Dobson of Espford Farm with other young black and white rearing calves selling between £60 and £80.

Christmas show of Calves Thursday 11th December 2014

Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices:Calf Top Prices: Bull Calf – Fri £170, £88 Espford, £65 Birks Farm, £62 Toadpool Farm, £60 Hagg Farm. Ang £340 Espford, £225, £180 Warton Grange Farm. BrB £485 Espford, £290 Cinder Barrow, £250 School House. Heifer Calf – Ang £140, £100 Warton Grange Farm.

Congratulations to Brian Wilson of Spout House for winning the monthly calf competition for the highest priced calf 42 days and under at J36 kindly sponsored by Dugdale Nutrition. Brian won

with a 35 day old Limousin Bull selling for £410 to EJ Ward & Sons of Nether Kellet.

Largest Entry of Store Lambs at J36 Rural Auction Centre sell to £74.50

North West Auctions held its weekly store lamb sale which saw an entry of 3,071 forward with buyers in attendance from as far afield as Shropshire and Devon.

A top price of £74.50 was achieved for a pen of 25 Texel x from DR & C Galbraith, Grayrigg. Plenty of short keep lambs £65 - £70. Medium keep lambs regularly £61 - £64 peaking at £64.50 for Suffolk x from MA & JA Winn, Burneside.

Hill lambs sold to £66.50 for Cheviot x from RI Dixon. Rough Fells to £55, Swaledales to £52, Scotch Blackface to £49. Mules regularly £60+ topping at £65 for a pen of £43 from Messrs Hodgson, Rydal. Herdwicks sold to £46 and Mashams to £63.50.

Store Lamb Top Prices:Store Lamb Top Prices:Store Lamb Top Prices:Store Lamb Top Prices: Suff: £66 Moss Howe Farm; £64.50 Borwick Lodge, High Underbrow; £63.50 Howe Nook; £63.50 Warth Sutton Farm. Masham: £63.50 Old Syke House; £63 Grange Farm; £60.50 Oxen Park. Mule: £65 Rydal Farm; £64.50 Stable Harvey, Valley View, Moss Howe Farm; £62.50 Low Newton Farm. Swale: £52 Brockstones; £50 Middle Lee; £44 Little Guards; £43.50 Audlands Park; £41.50 High Wardses. Rough Fell: £55 Steps Farm; £50.50 High Carlingill; £49 Mealrigg; £48 Ellergill. Scotch B/F: £49 Roundthwaite Abbey; £48 High Carlingill. Char: £67 Sand Gate Farm, Stribers Farm; £64 Warth Sutton; £62.50 Oxen Park; £60 Fold Farm. Chev: £66.50 Low Newton Farm; £64 Audlands Park; £60 Thwaite Farm; £57 Oxen Park. Texel: £74.50 Sunny Bank; £70 Gateside Farm; £68 Howe Nook; £67 Scroggs Farm; £66.50 High Skelgill. Herdwick: £46 Overmere; £41.50 Little Guards.

Tuesday 11th NovemberTuesday 11th NovemberTuesday 11th NovemberTuesday 11th November The monthly sale of Pigs saw a full selection of breeds forward. Prime pigs continue to sell to the recent high price peaking at £150 for Pietrain x from PK & R Woof with others £132, £125.

Best store pigs achieved £95 with others £68 - £80. Weaners presented in greater numbers with buyers selective as to breed and quality as the winter months draw in. Best white weaners £25, others £20 with most generally £8 - £15.

Prices to note:Prices to note:Prices to note:Prices to note: Prime Pigs £150, £132, £125 (x3) £120, £118

Store Pigs £95, £88, £86, £78, £75

Weaners £25, £25, £20, £18, £18

North West Auctions held their weekly sale of prime stock at J36 where a huge show of 3,600 prime sheep were put before a full compliment of buyers. Lambs topped at £104 per head for a single Beltex lamb from Messrs Jennings of Selside purchased by Mr M Lomax. Vendors should be complimented for a great show of lambs. All classes were well bid for throughout the sale to leave an overall average of 177.85p/kg.

The best Prime Lambs were regularly over the £2 per kilo mark topping at 211.40p/kg for a pen of Beltex x lambs from Richard Prickett of Hutton Roof. First cross commercial Suffolk and Texel lambs 180-190p/kg and once again another great show of well finished Mule and Masham lambs forward with Mashams topping at £79 per head and Mules selling to £82 per head. Horned lambs sold to £70.50 for a great pen of Rough Fell lambs from GH Capstick & Sons of Birkhaw. Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices:Prime Lamb Top Prices: Suff: £90 Brow Head; £88 Mansrigg Hall; £87 Meadow Oaks; £86.50 Smithy Green; £85.50 Underley; £85 Ackenthwaite. Masham: £79 Ashfield; £74.50 Stainerber. Mule: £82 Thwaite Rigg; £80 Middle Sadghyll; £80 Strickland Hill; £80 Ashfield Farm; £79 Holme House. Rough Fell: £70.50 Birkhaw; £69 Low Fold. Char: £84 Scroggs Farm; £82 Myers Farm; £80.50 Low Foulshaw Farm; £80 Red Lodge. Chev: £87 Holmelands; £84 Orchard House; £78 Green Head; £76 Underley. Texel: Holmelands; £87 Havera, Fold Farm; £85 Well Foot, Red Lodge; £83 Nook Farm. Lleyn: £76 Low Foulshaw Farm. Zwart: £79 Birks Farm; £71 Rinkfield, £71 High Wray. Beltex: £104 Crake Hall; £92 Low Hall; £86 Mansrigg Hall; £82.50 Green Head, Ashfield Farm, Poppy Farm

A good show of 560 Cast Sheep were forward with all classes meeting good demand topping at £106 for a Texel x ewe from Messrs R & B Parker of Killington. Suffolk Rams sold to £100 from M Blease of Carnforth. Cast Sheep Top Prices: Cast Sheep Top Prices: Cast Sheep Top Prices: Cast Sheep Top Prices: Suff: £100 The Barn; £96 Red Hills; £94 Oak House; £78 Park House. Cont: £76 Cooilingel; £74 Haveriggs Farm; £62 Gilpin Bank. Mule: £77 Strickland Hill; £76 Low Fold; £74 Strickland Tenement; £73 Gilpin Farm, Ghyll Farm. Swale: Ghyll Farm; £47 Brow Head; £45 Cragg House. Rough Fell: £63 High Swinklebank; £60 Thwaite Farm; £58 Cooper House. Chev: £59 Ghyll Farm; £47 Fellside Farm. Texel: £98 Low Fold; £93 Oldfield End; £92 Cooilingel; £89 Hutton Roof Hall. Lleyn: £64 Cragg Farm; £62 Cragg Farm; £40 Birch Bank. Leic: £92 Roundthwaite. Dales: £63 Middale Farm. Herdwick: £32 Troughton Hall; £31 High Farm. Zwart: £100 Bibbys Farm. Beltex: £106 High Hall Beck.

NWA J36 - 015395 66200

NWA J36 Sale Reports

Farm to Farm TradingFarm to Farm TradingFarm to Farm TradingFarm to Farm Trading

Available: Pedigree Lim Bull 4 years Old

Selection of pure bred Dexter Cattle

10 Zwartble Gimmer Lambs fit to tup

Charolais Bull 20months old

Selection of Swaledale Shearling Rams

Contact Ian Atkinson

07766 521472

Various Farms locally looking to take in cattle for winter

Contact Richard Gardiner 07713 787510

Pedigree AA Bull, 2 years old

Selection of Zwartble Gimmers Lambs

Contact Will Alexander 07976 646035

4 Blue/Grey Heifers 6 Months Old

6 Belted Galloway Cow & Calves

2 Lim Bulls 2 Years Old

6 Ayrshire Calving Heifers

Contact George Harryman

07759 278741

3035 Prime Lambs to £104 & 211.4 p/kg

Weights Top Av. Standard 32 ½ -39 211.4 176.5

Medium 39 ½ -45 ½ 197.6 178.0

Heavy 46 - 51 ½ 200.0 165.0

British Blue Bull Calf 7 weeks old selling to £485 from Messrs Dobson, pictured with purchaser Mr Taylor from

County Durham.

Contact Details Bill Nelson Bill Nelson Bill Nelson Bill Nelson - Livestock Manager

07785 542738

Gary Capstick Gary Capstick Gary Capstick Gary Capstick - Auctioneer

07970 830518

Matthew Probert Matthew Probert Matthew Probert Matthew Probert - Auctioneer

07760 557932

Ian Atkinson Ian Atkinson Ian Atkinson Ian Atkinson - Auctioneer

07766 521472

Will Alexander Will Alexander Will Alexander Will Alexander - Trainee

Auctioneer & Fieldsman 07976 646035

Richard Gardiner Richard Gardiner Richard Gardiner Richard Gardiner - Fieldsman

07713 787510

George Harryman George Harryman George Harryman George Harryman - Fieldsman

07759 278741

NWA J36 - 015395 66200

NWA LancasterNWA LancasterNWA LancasterNWA Lancaster

NovemberNovemberNovemberNovember

Monday 17th

Weekly Prime Stock Sale at 9am

Including

Christmas Dairy Show & Sale at 11am

Catalogues available online

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Friday 21st

Weekly Cattle Sale at 10.15am

Monday 24th

Weekly Prime Stock Sale at 9am

Friday 28th

Weekly Cattle Sale at 10.15am

& Fortnightly Store Lambs

Hornsbarow Farm, Lupton Meadow & Pasture Land

For sale by Private Treaty

On instructions from Mr. & Mrs. A. Gibbs

Lot 1—15.03 acres/6.084 hectares of pasture with natural water. Asking Price £80,000

Lot 2—3.66 acres/1.481 hectares of fertile meadow with mains water. Asking Prince £28,000

Multi Breed InMulti Breed InMulti Breed InMulti Breed In–––– Lamb Sale Lamb Sale Lamb Sale Lamb Sale at at at at

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Thursday 20th November Sale to Commence at 6pm

Comprising of 46 Suffolks

40 Texels

14 Charollais

Plus 50 Mule Ewes

Catalogues available online.

Contact Details

J36 Office 015395 66222

Lancaster Office 01524 599700

Michael Mashiter 07713 787511

John Hughes 07970 830517

Rodney Coward 07717 548966

Carole Hodgson - 07717 817051

Sarah Ettridge - 07795 048511

Katie Grieve - 07837 000725

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NovemberNovemberNovemberNovember

Tuesday 18th

Weekly Prime Stock Sale at 1.45pm

Thursday 20th

Weekly Sale of Calves at 10.15am

& Store Lamb Sale at 11am

Tuesday 25th

Weekly Prime Stock Sale at 1.45pm

Wednesday 26th

Collective Monthly Machinery Sale

At 10.30am

Thursday 27th

Fortnightly Sale of all Classes of Cattle & Weekly Sale of Store Lambs

At 10.15am

Christmas Carol

Concerts at

North West Auctions

J36 Rural Auction Centre

Monday 8th December at 7pm

Tickets available from North West Auctions, J36

& NFU Mutual Kendal Branch

Lancaster Auction Mart

Saturday 13th December at 7.30pm

Tickets available from North West Auctions, Lancaster

Borwick, Carnforth Secluded Holiday Cottage

For sale by Private Treaty Guide Price £250,000

A Secluded one bedroom holiday cottage set within

approx. 1.54 acres including well stocked ponds,

separate rang of buildings, well maintained lawns and

vegetable gardens

NWA Property

On the Eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month as the nation fell silent so did J36 Rural

Auction Centre. We all stood together to remember all of our fallen hero’s who have fought and given their lives for us all. God Bless you all, you will

never be forgotten.