160th Anniversary Show and Sale of Store Cattle Held at Wallets Marts

WALLETS MARTS CASTLE DOUGLAS LIMITED

MONDAY 1^ST AUGUST 2016

STORE CATTLE, OTM CATTLE

Wallets Marts Castle Douglas Ltd held their special 160^th Anniversary Show and Sale of Store Cattle at Castle Douglas on Monday 1^st August. This has always been one of the feature sales at Castle Douglas and with this being Wallets 160^th year in business it was a fitting event to mark this milestone. At the pre-sale show the judge Mr Bruce Watt, Cairntack found the overall champion with a Limousin bullock from Messrs Sharp, Barscarrow, Sandhead. Scaling 608kg in made £1290 to W Purdon & Partners, Straven House. Champion single heifer came from Messrs Lockhart, Culdoach whose Charolais entry weighed 428kgs and made £1055 to Tom Clark, Westmuir. Culdoach also had the champion pen of 4 cattle with a pen of 446kgs Charolais bullocks which sold for £1050 to Bruce Watt, Cairntack. Cattle in general were well grazed and in great bloom with a larger percentage of heavier cattle forward. Outwith the show cattle bullocks topped at £1370 for the first beast through the ring from Messrs T Robb, Trolane, Dalry. Top price per kg in the bullock section was 266.9p paid to Glenlee Farms, Shiel for a pen of Limousins. In the heifer section the top price of £1235 was paid to R Rankine, Mains of Cairnbrock for a Simmental cross. Top price per kg was 272.2p paid to M & G Barr, Meikle Kirkland for a pen of Charolais crosses. With 200 more cattle sold than the same sale last year overall average was down £38 on the year to level at £928.84. 550 bullocks sold to average £217.95p per kg or £968.21 at 444 kgs with 247 heifers averaging 209.6p or £841.19 at 401 kgs.

In the OTM ring all classes of cattle traded dearer on the previous sale. Cows topped at 144p or £981.40 off Culnaightrie whilst bulls sold to 164p off Glenturk. Overall sale average was 118.55p.

Steers

Aberdeen Angus

£1325 Balcraig Moor; £1180 Trolane; £1180 Redbank; £1160 Garrarie

Limousin

£1290 Barscarrow

Simmental

£1370 Trolane; £1150 Palmallet

Charolais

£1250 Glentoo; £1130 Carleton; £1110 Culdoach

Saler

£1040 Culdoach

Hereford